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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!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Fri 22 May 2020 06:30

Music Played

  • Maroon 5

    Moves Like Jagger (feat. Christina Aguilera)

    • (CD Single).
    • A&M.
    • 1.
  • The Weeknd

    In Your Eyes

    • After Hours.
    • XO.
  • Primal Scream

    Rocks

    • Dirty Hits.
    • Columbia.
  • Rita Ora

    Your Song

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • Elvis Presley

    Moody Blue

    • Presley - The All Time Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.
  • Shalamar

    I Can Make You Feel Good

    • Friends - Deluxe Edition.
    • Big Break Records.
    • 4.
  • Black Eyed Peas

    I Gotta Feeling

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.
    • 4.
  • Kelly Clarkson

    I Dare You

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • Duran Duran

    Hungry Like The Wolf

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

    Soak Up The Sun

    • (CD Single).
    • A&M.
  • Supergrass

    Grace

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
  • Blondie

    Call Me

    • Atomic: The Very Best Of Blondie.
    • EMI.
  • Niall Horan

    Black And White

    • Heartbreak Weather.
    • Capitol Records.
  • Bruce Springsteen

    Thunder Road

    • The Essential Bruce Springsteen.
    • Columbia.
  • JP Cooper

    Little Bit Of Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Island Records.
  • Tanita Tikaram

    Good Tradition

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

    She's a Star

    • James - Whiplash.
    • Mercury.
    • 9.
  • Stevie Wonder

    Do I Do

    • Stevie Wonder - The Definitive Collec.
    • Universal.
  • Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

    A Good Day Is Hard To Find

    • Manchester Calling.
    • Virgin EMI Records.
  • Sia

    The Greatest (feat. Kendrick Lamar)

    • This Is Acting.
    • Monkey Puzzle Records.
  • The Police

    Can't Stand Losing You

    • The Very Best Of Sting & The Police.
    • A&M.
  • Yazz & The Plastic Population

    The Only Way Is Up

    • Wanted (Deluxe Edition).
    • Cherry Pop.
    • 010.
  • Sophie Ellisâ€Bextor

    Take Me Â鶹ԼÅÄ / Stay At Â鶹ԼÅÄ

  • Ronan Keating

    Little Thing Called Love

    • Twenty Twenty.
    • Decca.
  • Bat for Lashes

    Daniel

    • (CD Single).
    • Echo.
    • 1.
  • The Divine Comedy

    Absent Friends

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
  • The Bangles

    Walk Like An Egyptian

    • Take A Break (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.
  • Professor Green

    Read All About It (feat. Emeli Sandé)

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 80 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • The Beatles

    While My Guitar Gently Weeps

    • The White Album.
    • Parlophone.
    • 7.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
From the Reverend Kate Bottley:Ìý
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.

Broadcast

  • Fri 22 May 2020 06:30