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A Gavin & Stacey Special

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball and the team. The cast of Gavin and Stacey drop by to discuss their Christmas Day special on the Â鶹ԼÅÄ.

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball! The cast of Gavin and Stacey drop by to discuss their Christmas Day special on Â鶹ԼÅÄ One. Zoe is joined by Ruth Jones, James Corden, Rob Brydon, Mathew Horne, Joanna Page, Alison Steadman and Larry Lamb to chat about revisiting their characters after nine years. The cast reveal when they decided to reunite, writing the episode in Los Angeles and where the characters are now including baby Neil, who is now 12. Uncle Bryn and Nessa test their presenting skills by having a go at reading the travel!

Plus the Fulham Brass Band play three festive tunes live in the studio.

Along with Adam Porter 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 that you can shake a glitterball at!

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

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Mon 23 Dec 2019 06:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • The Darkness

    Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Sigala

    We Got Love (feat. Ella Henderson)

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

  • Shakin’ Stevens

    Merry Christmas Everyone

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

  • Bruno Mars

    24K Magic

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • KT Tunstall

    Mele Kalikimaka (Christmas in Hawaii)

    • The KT Tunstall Holiday Collection.
    • EMI.

  • Mariah Carey

    All I Want For Christmas Is You

    • Mariah Carey - Merry Christmas.
    • Columbia.

  • Harry Styles

    Adore You

    • Fine Line.
    • Columbia.

  • Spandau Ballet

    Gold

    • The Gold Album (Various Artists).
    • The Hit Label Ltd.

  • Scouting for Girls

    Christmas In The Air (Tonight)

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Music.

  • Slade

    Merry Xmas Everybody

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.

  • Sigma

    You And Me As One (feat. Jack Savoretti)

    • (CD Single).
    • 3Beat.

  • José Feliciano & Jools Holland

    Feliz Navidad

    • Noel (Various Artists).
    • Trax Records.

  • Dolly Parton

    9 to 5

    • Dolly Parton: The Ultimate Collection.
    • BMG/RCA.

  • Kim Wilde

    Hey Mister Snowman

    • Wilde Winter Snowman.
    • Wildeflower Records.
    • 001.

  • The Waitresses

    Christmas Wrapping

  • Taylor Swift

    Christmas Tree Farm

    • (CD Single).
    • TS/Republic.

  • Simon & Garfunkel

    A Hazy Shade Of Winter

    • The Definitive Simon & Garfunkel.
    • Columbia.

  • Earth, Wind & Fire

    Boogie Wonderland (feat. The Emotions)

    • The Best Seventies Album In The World.. Ever!.
    • Virgin.
    • 2.

  • James Blunt

    The Truth

    • Once Upon A Mind.
    • Atlantic.

  • Elton John

    Step Into Christmas

  • Peggy Lee

    I Like A Sleighride (Jingle Bells)

    • The Christmas Album.
    • Music For Pleasure.
    • 10.

  • Coldplay

    Christmas Lights

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
    • 1.

  • John Lennon, Yoko Ono & Plastic Ono Band

    Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (feat. The Harlem Community Choir)

    • GIMME SOME TRUTH. (Deluxe).
    • EMI.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Muneera Pilgrim, cultural producer:

This time every year I am filled with rituals, habits and intention that will help to shape the year ahead. I spend hours looking for journals and gratitude diaries that market themselves as the tools needed to help mould the best version of you.

This is one of the two times of the year I allocate myself a stationery allowance because what is a new you without a glitter pen, highlighter and tracker system to remind you of how many glasses of water you should be drinking in a day.
I also spend a lot of times thinking about the resolutions I didn’t keep and imagine where I would be now if only I had kept up or cut down.  
Last year after listening to Tolly T, one of the hosts of a Â鶹ԼÅÄ sounds Podcast, I decided I would introduce another ritual into my new year customs, and this one Zoe, I’ve managed to stick to.
What she advised was to get an empty jar, and every time you accomplish something big or small, write it down and add it to the jar, and whenever you are feeling down, pull a few out to remind yourself of how well you are doing. 
At low moments throughout the year, this has been a remedy for me and my friends who I persuaded to do the same.

Last week, me and those same friends decided to have a celebratory dinner and to share all of our accomplishments. 

The candles flickered, music was playing in the background and one by one we read from our pile of notes which had our accomplishments written down in glittered pen. 

As a tight-knit group, I knew all of their accomplishments and they knew mine, but there was something extra sweet about sharing them together.  I realised celebrating the accomplishments of others was as satisfactory as hearing my own. In that space I felt safe, I felt free.

Imam Ali a companion of the Prophet Muhammed said 

“The Poor is one who does not have any friends, he is like a stranger in his own land". 

I didn’t consider how enriched and at home I feel with my friends.

A lesson I will be taking into 2020 is often times the best accomplishments include those who love us.

Broadcast

  • Mon 23 Dec 2019 06:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2