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Westlife, Sue Perkins and Jason Manford

Sue Perkins and Jason Manford joins a star-studded Friends Round Friday with Zoe Ball, plus live music in the studio from Westlife ahead of Radio 2's Festival in a Day!

Wake up to a star-studded Friends Round Friday with Zoe Ball. Sue Perkins tells us about her latest adventures and endeavours, Jason Manford fills us in on Â鶹ԼÅÄ One's comedy Scarborough and heading out on tour with Curtains: A Musical Whodunnit. Plus there's live music in the studio from Westlife! The Irish popstars perform an intimate set before they take to the stage for Radio 2's Festival in a Day in Hyde Park.

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!

There's also weather with Matt Taylor, a daily Pause For Thought from Reverend Kate Bottley and listeners on the line, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Fri 13 Sep 2019 06:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Michael Jackson

    Billie Jean

    • Walk On - Hits From The Last 2 Decade.
    • Columbia.

  • Sheryl Crow

    Prove You Wrong (feat. Stevie Nicks & Maren Morris)

    • Threads.
    • Big Machine Records.

  • Cher

    Believe

  • Jamiroquai

    Canned Heat

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony.

  • Mary Wells

    My Guy

    • Dancing In The Street (Various Artis.
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • Dead or Alive

    You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)

    • Wave Party (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.
    • 4.

  • Ava Max

    Torn

    • Heaven & Hell.
    • Atlantic.

  • Deniece Williams

    Let's Hear It For The Boy

    • History Of Dance Music Vol.2 (Variou.
    • Connoisseur Collection.

  • Basement Jaxx

    Yodel Song (live on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2 - Friday 6th Sept '19)

  • Basement Jaxx & Sharlene Hector

    I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Radio 2 Session, 06 Sep 2019) (feat. Vula Malinga & Sofia Shkidchenko)

  • Gloria Gaynor

    I Will Survive

    • Disco Fever (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Simply Red

    Thinking Of You

    • Blue Eyed Soul.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Culture Club

    Karma Chameleon

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • MIKA

    Sanremo

    • My Name Is Michael Holbrook.
    • Virgin EMI.

  • Paul Simon

    Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard

    • The Paul Simon Anthology (Disc 1).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 3.

  • New Radicals

    Get What You Give

    • (CD Single).
    • MCA.

  • Incognito

    Always There (feat. Jocelyn Brown)

    • (CD Single).
    • Talkin' Loud.

  • Lana Del Rey

    Doin' Time

    • NORMAN F* ROCKWELL!.
    • Polydor.

  • Katy Perry

    Small Talk

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI.

  • Bananarama

    Cruel Summer

    • Now 1983 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • Liam Gallagher

    One Of Us

    • Why Me? Why Not.
    • Warner Music.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
From the Reverend Kate Bottley: 
One person’s rubbish is another person’s treasure and if that’s is true than our garage must be King Solomon’s mine. In amongst the mouse nibbled nick knacks something is remarkable, our old front door. Taken from the first house we bought over 20 years ago, a battered and bruised pine and stained glass beauty. When we moved to vicar school I couldn’t bear to leave it behind and so it’s gone with us from garage to garage, just waiting for it’s time to shine. But if that door could talk oh what stories it’d tell. 
It’s the door Graham, as a giddy groom, stepped through on the morning of our wedding, where we rushed out of with an overnight bag and stopwatch on way to hospital to meet our babies and where those babies, too soon grown, made their way out into the world in school uniforms turned up at the sleeves. It’s also the door I’ve tottered out of in very unsuitable dancing shoes only to return hours later with the silly shoes in one hand and a kebab in the other. Doors and doorways have long been associated with faith and belief. Door gods stand guard at Taoist temples, and many a Catholic home has a holy water stoop by the door for folk to bless their going in and their coming out. And while in the gospel of John, Jesus called himself ‘The door’ I think perhaps my favourite poetic portal to pause over, is Christian writer CS Lewis’s wardrobe door. 
It was the gateway to adventures in Narnia for Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter, who discovered wonders unknown and challenges unimagined once they’d turned the handle and stepped through and beyond. Four moves later and our door is out of the garage and all dolled up, with its nob and its knocker shining, we’ve put it up in our new kitchen. it stands to remind me that while I can never know what each new day has in store, maybe adventures to far flung places like Sue to Japan or Jason to Scarborough, there is only one way to find out what wonders and challenges lie ahead and that’s to open the door, to step out and to see, I think I just might chose more suitable shoes this time.

Broadcast

  • Fri 13 Sep 2019 06:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2