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Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball and the wonderful Mary Berry! It鈥檚 The Why Workshop, and Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with more wonders, ponders and your questions.

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball! Mary Berry is in to answer our burning questions about her latest 麻豆约拍 series Best 麻豆约拍 Cook.

It鈥檚 The Why Workshop, and Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with more wonders and ponders, including your questions. Anna Elf and Lydia Elf tell us where sound goes once you've heard it and whether it's possible to outrun the rain.

Plus we hear from our Kazoo playing listeners!

Along with Tina Daheley 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 a Pause For Thought from Art Historian Dr Jim Harris and listeners on the line as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Wed 29 Jan 2020 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Journey

    Don't Stop Believin'

    • Rock Of America (Various Artists).
    • Trax Label.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    All My Love

    • From Out Of Nowhere.
    • Columbia.

  • Janet Jackson

    Together Again

    • Now 39 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Wings

    Silly Love Songs

    • Wings - At The Speed Of Sound.
    • Parlophone.

  • Gnarls Barkley

    Crazy

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • The Trammps

    Disco Inferno

    • NOW Boogie Nights - Disco Classics (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • David Guetta, MORTEN & RAYE

    Make It To Heaven

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Belinda Carlisle

    Heaven Is A Place On Earth

    • A Place On Earth - Greatest Hits.
    • Virgin.

  • Billy Ocean

    One World

    • One World.
    • Sony CG.

  • Emeli Sand茅

    Highs & Lows

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
    • 014.

  • Toto

    Hold The Line

    • Driving Rock (Various Artists).
    • Global Records & Tapes.

  • Pet Shop Boys

    Monkey Business

  • Clean Bandit

    Rockabye (feat. Sean Paul & Anne-Marie)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Europe

    The Final Countdown

    • The Very Best Of Power Ballads (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Cher

    Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves

  • Girls Aloud

    The Promise

    • (CD Single).
    • Fascination.
    • 1.

  • The Script

    Run Through Walls

    • Sunsets & Full Moons.
    • Columbia.

  • Stereophonics

    Have a Nice Day

    • Now 49 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Dancing

    • Golden.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Hungry Heart

    • Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits.
    • Columbia.

  • Jimmy Nail

    Ain't No Doubt

    • Now That's What I Call Music Vol.22.
    • Now.

  • Will Young

    Forever

    • (CD Single).
    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • Rod Stewart

    The Motown Song

    • Rod Stewart - Vagabond Heart.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Katy Perry

    Roar

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.
    • 1.

  • Jamiroquai

    Cosmic Girl

    • Simply The Best Radio Hits (Various).
    • Warner E.S.P..

  • Christina Aguilera

    Genie In A Bottle

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Blossoms

    The Keeper

    • The Keeper.
    • Virgin EMI.

  • Carly Simon

    Why

    • The Very Best Of Carly Simon.
    • Global Television.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Dr Jim Harris, Art Historian:

People say that, when they are lost, men are reluctant to ask directions. The reason people say this is because it is true. But we are never shy in offering them.

聽I, for example, was in a museum recently and was asked, by an elderly couple, where they might find a particular painting.聽 I immediately provided complex and almost certainly incorrect directions and I鈥檓 rather afraid that, three weeks later, they might still be wandering the galleries wondering whether Jan Van Eyck鈥檚 Annunciation actually exists.

I wasn鈥檛 trying to be unhelpful. But, in the presence of a knowledgeable Gallery Guard who knew perfectly well where the picture was, my help was just not needed.

Yet still I offered it. I wanted to be seen to know because I am, frankly, an insufferable smart-alec and I want to know everything.

The problem with wanting to know everything, though, is that no-one can. Not Leonardo da Vinci, not Stephen Hawking and especially not me. Christians believe that only God is all-knowing. But this in itself raises a problem: how do we access that knowledge, when our holy books seem capable of interpretation in so many different ways?

One of the simplest statements in the Old Testament, the Hebrew Scriptures, is this: 鈥淲isdom is with those who take advice鈥�. It sounds obvious, but I am living proof that it is not easy to do. 聽Yet what is being suggested in that short sentence is that someone somewhere has the answer.聽

In other words we find wisdom in each other, in collaboration and cooperation, in the collective, in the interdisciplinary.聽 So, a schoolteacher relies on the expertise of a car mechanic; a car mechanic on an accountant, an accountant on a florist and an art historian on pretty well everybody.聽

I believe God is present in the brilliance not of one person, but of everyone.

We, together, are the all-knowing miracle and I reckon there isn鈥檛 a single one of us who doesn鈥檛 have a part in that, who doesn鈥檛 just need advice but also has advice to share.

So, who knows everything?聽 I don鈥檛.聽 But we do.

And the next time I am asked where the Van Eyck is, I promise to say, 鈥業 don鈥檛 know, but ask that lady over there.聽 She does.鈥�

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  • Wed 29 Jan 2020 06:30
    麻豆约拍 Radio 2