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Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont

Zoe chats to comedians Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont about the new sitcom Meet The Richardsons. Plus, it's the return of The 5 Star Biz Quiz.

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball!

Comedians Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont chat about the new sitcom Meet The Richardsons.

Plus, listener Chris secures a spot in the studio for Friends Round Friday by smashing today's The 5 Star Biz Quiz!

Along with Tina Daheley on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Mike Williams on sport, she and the team have the best start to your morning! There's also a Show and Tell from Timothy and his cornet and a Pause For Thought from Laura Marks as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Thu 27 Feb 2020 06:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Sweet Talkin' Woman

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.

  • Billy Ocean

    One World

    • One World.
    • Sony CG.

  • Blur

    Parklife

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Lady Gaga

    Bad Romance

    • Now That's What I Call Music 75 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 1.

  • The Four Seasons

    Who Loves You

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 1.

  • Donna Summer

    Hot Stuff

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.

  • Becky Hill & Shift K3Y

    Better Off Without You

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Billy Joel

    We Didn't Start The Fire

    • Billy Joel - The Ultimate Collection.
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Carly Rae Jepsen

    Call Me Maybe

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.

  • Matt Bianco

    Get Out of Your Lazy Bed

    • Whose Side Are You On (Deluxe Edition).
    • Cherry Pop.
    • 006.

  • Starship

    We Built This City

    • Now 1985 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 1.

  • Lizzo

    Cuz I Love You

    • Cuz I Love You.
    • Atlantic.

  • ABBA

    Thank You For The Music

  • Bananarama

    Venus

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

  • The Mamas & the Papas

    California Dreamin'

    • The Best Of.
    • MCA.
    • 2.

  • Belinda Carlisle

    Heaven Is A Place On Earth

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

  • Joel Corry

    Lonely

    • A 1.
    • Atlantic.
    • 01.

  • James Arthur & Anne-Marie

    Rewrite The Stars

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

  • Jamiroquai

    Canned Heat

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony.

  • The Darkness

    I Believe In A Thing Called Love

    • The Darkness - Permission To Land.
    • Atlantic.

  • The Cardigans

    Lovefool

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.

  • Billie Eilish

    No Time To Die

    • (CD Single).
    • Darkroom/Interscope Records.

  • Jake Thackray

    Lah-Di-Dah

  • Mabel

    Don't Call Me Up

    • High Expectations.
    • Polydor.

  • The Detroit Spinners

    Working My Way Back To You

    • Heart Full Of Soul 2 (Various Artist.
    • Global Television.

  • Kings of Leon

    Sex On Fire

    • CD SINGLE.
    • COLUMBIA.
    • 1.

  • The Jam

    A Town Called Malice

    • Jam Story.
    • Universal.

  • Dobie Gray

    Out On The Floor

    • The Best Northern Soul All-Nighter (V.
    • Virgin.

  • The Shires

    Independence Day

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

  • Craig David

    7 Days

    • Now 47 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Beatles

    Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

    • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
    • Parlophone.
    • 1.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Laura Marks, a campaigner for social action and interfaith relationships.

This Saturday is special.  Not another festival, but my nephew Matthews’ birthday.  Whilst he looks every bit of 28 and is qualified as a doctor, it’s actually only his 7th birthday because Matthew was born on the leap year day in 1992.

When Matthew arrived, he was a gift, a blessing and of course, our pride and joy.

So imagine the dismay, as he grew older, when he realised that we only have the 29th February every 4 years.  Whilst his parents ensured we celebrated with appropriate gifts, a chocolate caterpillar cake and Matthew being given the right number of bumps, he felt just a bit cheated out of an annual birthday by the vagaries of the Gregorian calendar, with its four yearly extra day. 

The Jewish year is even more complicated.  We don’t insert a leap year day but, and for reasons I don’t fully understand, we repeat a whole month 7 times in a 19 year cycle.

I couldn’t bear repeating the month of February.  Whilst it has its upsides, mainly that it’s not January, I’m no fan of short dark days.  This year’s torrential rain in particular, flooding homes, isolating the vulnerable, and bringing wretchedness in its tracks, has made me yearn for the spring days of March. 

Luckily the month we repeat in the Jewish calendar is not a British February, though it’s around the same time, but the month of Adar, which is the month specifically of Joy. 

Joy, according to Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, lives in the moment, it discovers you. It has to do with a sense of connection. It is a social emotion.

So, having waited for forty-eight months since Matthew’s last proper birthday, on our one leap year day, Saturday 29th of February, this paltry extra 24 hours, this 1440 minutes, this time that next year, not a leap year, won’t even exist, our family is connecting, joyfully over piles of homemade food.

For, whether its once every four years, once a year or every single day, Matthew knows deep down, that joy lurks in connections, social emotions and ties with family and friends, as well as in the 28 bumps, and not in the calendar itself.  2020 is one small step for Matthew but one giant leap year for mankind.

Broadcast

  • Thu 27 Feb 2020 06:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2