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Rylan Clark-Neal sits in

Wake up to a star-studded breakfast with Rylan Clark-Neal! Pop superstar Meghan Trainor performs live in the studio, and comedian Tom Allen pops in for a chat about Comic Relief.

Wake up to a star-studded breakfast with Rylan Clark-Neal! The magical Meghan Trainor is in the studio to perform live and talk about her new album 'Treat Myself' plus she'll be updating us on all things The Voice and she delivers an amazing rendition of Britney Spears' 'Hit Me Baby One More Time'. Comedian Tom Allen pops in for a chat about Comic Relief's 'Spectacular' night of comedy at Wembley and his upcoming holiday in Tenerife!

Listener Carolyn is live in the studio to try on the infamous BRITs red slippers, and we find out if they fit!

Along with Tina Daheley on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Hugh Ferris 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 and listeners on the line, as Rylan entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 21 Feb 2020 06:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Bryan Ferry

    Let's Stick Together

    • Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music - Street Life.
    • Eg.

  • Celeste

    Stop This Flame

    • (CD Single).
    • Both Sides Records.

  • Wet Wet Wet

    Wishing I Was Lucky

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • P!nk

    A Million Dreams

    • The Greatest Showman: Reimagined (Various Artists).
    • Atlantic.

  • Moloko

    Sing It Back

    • Club MTV (Various Artists).
    • Universal Music On Demand.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Can't Get You Out Of My Head

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • David Guetta, MORTEN & RAYE

    Make It To Heaven

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Incognito

    Always There (feat. Jocelyn Brown)

    • (CD Single).
    • Talkin' Loud.

  • Blondie

    Heart Of Glass

    • Billboard Top Hits: 1979 (Various).
    • Rhino.
    • 13.

  • Lewis Capaldi

    Someone You Loved

    • Breach.
    • Vertigo.
    • 3.

  • Loreen

    Euphoria

    • Clubland Eurodance (Various Artists).
    • Universal.

  • Bryan Adams

    Cloud Number Nine

    • (CD Single).
    • A&M.

  • Jonas Brothers

    What A Man Gotta Do

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Londonbeat

    I've Been Thinking About You

  • Bon Jovi

    Limitless

    • Bon Jovi 2020.
    • Island.

  • The Temptations

    Get Ready

    • Dancing In The Street (Various Artis.
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • Glenn Frey

    The Heat Is On

    • Above The Clouds: The Very Best Of.
    • Universal.

  • Meghan Trainor

    All About That Bass (Radio 2 Session, 21 Feb 2020)

    • RCA.

  • Spice Girls

    Wannabe

    • Bad Girls (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.

  • James Blunt

    Halfway (feat. Ward Thomas)

    • Once Upon A Mind.
    • Atlantic.

  • Meghan Trainor

    Nice To Meet You (Radio 2 Session, 21 Feb 2020)

    • RCA.

  • Gregory Porter

    Revival

    • (CD Single).
    • Decca.

  • Queen

    We Are The Champions

    • News Of The World.
    • Island.
    • 2.

  • Meghan Trainor

    ...Baby One More Time (Radio 2 Session, 21 Feb 2020)

  • Robbie Williams

    Let Me Entertain You

    • Now 39 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Billy Idol

    White Wedding

    • Rip It Up (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Black Eyed Peas

    I Gotta Feeling

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.
    • 4.

  • JP Saxe

    If The World Was Ending (feat. Julia Michaels)

    • (CD Single).
    • Arista.

  • Cass Elliot

    Make Your Own Kind Of Music

    • Bubble Gum, Lemonade & Something for Mama.
    • Dunhill.
    • 12.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From the Reverend Richard Coles:

There was a cartoon once in the New Yorker which showed people arriving at the gates of hell, damned to an eternity of torture. The devil welcomed them by handing each an accordion. I thought of this the other day when I turned up for my first lesson carrying the accordion a parishioner gave me. I say carrying, heaving more like, they’re heavier than they look, lacquered boxes containing half a piano, half an organ, a canteen of cutlery and a tiny wind farm.

That they make any sound at all is a surprise, but when they do it’s captivating. There was a lady playing one in the street in Kettering the other day so beautifully I could have listened to her all morning, but I had business with a gents’ outfitter.

I know it’s not everyone’s favourite sound - indeed, when I gave my thrillingly unpredictable debut performance of My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean the dogs ran behind the sofa - but I have always loved it, and since the arrival in these parts of people from Eastern Europe, where accordions are the thing, I’ve grown to love it more.

My teacher, Yanis, from Latvia via Corby, is a master and makes it look as easy as breathing. That’s what 100,000 hours of practice does, because it is not easy. Your right hand has a piano keyboard to deal with, your left 120 fiddly buttons doing different things, and between them, a set of bellows which you must squeeze in and out in order to get any sound at all. Getting them to do what they’re meant to do at the same time is like playing the mouth organ on a pec deck while working a cash register. You try it.

Why try it? For me, it’s partly about acquiring a skill; but mostly it’s about trying to get something beautiful and harmonious and distinctive out of what looks like jumble. Make your own music, sing your own special song, said Mama Cass, and I wonder if in the back of her mind were the words from the book of Psalms that she grew up with, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants to the United States: sing to the Lord a new song, sing to the Lord all the earth - in all our variety and multiplicity and jumbledness.

Broadcast

  • Fri 21 Feb 2020 06:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2