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Wake up to a star-studded breakfast with Zoe Ball and a whole host of celebrity guests, plus live music in the studio!

Wake up to a star-studded breakfast with Zoe Ball and a whole host of celebrity guests, plus live music in the studio!

Along with Tina Daheley on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Mike Williams on sport, she 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 and listeners on the line, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Fri 4 Sep 2020 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Earth, Wind & Fire

    Boogie Wonderland (feat. The Emotions)

    • The Best Seventies Album In The World.. Ever!.
    • Virgin.
    • 2.

  • Clean Bandit & Mabel

    Tick Tock

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • 补鈥恏补

    The Sun Always Shines on TV

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

  • Kelly Rowland

    Daylight (feat. Travie McCoy)

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony BMG.
    • 1.

  • Aretha Franklin

    Respect

    • Aretha Franklin - Queen Of Soul.
    • Atlantic.

  • Odyssey

    Native New Yorker

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

  • Manic Street Preachers

    A Design For Life

    • Everything Must Go - 20th Anniversary Edition.
    • Columbia.
    • 16.

  • Lola Lennox

    Back At Wrong

    • (CD Single).
    • LaLennoxa.

  • David Guetta

    Titanium (feat. Sia)

    • (CD Single).
    • Positiva.

  • Phil Collins

    Sussudio

    • Singles.
    • Rhino.

  • Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

    The Tears Of A Clown

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

  • Shalamar

    I Can Make You Feel Good

    • Friends - Deluxe Edition.
    • Big Break Records.
    • 4.

  • Candi Staton

    Young Hearts Run Free

    • 60 More Classic Dance Hits Of The '70s CD1.
    • Warner Music UK Limited.
    • 17.

  • The O鈥橨ays

    Love Train

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

  • The Knack

    My Sharona

    • Fantastic 70's (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • T. Rex

    Get It On

    • Million Sellers Vol.19 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Donna Summer

    I Feel Love

    • Donna Summer - On The Radio.
    • Casablanca.
    • 7.

  • Gregory Porter

    Concorde

    • All Rise.
    • Decca Records Jazz France.

  • Sheila & B. Devotion

    Spacer

    • Best Disco Album In The World...Ever!.
    • Virgin.

  • ABBA

    Lay All Your Love On Me

    • Abba Gold (40th Anniversary Edition).
    • Polar.
    • 005.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Say Something

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

  • Robbie Williams

    Feel

    • (CD Single).
    • Chrysalis.

  • Billy Joel

    Uptown Girl

    • An Innocent Man.
    • CBS.

  • Billy Ocean

    We Gotta Find Love (Radio 2 House Music, 04 Sept 20)

  • Keith Urban

    Superman

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

  • Oasis

    She's Electric

    • What's The Story Morning Glory -Oasis.
    • Creation Records.

  • Carly Simon

    Why

    • The Very Best Of Carly Simon.
    • Global Television.

  • Yazz & The Plastic Population

    The Only Way Is Up

    • Wanted (Deluxe Edition).
    • Cherry Pop.
    • 010.

  • McFly

    Happiness

    • Young Dumb Thrills.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Joel Corry & MNEK

    Head & Heart

    • (CD Single).
    • Perfect Havoc.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
From the Reverend Richard Coles:聽
On holiday in Scotland last week I visited a grand house only recently vacated by the family that had lived in it for hundreds of years. It felt like they were still there, portraits on the wall, alongside belligerent cutlery from the wars they鈥檇 fought in, and the antlers of beasts they鈥檇 bagged on moor and veldt. Most striking were the school photographs hung in a downstairs khazi, of boys in tasseled caps holding balls and bats, names handwritten underneath, staring out stiffly at us from the past. And one, PJ Mercer, not looking at us, but up, and off to one side. It began to puzzle me.
聽What were you looking at PJ Mercer? What caught your attention so that - however many years later - your minor act of disobedience is the one detail that catches the eye? I posted the picture and the question on Twitter, and within a couple of minutes a friend of mine replied, 鈥淲hy are you tweeting a photograph of my uncle Francis?鈥� He recognised his uncle as the boy sitting next to Mercer, the photograph taken at their prep school in Broadstairs. 鈥淚s he still with us?鈥� I asked. 鈥淰ery much so, he鈥檚 a retired professor in Australia. Hold on鈥�. Uncle Francis, on the other side of the world, was sensibly in bed, but when he woke he found an email from his nephew and a copy of the photograph,聽鈥淥h yes鈥�, he said, 鈥淚 remember it well.
聽Summer of 1947. Mercer was looking at an aeroplane鈥�. Apparently there was a scare then that the Russians were about to invade Britain, so schoolboys everywhere were on high alert. I tell you this not only because of the speed with which social media solved the mystery, by throwing a girdle around the earth; but because I think what鈥檚 most interesting often lies to the side, out of shot, and it鈥檚 often not the thing we鈥檙e meant to find interesting. Jesus got it. He taught in parables - the word parable means 鈥榯hrown alongside鈥� - so instead of Creation and Salvation and Sanctification, he talks about lost coins, about old coats, about weeding, and ambitious parents, and dodgy builders. What we need to know might not be what鈥檚 in front of us. Actually, it鈥檚 never what鈥檚 right in front of us. Look to the side, like PJ Mercer, for the sketchy detail, the flickering shadow, the marginal note, where maybe something bigger and better than anything we could ever imagine awaits.

Broadcast

  • Fri 4 Sep 2020 06:30
    麻豆约拍 Radio 2