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Steve Backshall

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball and the team. Steve Backshall is on the phone to talk about his YouTube live lessons plus Zoe quizzes the QI Elves in the Why Workshop.

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball! Wildlife presenter Steve Backshall is on the phone to talk about his weekly Wildlife 麻豆约拍school live lessons on YouTube.

It鈥檚 The Why Workshop, and Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with more wonders and ponders, including your questions. This week, Alex Elf and Anna Elf tell us what the Egyptians called Ancient Egypt and why cars can go so fast despite there being a speed limit.

Plus on World Art Day, illustrator Tony Ross is on the phone for your art home schooling hints and tips and sets a new challenge for the day.

Along with news and headlines with Adam Porter and more domestic travel with Richie Anderson, 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 journalist and editor Remona Aly and listeners on the line as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Wed 15 Apr 2020 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Coldplay

    Viva La Vida

    • Viva La Vida Or Death & All His Friends.
    • Parlophone.
    • 1.

  • The Weeknd

    In Your Eyes

    • After Hours.
    • XO.

  • Jermaine Stewart

    We Don't Have To

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

  • Zara Larsson

    Lush Life

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

  • Talking Heads

    And She Was

    • More Greatest Hits Of 80's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • Eternal

    I Wanna Be The Only One (feat. BeBe Winans)

    • Eternal - Greatest Hits.
    • EMI.

  • Pet Shop Boys

    I Don't Wanna

    • Hotspot.
    • x2 Recordings Ltd.

  • Spandau Ballet

    Gold

    • The Gold Album (Various Artists).
    • The Hit Label Ltd.

  • Anne-Marie

    Ciao Adios

    • (CD Single).
    • Asylum.
    • 001.

  • Phil Collins

    Two Hearts

    • Singles.
    • Rhino.

  • Jessie Ware

    Spotlight

    • What's Your Pleasure?.
    • Virgin.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Livin' Thing

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.

  • Melanie C

    Who I Am

    • (CD Single).
    • Red Girl Media.

  • Dolly Parton

    Jolene

    • Million Sellers Vol.15 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • The Jacksons

    Blame It On The Boogie

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

  • Ava Max

    Kings & Queens

    • Heaven & Hell.
    • Atlantic.

  • The Weeknd

    I Feel It Coming (feat. Daft Punk)

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Republic Records.

  • Florence + The Machine

    You've Got The Love

    • Now That's What I Call Music 74 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 5.

  • The Isley Brothers

    Summer Breeze

    • The Best Summer Ever (Various Artist.
    • Virgin.

  • Santana

    Smooth (feat. Rob Thomas)

    • (CD Single).
    • Arista.

  • Taylor Swift

    The Man

    • Lover.
    • TS/Republic.

  • Elbow Bones & The Racketeers

    A Night In New York

    • More Greatest Hits Of 80's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • Europa

    All Day And Night (feat. Madison Beer)

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Dexys Midnight Runners

    Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When you Smile

    • Very Best Of Dexy's Midnight Runners.
    • Mercury.

  • Rag鈥檔鈥橞one Man

    Human

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

  • Technotronic

    Pump Up The Jam (feat. Felly)

    • Holiday Hits: Non Stop Euro Pop (Var).
    • Virgin.

  • Inner City

    Big Fun

  • Tiffany

    I Think We're Alone Now

    • Now 12 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Bon Jovi

    Limitless

    • Bon Jovi 2020.
    • Island.

  • Sade

    Smooth Operator

    • Walk On - Hits From The Last 2 Decade.
    • Columbia.
    • 2.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Remona Aly, Freelance journalist and editor:

We鈥檝e been in lockdown for a little over three weeks, and I tell you this - my mum is making the most of it. She鈥檚 loving the fact that her daughter can鈥檛 leave the house, as it means I can finally get through her to-do list. Mum has got me to clean corners I never knew existed, had me clear out my version of a man drawer, and has thrust the phone in my face without warning to talk to relatives in India with my broken Urdu.

聽While the lockdown has produced its own challenges, not to mention damaging the hinges on the snack cupboard, I think about how we鈥檝e all been pushed into a different pace, and a different mind-set. For me, my mind is wandering back and forth more than ever before, re-thinking, re-calibrating, and re-visiting past memories.聽

Yesterday, I was tidying as per mum鈥檚 instruction, when I stopped to glance at my late father鈥檚 old prayer rug standing like a scroll in the corner of the room. I rolled it out on the floor and traced the simple design of a mosque bordered with flowers and waves, its red woollen fibres faded from years of the sun鈥檚 embrace.

It was a gift from dad鈥檚 best friend when they were bachelors. I remember the stories dad told me of them jumping in the car driving out to new adventures, playing practical jokes on friends, and sharing dreams about the future.

The friends have passed away many years ago, and as I smiled at the faded red rug, laden with their friendship, prayers and memories, I couldn鈥檛 help but yearn for the memories I can鈥檛 make right now. It feels like Life is pressing a giant pause button. But the words of the American children's author Dr Seuss, make me reconsider. 鈥樷�橲ometimes,鈥� he says, 鈥測ou will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.鈥澛�

Perhaps these days of lockdown, painful as they are, will be the time we remember as the moments when we recalibrated, renewed and emerged wiser. I hold on to that hope, as strongly as I鈥檓 sure mum holds on to this moment as the time I finally tidied my room.

Broadcast

  • Wed 15 Apr 2020 06:30
    麻豆约拍 Radio 2