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Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball and Emilia Clarke!

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball! Emilia Clarke is in the studio to tell us about her run in the West End play 'The Seagull'. She also talks about life outside the 'Game of Thrones' bubble and we relive her acting past on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Drama 'Doctors'!

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 Sheridan Voysey and a Show and Tell from 10 year old Sophia- Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Tue 3 Mar 2020 06:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Simply Red

    Fairground

    • Simply Red Greatest Hits.
    • East West Records.

  • Tom Grennan

    This is The Place

    • (CD Single).
    • Insanity.

  • Olly Murs

    Dear Darlin'

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony BMG.
    • 1.

  • The O’Jays

    Love Train

    • Shades Of Soul (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Eurythmics

    There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)

    • The Female Touch 2 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • James Blunt

    Halfway (feat. Ward Thomas)

    • Once Upon A Mind.
    • Atlantic.

  • Years & Years

    King

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 90 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Train

    Drive By

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 12.

  • Steve Miller Band

    Abracadabra

    • The Very Best Of The Steve Miller Ban.
    • Arcade Records.

  • Chic

    Le Freak

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Rhino.

  • Luke Combs

    Refrigerator Door

    • What You See Is What You Get.
    • River House Artists.
    • 2.

  • Zara Larsson

    Lush Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.
    • 001.

  • Shaun Escoffery

    River

    • (CD Single).
    • Decca.

  • The Foundations

    Baby Now That I've Found You

    • Fifty Number Ones Of The 60's (Variou.
    • Global Television.

  • Earth, Wind & Fire

    Let's Groove

    • 15th Anniversary Music Celebration (Various Artists).
    • Rhino.

  • Gregory Porter

    Revival

    • (CD Single).
    • Decca.

  • Adele

    Rolling In The Deep

    • (CD Single).
    • XL.
    • 1.

  • Survivor

    Eye Of The Tiger

    • The No.1 Movies Album (Various Artist.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Madonna

    Express Yourself

    • (Single).
    • Sire.

  • Liam Gallagher

    Once

    • Why Me? Why Not.
    • Warner Records.

  • Emeli Sandé

    Next To Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
    • 1.

  • Joe Jackson

    Steppin' Out

  • Harry Styles

    Adore You

    • Fine Line.
    • Columbia.

  • Stereophonics

    Dakota

    • (CD Single).
    • V2.

  • Red Hot Chili Peppers

    Under The Bridge

    • The All Time Greatest Rock Songs ....
    • Columbia.

  • Ray LaMontagne

    You Are the Best Thing

    • (CD Single).
    • 14th Floor Records.
    • 1.

  • The Pussycat Dolls

    React

    • (CD Single).
    • Access Records.

  • The Ronettes

    Baby, I Love You

    • The Best Of The Ronettes.
    • Phil Spector Int.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

 From Sheridan Voysey, Writer and broadcaster:

 Last year an Australian friend came to visit me. I wasted no time showing Jason the best of Oxfordshire, taking him to Blenheim Palace, the Bodleian Library, and cosy villages with thatched-roof cottages to prove such things really did exist outside of Midsomer Murders. Visits to York and Holy Island followed, then some hiking around Northumberland.

One afternoon we hiked up a windswept hill, crossed a field of wildflowers then entered a forest of towering pines. The forest was quiet, each crunch of our steps heard against a whisper of rustling leaves. After the woods came a valley, where we paused for a moment. Clouds floated softly above us. A stream trickled nearby. The only sounds were birdsongs. We stood in silence for a full fifteen minutes taking it all in.

It turns out that what Jason and I experienced then was more than a pleasant diversion. According to research from the University of Derby, people who stop to notice nature experience higher levels of happiness, lower levels of anxiety and depression, and a heightened desire to care for the earth. As little as 20 seconds of contemplation a day is all it takes, although walking through the forest isn’t enough. You have to watch the clouds, smell the flowers, listen to the birds. The key isn’t being in nature, but noticing it.

Scientists continue to discuss why noticing nature affects us this way. I wonder if there’s a spiritual component to it. In the biblical story, God tells Job to contemplate the sea, sky and stars as evidence of his presence—an experience that left him speechless. Jesus said that watching the ‘birds of the air’ and ‘flowers of the field’ could reveal God’s care. Many thinkers and artists through time have believed Something greater lay behind nature—like van Gogh, whose vibrant sunflowers and swirling skies tried to depict the light of God he saw shining through the world.

According to the researchers, only a quarter of us stop to watch clouds or smell the wildflowers. If they’re right, taking a moment to notice nature will help both us and the planet. And if Job and van Gogh are to be believed, it might also give us a glimpse of a God who notices us.

Broadcast

  • Tue 3 Mar 2020 06:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2