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Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball! Festival organiser Emily Eavis shares stories from the celebratory book Glastonbury 50!

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball! Festival organiser and curator Emily Eavis shares stories from the book Glastonbury 50, which celebrates the history of the world's largest greenfield arts festival. Emily reveals when we can expect another headliner announcement and some clues to who they could be!

Ian Waite joins Zoe from his panto practise to dissect the drama from this weekend's Strictly Come Dancing.

Along with Clare Runacres on news, Richie Anderson 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!

There's also weather with Carol Kirkwood, and a daily Pause For Thought from Tanya Muneera as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Mon 25 Nov 2019 06:30
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Music Played

  • Huey Lewis and the News

    The Power Of Love

    • Huey Lewis & The News - Fore!.
    • Chrysalis.

  • Dua Lipa

    Don't Start Now

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Records.

  • Will Young

    Your Game

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG/19.

  • Frankie Valli

    Grease

    • Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Ve.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 18.

  • Little Mix

    Black Magic

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco Music.

  • Barry White

    You See The Trouble With Me

    • Barry White - The Collection.
    • Mercury.
    • 2.

  • James Blunt

    The Truth

    • Once Upon A Mind.
    • Atlantic.

  • Jamie Cullum

    Feel (Radio 2 Session, 22 Nov 2019)

  • Yazoo

    Don't Go

    • Electronic 80's (Various Artists).
    • EMM.

  • Santana

    Smooth (feat. Rob Thomas)

    • (CD Single).
    • Arista.

  • Westlife

    My Blood

    • Spectrum.
    • Virgin EMI.

  • Everything but the Girl

    Missing (Todd Terry Remix)

    Remix Artist: Todd Terry.
    • Passion (Various Artists).
    • Universal.

  • Kash Doll, Kim Petras, ALMA & Stefflon Don

    How It's Done

    • Charlie's Angels O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Silver Cloud.

  • Jamiroquai

    Virtual Insanity

    • Walk On - Hits From The Last 2 Decade.
    • Columbia.

  • Nina Simone

    Ain't Got No, I Got Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony BMG.

  • Niall Horan

    Nice To Meet Ya

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol Records.

  • Haircut One Hundred

    Fantastic Day

    • Pelican West - Deluxe Edition.
    • Cherry Pop.
    • 007.

  • Shalamar

    A Night To Remember

    • Friends - Deluxe Edition.
    • Big Break Records.
    • 5.

  • Vampire Weekend

    A-Punk

    • Vampire Weekend.
    • Beggars Banquet Records Ltd.
    • 3.

  • Paul Simon

    You Can Call Me Al

    • The Paul Simon Anthology (Disc 2).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 4.

  • Paul McCartney & Wings

    Band On The Run

    • (Single).
    • Apple.
    • 3.

  • Stereophonics

    Don't Let The Devil Take Another Day

    • Kind.
    • Parlophone.

  • Bob Sinclar

    Love Generation (feat. Gary β€œNesta” Pine)

    • Now 63 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Survivor

    Eye Of The Tiger

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

  • Jess Glynne

    I'll Be There

    • Always In Between.
    • Atlantic.

  • Foo Fighters

    Times Like These

    • Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.

  • Sigma

    You And Me As One (feat. Jack Savoretti)

    • (CD Single).
    • 3Beat.

  • Elton John

    Island Girl

    • Diamonds.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From cultural producer Tanya Muneera Williams:

Last week Sunday, I ticked off one of the many things that had been gathering dust on my wish list for at least 2 years; I performed and talked for aΒ particularΒ prestigious organisation.

Before receiving my invitation, I had practised in the mirror many times in hopes that one day I would take to their stage.Β 

I had all these ideas of what I would talk about, poetry and spoken-word as a form of therapy, poetry for confidence building, poetry as a daily practice, but when I met with Mel, the event’s organiser, she simply said:Β 

β€œI want a poem and a talk that reflects your relationship with Bristol”.Β 

This may sound like a simple task, but as someone who moved out of Bristol at the first chance I could get, and having just returned 17 years later, I felt under-qualified for the task.

It got to the point where I was sabotaging my potential for excellence through procrastination. I met with Barney my speaking coach, and he asked me to read what I had so far.Β 

I pulled out my crumpled tea-stained script and read it to him.Β  I don’t know what the tell-tale signs were but he had the wisdom to sense what was going wrong was inΒ the heart rather than the mind.

He pushed me to think about the reasons why I left Bristol andΒ the stories I had told myself that made me doubt my ability. Stories of isolation, stories of being an outcast, stories of not fitting in.Β 

Right before getting to the point of unearthing some of these stories I felt fatigued and my heart physically ached, at that moment I would have done anything to avoid that discomfort. But as I sat with my hurt it began to melt away, the lies that I had held so dear, all of a sudden became irrational.

Jalaluddin Rumi, 14th century PersianΒ Islamic Jurist, once said:

β€œPatience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing, it is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose”.

Β I didn’t realise I was in need of patience, yet once I looked at theΒ thorn, I started to grow.

Β Last Sunday, the stage became my garden and, firmly planted with purpose, I bloomed.

Broadcast

  • Mon 25 Nov 2019 06:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2