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Lily tells us about her new film based on the early life of Tolkien. Zoe invites Loose Women's Andrea McLean to play Hit, Miss Or Maybe with the hottest music right now.

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball! Les MisΓ©rables actress Lily Collins tells us about her latest film, Tolkien and starring alongside Nicholas Hoult. Zoe invites Loose Women's Andrea McLean to play Hit, Miss Or Maybe with the hottest music right now. She chats Menopause and running before giving her opinion on Dido, Ellie Goulding and Avicii's latest tracks.

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 that you can shake a glitterball at!

Mike catches up with Eastenders' Natalie Cassidy after running the London Marathon at the weekend. There's also weather with Carol Kirkwood, a daily Pause For Thought from Vicar Paul Oxley, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Mon 29 Apr 2019 06:30
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Earth, Wind & Fire

    Boogie Wonderland (feat. The Emotions)

    • The Best Seventies Album In The World.. Ever!.
    • Virgin.
    • 2.

  • Busted

    MIA

    • Half Way There.
    • Rhino.

  • Pixie Lott

    Boys & Girls

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.
    • 1.

  • Zedd, Maren Morris & Grey

    The Middle

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.

  • The Maisonettes

    Heartache Avenue

    • History Of The 80's (Various Artists).
    • Br Music.

  • Danny Wilson

    Mary's Prayer

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 12 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Sigrid

    Don't Feel Like Crying

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Coldplay

    Hymn For The Weekend (feat. ΅ώ±π²β΄Η²Τ³¦Γ©)

    • A Head Full Of Dreams.
    • Parlophone.

  • George Ezra

    Shotgun

    • Staying At Tamara's.
    • Columbia.

  • Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Buffalo Soldier

    • Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend.
    • Island.

  • Mark Ronson

    Valerie (feat. Amy Winehouse)

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony BMG.

  • John Newman

    Feelings

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • TLC

    Waterfalls

    • (CD Single).
    • Laface.

  • Jax Jones & Years & Years

    Play

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Dido

    Take You ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ

    • Still On My Mind.
    • BMG.

  • Toto

    Africa

    • The All Time Greatest Rock Songs ....
    • Columbia.

  • Katy Perry

    Roar

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.
    • 1.

  • The Cranberries

    Dreams

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Hello Sunshine

    • Western Stars.
    • Columbia.

  • Elton John

    Are You Ready for Love

    • Diamonds.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
From Paul Oxley, vicar of St Mark’s in Milton Keynes:Μύ
Last week was a big one in the Oxley house. Mrs Oxley had decided that a week in a caravan over easter was the perfect opportunity for our girls to learn to ride bikes. Obviously I feared the inevitable back pain I’d endure as I ran alongside, holding their seat with enough strength to be reassuring with a simultaneously light grip promoting freedom and self-confidence. However, they mastered it super fast, and had a blast cruising round the caravans. My responsible eldest maintained a speed of 10 mph and gave way to pedestrians.Μύ
Her younger sister is a loose canon who soon announced; β€œDad, my friend Ruan can ride his bike with just one hand - I’m going to try that”…and before I could stop her, she buckled her helmet and left. Riding a bike brings a world of freedom and possibility. Cyclists can scale lung-busting hills. They can free-wheel along countryside roads, nip to the shops for sweets or offer β€˜backies' to schoolmates! BUT, the freedom also brings potential peril.Μύ
My girls can get further away from my watchful eye than before. They could crash. Their bike could be nicked. Honestly, nothing’s helped me understand God more than being a dad. Jesus consistently encouraged his followers to understand God’s character as that of a father. A father who, so the story goes, created a world and then handed over the keys, surrendering control and granting us freedom. We have the capacity to stroll into mosques, temples and churches and murder those who worship differently to us. We can burn the planet to enhance our own comfort and sneer at those who dare to question this wisdom.Μύ
We can be cynical and closed and selfish. BUT. Freedom also means I can experience the exhilaration of creating peace, the joy of generosity, the wonder of creating something beautiful. I’m free to love enemies and destroy hate, and reject the rat-race of β€˜more’ instead embracing the wide open spaces of contentment. I want my girls to embrace and enjoy their new freedom. I also want them to respect it and revere it. I want to live my life in a very similar way, just maybe without wearing reflective vests and cycle helmets the whole time.

Broadcast

  • Mon 29 Apr 2019 06:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2