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Maximum Music Monday and Michael Rosen

Author Michael Rosen chats to Zoe about his latest book and the tunes keep coming in another Maximum Music Monday. Plus there's three disco classics in the Disco Ball.

Author Michael Rosen chats to Zoe about his latest book, 'Macbeth United: A Football Tragedy', and finds out about how he's re-told the Shakespeare play. Michael Rosen is an English children's author and poet who has written 140 books including β€˜We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ and β€˜Little Rabbit Foo Foo’. In 2004, he wrote β€˜Sad Book’, about his grief following the sudden death of his son, Eddie, from meningitis in 1999. He served as Children's Laureate from June 2007 to June 2009. Michael contracted Covid-19 this year. He spent three months in hospital. He went into intensive care in March and spent 48 days there. He spent a further three weeks on a rehabilitation ward, learning to walk again. He returned home in June. Rosen has praised the β€œfantastic treatment” he received from the NHS over the course of his illness.

Between 8 am and 9 am Zoe keeps the tunes rolling on Maximum Music Monday. And Zoe plays three disco classics from her personal collection in the Disco Ball at 8.30!

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 today from Krish Kandiah and listeners on the line, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Mon 28 Sep 2020 06:30
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Music Played

  • Stevie Wonder

    I Wish

    • Motown Party (Various Artists).
    • Motown.

  • Ava Max

    Who's Laughing Now

    • Heaven & Hell.
    • Atlantic.

  • Michael BublΓ©

    Haven't Met You Yet

    • Crazy Love.
    • Reprise.
    • 1.

  • Sugababes

    Push The Button

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Tom Petty

    I Won't Back Down

    • Tom Petty - Anthology.
    • MCA.

  • Roxette

    It Must Have Been Love

    • The Best Love Songs...Ever! (Various).
    • Virgin.

  • Donna Summer

    Bad Girls

    • Donna Summer - Summer Collection.
    • Mercury.

  • Steps

    What The Future Holds

    • What The Future Holds.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Ed Sheeran

    Shape Of You

    • Γ· Divide.
    • Atlantic.

  • Zara Larsson

    Lush Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.
    • 001.

  • Tony Christie

    (Is This the Way to) Amarillo

    • Dance Hits Of The '60's & '70's.
    • Old Gold.

  • Marshmello & Demi Lovato

    OK Not To Be OK

    • (CD Single).
    • Island Records.

  • Adele

    Rolling In The Deep

    • (CD Single).
    • XL.
    • 1.

  • Sophie Ellis‐Bextor

    Crying At The Discotheque

  • Queen

    You're My Best Friend

    • Queen - Greatest Hits.
    • Parlophone.
    • 4.

  • Pretenders

    Don't Get Me Wrong

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

  • David Guetta & Sia

    Let's Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • The La’s

    There She Goes

    • Love - 38 All Time Love Classics.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Take That

    Giants

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Culture Club

    Karma Chameleon

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • Shannon

    Let The Music Play

    • The Greatest 80's Soul W/Ender (Va).
    • Warner Strategic Market.

  • Grace Jones

    Pull Up To The Bumper

    • The Divas Of Dance (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • Odyssey

    Native New Yorker

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

  • Melanie C

    In And Out Of Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Red Girl Media.

  • Joe Jackson

    Steppin' Out

  • Joel Corry & MNEK

    Head & Heart

    • (CD Single).
    • Perfect Havoc.

  • Paloma Faith

    Never Tear Us Apart

    • Fall To Grace: Bonus Tracks.
    • Sony.

  • Wilson Phillips

    Hold On

  • Katrina and the Waves

    Walking On Sunshine

    • The Best Summer Ever (Various Artist.
    • Virgin.

  • Calvin Harris & The Weeknd

    Over Now

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Gibson Brothers

    Cuba

    • Disco & Dance Party Hits (Various Artists).
    • BMG.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
From Krish Kandiah, founding director of a national charity:Β 
This week my young foster son has discovered the wonder of conkers. He now knows where all the horse chestnut trees in town are and has been cheerfully harvesting their seeds each evening on our family walk. He takes particular pleasure in those he has had to personally bust out from their spiky casings. Each conker elicits a little song of delight from him for everyone to hear. Enjoying and exploring our environment is a wonderful thing to do with children. Throughout the year our family loves getting our hands dirty at our local park, nature reserve and public footpaths.Β 
We forage in the bushes for blackberries, we paddle in the stream, we enjoy spotting woodland wildlife, we race, we dig, we climb. I love the sense of adventure the great outdoors is bringing to my kids. Over the last few months my children’s hands have gone from being inevitably grubby to meticulously clean. While I used to own very few antiseptic products, now my home is filled with them and our singalong handwashing routine has become one any surgeon would be proud of. I believe this new commitment to handwashing is a simple and effective way all of us can fight the virus. Perhaps surprisingly, the Bible contains an ancient song about washing in the wake of a deadly contaminant. Over 2500 years ago King David wrote: Have mercy on me, O God, because of your unfailing love. Because of your great compassion, blot out the stain of my sins. Wash me clean from my guilt. Purify me from my sin.Β 
Reflecting on the terrible mistakes he had made in his life, David believed that it was only through a deep clean of his soul performed by God himself that he could find forgiveness. David not only found the spiritual cleansing he was so desperate for he also declared that it was available to everyone, no matter what they had done. The wonders of a clean conscience elicited songs of joy from David that fill the Bible and are sung around the world to this day. I am looking forward to a walk through the autumnal woods with my foster son tonight. I am pretty sure I will come home laden with conkers. Then I will transform into drill sergeant mode and make sure each of us washes our hands!

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  • Mon 28 Sep 2020 06:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2