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Felicity Jones and The Why Workshop

Felicity Jones chats to Zoe about playing Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the biopic, On the Basis of Sex. It’s The Why Workshop, and Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with more wonders and ponders.

Felicity Jones chats to Zoe about playing lawyer and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the biopic, On the Basis of Sex.

It’s The Why Workshop, and Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with more wonders and ponders, including your questions. Today James and Anne explain why we sneeze, if Morse code was based on Beethoven's Fifth, and why men and women take off their jumpers differently!

Along with Tina Daheley on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Mike Williams on sport, she and the team have the best start to your morning. With celeb guests, quizzes, headlines, tunes chosen by listeners, and more music than you can shake a glitterball at!

There's also weather with Carol Kirkwood, Peter Shilton reflects on the life of Gordon Banks, a daily Pause For Thought from Reverend Matt Woodcock and listeners on the line, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Wed 13 Feb 2019 06:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Stevie Wonder

    Sir Duke

    • Stevie Wonder - Song Review.
    • Motown.

  • Bryan Adams

    Shine A Light

    • Shine A Light.
    • Polydor.

  • The Dandy Warhols

    Bohemian Like You

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.
    • 7.

  • Sam Smith & Normani

    Dancing With A Stranger

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    You And I, Part II

    • Fleetwood Mac - Tango In The Night.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Meck

    Thunder In My Heart Again (feat. Leo Sayer)

    • (CD Single).
    • Free2air.

  • James Morrison

    My Love Goes On (feat. Joss Stone)

    • You're Stronger Than You Know.
    • Stanley Park Records.

  • Take That

    Giants

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Jess Glynne

    Thursday

    • Always In Between.
    • Atlantic.

  • The Weeknd

    I Feel It Coming (feat. Daft Punk)

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Republic Records.

  • Matt Simons

    Open Up

    • After The Landslide.
    • PIAS.

  • Dodgy

    Good Enough

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 34 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Olly Murs

    Wrapped Up (feat. Travie McCoy)

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
    • 1.

  • Edwyn Collins

    A Girl Like You

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.

  • Silk City & Dua Lipa

    Electricity

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.

  • Gabrielle

    Dreams

    • Now 1993 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • Bruno Mars

    24K Magic

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Bon Jovi

    Livin' On A Prayer

    • Music Of The Millennium (Various).
    • Universal Music Tv.
    • 1.

  • Queen

    Fat Bottomed Girls

    • Queen - Greatest Hits.
    • Parlophone.

  • Heather Small

    Proud

    • Proud.
    • Arista.

  • Ten Tonnes

    Better Than Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 1.

  • Bruce Hornsby & the Range

    The Way It Is

    • Life In The Fast Lane (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Matt Woodcock, Church of England Pioneer Minister and Mission Supporter in the Diocese of York:

Ìý

I’ve just returned from my annual bonding trip with my dad. For years now, Woodcock Senior and I have descended on a European city to get reacquainted for a few days.ÌýÌý We’ve done all the greats: Paris, Rome, Berlin - Bridlington.


I’m still recovering from our latest adventure - Malaga.


Fuelled by fantastico cerveza and tapas, it was an unrestrained, emotional time of high-spirited bonhomie and deep conversation. ÌýA test of tolerance, too - of each other’s quirky foibles, annoying habits and obvious differences.


Lord knows what dad does in the bathroom for all that time.ÌýÌý And don’t get me started on his snoring.Ìý Wheezing sows would be quieter room mates. Ìý

Yet our trips have taught me that we have one striking similarity: when it comes to our feelings, we are massive oversharers.ÌýÌý No small talk or hint of English reserve with us two.ÌýÌý Just lots of conversations peppered with lines like, ‘I love you’, ‘I’m proud of you’ and - when we start to get on each other’s nerves - ‘I’m sick of you’.


Our tendency is not - to quote that Beautiful South song - that we ‘keep it all in’.
But that we let it all out.I think I get it from my grandma.Ìý I’ve never known her not tell me exactly how she feels at all times.Ìý Be it about how my parenting could improve, that embarrassing spot on the end of my nose, or how proud she is.


In my spiritual life, I’m also learning to be more open-hearted. ÌýI think God loves an oversharer.ÌýÌý After all, it was St John who wrote that ‘..the truth will set you free’.Ìý So, I daily try to tell God my truth - however harsh or doubt-ridden at times.Ìý Increasingly my prayers fluctuate from being words of thanksgiving at the wonder and beauty of life, to laments at the unfairness and ugliness of it.Ìý I’ve found an inner liberation, a lightness of spirit, in being so honest with God.ÌýÌý My joys, insecurities, frustrations and fears - he now gets to hear the lot.
As for my earthly father, he already wants to plan our next trip.ÌýÌý I’m in.


Call us oversharing, soppy sentimentalists, but for me and dad, Zoe, we’ll never tire of beingtold we’re loved - by someone we love.
Even when they have kept you up all night snoring.

Broadcast

  • Wed 13 Feb 2019 06:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2