Dermot O'Leary sits in
Wake up to a star-studded breakfast with Dermot O'Leary! Gemma Arterton, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Professor Green join Dermot for Friends Phone-In Friday!
Wake up to a star-studded breakfast with Dermot O'Leary! Gemma Arterton has details on her new digital theatre project Unprecedented: Theatre from a State of Isolation, Sophie Ellis-Bextor calls Dermot ahead of her now traditional Friday kitchen disco and Professor Green discusses Giz & Green's Monday Night Fakeaway that he hosts with chef Gizzi Erskine.
Dermot chats to listener Laura about her accidental large samoas order, we also hear lots of your lockdown order stories,
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 than you can shake a glitterball at!
There's also a daily Pause For Thought from Reverend Kate Bottley and listeners on the line, as Dermot entertains the nation with fun for the family!
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Maroon 5
Moves Like Jagger (feat. Christina Aguilera)
- (CD Single).
- A&M.
- 1.
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The Weeknd
In Your Eyes
- After Hours.
- XO.
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Primal Scream
Rocks
- Dirty Hits.
- Columbia.
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Rita Ora
Your Song
- (CD Single).
- Atlantic.
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Elvis Presley
Moody Blue
- Presley - The All Time Greatest Hits.
- RCA.
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Shalamar
I Can Make You Feel Good
- Friends - Deluxe Edition.
- Big Break Records.
- 4.
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Black Eyed Peas
I Gotta Feeling
- (CD Single).
- Interscope.
- 4.
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Kelly Clarkson
I Dare You
- (CD Single).
- Atlantic.
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Duran Duran
Hungry Like The Wolf
- Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
- Sony Tv/Columbia.
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Sheryl Crow
Soak Up The Sun
- (CD Single).
- A&M.
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Supergrass
Grace
- (CD Single).
- Parlophone.
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Blondie
Call Me
- Atomic: The Very Best Of Blondie.
- EMI.
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Niall Horan
Black And White
- Heartbreak Weather.
- Capitol Records.
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Bruce Springsteen
Thunder Road
- The Essential Bruce Springsteen.
- Columbia.
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JP Cooper
Little Bit Of Love
- (CD Single).
- Island Records.
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Tanita Tikaram
Good Tradition
- The Best Of Tanita Tikaram.
- East West Records.
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James
She's a Star
- James - Whiplash.
- Mercury.
- 9.
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Stevie Wonder
Do I Do
- Stevie Wonder - The Definitive Collec.
- Universal.
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Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott
A Good Day Is Hard To Find
- Manchester Calling.
- Virgin EMI Records.
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Sia
The Greatest (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
- This Is Acting.
- Monkey Puzzle Records.
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The Police
Can't Stand Losing You
- The Very Best Of Sting & The Police.
- A&M.
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Yazz & The Plastic Population
The Only Way Is Up
- Wanted (Deluxe Edition).
- Cherry Pop.
- 010.
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Sophie Ellisâ€Bextor
Take Me Â鶹ԼÅÄ / Stay At Â鶹ԼÅÄ
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Ronan Keating
Little Thing Called Love
- Twenty Twenty.
- Decca.
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Bat for Lashes
Daniel
- (CD Single).
- Echo.
- 1.
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The Divine Comedy
Absent Friends
- (CD Single).
- Parlophone.
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The Bangles
Walk Like An Egyptian
- Take A Break (Various Artists).
- Columbia.
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Professor Green
Read All About It (feat. Emeli Sandé)
- Now That's What I Call Music! 80 (Various Artists).
- Now.
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The Beatles
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
- The White Album.
- Parlophone.
- 7.
Pause For Thought
My Godson, brother and my Mum and Dad all celebrate their birthdays this month, but with things being the way they are, the celebrations have been a bit different this year. I’d reconciled myself to the idea that I wouldn’t get to see any of them face to face for their special days, but when the announcement came that it was now possible to see one person from outside your household, and because my Dad had recently been in hospital, I thought it’d be nice to see my Mum for a bit of socially distanced love. Knowing we needed to stay at least 2 metres apart, the plan was for her to sit on her front step while I perched on a camping chair on the drive. So far so good, and it was lovely to see her, we chatted, cried and laughed, but after about 10 minutes she disappeared, I thought perhaps to get my Dad to let him have a turn, but when she returned she was holding a giant plastic box. ‘I don’t like to offer you nothing’ she said and reached into the box.Ìý
It was then that my mother started throwing snacks at me. ‘Do you want a hob nob?’ she shouted as she lobbed a pack of biscuits. ‘No, Mum!’ and it didn’t stop there, crisps, boiled sweets, 3 tangerines and banana, like some sort of grocery based shot putter, my Mum just couldn’t bear to see me unfed, I had to duck as she hurled a buttered crumpet. The bible says ‘By their fruits you shall know them’ and ‘faith without good works is dead.’ Meaning that it can be through the gestures and deeds a person does that their true character can be seen and their faith put into practice.Ìý
I know my mum loves me, she says so, but she also shows it by the things she does, in this case chucking food. Over the last 60 days we’ve seen countless acts of kindness from our neighbours and communities, love in action, words backed up by deeds, a growth in the culture of kindness. And long may that continue. Just before I left my Mum’s I gathered up as much as I could of the stuff that littered the lawn, but I did leave the buttered crumpet behind, it had landed face down and Dermot, no one wants gravel in their crumpet.
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- Fri 22 May 2020 06:30Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2