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Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball and the team. Tamsin Greig is in the studio to talk about starring in Belgravia, the brand-new period drama from Julian Fellowes.

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball! Actress and comedian Tamsin Greig tells us about starring in ITV's Belgravia, the new drama written by Downtown Abbey creator Julian Fellowes, plus the return of Friday Night Dinner on Channel 4.

Eddie Izzard calls in with tips for Richie before he starts The Radio 2 Dare2Tri Challenge for Sport Relief.

And there's a special Show and Tell from Archie on the Isle of Mull to celebrate International Bagpipe Day!

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 than you can shake a glitterball at!

There's also a Pause For Thought from writer and broadcaster Sarah Joseph and listeners on the line as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Tue 10 Mar 2020 06:30
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Music Played

  • Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson

    Say Say Say

    • The 7" Singles Box.
    • MPL.

  • Lady Gaga

    Stupid Love

    • Chromatica.
    • Polydor.

  • George Benson

    Love Ballad

    • George Benson - The Very Best Of.
    • Warner E.S.P..
    • 6.

  • Girls Aloud

    Call The Shots

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 1.

  • Bill Withers

    Lovely Day

    • It's Cool (Various Artists).
    • Parlophone.

  • Ed Sheeran

    Castle On The Hill

    • Γ· Divide.
    • Atlantic.

  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    Blue Moon Rising

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

  • Robbie Williams

    Feel

    • (CD Single).
    • Chrysalis.

  • Paloma Faith

    Make Your Own Kind Of Music

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Elvis Costello & The Attractions

    Radio Radio

    • The Very Best Of Elvis Costello.
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • James Ingram & Michael McDonald

    Yah Mo B There

    • Duets - 36 Of The World's Greatest Ev.
    • Telstar.

  • Lizzo

    Cuz I Love You

    • Cuz I Love You.
    • Atlantic.

  • Jax Jones

    Breathe (feat. Ina Wroldsen)

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Junior

    Mama Used To Say

    • And They Danced The Night Away.
    • Debutante.

  • The Isley Brothers

    Behind A Painted Smile

    • Isley Brothers - Greatest Motown Hits.
    • Motown.

  • Mark Ronson

    Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Sam Smith

    To Die For

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.

  • Alison Moyet

    Is This Love?

    • Alison Moyet Singles.
    • Columbia.
    • 8.

  • Elton John

    I'm Still Standing

    • Diamonds.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • George Michael

    Faith

    • George Michael - Ladies & Gentlemen.
    • Epic.

  • Semisonic

    Chemistry

    • (CD Single).
    • MCA.

  • The Shires

    Independence Day

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

  • Deniece Williams

    Let's Hear It For The Boy

    • History Of Dance Music Vol.2 (Variou.
    • Connoisseur Collection.

  • Lewis Capaldi

    Before You Go

    • (CD Single).
    • Vertigo.

  • Four Tops

    It's The Same Old Song

    • The Four Tops - The Ultimate Collecti.
    • Motown.

  • New Order

    True Faith

  • Depeche Mode

    Everything Counts

    • Depeche Mode - The Singles 1981-1985.
    • Mute Records.

  • Joy Division

    Love Will Tear Us Apart

    • Glorious (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • CΓ©line Dion

    Change My Mind

    • Courage.
    • Columbia.

  • The Farm

    All Together Now

    • Smash Hits Massive! (Various Artists).
    • Dover Records.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Sarah Joseph, Editor of a Muslim lifestyle magazine:

Today is Harriet Tubman Day.

Now I had never heard of Harriet Tubman until her story appeared in a time-travel series I was watching. After watching the show, I looked her up. She was AMAZING!

An opponent of slavery, and a political activist, she herself was born into slavery in America almost two hundred years ago. She escaped and then rescued others - making some 13 missions to rescue slaves. She also served as an armed scout and spy for the Union Army in the American civil war. And before her death on this day in 1913, she campaigned for the right for women to vote. She really was an extraordinary woman. A film about her life came out last year.
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There’s another extraordinary black American woman I’d never heard of until her story was told in the film, Hidden Figures. Katherine Goble Johnson died a couple of weeks ago. Her astonishing mathematical skills were critical to the success of the first US manned space flights, and many more space missions thereafter.
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Harriet Tubman and Katherine Goble Johnson are just two black American women who are only now beginning to enter public consciousness through the medium of film. My education certainly never brought their contributions to light before that.
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I grew up in a time when there weren’t that many female role models, let alone Black female role models. I barely read about women who went to university. Female doctors, politicians, and business women were few and far between. As for slavery busting activists and NASA mathematicians, who had to break through sexism AND racism! These women were unheard of!

Our world has been shaped by all sorts of contributions from all sorts of different types of people. So many of the innovations that make up our modern world came into being from surprising places.
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As a Muslim I have made myself familiar with the contributions to the great body of global knowledge that Muslims have made, whilst recognising that knowledge builds on the shoulders of giants.

I reckon it’s important to recognise the great contributions made by a whole host of varied humans that give us our world today. Maybe if we can recognise that we have a shared human history, we’ll feel we have a stronger shared human future.

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  • Tue 10 Mar 2020 06:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2