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Maximum Music Monday and Anjula Devi

Anjula Devi, author and chef of nutritious Indian food, chats to Zoe at the start of National Curry Week. And the tunes keep rolling on a Maximum Music Monday and the Disco Ball.

Anjula Devi, the author and chef of Indian food, chats to Zoe at the start of National Curry Week. Anjula started cooking with her father at the age of eight. At that time, the ingredients for Indian cuisine were not as readily available as they are now, and Anjula travelled on the number 207 bus with her father to Shepherd’s Bush Market where they would buy a selection of spices, fresh fish and Indian vegetables. ​​Utilising her cookery skills and passion for spices, Anjula launched her own business in 2010, providing Indian dinner parties and Indian cookery classes.

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!

And Zoe collects your Monday Manifestos and speaks to listener Richard, who is getting married, and Sandie, who is passing over the secretarial baton in the Military Wives Choir.

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 headlines, tunes chosen by listeners, and more music that you can shake a glitterball at!

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

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Mon 5 Oct 2020 06:30
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Earth, Wind & Fire

    Let's Groove

    • 15th Anniversary Music Celebration (Various Artists).
    • Rhino.

  • Sigala & James Arthur

    Lasting Lover

    • (CD Single).
    • Ministry Of Sound.

  • Spandau Ballet

    Gold

    • The Gold Album (Various Artists).
    • The Hit Label Ltd.

  • The Four Seasons

    Who Loves You

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

  • The Monkees

    Last Train To Clarksville

    • Delilah - Jukebox 60's Hits.
    • Old Gold.
    • 2.

  • Boyzone

    Picture of You

    • Hits Zone - The Best Of 97 (Various).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Scissor Sisters

    I Don't Feel Like Dancin'

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • The Vamps

    Married In Vegas

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.

  • Tom Jones

    Green, Green Grass Of ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ (Radio 2 Live At ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ 2020)

  • Marvin Gaye

    Too Busy Thinking About My Baby

    • Soul (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Calvin Harris & Sam Smith

    Promises (feat. Jessie Reyez)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • ²Ήβ€h²Ή

    The Sun Always Shines on TV

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

  • The Struts & Robbie Williams

    Strange Days

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.

  • Wham!

    Club Tropicana

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

  • Kylie Minogue

    Magic

    • DISCO.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • The Bangles

    Walk Like An Egyptian

    • Take A Break (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Tears for Fears

    Everybody Wants To Rule The World

    • Rule The World: The Greatest Hits.
    • Virgin EMI Records.
    • 4.

  • Paloma Faith

    Better Than This

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Prince

    When Doves Cry

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Destiny’s Child

    Bootylicious

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • The Supremes

    You Keep Me Hangin' On

    • Diana Ross & The Supremes - 40 Motown.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • The Whispers

    It's A Love Thing

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

  • Vicki Sue Robinson

    Turn The Beat Around

    • American Dreams (The Best Of The 70's.
    • RCA.

  • Peaches & Herb

    Shake Your Groove Thing

    • Night Moves (Various Artists).
    • Double Gold.

  • New Order

    Be A Rebel

    • (CD Single).
    • Mute.

  • Jamiroquai

    Cosmic Girl

    • Simply The Best Radio Hits (Various).
    • Warner E.S.P..

  • Jonas Brothers

    X (feat. KAROL G)

    • (CD Single).
    • Republic Records.

  • Rihanna

    Only Girl (In The World)

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 77 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Spice Girls

    Say You'll Be There

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • Paula Abdul

    Straight Up

    • Choose 80's Dance (Various Artists).
    • BMG.

  • One Direction

    History

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco Music.
    • 13.

  • Mike Oldfield

    Moonlight Shadow

    • Now 1983 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.
    • 13.

  • Marshmello & Demi Lovato

    OK Not To Be OK

    • (CD Single).
    • Island Records.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
From Remona Aly, Freelance journalist and editor:
It was a bittersweet experience for me a few weeks ago, when I made my last visit to a home that I’ve practically grown up in. After living there for four decades, my dear uncle and aunt are moving out from a place that’s housed a whole catalogue of memories. As we raised our teacups in their boxed up living room for a final goodbye, I could remember a scene from 30 years ago, when all our families were sprawled in this very spot. With some propped up on floor cushions, others leaning on sofas, we waited excitedly for the pull out white screen in front of us to light up, and for the projector to dance in circles, hum and retell family moments captured on Cine Film.Β 
There was a first swimming lesson while mums were clutching their silk saris by the pool. My brother, on his third birthday party, balling his eyes out when the babysitter’s dog ate his cake. Uncles grinning at the camera, somehow managing to carry off their knitted tank tops and corduroy flares with style. Thinking of us all together like that, I realise I’m now at the age my uncles and aunts were then in that living room. I brushed my hair today and found another silver thread surfing a wave through dark locks, and I recoiled, wishing I could turn back time. But despite the anti-ageing lifestyle sold to us in hair dyes, creams and filters, maybe I should be more pro-ageing.Β 
I recall the actor, Anthony Hopkins once say in an interview with a warm smile of wrinkling contentment, β€œI’m looking forward to growing old’. The older I get, I tell myself to see every birthday I make it to, not as a burden, but as a privilege. For there is a whole waiting room of nostalgia yet to come. β€œLife is a balance between holding on and letting go,” said Rumi, the thirteenth century Muslim scholar and poet. I reckon he’s right. If I only long for the nectar of yesterday, then I’m denying the taste of new sweetness tomorrow. So, I’ll love the past but not cling to it, and look forward to the promise ahead. Maybe I should return that hair dye.

Broadcast

  • Mon 5 Oct 2020 06:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2