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Michael Sheen, Russell Howard and Joe Lycett

Amol Rajan is joined by Michael Sheen, and comedians Russell Howard and Joe Lycett for another Friends Phone-in Friday.

Wake up to a star-studded breakfast with Amol Rajan and a whole host of celebrity guests. Michael Sheen is on the phone to talk about the new ITV drama Quiz; Russell Howard discusses his new Sky series 'Russell Howard's Â鶹ԼÅÄtime' and Joe Lycett is back on TV with The Great British Sewing Bee on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Two, and Joe Lycett's Got Your Back on Channel 4.

Plus Richie has more of your own domestic travel bulletins!

There's also a Pause For Thought with comedian and writer Paul Kerensa, news and headlines with Adam Porter and listeners on the line as Amol entertains the nation with fun for the family!

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Fri 10 Apr 2020 06:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Michael Sembello

    Maniac

    • Flashdance O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • VIRGIN.

  • Dua Lipa

    Break My Heart

    • Future Nostalgia.
    • Warner Records.

  • Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

    I Love Rock 'n' Roll

    • Joan Jett - I Love Rock 'n' Roll.
    • Blackheart.

  • Janet Jackson

    When I Think Of You

    • Janet Jackson - Design Of A Decade.
    • A&M.
    • 7.

  • Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes

    Wake Up Everybody

    • Harold Melvin - Greatest Hits.
    • CBS.
    • 5.

  • Robert Palmer

    Mercy Mercy Me/I Want You

    • Now 19 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Texas

    Black Eyed Boy

    • Hits Zone - The Best Of 97 (Various).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Jonas Blue

    Mistakes (feat. Paloma Faith)

    • (CD Single).
    • Positiva.

  • Kenny Loggins

    Footloose

    • Footloose (Original S/Track).
    • CBS.

  • Lizzo

    Juice

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • McFly

    All About You

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal.

  • Supertramp

    It's Raining Again

    • The Very Best Of Supertramp.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Bon Jovi

    Limitless

    • Bon Jovi 2020.
    • Island.

  • Matt Bianco

    Get Out of Your Lazy Bed

    • Whose Side Are You On (Deluxe Edition).
    • Cherry Pop.
    • 006.

  • OneRepublic

    Didn't I

    • (CD Single).
    • Mosley / Interscope.

  • Tanita Tikaram

    Good Tradition

    • The Best Of Tanita Tikaram.
    • East West Records.

  • Mike + the Mechanics

    Over My Shoulder

    • Mike & The Mechanics Hits.
    • Virgin.

  • Sister Sledge

    We Are Family

    • Disco Fever (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Coldcut

    People Hold On (feat. Lisa Stansfield)

    • The Hits Album 10 (Various Artists).
    • Hits Album.

  • Bryan Adams

    Summer Of '69

    • Bryan Adams - The Best Of Me.
    • Mercury.

  • Sia

    Chandelier

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 88 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 1.

  • Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

    Some Might Say (Radio 2 Session, 13 March 2020)

    • What's The Story Morning Glory.

  • Roachford

    High On Love

    • Twice In A Lifetime.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Aswad

    Shine

    • Now 1994 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • Labelle

    Lady Marmalade

    • Soul Chartbusters (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Art of Noise

    Kiss (feat. Tom Jones)

    • Tom Jones - Greatest Hits.
    • Universal.
    • 15.

  • David Gray

    Babylon (Radio 2 Session, 04 Oct 2019)

  • Mabel

    Boyfriend

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Daryl Hall & John Oates

    You Make My Dreams

    • Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.
    • 5.

  • Alice Merton

    No Roots

    • (CD Single).
    • Paper Plane Records International.

  • Rick Astley

    Here Comes The Sun (Radio 2 Session, 27 Sep 2019)

  • SZA & Justin Timberlake

    The Other Side

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

  • Train

    Play That Song

    • A Girl A Bottle A Boat.
    • Columbia.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From comedian & writer Paul Kerensa:

A Pause For Thought especially for the Â鶹ԼÅÄ’s Media Editor... Here’s old media meeting new.

On social media this week, I saw a tweet from radio historian Andy Walmsley: a photo of radio listings, this week 50 years ago. It was the week of big changes – the biggest! – for Radios 1, 2, 3 and 4 – when the stations nailed their colours to the mast.

Radio 1 became pop. Radio 2 swapped some heavier speech for lighter music. Radio 3 went higher-brow with classical, and Radio 4 kept talks, religion and plays, but increased news and current affairs. So new shows began. This week is the half-centenary of: Start The Week, PM, The World Tonight... and on Radio 2, Pause For Thought!

Yes, in April 1970, Radio 2 added more music, but kept a slot or two of inspiration for the nation. Of sanity for humanity. Of encouragement for the... well not much rhymes with ‘encouragement’.

So Happy 50th Birthday to this very slot!

Of course, many recent birthdays and celebrations have been... unusual. My daughter turns seven soon – it’s not quite sunk in yet that it’ll be underattended, at least in person – friends and family might appear on the laptop, but they’ll have to blow hard to help with the candles. And this Easter weekend will be odd for Christians who’d normally celebrate in church.

I guess celebration dates, from birthdays to Easter, are fairly arbitrary markers of the passage of time. But I think it’s more important than ever to celebrate them, however we can. We’ll leave Musical Chairs for another time.

With Easter, we finish Lent – another annual marker of time. When we started Lent 40 odd days ago, perhaps symbolically giving up things, we didn’t know just how much we’d give up by the end of it. What started out as a symbolic reminder of Jesus in the wilderness, now feels pretty wilderness-y itself.

But Easter too is a symbolic reminder, of hope, victory and celebration to come. So maybe these smaller celebrations – from video-call birthday parties, to kitchen Easter Egg hunts – can remind us there are bigger celebrations up ahead. Maybe that’s what hope is all about.

So to Pause For Thought, Happy Birthday – and to all, Happy Easter. I’ll be thinking of the big celebration, when it comes.

Broadcast

  • Fri 10 Apr 2020 06:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2