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Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball. Mel & Sue are on the phone to talk about their new comedy series Hitmen plus there's another Why Workshop with the QI Elves.

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball! Telly double act Mel & Sue are on the phone to talk about their new comedy series Hitmen and we find out why Mel is hiding in her cupboard at home.

David Walliams also phones the studio to tell us about his audiobooks!

Plus it鈥檚 The Why Workshop with Alex Elf and Jack Elf as they answer your questions about seedless grapes and nocturnal animals.

Along with Jason K on news and Richie Anderson on travel, Zoe and the team have the best start to your morning. With your stories and shout outs, tunes chosen by listeners and more music that you can shake a glitterball at!

There's also a daily Pause For Thought with Paul Kerensa and a Show and Tell from 7 year old Hetty!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Wed 25 Mar 2020 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Philip Bailey & Phil Collins

    Easy Lover

    • Singles.
    • Rhino.

  • Alicia Keys

    Underdog

    • ALICIA.
    • RCA.

  • Archie Bell & the Drells

    Soul City Walk

    • Midnight Soul (Various Artists).
    • Music Club.

  • Donna Summer

    She Works Hard For The Money

    • Donna Summer - Summer Collection.
    • Mercury.

  • Erasure

    A Little Respect

    • Erasure - Pop!.
    • Mute Records.

  • John Parr

    St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)

    • Now 1985 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • Dua Lipa

    Physical

    • Future Nostalgia.
    • Warner Records.

  • Louis Prima

    Just a Gigolo / I Ain't Got Nobody

    • Louis Prima - Capitol Collectors Seri.
    • Columbia.

  • Becky Hill & Shift K3Y

    Better Off Without You

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Four Tops

    I Can't Help Myself

    • The Singles Collection.
    • Polygram TV.

  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    AKA... What A Life!

  • SZA & Justin Timberlake

    The Other Side

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

  • Lisa Stansfield

    This Is The Right Time

    • (CD Single).
    • Arista.
    • 6.

  • Blossoms

    If You Think This Is Real Life

    • Foolish Loving Spaces.
    • EMI.

  • Pet Shop Boys

    Always On My Mind

    • Pet Shop Boys - Discography.
    • Parlophone.

  • Tavares

    Don't Take Away The Music

    • Wow That Was The 70's (Various Artists).
    • Disky.
    • 8.

  • JP Cooper

    In These Arms

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Jess Glynne

    Hold My Hand

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Cat Stevens

    (Remember The Days Of The) Old Schoolyard

    • The Very Best Of Cat Stevens.
    • Island.

  • Jonas Brothers

    What A Man Gotta Do

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Eurythmics

    Thorn In My Side

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

  • Donna Missal

    Hurt By You

    • (CD Single).
    • Harvest Records.
    • 1.

  • Nu Shooz

    I Can't Wait

    • Club Classics From The 80's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • Years & Years

    If You're Over Me

    • Palo Santo.
    • Polydor.

  • Black Eyed Peas

    Where Is The Love?

    • Now 56 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Harry Styles

    Falling

    • Fine Line.
    • Columbia.

  • Train

    Hey, Soul Sister

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From comedian & writer Paul Kerensa:

For our kids, we used to use the Time Out Step, aka the Naughty step. The bottom step of the stairs 鈥� there when they need a few moments.

It was time-relative. You were on the step for as many years as you were minutes alive. Or maybe the other way round (whichever buys you longer). So when my daughter was 3, she was on there for 3 minutes. When my son was 5, he was on there for 5 minutes. I started deliberately misbehaving at 41, hoping to get a sitdown for 41 minutes. I thought I could read a book and everything. But no...

I鈥檝e realised that, although we don鈥檛 do the Time Out Step nowadays, I do still tell my children when to sit. To stop. To take a moment of calm. The step lives on: it鈥檚 just moved, to this chair, that sofa, this beanbag, that deckchair (after a chaotic moment in the garden).

But as a 41-year-old, people don鈥檛 tell me to sit and stop. We tell the children, or the dog, but no one tells the adults. Well, my wife does, if I鈥檓 pottering about too much. 鈥淛ust sit down!鈥� 鈥淏ut I want to hel-...鈥� 鈥淪it!鈥�

Jesus said: 鈥楥ome to me, if you鈥檙e weary and burdened, and I鈥檒l give you rest.鈥� 鈥榊ou鈥檒l find rest for your souls,鈥� he went on. 鈥楩or my yoke is easy and my burden light.鈥�

For years, I thought that 鈥榶oke鈥� was to do with eggs. Different sort of yoke. The yoke, it turns out, is the harness that two oxen or cattle might wear, to pull a plough. I get it now. If your partner鈥檚 got a light load 鈥� if their burden is easy 鈥� yours will be too. Basically, yoke鈥檚 on them.

It鈥檚 not easy, but I鈥檓 trying to offload my woes, not be burdened, instead partnering with one who鈥檒l help take the weight (I鈥檝e gone for Jesus, but other belief systems are available). Whatever our faith 鈥� or lack-of, sometimes I think we need to be told to rest. Perhaps grown-ups need a Time-Out step, as well as the kids. And maybe 鈥楥ome to me, weary and burdened, I鈥檒l give you rest...鈥� 鈥� is another way of saying: 鈥楽it. Stop. Time out.鈥�

Broadcast

  • Wed 25 Mar 2020 06:30
    麻豆约拍 Radio 2