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Debbie Harry, Ross Noble and The Script

Wake up to a star-studded Friends Round Friday with Zoe. She's joined by Blondie lead singer Debbie Harry and comedian Ross Noble. Plus The Script perform live in the studio.

Wake up to a star-studded Friends Round Friday with Zoe Ball and a whole host of celebrity guests, plus live music in the studio from The Script!

Rock N Roll legend and Blondie lead singer Debbie Harry shares stories from her memoir Face It. Comedian Ross Noble talks about his brand new UK tour Humournoid as well as discussing what sport mermaids should take up.

Plus Zoe has the exclusive announcement of this year's Radio 2 In Concert series, featuring a star-studded line up of stellar artists.

Along with Tina Daheley on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Hugh Ferris on sport, Zoe 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 Matt Taylor and a daily Pause For Thought from Rev'd Richard Cole as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 18 Oct 2019 06:30
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Music Played

  • Bonnie Tyler

    Holding Out For A Hero

    • The No.1 Movies Album (Various Artist.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Simply Red

    Sweet Child

    • Blue Eyed Soul.
    • BMG Rights Management.

  • The Four Seasons

    The Night

    • Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Ve.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 9.

  • The Feeling

    Fill My Little World

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Island.

  • Aretha Franklin

    Respect

    • Aretha Franklin - Queen Of Soul.
    • Atlantic.

  • Blondie

    Atomic

    • Atomic: The Very Best Of Blondie.
    • EMI.

  • Blondie

    One Way Or Another

    • Blondie - Parallel Lines.
    • Chrysalis.
    • 2.

  • Blondie

    Hanging On The Telephone

    • Atomic: The Very Best Of Blondie.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • Blondie

    Denis

    • Atomic: The Very Best Of Blondie.
    • EMI.

  • Blondie

    Picture This

    • Atomic: The Very Best Of Blondie.
    • EMI.
    • 3.

  • Blondie

    Sunday Girl

    • 70's Number Ones Vol 3.
    • Old Gold.
    • 9.

  • Otis Redding

    Hard to Handle

    • Dock Of The Bay (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Queen

    Crazy Little Thing Called Love

    • The Game.
    • Island.
    • 5.

  • Lukas Graham

    7 Years

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Stereophonics

    Have a Nice Day

    • Now 49 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Madonna

    Holiday

    • Finally Enough Love (Deluxe Edition).
    • Rhino.
    • 34.

  • Jonas Blue

    Younger (feat. HRVY)

  • Blondie

    Rapture

    • The Model: 20 New Romantic Hits From The '80s (Various Artists).
    • Spectrum Music.
    • 6.

  • Elton John

    Part-Time Love

    • The Very Best Of Elton John.
    • Rocket.

  • Lizzo

    Good As Hell

    • Coconut Oil.
    • Nice Life.
    • 5.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From the Reverend Richard Coles:

ΜύCrisis in Catalonia, violence in the streets, as those who want independence from Spain clash with those who don’t. I recall, in quieter times, making rather a faux pas in its capital, Barcelona. Sitting in a cafe I remarked to the old gentleman at the next table how much the Spanish climate agreed with me. He said, in faultless English, β€˜it’s not the Spanish climate - it’s the Catalonian climate’.Μύ

It turned out he had spent his life serving the cause of independence; and it had cost him his livelihood (he was sacked from the university), and his homeland, when he chose to go into exile. He came to Liverpool, just after the war, and lodged with a fierce old widow in a boarding house. She was working class, but fiercely Tory, adored Winston Churchill, who had just lost the 1945 election to the Labour government, which she regarded as an unforgivable betrayal by the British people.

ΜύIt was a tough time, austerity prevailed, and for someone from Barcelona the cold and dark and watery cabbage was hard to endure. One day the Chancellor came on the wireless to ask everyone, in the national interest, to cut down their use of electricity. The landlady got up and went from floor to floor unscrewing every other lightbulb. And he was amazed. β€œWhy were you amazed?’ I asked. β€œBecause,” he said, β€œI had never lived anywhere where people would do what a politician of a different party from theirs asked them to do”. I must have looked puzzled. He said, β€œYou live in a country where national interest and party interest are not the same thing. You don’t know how lucky you are”.

He was right, of course. I didn’t know how lucky I was because I had always taken for granted that in Britain we organise ourselves around common interests that are more important than party loyalty or beliefs. Our politics has formed around that tradition - you see it in the layout of parliament itself, the ceremonial and the flummery, the Sovereign and her bishops, like something from Game of Thrones rather than a modern democracy. But maybe it encodes, somehow, that commitment to values that transcend ours, and a belief that there’s another country, heard of long ago, whose ways are ways of gentleness and whose paths are peace.

Broadcast

  • Fri 18 Oct 2019 06:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2