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Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball. Miranda star Tom Ellis talks about series 5 of Lucifer. Plus the QI Elves are back to answer your questions with another Why Workshop

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball! Miranda star Tom Ellis is on the phone to talk about the fifth series of Lucifer which is coming to Netflix.

It’s The Why Workshop, and Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with more wonders and ponders, including your questions on pussy cats, bunny rabbits and speeding flies!

Plus we hear from listeners who are having a Wonky Wednesday!

Along with Tina Daheley on news and Richie Anderson on travel, 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 the Rev'd Matt Woodcock and listeners on the line as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Wed 19 Aug 2020 06:30
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Music Played

  • Barry White

    You're the First, the Last, My Everything

    • Barry White - The Collection.
    • Mercury.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Say Something

    • DISCO.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd..

  • Starship

    Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Incognito

    Always There (feat. Jocelyn Brown)

    • (CD Single).
    • Talkin' Loud.

  • The Beatles

    A Hard Day's Night

    • The Beatles - 1.
    • Apple.
    • 006.

  • Junior Senior

    Move Your Feet

    • Smash Hits Chart Summer 2003.
    • EMI/Virgin/Universal Music.

  • Donna Summer

    Love's Unkind

    • Best Of Donna Summer.
    • Warner Bros..

  • Jason Derulo

    Take You Dancing

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Coldplay

    Paradise

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
    • 1.

  • Fuzzbox

    Pink Sunshine

    • The Hits Album 10 (Various Artists).
    • Hits Album.

  • Paul Simon

    You Can Call Me Al

    • The Paul Simon Anthology (Disc 2).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 4.

  • RAYE

    Natalie Don't

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Deacon Blue

    Real Gone Kid

    • The All Time Greatest Rock Songs ....
    • Columbia.

  • The Vamps

    Married In Vegas

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.

  • Millie

    My Boy Lollipop

    • Young Gifted & Black (Various).
    • Trojan.

  • The Killers

    Human

    • Day & Age.
    • Mercury.
    • 1.

  • Dermot Kennedy

    Giants

    • (CD Single).
    • UMGRI Interscope.

  • Calvin Harris

    Summer

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 88 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 5.

  • Jamiroquai

    Canned Heat

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony.

  • Britney Spears

    Baby One More Time

  • Keith Urban

    Superman

    • The Speed Of Now Pt. 1.
    • Capitol Nashville.

  • Elvis Presley

    (You're the) Devil In Disguise

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

  • Ella Henderson

    Take Care Of You

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Billy Joel

    The River Of Dreams

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

  • Céline Dion

    Because You Loved Me

    • This Year's Love (Various Artists) C.
    • Global Television.

  • Queen

    These Are The Days Of Our Lives

    • More Than Love (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • Kings of Leon

    Sex On Fire

    • CD SINGLE.
    • COLUMBIA.
    • 1.

  • Nell Bryden

    These Changes

    • The Collection.
    • 157 Records.

  • DeBarge

    Rhythm Of The Night

    • Dancing In The Street (Various Artis.
    • Universal Music Tv.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

It’s my birthday on Friday, Zoe.

I’m trying not to let it get me down.

I can’t believe I’ll be forty five.  How did that happen?

It only feels like a few years ago that I was a swaggering teenager. Strutting up our street in the hope the girl from Number 15 would notice me.

She never did.

Or a student bouncing excitedly across Europe on my summer backpacking trip. 

The only worries being where to find the next youth hostel and a cheap plate of Cannelloni.

I miss those heady, carefree times.

I’m finding middle age can too often become safe and cautious. 

Take my recent day off. 

I woke up with a thirst for excitement and adventure.

By lunchtime I found myself in a meeting to sort out my life insurance.

Rock and roll.

My physical changes are a worry, too.

Hair is sprouting in places I don’t want it and disappearing in places I want to preserve it.

And my midriff is a little too well insulated these days.

Yes, my birthday could easily become something to endure rather than enjoy. 

A source of creeping mid-life angst.

So it was lovely to read some reassuring words the other day from Saint Paul. 

An honest, timely reminder to not crave for the past or worry about the future - but just to make today count. 

‘Do not lose heart,’ he writes. 

‘Our physical body is becoming older...but our spirit inside us is made new every day.’

At least that’s the theory.

I have to work at generating upbeat feelings of inner renewal.

It takes a conscious effort - as well as a prayerful one - to purge myself of negative thoughts and unhelpful anxieties.

The gift of my faith is in giving me a hopeful, eternal perspective.

To embrace and accept the ageing process - not rage against it.

To be thankful at the day’s end - not stressed out that another one’s over. 

I’m determined to blow out my four-and-a-half decades-worth of birthday candles not with fear and resistance - but eagerness and joy. 

I’d hate to think that it was my younger self who had all the fun. 

I intend to have plenty on Friday, Zoe.

I’m thinking fish and chips, bit of cake, good film and an early night. 

Perfect.

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  • Wed 19 Aug 2020 06:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2