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Robbie Williams, David Walliams and Jamie Cullum

Wake up to a star-studded breakfast with Zoe Ball. Robbie Williams and David Walliams join Zoe for Friends Round Friday! Plus there's live music in the studio from Jamie Cullum!

Wake up to a star-studded Friends Round Friday with Zoe Ball. Author David Walliams chats about the theatre adaptation of The Boy in The Dress, interviewing Elton John and hosting the National Television Awards. Robbie Williams tells us about his new album The Christmas Present, his residency in Las Vegas and his chances of playing Glastonbury 2020. Plus there's live music in the studio from Jamie Cullum which includes a brilliant Robbie Williams cover!

We also hear from our 12-year-old Strictly Come Dancing correspondent Kate, who recaps on her time at It Takes Two this week and previews Saturday's dance floor routines and Zoe has a surprise guest for her birthday.

Along with Tina Daheley on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Karthi Gnanasegaram 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 Matt Taylor live from Norwich Castle and a Pause For Thought from comedian and writer Paul Kerensa as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Fri 22 Nov 2019 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Bonnie Tyler

    Holding Out For A Hero

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

  • Sigala

    We Got Love (feat. Ella Henderson)

    • (CD Single).
    • Ministry Of Sound Recordings.

  • Pretenders

    Don't Get Me Wrong

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Duffy

    Mercy

  • Thelma Houston

    Don't Leave Me This Way

    • Any Way You Like It (Expanded Edition).
    • SoulMusic Records.

  • Foreigner

    Cold As Ice

    • 40.
    • Rhino Atlantic.
    • 3.

  • Lewis Capaldi

    Bruises (Remix)

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI.

  • Sister Sledge

    He's The Greatest Dancer

    • The Last Days Of Disco (Film Soundtra.
    • Columbia.

  • John Newman

    Come And Get It

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 001.

  • The Beatles

    Can't Buy Me Love

    • The Beatles - 1.
    • Apple.
    • 005.

  • Bryan Adams

    Cloud Number Nine

    • Now 43 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • C茅line Dion

    Lying Down

    • Courage.
    • Sony.

  • The Brothers Johnson

    Stomp!

    • 10 Star Collection: Soul 2 (Various).
    • Stardust.
    • 5.

  • Little Mix

    One I've Been Missing

  • Kool & the Gang

    Celebration

    • Kool & The Gang - The Singles Collect.
    • Phonogram.

  • Robbie Williams

    Time For Change

    • The Christmas Present: Christmas Future.
    • Farrell Music.

  • Niall Horan

    Nice To Meet Ya

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol Records.

  • Dan + Shay & Justin Bieber

    10,000 Hours

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Music.

  • Eternal

    I Wanna Be The Only One (feat. BeBe Winans)

    • Eternal - Greatest Hits.
    • EMI.

  • Coldplay

    Orphans

    • Everyday Life: Sunset.
    • Parlophone.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From comedian & writer Paul Kerensa:

I know this isn鈥檛 a serial, but... Previously on Pause For Thought:

Last Friday we were talking Children In Need, and I mentioned being a kid in children鈥檚 hospital, born with my 鈥渙utie bladder鈥�, while I鈥檓 guessing, most of your bladders are innies.

So I was tweeted after, by a woman called Kerry. Her 8-year-old son has the same, pretty rare condition. When rare things come along, it鈥檚 nice to talk about them, because then they become a bit less rare, and you鈥檙e no longer a dot, you鈥檙e part of a line, between two dots.

So this condition鈥檚 called 鈥榖ladder exstrophy鈥� 鈥� exstrophy meaning 鈥榦ut of body鈥�. We think of out-of-body experiences as the mind, the soul... no one ever thinks of the bladder, the least glamorous body-part. That heart symbol people do with their fingers 鈥� no one ever does the bladder. Just looks like a wobbly oval.

With a nod to Mr Walliams, children鈥檚 hospital was pretty much like The Midnight Gang. And with a nod to Mr Williams, the patients and staff were Kids and Angels.

But I had some close calls. Early brushes with mortality brought big questions, to me on ward 6CD. Does that 鈥榮oul鈥� exist? Is there someone above all this? (I mean, God, not, ward 7CD...) What鈥檚 next, after this life?

And what鈥檚 next, within this life? Because an academic studied what us wonky-bladdered patients grew up to do. A third went into healthcare, and another third went into comedy 鈥� a bizarrely high amount.

I鈥檓 a comedy writer (see Miranda Hart鈥檚 Christmas special for details). My ward-mates became film-makers, comic book artists, a professional clown... three other stand-ups as well as me. Add those working in healthcare 鈥� clearly children鈥檚 hospital alumni are more likely to want to make people healthier or happier.

I guess it鈥檚 about relating to others. I think there鈥檚 a reason that Jesus said 鈥渨hen two or three are gathered in my name, I鈥檓 there too.鈥� Community matters. Perhaps we鈥檙e not made to be dots, but lines becoming shapes. Surely even solo stars like to duet 鈥� or rejoin the group, now and then.

When Kerry got in touch about her son, it reminded me that even the rarest hidden conditions have co-sufferers. Whatever we鈥檙e going through, we鈥檙e not alone. Togetherness, community, music, laughter... Maybe these are the best medicines, apart from the things you get in hospital.

Broadcast

  • Fri 22 Nov 2019 06:30
    麻豆约拍 Radio 2