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Celia Imrie and Dame Jacqueline Wilson

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball and guests Celia Imrie and Dame Jacqueline Wilson. It’s also The Why Workshop, and Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with more of your questions.

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball and her very special guest, actress Celia Imrie, who has just returned to ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Two in the latest series of 'Better Things'. The comedy is the semi-autobiographical story from Pamela Adlon, and Celia plays the role of 'Phyllis', the eccentric English expatriate mother. Celia is an Olivier award-winning and Screen Actors Guild-nominated actress, a Variety magazine β€˜Icon’ and Women in Film and Television β€˜Lifetime Achievement award’ winner. As well as her acclaimed film, television and theatre work, she is also a Sunday Times best-selling author. Much loved for her film roles including The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, the Bridget Jones film series, Calendar Girls, and Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again. Later this year she will also join the cast of Keeping Faith for its third series.

Zoe also chats on the phone to Dame Jacqueline Wilson, the author of The Story of Tracy Beaker, Hetty Feather, and more than a hundred other books. Jacqueline wanted to be a writer from the age of six and had her first short story published when she was 17. Her latest book, 'Love Frankie', is all about growing up, falling in love and coming out, following 14 year old Frankie and her teenage life.

It’s The Why Workshop, and Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with more wonders and ponders, including your questions.

Along with Tina Daheley on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Hugh Ferris on sport, she and the team have the best start to your morning. With the headlines, tunes chosen by listeners, and more music that you can shake a glitterball at!

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

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Wed 16 Sep 2020 06:30
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Bonnie Tyler

    Holding Out For A Hero

    • The No.1 Movies Album (Various Artist.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • McFly

    Happiness

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

  • Matt Bianco

    Get Out of Your Lazy Bed

    • Whose Side Are You On (Deluxe Edition).
    • Cherry Pop.
    • 006.

  • Whitney Houston

    I'm Your Baby Tonight

    • Whitney Houston-I'm Your Baby Tonight.
    • Arista.

  • Judy Clay & William Bell

    Private Number

    • Heartbeat: Love Me Tender (Various).
    • Global Television.

  • The Four Seasons

    December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night)

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 11.

  • Eternal

    I Wanna Be The Only One (feat. BeBe Winans)

    • Eternal - Greatest Hits.
    • EMI.

  • Miley Cyrus

    Midnight Sky

    • Plastic Hearts.
    • RCA.

  • Erasure

    Blue Savannah (Radio 2 Live at ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ 2020)

  • Ottawan

    D.I.S.C.O.

    • The Best Party In The World.. Ever! (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • The Coral

    In The Morning

    • (CD Single).
    • Deltasonic.

  • Irene Cara

    Flashdance... What a Feeling

    • Flashdance.
    • Casablanca.

  • Travis

    The Only Thing (feat. Susanna Hoffs)

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

  • Coldplay

    Paradise

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

  • Keith Urban & P!nk

    One Too Many

    • The Speed Of Now Pt. 1.
    • Hit Red Records.

  • Modern Romance

    Best Years Of Our Lives

    • The Platinum Collection.
    • Rhino.

  • Edwyn Collins

    A Girl Like You

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

  • Ava Max

    Who's Laughing Now

    • Heaven & Hell.
    • Atlantic.

  • DeBarge

    Rhythm Of The Night

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

  • The Hues Corporation

    Rock The Boat

    • Million Sellers Vol.14 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Ian Dury & the Blockheads

    Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick

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

  • Clean Bandit & Mabel

    Tick Tock

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Lisa Stansfield

    This Is The Right Time

    • (CD Single).
    • Arista.
    • 6.

  • Regard & RAYE

    Secrets

    • (CD Single).
    • Ministry Of Sound.

  • Primal Scream

    Rocks

    • Dirty Hits.
    • Columbia.

  • The Pointer Sisters

    Automatic

  • Blancmange

    Don't Tell Me

    • Rip It Up (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Deniece Williams

    Let's Hear It For The Boy

    • History Of Dance Music Vol.2 (Variou.
    • Connoisseur Collection.

  • JC Stewart

    I Need You To Hate Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Records.

  • Sia

    Chandelier

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 88 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 1.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
From Tom Cozens, a presenter and director.Β 
During lockdown I found a field near me where horses like to congregate and I started giving them names. Bernard, Beatrice, Alfred and co. have this particular tree they like to hang out underneath, where they hold horse conferences on the best locations for grass, or that weird guy who watches them and then speaks about them on Radio 2. But one night a week ago after the horses finished their chat and left in single file I was left with their tree. I sat and listened to the wind in the leaves. Together the leaves made this whisper in the wind, but when I listened closely I felt like I could make out the sound of individual leaves.Β 
Time seemed to slow to a standstill as I sat and listened, but when I checked my watch, 3 hours had passed. I think lockdown has played havoc with my sense of time; it’s felt both faster and slower. During the days, not going to the office to work, they just drag on, but, the months seem to disappear into thin air. It feels like it was March just a couple of days ago. It turns out our perception of time is incredibly malleable. Recent research has shown how music, temperature and even colour can change our perception of time. The same video coloured red has been shown to feel shorter than when coloured blue. So it’s no wonder to me that time has felt so weird in lockdown. At the beginning it caused me some level of stress but as time has rolled on I feel like it’s helped me to understand rest and work better. As the days drag on I remind myself that, in my fast paced lifestyle, I don’t need everything to happen immediately. I can rest. I can slow.Β 
Sometimes I can be a horse called BernardΒ  under a tree and just enjoy it. But as the months have flown by, it’s also reminded me of how much of a gift every day is, that each day is an opportunity to make the world just a little bit better. In the Bible it says that β€œGod has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart.” My #lockdownlife reflection is that life is a tension between productivity and slowness, between working hard in the moment to create something beautiful, and taking moments out to remember the big picture.

Broadcast

  • Wed 16 Sep 2020 06:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2