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Dermot O'Leary sits in

Wake up and embrace the day with Dermot O'Leary and the team. Dermot keeps the tunes rolling on Maximum Music Monday.

Wake up and embrace the day with Dermot O'Leary! Between 8 am and 9 am Dermot keeps the tunes rolling on Maximum Music Monday.

Dermot speaks to our two Long Distance DJs Em and Louisa who each pick a song and dedicate it to someone who they can't currently see.

With the usual team of Tina Daheley and Richie Anderson, Dermot 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!

There's also a daily Pause For Thought from Muneera Pilgrim and listeners on the line, as Dermot entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Mon 18 May 2020 06:30
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Music Played

  • Bryan Ferry

    Let's Stick Together

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

  • Niall Horan

    Black And White

    • Heartbreak Weather.
    • Capitol Records.

  • Kirsty MacColl

    Days

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

  • Ike & Tina Turner

    River Deep - Mountain High

    • The Best Of The Rock'n'Roll Years Vo.
    • ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ.

  • Harry Styles

    Adore You

    • Fine Line.
    • Columbia.

  • Genesis

    Invisible Touch

    • Genesis - Turn It On Again.
    • Virgin.

  • Blur

    Parklife

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • The Weeknd

    In Your Eyes

    • After Hours.
    • XO.

  • Justin Timberlake

    Rock Your Body

    • (CD Single).
    • Jive.

  • Paloma Faith

    Make Your Own Kind Of Music

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Cat Stevens

    Another Saturday Night

    • The Very Best Of Cat Stevens.
    • Island.

  • Santana

    Smooth (feat. Rob Thomas)

    • (CD Single).
    • Arista.

  • Ronan Keating

    Little Thing Called Love

    • Twenty Twenty.
    • Decca.

  • Erasure

    Sometimes

    • Erasure - Pop!.
    • Mute Records.

  • Lennon Stella & Charlie Puth

    Summer Feelings

    • SCOOB! O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Atlantic.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Big Love

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 005.

  • Will Young

    Joy

    • 85% Proof (Deluxe Edition).
    • Island.
    • 7.

  • The Beach Boys

    Sloop John B

    • The Best Of The Beach Boys (CD 1).
    • EMI.

  • Bonnie Tyler

    Holding Out For A Hero

    • The No.1 Movies Album (Various Artist.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Dua Lipa

    Break My Heart

    • Future Nostalgia.
    • Warner Records.

  • Arcade Fire

    Everything Now

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Madonna

    Ray Of Light

    • Celebration.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 10.

  • James Brown

    Get Up Offa That Thing

    • 20 All Time Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.
    • 6.

  • Gerry Rafferty

    Baker Street

    • Songs Of The Century (Disc 2).
    • Global Records & Tapes.

  • Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

    A Good Day Is Hard To Find

    • Manchester Calling.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Blancmange

    Living on the Ceiling

    • Saturday Superstore Replay Selection (Various Artists).
    • ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Records.

  • Billy Joel

    The River Of Dreams

    • Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Volume III.
    • Columbia.

  • Doja Cat

    Say So

    • Hot Pink.
    • Kemosabe/Ministry of Sound.
    • 005.

  • Moby

    Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?

  • Buffalo Springfield

    For What It's Worth

    • Buffalo Springfield.
    • Atlantic.

  • The Impressions

    It's All Right

    • Definitive Impressions.
    • Kent.

  • Oasis

    Half The World Away

    • Definitely Maybe - B-Sides & Extra Tracks.
    • Big Brother Records.
    • 016.

  • Kelly Clarkson

    I Dare You

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Manfred Mann’s Earth Band

    Blinded By The Light

    • Drivetime 3 (Various Artists).
    • Dino.

  • Eurythmics

    I Saved The World Today

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.

  • Coldplay

    Viva La Vida

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

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
From Muneera Pilgrim, cultural producer:Μύ
My parents had a knack for moaning. Being the youngest child and the only girl, there was a particular stream reserved for me, normally sermonised proficiently by my mother. I was too young to consider the gender norms which dictated how I should behave as a girl, back then we lacked β€˜the woke’ vocabulary to describe this phenomenon, I was simply a Tomboy, and a scruffy one at that. My mum may have been successful in putting me in pristine frilly white dresses with ribbons and matching long socks, but I would never look good in them,Μύ and that made me glad because on rare occasions I was allowed to sport the outfit of my choice while all the other kids were dressed up.Μύ
At parties I was the girl hiding in the corner secretly eating mud, I was the kid who started a snail rescue sanctuary in my bedroom in an attempt to save the snails from getting crushed. There weren't a lot of activities that I took up for myself which my parents encouraged me to pursue, mainly because my choice often meant broken glass or grounded in grass stains, but one activity we all agreed on was biking, but the day my stabilisers got removed, I was petrified. I tried a thousand times, and only managed to go round in circles, at the point of giving up, my mum demanded I continueΜύ β€œshe said the only thing we have is this very moment, and at this moment I won’t allow you to stop,Μύ moaning even when I’m scared I thought.Μύ
Skip 20 plus years, the other day I purchased my first bike since childhood a wobbly me got on and then immediately got offΜύ on approaching the main road, the first thought was fear, the secondΜύ was the words of African American rapper Yasiin Bey: he said You better hold this very moment very close to you, don't be afraid, to let it shine… My Umi said shine your light on the world Shine your light for the world to see Umi means my mother in Arabic, it took 20 plus years and 2 bikes to realise my mother”s moaning was not moaning at all, it was preparation for me to face my fears and shine.

Broadcast

  • Mon 18 May 2020 06:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2