David Mitchell & Rockin’ In The USA - Taylor Swift
David Mitchell chats to Zoe about his new book Dishonesty Is The Second-Best Policy. Plus Zoe revealed how to go Rockin' in the USA for Children in Need.
Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball! David Mitchell chats to Zoe about his new book Dishonesty Is The Second-Best Policy and making his West End debut as William Shakespeare in Ben Elton’s stage adaptation of Upstart Crow.
Zoe calls back the winner of the Rockin' In the USA to see the Eagles in San Francisco and has another massive Rockin' In The USA prize for Children In Need.
Taylor Swift is on tour next year supporting her new album called Lover and a lucky winner and a friend could be flying out to Los Angeles to see her in concert. So shake it off, she’s performing at the SoFi stadium for Children in Need with Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2. The lucky winner will be flown out with a friend on 24th July next year, tickets for the concert, flights and accommodation are all included.
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 than you can shake a glitterball at!
Mike chats to Nicola Adams after her announcement that she's retiring from the boxing ring. There's also weather with Matt Taylor, a daily Pause For Thought from Sheridan Voysey and listeners on the line as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!
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Black Eyed Peas
I Gotta Feeling
- (CD Single).
- Interscope.
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Jonas Blue
Younger (feat. HRVY)
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Toni Basil
Mickey
- Billboard #1 Hits Of The '80s (Various Artists).
- Rhino.
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Take That
Giants
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- Polydor.
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McFadden & Whitehead
Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now
- Million Sellers Vol.19 - The Seventie.
- Disky.
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Pharrell Williams
Happy
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- RCA.
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Liam Gallagher
Now That I've Found You
- Why Me? Why Not.
- Warner Records.
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The Police
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
- Ones On 1 (Radio 1 21st Birthday Albu.
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The O’Jays
Love Train
- Shades Of Soul (Various Artists).
- Global Television.
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Steve Winwood
Valerie
- Pure Rock Ballads (Various Artists).
- Polygram Tv.
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Electric Light Orchestra
From Out Of Nowhere
- From Out Of Nowhere.
- Columbia.
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Chris Rea
Let's Dance
- Auberge EP.
- East West Records.
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Spice Girls
Spice Up Your Life
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- Virgin.
- 11.
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T. Rex
Metal Guru
- Can The Glam! (Various Artists).
- Cherry Red Records.
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Taylor Swift
Shake It Off
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Taylor Swift
22
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- Mercury.
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Taylor Swift
Love Story
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- Mercury.
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Lewis Capaldi
Bruises (Remix)
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- Virgin EMI.
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The Mock Turtles
Can You Dig It? (Remix)
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- Virgin.
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Dan + Shay & Justin Bieber
10,000 Hours
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- Warner Music.
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Sam Smith
I Feel Love
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- Capitol Records.
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Earth, Wind & Fire
September
- Greatest Hits Of 1978 (Various Artis.
- Premier.
- 3.
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Alison Limerick
Where Love Lives
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- BMG.
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Levellers
What a Beautiful Day
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P!nk
Walk Me Â鶹ԼÅÄ
- Hurts 2B Human.
- RCA.
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Niall Horan
Nice To Meet Ya
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- Capitol Records.
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Shakira
Hips Don't Lie (feat. Wyclef Jean)
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- Sony BMG.
Pause For Thought
 From Sheridan Voysey, Writer and broadcaster:
This week NASA released some fascinating facts about its Voyager 2 spacecraft. Launched forty-two years ago, the ship has given us iconic pictures of Saturn and Neptune along its 10-billion-mile journey. Late last year it left our solar system and now drifts in interstellar space. Its batteries will die in 2025. After that, scientists say, it will stay in orbit for billions of years—an ‘ambassador from Earth to the Milky Way.’
Ambassadors carry messages. So does Voyager 2. Before its launch in 1977, a gold record was placed inside in case some inquisitive extra-terrestrial found it. It contains nature sounds, the music of Bach and Chuck Berry, plus greetings in 55 languages—my favourite being from a Chinese woman who says: "Friends of space, have you eaten yet? Come visit us if you have time."
To my knowledge we still lack proof extra-terrestrials exist, but what’s interesting is how intelligent we expect them to be. The record also contains complex equations, and even the directions on how to play it take serious figuring out!
Voyager 2 recently discovered some details about the magnetic bubble our galaxy floats in. Beautifully symmetrical, that bubble shields us from cosmic rays as we race through the universe. We race, we’re told, because of the Big Bang—which took precision to get right. Had the bang been too slow the universe would’ve collapsed; had it been too fast, planets wouldn’t have formed. Instead, we got ours and 100-billion other galaxies all twirling round like carousels.
This reminds me of other finely-tweaked parameters that make existence possible. If earth were a little closer to the sun, or gravity a little weaker, or the forces inside an atom slightly different, the universe would dissolve. If we were to jump from Voyager 2 and sail through the planets to dive into a grain of sand, we would see quarks dashing round in nanoscopic space like shooting stars—yet somehow everything holds together beautifully.
Saint Paul said the world’s beauty reveals the intelligence of God. I’m inclined to agree. And for me, this puts a fun twist on that golden record. While we’re sending up messages trying to reach intelligent beings, messages are being sent to us. Through the discoveries beamed down Voyager’s transmitter I hear a voice. ‘Look,’ it says, ‘I’m here.’
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- Thu 7 Nov 2019 06:30Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2