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Kenneth Branagh

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball and Kenneth Branagh. It’s The Why Workshop, and Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with more wonders and ponders, including your questions.

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball! Kenneth Branagh will be chatting to Zoe about the brand new Disney film Artemis Fowl, which he directed. He shares how when working with Judi Dench and the rest of the cast, they began rehearsals by making fairy cakes. Plus Kenneth talks about the upcoming Poirot movie, chatting about when it will be releases and his trusty costume moustache.

It’s The Why Workshop, and Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with more wonders and ponders, including your questions. This week we find out if hot tea really cools you down and how plants know which way is up to grow.

As we are counting down to the 500 Words final on Friday, Zoe speaks to Helen from Oxford University Press where she reveals the official 2020 Children's Word of the Year! Every story that was written for this year's 500 Words competition was analysed and a remarkable word was revealed to be used the most!

With the usual team of Tina Daheley and 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 that you can shake a glitterball at!

There's also a daily Pause For Thought from Reverend Matt Woodcock and listeners on the line, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Wed 10 Jun 2020 06:30
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Music Played

  • Cher

    Believe

    • Love Songs - 39 All Time Love Classic.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Jason Mraz

    Look For The Good

    • Look For The Good.
    • BMG Rights Management (US).

  • Ed Sheeran

    Castle On The Hill

    • Γ· Divide.
    • Atlantic.

  • The Doobie Brothers

    What A Fool Believes

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.

  • Cat Stevens

    Can't Keep It In

    • The Very Best Of Cat Stevens.
    • Island.

  • ΅ώ±π²β΄Η²Τ³¦Γ©

    Crazy in Love (feat. JAY-Z)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 3.

  • Harry Styles

    Watermelon Sugar

    • Fine Line.
    • Columbia.

  • The Four Seasons

    Who Loves You

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 1.

  • The Beatles

    Paperback Writer

    • The Beatles - 1.
    • Apple.
    • 014.

  • Bananarama & Fun Boy Three

    Really Saying Something

    • Bananarama - Deep Sea Skiving.
    • London.

  • Elton John

    Part-Time Love

    • The Very Best Of Elton John.
    • Rocket.

  • Jessie Ware

    Save A Kiss

    • What's Your Pleasure?.
    • Virgin.

  • The Chainsmokers & Coldplay

    Something Just Like This

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Travis

    A Ghost

    • 10 Songs.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • The Box Tops

    The Letter

  • The Human League

    Don't You Want Me

    • Dare!.
    • Virgin.

  • Ronan Keating

    Little Thing Called Love

    • Twenty Twenty.
    • Decca.

  • Calvin Harris

    This Is What You Came For (feat. Rihanna)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 6.

  • Odyssey

    Native New Yorker

    • Million Sellers Vol.17 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

    The Tears Of A Clown

    • Motown: The Ultimate Hits Collection (Various Artists).
    • Motown.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Confusion

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

  • Katy Perry

    Daisies

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol Records.

  • X‐Press 2

    Lazy (feat. David Byrne)

    • (CD Single).
    • Skint.

  • Dua Lipa

    Don't Start Now

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Records.

  • Cass Elliot

    Make Your Own Kind Of Music

    • Bubble Gum, Lemonade & Something for Mama.
    • Dunhill.
    • 12.

  • No Doubt

    Don't Speak

    • Huge Hits 1997 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Glen Campbell

    Wichita Lineman

    • Country Moods (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Billy Paul

    Me & Mrs Jones

    • Shades Of Soul (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Elbow

    One Day Like This

    • (CD Single).
    • Fiction.
    • 1.

  • Marshmello & Halsey

    Be Kind

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI Records.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
Matt Woodcock, Church of England Pioneer Minister and Mission Supporter in the Diocese of York:
A precious friend and former clergy colleague was recently honoured by Her Majesty The Queen.Β  Commended for her β€˜invaluable’ contribution to the community. I was thrilled for Irene. For years her work amongst Hull’s homeless and marginalised had been largely unseen and unrecognised. It’s how she liked it. But even my humble friend confessed to bursting with pride and a smile wider than the Humber Bridge when she received news of the Royal award. In my time working with Irene I came to see her as a Saint Jude-type character. A champion of lost causes. I marvelled at her absolute belief that no-one was beyond transformation. Everyone should be given a second chance, she’d tell me.Β 
And then another one. I lost count of the many broken lives she helped try to heal with practical support and simple, loving friendship. One afternoon Irene suffered a devastating blow. She walked out of our church after leading prayers and was carjacked by a young man.Β  Left sprawled on the pavement beside her walking stick as he sped away. The traumatic aftermath was the only time I’ve seen my friend’s hopeful spirit dimmed. And yet after seeing the culprit sentenced in court, she was moved to try and help even him. Making prison visits. Writing letters. Sending gifts.Β  When he was released, she aided his rehabilitation.Β  An extraordinary woman of grace, then. The downside of being around someone like Irene, was the quick realisation that I’m not enough like her.Β 
I suffer compassion fatigue too easily. Find it hard to forgive sometimes. Struggle to bounce back from disappointments. Wonderful works of love, mercy and benevolence are easy to admire in others. And yet as a Christian I’m still called to put them into action myself - however inadequately. I know God wants me to be the best Matt possible. As the Queen’s letter to Irene stressed, following the loving example Jesus is ’a call to service for all of us.’ Faith or no faith - and in my case, even when it doesn't come naturally. My abiding memory of Irene is of her serving hot drinks to the homeless with the help of a cheerful young man. It was the carjacker. Saint Irene?Β  She certainly is to me, Zoe.

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  • Wed 10 Jun 2020 06:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2