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Anton Du Beke wakes up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball and the team. It’s The Why Workshop, and Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with more wonders and ponders, including your questions.

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball! Strictly professional dancer Anton Du Beke joins Zoe to tell us about his second novel Moonlight Over Mayfair.

It’s The Why Workshop, and Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with more wonders and ponders. Today Lydia Elf and James Elf answer tricky questions children have asked their parents, from how many leaves are there in the world to do snails blink?

Along with Clare Runacres on news, Jules Lang 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 chats to Â鶹ԼÅÄ Seoul correspondent Laura Bicker about the inter-Korean World Cup qualifier in Pyongyang, which was played to an empty stadium. There's also weather with Carol Kirkwood and a daily Pause For Thought from Krish Kandaih, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

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Wed 16 Oct 2019 06:30
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    Bust This Town

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    Rock Me Gently

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    Grace

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    Go Your Own Way

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
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    Younger (feat. HRVY)

  • Amy Winehouse

    Tears Dry On Their Own

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    Never Give Up On A Good Thing

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    Sweet Child

    • Blue Eyed Soul.
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  • Tom Walker

    Better Half Of Me

    • What A Time To Be Alive (Deluxe Edition).
    • Relentless Records.

  • Florence + The Machine

    You've Got The Love

    • Now That's What I Call Music 74 (Various Artists).
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    Let's Stick Together

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  • Rick Astley

    Every One Of Us

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    Survivor

    • Now 49 (Various Artists).
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  • Swing Out Sister

    Breakout

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

  • Lizzo

    Good As Hell

    • Coconut Oil.
    • Nice Life.
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  • Sigrid

    Don't Feel Like Crying

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  • Booker T. & The M.G.'s

    Soul Limbo

    • Cafe Latino (Various Artists).
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  • Eddie Cochran

    Summertime Blues

    • The Best Summer Ever (Various Artist.
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  • Nina Simone

    Feeling Good

    • Sex And The City (Various Artists).
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  • Keith Urban

    Parallel Line

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  • Spandau Ballet

    Gold

    • The Gold Album (Various Artists).
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    Here's Where The Story Ends (feat. Shelley Nelson)

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Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Krish Kandiah, founding director of a national charity:Ìý

Being on holiday doesn’t mean foster carers don’t get phone calls from social services. I remember one occasion being called with a request to collect a toddler as soon as we could. The situation had come to crisis because, they said, he was a biter.

Apparently he had bitten a five-year-old girl in the home of a neighbour who had taken him in. I had a five-year-old daughter at the time. I would have said no, but my wife had already agreed. I drove back from that holiday in great trepidation.

Because it is Black History Month and National Adoption Week I have been reminded of that Nigerian toddler. That phone call still makes me angry. ‘Biter!’ - what a terribly inadequate description of a human person. He had lived in eight temporary homes before his third birthday. Is it any wonder he bit?

ÌýHe lived with us for the next year. And yes he did bite. Mostly sausages, apples and cake, as it happened.Ìý Yes he left an impression – not on my skin, but under it. It was one of the happiest years of my life. And to think I may have missed out on it because I was afraid he was nothing more than a ‘biter’.

ÌýWhen he moved on to live with wider family, the social worker told me he was lucky. Nobody would have adopted him, she said. Even without the word ‘biter’ he was still black and a boy, and therefore most likely to have been rejected for fear of the risk of involvement with gangs or knife crime. That makes me angry too – that pre-schoolers can have their future written off.

ÌýImagine two twenty-pound notes. One is crisp, freshly minted. The other is tattered, covered in the inevitable dirt of circulation. Which one is more valuable? Both those notes have exactly the same value. A friend of mine uses this illustration to explain the Bible’s teaching that we are all made in God’s image and our value therefore is not dependent on origin or performance, appearance or ability – it is intrinsic.

ÌýI believe we all should be given the chance to show that we are more than the worst thing we have ever done and more than the worst thing that has been done to us.

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  • Wed 16 Oct 2019 06:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2