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Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball and the team. Plus Chrissie Hynde is on the phone with brand new music from The Pretenders!

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball! Chrissie Hynde is on the phone with brand new music from The Pretenders.

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 that you can shake a glitterball at! Zoe and the gang also celebrate St. Patrick's Day with live music from The Howl Band!

There's also a daily Pause For Thought from Dr. Jim Harris and listeners on the line as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

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Music Played

  • Earth, Wind & Fire

    Boogie Wonderland (feat. The Emotions)

    • The Best Seventies Album In The World.. Ever!.
    • Virgin.
    • 2.

  • SZA & Justin Timberlake

    The Other Side

    • Trolls World Tour O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • RCA.

  • Heaven 17

    Temptation

    • A Kick Up The Eighties Vol. 5 (Various Artists).
    • Old Gold.

  • Keane

    Bend And Break

    • Hopes And Fears.
    • Island.

  • Supertramp

    Dreamer

    • The Very Best Of Supertramp.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • ABBA

    Summer Night City

    • Abba - More Abba Gold.
    • Polydor.

  • JP Cooper

    In These Arms

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Katy Perry

    Chained To The Rhythm (feat. Skip Marley)

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol Records.

  • 10cc

    Good Morning Judge

    • The Very Best Of 10cc.
    • Mercury.

  • George Ezra

    Shotgun

    • Staying At Tamara's.
    • Columbia.

  • Cyndi Lauper

    Girls Just Want To Have Fun

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

  • Luke Combs

    Refrigerator Door

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

  • The Pogues & The Dubliners

    The Irish Rover

    • The Very Best Of The Pogues.
    • Warner Strategic Marketi.

  • Roxy Music

    Love Is the Drug

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

  • David Gray

    Babylon

    • (CD Single).
    • Iht Records.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Spinning Around

    • Now 46 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Dua Lipa

    Physical

    • Future Nostalgia.
    • Warner Records.

  • Deacon Blue

    Fergus Sings The Blues

    • Deacon Blue- Our Town (Greatest Hits).
    • Columbia.

  • The Pogues

    Fiesta

    • The Very Best Of The Pogues.
    • Warner Strategic Marketi.

  • Black Box

    Ride On Time

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

  • The Shires

    Independence Day

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

  • Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

    Locomotion

    • Now 1984 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.
    • 9.

  • Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello

    ³§±ðñ´Ç°ù¾±³Ù²¹

    • (CD Single).
    • Fontana Island Records.

  • KISS

    Crazy Crazy Nights

    • Now 10, Part 1 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Toploader

    Dancing In The Moonlight

    • Onka's Big Moka - Toploader.
    • Sony Soho Square.

  • Shanice

    I Love Your Smile

    • Now Yearbook '92 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music.

  • Marmalade

    Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

    • Best Scottish Album In The World....
    • Virgin.

  • Kate Bush

    Wuthering Heights

    • Remastered Part I.
    • Fish People.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Dr Jim Harris, Art Historian:

ÌýI once told the following untruth. During a rambling conversation about football, I informed my boys that Queens Park Rangers FC was founded in by a group of West London pig butchers by appointment to the royal court, and that their original name was Queen’s Pork Rangers.

Unbelievably, the tale passed muster. Now this is not a crime.Ìý It falls, I hope, into the category of ‘cheeky story' rather than ‘destructive lie’ and I didn’t sustain the deception; mostly because it was too tempting to openly rejoice in the boys’ gullibility.

I am not a kind person.

ÌýThe trouble is, the line between a cheeky story and a destructive lie can be a touch blurry; especially when the cheeky story isn’t about fooling the kids but about kidding ourselves.

I was at the shops last week, where, along with the rest of Southeast London, I kidded myself with the cheeky story that I probably did need a little extra, although I was too late for loo paper. On Friday night, I was at the pub with my friends Lloyd and Ross, kidding myself that a warm hug between old mates wasn’t unnecessary contact.

And on Saturday, I stood with my neighbours as Dulwich Hamlet defeated Hemel Hempstead Town, kidding myself myself that this wasn’t really a large crowd.

But every time, I knew with uneasy certainty that in kidding myself I was perpetuating a more ominous kind of untruth; and that the truth is that for now I have to change the way I live.Ìý

Now on the one hand, this is a colossal pain in the neck.Ìý But on the other, hand, as Jesus said, ‘The truth will set us free’, and it is a massive relief to emerge from the weekend liberated from trying to convince myself to somehow carry on as normal.

There are some cheeky stories I will cling to.Ìý I’m sure we all will.Ìý I will, in particular, kid myself that the occasional beer is actually good for me.

But, for the time being, I reckon I have to be content with the truth, because I don’t suddenly need ten kilos of cornflakes; I don’t need to hug anyone for them to know that I love them; and I need to help keep my neighbours healthy much more than I need to see Dulwich Hamlet scramble belatedly away from the relegation zone.

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  • Tue 17 Mar 2020 06:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2