Nicki Chapman sits in with Mark King
Wake up and embrace the day with Nicki Chapman and the team. Level 42's Mark King chats about his festive break and plans for 2020, including a special concert for Radio 2.
Wake up and embrace the day with Nicki Chapman and the team. Level 42's Mark King chats about his festive break and plans for 2020, including a special concert for Radio 2 at the London Palladium with the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Concert Orchestra.
Along with Katharine Cracknell on news, Jules Lang on travel and Betty Glover 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 a daily Pause For Thought from Dr. Jim Harris and Harlequin women's captain Rachael Burford chats to Betty about their fixture against Leicester Tigers. With listeners on the line, as Nicki entertains the nation with fun for the family!
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Music Played
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Journey
Don't Stop Believin'
- Rock Of America (Various Artists).
- Trax Label.
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Sigala
We Got Love (feat. Ella Henderson)
- (CD Single).
- Ministry Of Sound Recordings.
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Bee Gees
More Than A Woman
- Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
- Polydor.
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Justin Timberlake
Can't Stop The Feeling!
- (CD Single).
- RCA.
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Soft Cell
Tainted Love
- Hits & Pieces - The Best of Marc Almond & Soft Cell.
- UMC.
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Lenny Kravitz
California
- Lenny Kravitz - Baptism.
- Parlophone.
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Scissor Sisters
I Don't Feel Like Dancin'
- (CD Single).
- Polydor.
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Coldplay
Everyday Life
- Everyday Life: Sunset.
- Parlophone.
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Nik Kershaw
Wouldn't It Be Good
- Now 1984 - The Millennium Series.
- EMI.
- 1.
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Kelly Rowland
Daylight (feat. Travie McCoy)
- (CD Single).
- Sony BMG.
- 1.
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Tony Christie
(Is This the Way to) Amarillo
- Dance Hits Of The '60's & '70's.
- Old Gold.
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Chesney Hawkes
The One and Only
- (CD Single).
- Chrysalis.
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Blur
Girls & Boys
- Now 28 (Various Artists).
- Now.
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Avicii
Fades Away (feat. MishCatt)
- (CD Single).
- Universal Music.
- 03.
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James Bay
Don't Look Back In Anger (Radio 2 Session, 31 May 2019)
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Starship
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
- Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
- Sony Tv/Columbia.
- 1.
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Billy Joel
Don't Ask Me Why
- Billy Joel - Glass Houses.
- CBS.
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Rick Astley
Together Forever
- NOW - Yearbook 1988 (Various Artists).
- NOW.
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Electric Light Orchestra
Sweet Talkin' Woman
- Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
- Epic.
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James Blunt
The Truth
- Once Upon A Mind.
- Atlantic.
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Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa
One Kiss
- (CD Single).
- Columbia.
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Sister Sledge
Frankie
- Back To The 80s (Various Artists).
- Sony Music TV.
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Dr. Alban
Sing Hallelujah!
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Britney Spears
Oops!... I Did It Again
- Now That's What I Call No.1's (Various Artists).
- EMI.
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Kash Doll, Kim Petras, ALMA & Stefflon Don
How It's Done
- Charlie's Angels O.S.T. (Various Artists).
- Silver Cloud.
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Level 42
Running In The Family
- The Complete Polydor Years: Volume 2 (1985-1989).
- Cherry Red Records.
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Fleetwood Mac
Big Love
- 50 Years - Don't Stop.
- Warner Bros.
- 005.
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Harry Styles
Adore You
- Fine Line.
- Columbia.
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T. Rex
I Love to Boogie
- T. Rex - The Singles As & Bs.
- Repertoire.
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Ottawan
D.I.S.C.O (POTP version)
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Kelly Marie
Feels Like I'm In Love
- NOW Boogie Nights - Disco Classics (Various Artists).
- Now! Music.
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Roxy Music
Love Is the Drug
- Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music - Street Life.
- Eg.
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Jessie J
One More Try
- & Juliet (Original London Cast Recording).
- Atlantic.
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Clean Bandit
Symphony (feat. Zara Larsson)
- (CD Single).
- Atlantic.
Pause For Thought
From Dr Jim Harris, Art Historian:
Around Christmas, time is strange. We go to bed late. We get up early because, despite the absence of work, there is still way too much work to do.
Even the days of the week cease to have meaning. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday give way to Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day, as time acquires a pleasing kind of elasticity.
Days are longer; evenings longer still. In my childhood home, the gap between Dinner and Presents lasted for a geological age. The Cretaceous period was shorter than that couple of hours.
And, weirdly, in all these ample, comfortable days of time stretched and misshapen like a stocking on Christmas morning, surrounded by the people we love, the distant past seems closer than last week. Christmases pile in on us, so present, so immediate, so full of everyone we ever cared for, that decades seem no longer than the time it takes to pop out and put the kettle on.
And then December 27th arrives.
Not Christmas Eve. Not Christmas Day. Not Boxing Day. Just December 27th.
December 27th brings the worry that time is ordinary again, with only New Year standing between us and cold January, flat and full of dark and work and flu.
But December 27th is not ordinary. Christmas has only got as far as three French hens.
Even so, December 27th does beg the question of where we will be when our true love has stopped sending inconveniently large gifts.
Christians have a habit of stitching the long term into their prayers. Even ‘give us today our daily bread’ ends with a reminder that we, and God, are in this ‘forever and ever’. Which holds out the hope that when ordinary time does finally come, and we find ourselves apart again from the people, perhaps the one person, we love, we will still be loved.
And unlike Christmas, ordinary time lasts. In its steady rhythms is the slow return of light and when, in nine days’ time, it is finally Not Christmas, the last partridge roasted and the last pear poached, we will be glad of that.
But for now, Happy December 27th.
It is after all only the third day of Christmas and there is still time for true love this year.
And next year. And forever and ever. Amen.
Broadcast
- Fri 27 Dec 2019 06:30Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2