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Matthew McConaughey, Sophie Ellis Bextor and Nigella Lawson

Matthew McConaughey talks to Zoe about his book 'Greenlights', Nigella Lawson has a new recipe book called 'Cook Eat Repeat' and there's live music from Sophie Ellis-Bextor.

Matthew McConaughey is chatting to Zoe about his new book 'Greenlights'. Matthew McConaughey is an Academy Award winning actor best known for his appearances in 'The Wolf of Wall Street' and 'The Ghost of Girlfriends Past'. The book is an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.

Nigella Lawson calls in to talk about her new book 'Cook Eat Repeat' which contains a combination of recipes and essays about food. Nigella Lawson has written eleven bestselling cookery books including 'How to Eat' and 'How to Be a Domestic Goddess', the book that inspired a whole new generation of bakers. These books, and her TV series, have made her a household name around the world.

Friends Phone In Friday is topped off by Sophie Ellis-Bextor who has recorded two special live tracks from home. Her greatest hits album, 'Songs From The Kitchen Disco', will be released in November, featuring a collection of the songs that soundtracked her lockdown kitchen disco.

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 from Jim Harris and listeners on the line, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 30 Oct 2020 06:30
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Music Played

  • ²Ήβ€h²Ή

    Take On Me

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

  • Gary Barlow

    Elita (feat. Michael BublΓ© & SebastiΓ‘n Yatra)

    • Music Played By Humans.
    • Polydor.

  • Modjo

    Lady (Hear Me Tonight)

    • Now 47 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • George Benson

    Love Ballad

    • George Benson - The Very Best Of.
    • Warner E.S.P..
    • 6.

  • Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper

    Shallow

    • A Star Is Born O.S.T..
    • Interscope.

  • Kim Wilde

    Kids In America

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Don't Stop

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 009.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Magic

    • DISCO.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Coldplay

    Paradise

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

  • Bobby β€œBoris” Pickett & The Crypt Kickers

    The Monster Mash

    • Haloween Hits.
    • Rhino.

  • Arrow

    Hot Hot Hot

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

  • The Ides of March

    Vehicle

    • Billboard Top Rock 'N' Roll Hits - 1970 (Various Artists).
    • Rhino.
    • 9.

  • Lou Bega

    Mambo No. 5

    • Now 44 (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Kool & the Gang

    Celebration

    • Kool & The Gang - The Singles Collect.
    • Phonogram.

  • 220 KID & JC Stewart

    Too Many Nights

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • One Direction

    What Makes You Beautiful

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco Music.

  • Ariana Grande

    positions

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Journey

    Don't Stop Believin'

    • Rock Of America (Various Artists).
    • Trax Label.

  • Keith Urban & P!nk

    One Too Many

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

  • Sugababes

    About You Now

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal.

  • Sister Sledge

    Frankie

    • Back To The 80s (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.

  • Sophie Ellis‐Bextor

    Crying At The Discotheque (Radio 2 House Music, 30 Oct 20)

  • Sophie Ellis‐Bextor

    Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) (Radio 2 House Music, 30 Oct 20)

  • Shakira

    Hips Don't Lie (feat. Wyclef Jean)

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony BMG.

  • James

    She's a Star

    • James - Whiplash.
    • Mercury.
    • 9.

  • Eurythmics

    Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

    • Our Friends Electric (Various Artists.
    • Telstar.

  • Kodaline

    Everyone Changes (feat. Gabrielle Aplin)

    • One Day At A Time (Deluxe Edition).
    • B-Unique Records.

  • John Paul Young

    Love Is In The Air

    • 20 Songs Of Love From The 70's (Vario.
    • MFP.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
From Dr Jim Harris, Art Historian:Β 
A few weeks ago, on a perfect autumn day, I took the train to Cambridge and cycled a roundabout 84 miles home to London. I know what you’re thinking. Well, it represented some solid exercise and I had coffee with my friend Robert, whom I seldom see. And, as is ever the way, it seemed like a good idea at the time. Mostly though, and most strangely, I went looking for a Georgian clergyman called Robert Fiske. Robert Fiske served the parish of Fulbourn, about five miles from Cambridge, for 45 years between 1781 and 1826.Β Β 
In the last years of his life, he took to walking in the countryside, making notes on the plants and birds he saw, and then writing a very long and very bad poem about them, called, β€˜The Seasons’. I know this because many years ago I found the manuscript of his epic verse in a secondhand bookshop, and bought it. My ride took me to Fiske’s church in Fulbourn, then along the lanes to Wendens Ambo, where he was born, and Wenden Lofts, where his son was vicar.Β  I rode over the highest point in Essex (spoiler: not that high) and then down through the Hertfordshire villages, looking forward to the end: 25 miles along the River Lea to the Thames, all of them mercifully flat. Trouble was, though, that those 25 flat miles were also narrow, rutted and potholed, filled with clouds of twilight midges and, by London, almost pitch-dark. The end is seldom as comfortable as we would wish.Β 
In the Bible, Moses imagined himself leading his people into the Promised Land but after forty years of travelling his journey ended with a song and a blessing and only a glimpse of his destination. When my Dad died, earlier this year, we played his favourite music from the Dream of Gerontius and read psalms and prayers as he travelled the last miles. Those last miles may never be as flat and smooth as we’d like, and they will end in darkness.Β  But they can also end with songs and blessings and poems. And, as Robert Fiske discovered, walking and making notes on sparrows and the uses of elder-wood after 45 years of ministry, even a bad poem is a comfort when the day eventually draws to a close.

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  • Fri 30 Oct 2020 06:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2