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Andi Oliver and The Why Workshop

Andi Oliver, the chef and broadcaster, tells Zoe about her new book club. Plus the QI elves are back with another Why Workshop answering your tricky questions.

Andi Oliver, the chef and broadcaster, chats to Zoe about her book club on Sky Arts. Each week, Sky Arts Book Club Live sees Andi Oliver and Elizabeth Day invite four members of an existing book club to chat about some new releases and favourite classics, as well as welcoming the author to answer questions from the book club and viewers who can submit questions. They also learn what’s on the bedside table of some celebrity authors, and online influencer Simon Savidge recommends some lesser known gems. Each show also features cookery books with the book club sampling dishes from that week’s picks. Andi is also well known for hosting and judging on the Great British Menu on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Two which is set to return for a new Christmas series this December.

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

Along with Adam Porter 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 with the Reverend Kate Bottley and listeners on the line, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Wed 18 Nov 2020 06:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Justin Timberlake

    Can't Stop The Feeling!

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Little Mix

    Sweet Melody

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Boy Meets Girl

    Waiting For A Star To Fall

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

  • Jocelyn Brown

    Somebody Else's Guy

    • Heart Full Of Soul 2 (Various Artist.
    • Global Television.

  • Simon & Garfunkel

    A Hazy Shade Of Winter

    • The Definitive Simon & Garfunkel.
    • Columbia.

  • Calvin Harris & Sam Smith

    Promises (feat. Jessie Reyez)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Michael Sembello

    Maniac

    • Flashdance O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • VIRGIN.

  • Harry Styles

    Golden

    • Fine Line.
    • Columbia.

  • Britney Spears

    Baby One More Time

  • Kim Wilde

    Kids In America

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

  • The Maisonettes

    Heartache Avenue

    • History Of The 80's (Various Artists).
    • Br Music.

  • Tony Christie

    (Is This the Way to) Amarillo

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

  • Marisha Wallace

    Before I Go

    • (CD Single).
    • Decca.

  • Bruno Mars

    Marry You

    • Doo-Wops & Hooligans.
    • Elektra.
    • 6.

  • Bruce Springsteen

    The Power Of Prayer

    • Letter To You.
    • Columbia.

  • Ricky Martin

    Livin' La Vida Loca

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Â鶹ԼÅÄ Children In Need

    Stop Crying Your Heart Out (Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2 Allstars)

    • (CD Single).
    • Decca.

  • Years & Years

    King

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 90 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Patrice Rushen

    Forget Me Nots

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

  • The Jacksons

    Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)

    • Rhythm Divine 2 (Various Artists).
    • Dino.

  • Tom Grennan

    Amen

    • (CD Single).
    • Insanity Records.

  • Deep Blue Something

    Breakfast At Tiffany's

    • This Year's Love (Various Artists) C.
    • Global Television.

  • Clean Bandit & Mabel

    Tick Tock

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Will Young

    Leave Right Now

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG/19.

  • Mr. Probz

    Waves (Robin Schulz Remix)

    Remix Artist: Robin Schulz.
    • (CD Single).
    • Left Lane Recordings.
    • 001.

  • Billy Ocean

    Red Light Spells Danger

    • Billy Ocean - Love Is For Ever (L.I.F.
    • Jive.

  • The Rolling Stones

    Paint It Black

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.

  • Nena

    99 Red Balloons

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • McFly

    Tonight Is The Night

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

  • Michael Gray

    The Weekend

    • (CD Single).
    • Eye Industries.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
From the Reverend Kate Bottley:Ìý
I love telly, and I’ve always watched a lot of it.Ìý ÌýMy most precious TV memory is Wednesday nights, when my nan would babysit while Mum and Dad went out. The rest of the week we were a Â鶹ԼÅÄ household, but my Nan, on the other hand, well she liked the ‘other’ channel. So it was Coronation Street, looking for the cat on the wall in the opening credits, followed by ‘This is your Life’, with Eamon Andrews and his big red book. Do you remember it? Now, If you don’t, what happened was the host would surprise a well known face with an evening all about them, telling their life story.Ìý
The best bit though was the opener, when Eamon would give clues to who the famous face might be, my Nan and I would try and guess, shouting possible answers at the screen, until the celebrity was revealed, I’d look up and ask ‘Who’s that Nan?’ Often unable to answer, she’d cluelessly huff in disgust, muttering ‘No idea love’ and go and make a brew. It’s a golden couple of weeks just now for telly lovers, as castle trapped celebrities covered in cockroaches overlap with sequinned strictly stars.Ìý
But like those Wednesday nights of the 1980s, as the famous faces appear I can sometimes hear my nan’s voice in my head tuttingÌý ‘Well, I’ve never heard of him.’ The bible has plenty to say about no one going unrecognised, psalm 139, a poem to an ever present God says “You search me and you know me, you know when I sit and when I rise…you know all my ways.’ And of course it isn’t just the so called big names, I find the idea the that source of love in the universe knows each of us, an indescribable comfort. It reminds me too that just because I don’t know who someone is, it doesn’t mean they aren’t known and it doesn’t mean they aren’t loved.Ìý
As the weeks go on in castle and on dancefloor, I get to know and love the people on my screen, the ones I’d heard of before and the ones I hadn’t, celebrating their triumphs and always being quietly relieved that when it comes to getting up close with snakes and spiders or learning that tricky tango, it’s them and not me!

Broadcast

  • Wed 18 Nov 2020 06:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2