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Zoe Ball chats to Jack Whitehall about his UK tour Stood Up and Travels With My Father. Plus we celebrate stories with the feel good factor in Good News Tuesday.

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball! Comedian Jack Whitehall chats to Zoe about his UK tour Stood Up, the latest series of Travels With My Father on Netflix and starring in Jungle Cruise with Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson and Emily Blunt.

Plus we celebrate stories with the feel good factor in Good News Tuesday as we hear from Lisamaria Purdie who won Headteacher of the Year in a Primary School at the National Teaching Awards. She picked up the award for not only for her work at St Ninian's Primary but also her role in her local community in Livingstone.

Along with Tina Daheley on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Mike Williams 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 that you can shake a glitterball at!

There's also weather with Carol Kirkwood and a Pause For Thought from journalist Remona Aly as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Tue 22 Oct 2019 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Average White Band

    Let's Go Round Again

    • The Best Of.
    • Rhino.

  • John Newman

    Without You (feat. Nina Nesbitt)

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • The Human League

    Don't You Want Me

    • Dare!.
    • Virgin.

  • Sophie Ellis鈥怋extor

    Murder On The Dancefloor

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Stevie Wonder

    For Once In My Life

    • Stevie Wonder Greatest Hits Vol.2.
    • Motown.

  • Michael McDonald

    Sweet Freedom

    • Michael McDonald - Sweet Freedom.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Liam Gallagher

    Now That I've Found You

    • Why Me? Why Not.
    • Warner Records.

  • Basement Jaxx

    Yodel Song

    • CD Single.
    • XL Recordings.

  • Louise

    Not The Same

    • (CD Single).
    • Lil Lou Records.

  • Mike Oldfield

    Moonlight Shadow

    • Now 1983 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.
    • 13.

  • Take That

    Shine

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Charlie Puth

    Mother

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Level 42

    Running In The Family

    • The Complete Polydor Years: Volume 2 (1985-1989).
    • Cherry Red Records.

  • Primal Scream

    Rocks

    • Dirty Hits.
    • Columbia.

  • k.d. lang

    Constant Craving

    • The No.1 Acoustic Rock Album (Variou.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Nina Simone

    Ain't Got No, I Got Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony BMG.

  • Ed Sheeran & Camila Cabello

    South Of The Border

    • No.6 Collaborations Project.
    • Asylum.
    • 2.

  • ABC

    When Smokey Sings

    • Now 1987 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • T. Rex

    20th Century Boy

    • Tanx + Zinc Alloy.
    • Edsel.
    • 009.

  • The Lightning Seeds

    Change

  • Simply Red

    Sweet Child

    • Blue Eyed Soul.
    • BMG Rights Management.

  • Prefab Sprout

    The King of Rock 'N' Roll

    • Hits Album 8, Part 2 (Various Artist.
    • Hits Album.

  • Whitney Houston

    I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)

    • Whitney Houston - Whitney.
    • Arista.

  • Dolly Parton

    9 to 5

    • Dolly Parton: The Ultimate Collection.
    • BMG/RCA.

  • The Killers

    Mr Brightside

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Maroon 5

    Memories

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.

  • Amy Grant

    Baby Baby

    • Now 1991 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Remona Aly, Freelance journalist and editor:

Zoe, for most normal people, the word 鈥渉oliday鈥� might conjure up sandy beaches, adventure, or an escape to where no one knows your name. Not me. Growing up as a British Asian girl it meant trips to India, where I was carted around living rooms to meet relatives five times removed, who鈥檇 pull my cheek and ask me to guess who they were. All this, while I suffered from Delhi belly, and was attacked by hordes of mosquitoes. 鈥淭hey like your sweet foreign blood,鈥� teased my Indian cousins.

But of course, there were beautiful memories too. Like the time I stayed in a village deep in the Indian countryside. One night, we sat under the stars in a crumbling courtyard around the glow of an open fire. The wood crackled and the smoke danced around us, as grey-haired elders sipped cups of chai and talked of the good old days.聽

I glanced into the distance and could just make out the figure of a farmer walking into a field, slowly disappearing into the darkness. He had no torch, nothing to guide him, and I wondered how he could find his way home in the pitch black? 鈥淗e鈥檒l be fine,鈥� said my aunt. 鈥淗e鈥檒l always know his way home.鈥�

麻豆约拍. 麻豆约拍 has been a little tricky for me - as a second-generation British Indian Muslim woman. Having more than one identity has been an interesting ride. It鈥檚 like when you have each foot on two separate carriages on a bendy bus or train. Sometimes they work together; sometimes they make you go in different directions.聽

My 13th century mentor, the Persian Muslim poet, Rumi, also hailed from more than one place 鈥� Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan claim him as theirs, and he鈥檚 even gone beyond national and religious boundaries to have universal appeal.

I鈥檇 like to think his multiple identities played a part. It gives me courage. Especially now, as I feel I鈥檓 at a crossroads in life, trying to figure who I really am and what way I鈥檓 going next.

Perhaps there are many who feel the same, and I鈥檇 give them the same comforting words as I鈥檇 give myself from Rumi, who says, 鈥淎lthough the road is never ending, take a step and keep walking. Do not look fearfully into the distance. On this path let the heart be your guide.鈥�

Broadcast

  • Tue 22 Oct 2019 06:30
    麻豆约拍 Radio 2