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International DJ Pete Tong wakes up and embraces the day with Zoe Ball. It鈥檚 The Why Workshop, and Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with more of your wonders and ponders.

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball! International DJ Pete Tong tells Zoe about his latest tour and Chilled Classics album with the Heritage Orchestra.

It鈥檚 The Why Workshop, and Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with more wonders and ponders and puzzling questions. This week, Anna Elf and James Elf answer: Do pigeons snore? When we say happy as Larry, who is Larry? And, who decided that red is stop and green is go?

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!

There's also weather with Matt Taylor, jockey Hollie Doyle talks about her historic winning run, a Pause For Thought from the Bishop of Leeds Nick Baines and listeners on the line as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Wed 4 Dec 2019 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Phil Collins

    Two Hearts

    • Singles.
    • Rhino.

  • Sigala

    We Got Love (feat. Ella Henderson)

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

  • Kate Bush

    December Will Be Magic Again

    • It's Christmas Time (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Olly Murs

    Dance With Me Tonight

    • In Case You Didn't Know.
    • Epic.
    • 24.

  • Stealers Wheel

    Stuck In The Middle With You

    • (Single).
    • A&M.

  • The Darkness

    Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • SHAED

    Trampoline (feat. ZAYN)

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony.

  • Tom Odell

    Here I Am (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2016)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Sister Sledge

    We Are Family

    • Disco Fever (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Mike Oldfield

    In Dulci Jubilo

    • The Best Christmas Album In The World.
    • Virgin.
    • 1.

  • Spiller

    Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) (feat. Sophie Ellis鈥怋extor)

    • (CD Single).
    • Positiva.

  • Little Mix

    One I've Been Missing

  • The Four Seasons

    December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night)

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 11.

  • Idina Menzel

    Into The Unknown (feat. AURORA)

    • Frozen 2 O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Walt Disney Records.
    • 3.

  • John Newman

    Love Me Again

    • Tribute.
    • Island.
    • 2.

  • Gabriella Cilmi

    Warm This Winter

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal.
    • 1.

  • Shakin鈥� Stevens

    Merry Christmas Everyone

    • That's Christmas (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Dua Lipa

    Don't Start Now

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Records.

  • Bruno Mars

    Treasure

    • Unorthodox Jukebox.
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • Cyndi Lauper

    Girls Just Want To Have Fun

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • Greg Lake

    I Believe In Father Christmas

    • The Anthology, A Musical Journey.
    • BMG.

  • Pete Tong, Heritage Orchestra & Jules Buckley

    Symphony Of You (feat. Boy George)

    • Chilled Classics.
    • Polydor.

  • Texas

    Black Eyed Boy

    • Hits Zone - The Best Of 97 (Various).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Vampire Weekend

    Harmony Hall

    • Father Of The Bride.
    • Columbia.

  • Elton John

    Step Into Christmas

  • Dean Martin

    Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

    • Christmas With The Rat Pack (Various).
    • Capitol.
    • 4.

  • Fleet Foxes

    White Winter Hymnal

    • Fleet Foxes.
    • Bella Union.
    • 1.

  • James Blunt

    The Truth

    • Once Upon A Mind.
    • Atlantic.

  • Ed Sheeran

    Shape Of You

    • 梅 Divide.
    • Atlantic.

  • Leonard Cohen

    Hallelujah

    • More Best Of Leonard Cohen.
    • Columbia.
    • 2.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Nick Baines, the Bishop of Leeds:

I know it鈥檚 easy to get out of touch, but I was a bit boggled to read the other day that Ed Sheeran鈥檚 song Shape of You has been streamed 2.4 billion times. 2.4 billion! But, the most streamed artist of the decade is Drake - 28 billion streams. That is an utterly boggling number.

Now, this makes me feel a bit off the page, but the most auspicious musical event of the last couple of weeks - for me - was the launch of Leonard Cohen鈥檚 album, three years after his death, of Thanks for the Dance. It is funny, poignant and wonderful -however few streams he gets. His deep, old voice articulates the stuff of living and dying in colourful poetry and the language of joy.

Try this: 鈥淣o one to follow and nothing to teach except that the goal falls short of the reach.鈥� Now, isn鈥檛 that what we all feel most of the time? The goal falls short of the reach; we get disappointed that we aren鈥檛 all we want to be. We mess things up and get stuff wrong, and wish we could be better. Or am I the only one?

I was once asked in a radio interview about Leonard Cohen if he had 鈥渉ijacked religious language鈥� - like in his song Hallelujah. My answer was that, rather than hijacking it, he had actually understood it! 鈥淭he holy and the broken hallelujah鈥�. That鈥檚 what we all are, isn鈥檛 it?聽聽

As we prepare for Christmas in a few weeks鈥� time, this goes to the heart of my longing: a God who in Jesus comes among us as one of us and subjects himself to all that the world can throw at him ... without throwing it back. Taking broken people and making them whole. Running with the grain of who they are, but opening up a world of being infinitely loved and valued. Challenging the prejudices of powerful men and giving life who thought they were worthless because their goal fell short of the reach.

I guess Ed Sheeran would agree with that. Whatever form you take, the shape of you is unique and uniquely loved. Broken, forgiven, restored. And that, I think, is very good news.

Broadcast

  • Wed 4 Dec 2019 06:30
    麻豆约拍 Radio 2