Stormzy
Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball and the team. Zoe chats to rapper Stormzy about his new album Heavy Is The Head. Zoe surprises the first of our Christmas Day Superheroes.
Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball!
Zoe chats to grime rapper Stormzy about his brand new second album Heavy Is The Head, mental health, his Glastonbury performance and what role he had in his school Christmas play. We also hear from Miss Wheeler, who taught Stormzy aka Michael at primary school.
Zoe surprises the first of our Breakfast Show Christmas Superheroes, who are giving up their Christmas Day to help others in their community. Nominated by Radio 2 listeners for going above and beyond, Zoe calls someone back to invite them to an alternative Christmas Day, watching the show on Friday, a festive lunch and to see a West End show!
Shaun Dooley and The Grimethrope Colliery Brass Band provide a live Pick Your Own Playlist, playing Taylor Swift's Never Grow Old, Hark! The Angels Sing and Silent Night.
Along with Tina Daheley 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 from vicar and writer Dave Tomlinson and listeners on the line, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!
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Mariah Carey
All I Want For Christmas Is You
- Mariah Carey - Merry Christmas.
- Columbia.
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Wandering Star
- Blue Moon Rising E.P..
- Sour Mash Records.
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Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Hollywood Nights
- (CD Single).
- Capitol.
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Kylie Minogue
Every Day's Like Christmas
- (CD Single).
- Parlophone.
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Duran Duran
A View To A Kill
- The Best Of James Bond 30th Anniversa.
- EMI.
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Elton John
Step Into Christmas
- Caribou.
- Mercury.
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Stereophonics
Don't Let The Devil Take Another Day
- Kind.
- Parlophone.
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Whitney Houston
Million Dollar Bill
- (CD Single).
- Arista.
- 1.
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Stevie Wonder
What Christmas Means To Me
- 20 Motown Christmas Classics (Variou.
- Hitsville.
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The Beach Boys
Little Saint Nick
- That's Christmas (Various Artists).
- EMI.
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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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Mabel
Loneliest Time Of Year
- (CD Single).
- Polydor.
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The Darkness
Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End)
- (CD Single).
- Atlantic.
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Lucky Daye
Fly
- Spies In Disguise O.S.T. (Various Artists).
- Keep Cool/RCA Records.
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Kim Wilde
Hey Mister Snowman
- Wilde Winter Snowman.
- Wildeflower Records.
- 001.
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Paul McCartney
Wonderful Christmastime
- The 7" Singles Box.
- MPL.
- 7.
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Sigala
We Got Love (feat. Ella Henderson)
- (CD Single).
- Ministry Of Sound Recordings.
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Ed Sheeran
Castle On The Hill
- ÷ Divide.
- Atlantic.
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Coldplay
Christmas Lights
- (CD Single).
- Parlophone.
- 1.
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The Crystals
Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town
- A Christmas Gift For You (Phil Spector).
- Phil Spector Int.
- 7.
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Stormzy
Do Better
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Brenda Lee
Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree
- Brenda Lee - The EP Collection.
- See For Miles.
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Shaun Dooley and The Grimethorpe Colliery Band
Never Grow Up
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Shaun Dooley and The Grimethorpe Colliery Band
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
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Shaun Dooley and The Grimethorpe Colliery Band
Silent Night
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Aretha Franklin
Winter Wonderland
- The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year (Various Artists).
- Sony BMG.
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Pause For Thought
From Dave Tomlinson, writer and vicar at large:
On Saturday, we went for lunch with one-year-old Max (well...along with his mum and dad, Maria and Matt,). I’ll be baptising Max in a couple of weeks, so it was lovely to spend a bit of time with him.
The best part was when I inadvertently turned from the adult conversation and glanced at Max only to find him gazing at me with his big brown eyes....in that way that babies do. If he were a grown-up, I’d have sworn he was weighing me up. Maybe he was! Me, I just bathed in the unwarranted attention.
If there ever were human beings who didn’t need attention, I reckon they are probably extinct. Yes, of course, attention-seeking can be an annoying dysfunction, but psychologists tell us we are wired for it; we need attention almost as desperately as food and warmth, and without it there is suffering. Which is why someone said that giving attention is the most basic form of love.
And the wonderful thing I have discovered (but often forget) is that I have a near endless supply of attention to share with others, should I choose to do so. It doesn’t always feel that way, of course – especially in a ‘silly’ season like Christmas when our attention is pulled and yanked and split in a thousand directions. But as my dad annoyingly used to remind me, ‘You’ll always find time for things you really want to do, son.’
For years, I was that stereotypical man, rushing around on Christmas eve searching for the perfect last-minute gift for my beloved – too often imagining that some expensive gadget would make up for all the time I hadn’t spent with her because I was a busy vicar.
Fortunately, she’s always been fearless at returning goods to the shop... as well as reminding me that a bit of attention is worth more than a million unwanted gadgets!
The French philosopher Simone Weil wrote that ‘attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.’ I still need to tell myself that...over and over.
But I’m grateful to my little philosophical pal Max for driving the message home in a much warmer fashion with his big beautiful brown eyes that planted a smile on the altar of my heart.
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- Mon 16 Dec 2019 06:30Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2