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Genesis join Zoe!

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball and the team. Musical legends and rock heroes Genesis are in the studio to talk us through their reunion and tour!

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball! Musical legends and rock heroes Genesis are in the studio to talk us through their reunion and tour!

It’s The Why Workshop, and Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with more wonders and ponders, including your questions about dusters and why we eat three meals a day!

Along with Clare Runacres on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Mike Williams 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 from Jim Harris and a Show and Tell from 7 year old Sophie, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Wed 4 Mar 2020 06:30

Music Played

  • Bonnie Tyler

    Holding Out For A Hero

    • The No.1 Movies Album (Various Artist.
    • Polygram Tv.
  • SZA & Justin Timberlake

    The Other Side

    • Trolls World Tour O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • RCA.
  • Elbow Bones & The Racketeers

    A Night In New York

    • More Greatest Hits Of 80's (Various).
    • Disky.
  • Katy Perry

    Firework

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
    • 1.
  • Men at Work

    Down Under

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.
  • Stevie Wonder

    Do I Do

    • Stevie Wonder - The Definitive Collec.
    • Universal.
  • Lizzo

    Cuz I Love You

    • Cuz I Love You.
    • Atlantic.
  • Take That

    Giants

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
  • MC Hammer

    U Can't Touch This

    • Fast Forward (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.
  • Haircut One Hundred

    Fantastic Day

    • Pelican West - Deluxe Edition.
    • Cherry Pop.
    • 007.
  • Rihanna

    Only Girl (In The World)

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 77 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    Blue Moon Rising

    • Blue Moon Rising E.P..
    • Sour Mash Records.
  • Queen

    We Will Rock You

    • News Of The World.
    • Island.
    • 1.
  • Sheila & B. Devotion

    Spacer

    • Best Disco Album In The World...Ever!.
    • Virgin.
  • Elle King

    Ex's And Oh's

    • Love Stuff.
    • RCA.
    • 2.
  • Steve Winwood

    Valerie

    • Pure Rock Ballads (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.
  • Dua Lipa

    Physical

    • Future Nostalgia.
    • Warner Records.
  • The Police

    Message In A Bottle

    • The Very Best Of Sting & The Police.
    • A&M.
  • Rita Ora

    Anywhere

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • All Saints

    Rocksteady

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
  • Duran Duran

    A View To A Kill

    • The Best Of James Bond 30th Anniversa.
    • EMI.
  • Joel Corry

    Lonely

    • A 1.
    • Atlantic.
    • 01.
  • Genesis

    I Can't Dance

    • Genesis - Turn It On Again.
    • Virgin.
  • Genesis

    Mama

    • Genesis - Turn It On Again.
    • Virgin.
  • The Shires

    Independence Day

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).
  • Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

    I Second That Emotion

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

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Dr Jim Harris, Art Historian:

 One rainy night recently I lost my keys. I dropped them as I ran for a bus in Brixton and didn’t notice until, almost on the doorstep, I felt for them in my pocket and they were gone. I was very upset.

My keyring has among its many links a piece of bike chain, coins with holes in from Spain and Denmark, a brass ring and another, tiny ring too small to be useful.  They speak to me of my sister; of my friends Ant in Exeter and Anna in New Zealand; of being conned in New Cross; of being a scout in America when I was 15.

The sadness of losing them, then, had nothing to do with my keys and everything to with everything else, a chain binding me to my past, suddenly severed.

Three weeks ago, I felt another chain snap, more viscerally, when my Father died.

My dad was a good man.  I have aspired and failed to be like him, but I was loved by him anyway, and as a result my life was always safe. Today, though, I find myself unmoored and adrift and frankly frightened. I am not unique in my loss.  We all lose the people we love. I am not unique, but I am angry and I find myself asking, like the writer of Psalm 77 in the Bible;

“Has God’s steadfast love ceased for ever?

 Has he in anger shut up his compassion?â€

Some days I think the answer is ‘no, he has not’.  Others, I’m really not so sure. The Psalmist, though, goes on to say this:

“I will remember the deeds of the Lord;

  I will remember your wonders of oldâ€

Now I can’t pretend to remember God’s deeds with any great fondness just now.

But the business of remembering Dad is different.  Memory, even untethered from his presence, helps me tie myself back in to him.  I remember his wonders of old.

After I lost my keys, I returned to Brixton where I ran for the bus, and there they were, lying unregarded under a hedge.

I can’t go back and find Dad.  He wouldn’t be in Brixton, anyway.  But I can remember his wonders of old and they keep him by me.  And I reckon that maybe, eventually, when I’m feeling a little more forgiving, they might help me keep God by me too.

Broadcast

  • Wed 4 Mar 2020 06:30