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Fearne Cotton sits in, with Madonna

Fearne Cotton sits in for Zoe and chats to Madonna about her new album Madame X, living in Portugal and its influence on her music.

Fearne Cotton sits in for Zoe and chats to Madonna about her new album Madame X, how she's found living in Portugal and the country's influence on her new music.

Plus we spin the Wheel of Four-Tunes and play Tom Walker's cover of 鈥楲ove At First Sight鈥 by Kylie Minogue.

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

There's also weather with Carol Kirkwood who's live from Wimbledon, Jonathan Murray previews England's semi-final against the USA in the Women's World Cup, a Pause For Thought from Nick Baines and listeners on the line as Fearne entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Music Played

  • Spiller

    Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) (feat. Sophie Ellis鈥怋extor)

    • (CD Single).
    • Positiva.
  • Katy Perry

    Never Really Over

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol Records.
  • Madonna

    Express Yourself

    • (Single).
    • Sire.
  • Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber

    I Don't Care

    • No.6 Collaborations Project.
    • Atlantic.
  • The Isley Brothers

    Summer Breeze

    • The Best Summer Ever (Various Artist.
    • Virgin.
  • Meck

    Thunder In My Heart Again (feat. Leo Sayer)

    • (CD Single).
    • Free2air.
  • P!nk

    Can We Pretend (feat. Cash Cash)

    • Hurts 2B Human.
    • RCA Records.
  • Madonna

    Into The Groove

    • Celebration.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 8.
  • Rita Ora

    Anywhere

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • Prince

    Little Red Corvette

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.
  • Belinda Carlisle

    Heaven Is A Place On Earth

    • A Place On Earth - Greatest Hits.
    • Virgin.
  • Craig David

    When You Know What Love Is

    • (CD Single).
    • Insanity Records.
  • Madonna

    Material Girl

    • Finally Enough Love (Deluxe Edition).
    • Rhino.
    • 2.
  • Kygo & Whitney Houston

    Higher Love

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA Records.
  • Calvin Harris

    This Is What You Came For (feat. Rihanna)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 6.
  • Billy Joel

    Uptown Girl

    • An Innocent Man.
    • CBS.
  • George Ezra

    Paradise

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
  • Madonna

    Come Alive

    • Madame X.
    • Polydor.
  • Madonna

    Medellin (feat. Maluma)

    • Madame X.
    • Interscope.
  • JP Cooper

    Sing It With Me (feat. Astrid S)

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
  • CeeLo Green

    Forget You

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Music UK.
    • 1.
  • Tom Walker

    Love At First Sight (Radio 2 Session, 03 May 2019)

  • Bryan Adams

    Summer Of '69

    • Bryan Adams - The Best Of Me.
    • Mercury.
  • The Killers & Neil Tennant

    Human (Glastonbury 2019)

  • David Bowie

    Starman

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.
  • Stereophonics

    Dakota

    • (CD Single).
    • V2.
  • Train

    Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
  • Emeli Sand茅

    Extraordinary Being

    • X-Men: Dark Phoenix O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Virgin Records.
  • Was (Not Was)

    Shake Your Head (single version) (feat. Ozzy Osbourne & Kim Basinger)

    • (CD Single).
    • Fontana.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
From Nick Baines, the Bishop of Leeds:聽
Well, Glastonbury seems to have gone well. I caught up with bits of it on the telly, but would love to have been there. Instead, I found myself a few days ago speaking at the launch of a literature festival. I didn鈥檛 know I was speaking until shortly before it began. So, I cast around a bit for an opener and landed on Billy Ocean ... if you see what I mean. I was once in a studio with him and was waiting for him to launch into 鈥榃hen the going gets tough the tough get going鈥, but he didn鈥檛.聽
So, I offered: 鈥淲hen the going gets tough the tough ... write poetry.鈥 He laughed. What I was getting at was that I grew up thinking poetry was a bit wussy - a bit indulgent and fancy - only to discover that it鈥檚 actually the poets who deal with the hard stuff of life. And you can include lyricists in that, too. Because they use words and images that get behind the defences and have the power to move and surprise us, shining a different light on something we take for granted or think is just 鈥榥ormal鈥.聽
It鈥檚 no coincidence, then, that the books I read every day - those that make up the Bible - are full of poetry. Jesus never defined the kingdom of God; he just kept saying 鈥淚t鈥檚 like this...鈥 and offered a story or image. And he knew that once you have told a story or evoked a picture, you鈥檝e also given it away and lost control over what people might do with it. If poetry enables me to look differently, to see differently, and to think differently about God, the world and people, then it shouldn鈥檛 come as a surprise that scriptures are full of it. The poets tease the imagination and dig into the complex experiences and emotions of people鈥檚 lives.聽
They refuse to let us get away with compartmentalising - you know, keeping your mind in one box, faith in another, experience in another. The poets hold us together. As Leonard Cohen famously put it: 鈥淩ing the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything - that鈥檚 how the light gets in鈥

Broadcast

  • Tue 2 Jul 2019 06:30