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David Tennant, Jennifer Saunders and Louise

Wake up to a star-studded Friends Round Friday with Zoe Ball and the absolutely fabulous Jennifer Saunders, the delightful David Tennant and live music from Louise!

Wake up to a star-studded breakfast with Zoe Ball, David Tennant will be joining her to chat about his new TV drama Deadwater Fell, Jennifer Saunders is also in the studio to talk about her role in the Noel Coward play 'Blithe Spirit' plus live music from Louise in the studio as she celebrates her new album 'Heavy Love'!

Tina Daheley has the news, Richie Anderson on travel and Mike Williams on sport, she and the team have the best start to your morning. Louise also treats Richie Anderson to a surprise duet of 'Stuck In The Middle With You'!

There's also a daily Pause For Thought with Dr Jim Harris and a Show and Tell with five year old Bo, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Fri 17 Jan 2020 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Shine A Little Love

    • ELO's Greatest Hits Vol.2.
    • Epic.

  • Dermot Kennedy

    Power Over Me

    • Outnumbered.
    • UMGRI Interscope.

  • The Bangles

    Walk Like An Egyptian

    • Take A Break (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Finley Quaye

    Your Love Gets Sweeter

    • New Hits 98 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.

  • Supertramp

    Dreamer

    • The Very Best Of Supertramp.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • KC and the Sunshine Band

    That's the Way (I Like It)

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

  • Blossoms

    The Keeper

    • The Keeper.
    • Virgin EMI.

  • Will Young

    Your Game

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG/19.

  • R.E.M.

    Shiny Happy People

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1991 (Various).
    • Telstar.

  • Rahim Redcar

    Girlfriend (feat. 顿芒尘-贵耻苍办)

    • (CD Single).
    • Because Music.

  • Barry Manilow

    Copacabana

    • (Single).
    • Arista.

  • Gabrielle Aplin & Nina Nesbitt

    Miss You 2

    • Dear Happy.
    • Never Fade Records.

  • Ed Sheeran

    Sing

    • (CD Single).
    • Asylum Records.
    • 001.

  • Louis Tomlinson

    Walls

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco.

  • Donald Fagen

    Walk Between Raindrops

    • Donald Fagen - The Nightfly.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Elton John

    Are You Ready for Love

    • Diamonds.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Shalamar

    A Night To Remember

    • Friends - Deluxe Edition.
    • Big Break Records.
    • 5.

  • Roachford

    Love Remedy

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Louise

    Hurt (Radio 2 Session, 17 Jan 2020)

  • MistaJam

    Ultimatum (feat. Laura White)

    • (CD Single).
    • Armada Music.

  • Louise

    Stuck In The Middle With You (Radio 2 Session, 17 Jan 2020)

    Supporting Artist: Richie Anderson.

  • Madonna

    Like A Virgin

    • Finally Enough Love (Deluxe Edition).
    • Rhino.
    • 7.

  • Louise

    Stay/ Sweet Love (Radio 2 Session, 17 Jan 2020)

  • Coldplay

    Everyday Life

    • Everyday Life: Sunset.
    • Parlophone.

  • Louise

    Together Again (Radio 2 Session, 17 Jan 2020)

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Dr Jim Harris, Art Historian:

I gave a lecture on Tuesday. 鈥淪o what?鈥� I hear you cry. Well, it is my job; but this one was actually fun, because I got to talk for an hour about my favourite artist, the dazzling star of the Florentine Renaissance, the one, the only Donatello.

Thing is, it was a terrible lecture. It wasn鈥檛 terrible because it was incoherent, or inaudible, or even because nobody but me cares about Donatello. It was terrible because it was biased.

My somewhat opinionated argument was simply that Donatello is the greatest artist who ever lived, anywhere, in any medium, at any time. Now I鈥檓 not supposed to say things like that. I can like Donatello. But I can鈥檛 like him that much. I鈥檓 supposed to be appropriately measured, academically balanced.

聽You see, no-one likes bias.聽 Bias smacks of unfairness, inequality, inequity. And yet I reckon we are all biased. We prefer Bolly over Moet, Eternal over All Saints, even a female Doctor over a male, perhaps. It seems almost impossible to take a balanced view of everything. And in that, I鈥檇 argue that we鈥檙e in very good company.

Because I have a suspicion that God is biased. It鈥檚 very hard indeed to read the Bible without noticing how often we are told to care for the poor, how often it鈥檚 the foreigner, the widow, the orphan who is the object of God鈥檚 concern.

聽Now I鈥檓 pretty sure that God loves all of us, equally.聽 But I鈥檓 equally sure that she recognizes that we don鈥檛 love each other equally - so God鈥檚 bias points us to where love and care are most needed, where a change in the balance between the powerful and the powerless is required to make things fair, to bring about justice.

So we can continue with our other, petty biases, mostly because it doesn鈥檛 matter which band or brand of champagne we prefer, or even whether Donatello is the greatest artist who ever lived. (He is.)

But when it comes to caring for the weak and the vulnerable, bias isn鈥檛 just desirable; I think it鈥檚 essential, so we can say, as Dr Who does of Earth: they are protected.

Broadcast

  • Fri 17 Jan 2020 06:30
    麻豆约拍 Radio 2