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Strictly Finalists

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball. All three Strictly Come Dancing finalists and their dance partners join Zoe before they take to the dancefloor one last time on Saturday.

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball!

All three Strictly Come Dancing finalists and their dance partners join Zoe before they take to the dancefloor one last time on Saturday. Anton Du Beke reveals how it feels to make the final for the second time ever, this time with his dance partner Emma Barton. Kelvin Fletcher shares his chances of lifting the glitterball trophy with Oti Mabuse. Plus C麻豆约拍's Karim Zeroual discusses his fancy footwork with his dance partner Amy Dowden.

In Show and Tell we hear from terrific trumpeter Amelia and her rendition of The Jungle Book's The Bare Necessities.

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, a daily Pause For Thought and listeners on the line, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Wed 11 Dec 2019 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • The Darkness

    Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • George Michael

    This Is How

    • Last Christmas O.S.T..
    • Virgin EMI.

  • Pharrell Williams

    Happy

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Earth, Wind & Fire

    September

    • Greatest Hits Of 1978 (Various Artis.
    • Premier.
    • 3.

  • Dodgy

    Good Enough

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 34 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Pogues

    Fairytale Of New York (feat. Kirsty MacColl)

    • (CD Single).
    • Rhino.

  • James Blunt

    The Truth

    • Once Upon A Mind.
    • Atlantic.

  • Bon Jovi

    Livin' On A Prayer

    • Music Of The Millennium (Various).
    • Universal Music Tv.
    • 1.

  • Roxette

    It Must Have Been Love

    • The Best Love Songs...Ever! (Various).
    • Virgin.

  • Black Eyed Peas

    I Gotta Feeling

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.
    • 4.

  • Sam Smith

    I Feel Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol Records.

  • Paul McCartney

    Wonderful Christmastime

    • The 7" Singles Box.
    • MPL.
    • 7.

  • U2 & AR Rahman

    Ahimsa

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Nik Kershaw

    I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.
    • 4.

  • Mariah Carey

    All I Want For Christmas Is You

    • Mariah Carey - Merry Christmas.
    • Columbia.

  • Sigma

    You And Me As One (feat. Jack Savoretti)

    • (CD Single).
    • 3Beat.

  • Darlene Love

    Winter Wonderland

    • A Christmas Gift For You (Phil Spect.
    • Phil Spector Int.

  • The Beach Boys

    Little Saint Nick

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

  • The Jacksons

    Blame It On The Boogie

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

  • Billy Joel

    Uptown Girl

    • An Innocent Man.
    • CBS.

  • Sigala

    We Got Love (feat. Ella Henderson)

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

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Oh Diane

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 004.

  • Talking Heads

    Once In A Lifetime

    • Talking Heads - Remain In Light.
    • Sire.

  • Bobby Helms

    Jingle Bell Rock

  • Gayla Peevey

    I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas

    • Dr. Demento Presents The Greatest Christmas Novelty CD Of All Time (Various Art.
    • Rhino.
    • 5.

  • David Bowie & Bing Crosby

    Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy

    • I Believe.
    • Telstar.

  • Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello

    厂别帽辞谤颈迟补

    • (CD Single).
    • Fontana Island Records.

  • Luke Combs

    Even Though I'm Leaving

    • What You See Is What You Get.
    • Columbia Nashville.
    • 3.

  • Olly Murs

    Troublemaker (feat. Flo Rida)

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
    • 1.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Rae Duke, Religion and Ethics teacher and broadcaster.

I recently showed one of my classes at school an article telling the true story of an adopted woman who, having spent years looking for her birth family, found her long-lost sister to be living next door. This lady had come across her sister鈥檚 name in her late father鈥檚 obituary and having never met her or seen a photograph of her, spent countless evenings searching the thousands of people with her sister鈥檚 name on social media, peering into their faces to see if they bore any resemblance to herself.

But it was when a parcel for a new next-door neighbour was mistakenly delivered to her house that the penny dropped.聽 The parcel had her sister鈥檚 name on it.聽 She was the sibling she鈥檇 been looking for. They stayed up all night talking and, reveling in the fact that they shared the same hands (just like Joey from Friends with his 鈥榟and-twin鈥�).

I asked the students after we鈥檇 read it; do you believe in fate?

Some were skeptical, thinking the tale was a mere happy coincidence. Others instantly regaled me with their own stories of destiny at work; grandparents who鈥檇 had chance encounters - resulting in a blossoming of love, marriage and kids.聽 One family bumped into the same person the last four summers on holiday in a random bunch of locations.

I shared my own recent anecdote of discovering, on the day we moved house, that I鈥檇 taught the daughter of the previous owners and that, sweetly, my daughter was going to be sleeping in that former student鈥檚 old room. (It was a school disco snap left at the back of the wardrobe that revealed the connection.)

The writings of Sister Mary David cast some light on this sense of things being 鈥榤eant to be鈥�. She had a robust faith in providence, seeing these kinds of moments as divine gift. She mused that the gateway to joy is to 鈥済o towards whatever is coming; go along with these things - people, circumstances鈥�. Her positive interpretation of life didn鈥檛 just apply to jollier moments, but held out through alternating weathers; she continued to write having being diagnosed with cancer.

Sister Mary David was a remarkable person with ideas that resonate 鈥� and that chime with the lyrics of John Lennon when he sung, 鈥淭here's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...鈥�

Broadcast

  • Wed 11 Dec 2019 06:30
    麻豆约拍 Radio 2