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Professor Brian Cox, Meghan Trainor and Gemma Arterton

Professor Brian Cox, the physicist and broadcaster, and actor Gemma Arterton are on the show chatting to Zoe. Plus Meghan Trainor has recorded exclusive live music.

Professor Brian Cox, the physicist, musician and broadcaster, is on the show chatting to Zoe to talk about his new arena tour, Horizons : A 2021 Space Odyssey. Before becoming a scientist Brian was well known as a keyboard player for the British bands D:Ream and Dare. He is currently professor of particle physics at the University of Manchester. He's hosted a range of science programs for both 麻豆约拍 television and radio, including 鈥淚n Einstein鈥檚 Shadow鈥�, the 麻豆约拍 鈥淗orizon鈥� series and he also worked as a voice-over for the 麻豆约拍鈥檚 鈥淏itesize鈥� children鈥檚 education programs. He has regularly presented the Radio 4 science program 鈥淭he Infinite Monkey Cage鈥� with comedian Robin Ince. He's also well known for presenting the 'Wonders of...' series for the 麻豆约拍 and 'Stargazing Live' with Dara O'Briain.

Gemma Arterton, the actor and star of Black Narcissus, a new 麻豆约拍 One drama for Christmas, is on the phone chatting to Zoe. Black Narcissus is a brand new adaptation by BAFTA award-winning Amanda Coe of Rumer Godden鈥檚 iconic 1939 tale of sexual repression and forbidden love among the nuns of St Faiths. Gemma leads an all-star cast as Sister Clodagh, the Anglo-Catholic nun who travels to Nepal to set up a branch of her order in the remote palace of Mopu.

Meghan Trainor, the Grammy Award winning US singer-songwriter, has recorded two exclusive live tracks for the show with a festive feel. Her new album 'A Very Trainor Christmas' is packed full of classic festive favourites, such as a cover of Wham鈥檚 鈥楲ast Christmas鈥� as well as six new original songs. It features appearances from the legendary Earth, Wind & Fire on the disco-inspired track 鈥楬olidays鈥� and Seth MacFarlane on the cover of 鈥榃hite Christmas鈥�. In the spirit of Christmas, the album also features her family, including her cousins (Jayden, Jenna and Marcus Toney) and her dad, Gary. Her whole family got involved in creating the new album as songwriters, background vocalists, producers and instrumentalists.

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.

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

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 11 Dec 2020 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Earth, Wind & Fire

    Boogie Wonderland (feat. The Emotions)

    • The Best Seventies Album In The World.. Ever!.
    • Virgin.
    • 2.

  • Callum Beattie

    Don't Walk Alone

    • People Like Us.
    • 3Beat Productions.

  • KT Tunstall

    Mele Kalikimaka (Christmas in Hawaii)

    • The KT Tunstall Holiday Collection.
    • EMI.

  • Roachford

    Cuddly Toy

    • Walk On - Hits From The Last 2 Decade.
    • Columbia.

  • Brenda Lee

    Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree

    • Brenda Lee - The EP Collection.
    • See For Miles.

  • Kool & the Gang

    Celebration

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

  • Cher

    Love & Understanding

    • (CD Single).
    • Geffen.

  • Beverley Knight

    A Christmas Wish

    • The Loss Adjuster O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Pink Flamingo Records.

  • George Michael

    December Song (I Dreamed Of Christmas)

    • (CD Single).
    • Aegean Records.
    • 1.

  • Love Unlimited

    It May Be Winter Outside (But In My Heart It's Spring)

    • Barry White - The Collection.
    • Mercury.

  • Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello

    厂别帽辞谤颈迟补

    • (CD Single).
    • Fontana Island Records.

  • Carrie Underwood

    Favourite Time Of Year

    • My Gift.
    • Capitol Records Nashville.

  • Pet Shop Boys

    It Doesn't Often Snow At Christmas

    • SMASH - The Singles 1985-2020.
    • Rhino.
    • 1.

  • Jennifer Lopez

    In The Morning

    • (CD Single).
    • HITCO.

  • London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Troika

    • That's Christmas (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • The Crystals

    Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town

    • A Christmas Gift For You (Phil Spector).
    • Phil Spector Int.
    • 7.

  • Miley Cyrus

    Prisoner (feat. Dua Lipa)

    • Plastic Hearts.
    • RCA.

  • Coldplay

    Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.
    • 5.

  • Frankie Valli

    Grease

    • Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Ve.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 18.

  • Meghan Trainor

    Christmas Got Me Blue (Radio 2 Session, 11 Dec 2020)

  • 麻豆约拍 Children In Need

    Stop Crying Your Heart Out (麻豆约拍 Radio 2 Allstars)

    • (CD Single).
    • Decca.

  • Thea Gilmore

    That'll Be Christmas

    • (CD Single).
    • Fullfill.
    • 1.

  • Taylor Swift

    willow

    • evermore.
    • TS/Republic Records.

  • Years & Years

    Desire (feat. Tove Lo)

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Wet Wet Wet

    Wishing I Was Lucky

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

  • Bruce Springsteen

    The Power Of Prayer

    • Letter To You.
    • Columbia.

  • Tom Chaplin

    Under A Million Lights

    • Twelve Tales Of Christmas.
    • Island.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From the Reverend Richard Coles:

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What a lot I鈥檓 learning, bubbling with a northerner.

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My brother-in-law, Mark, who lives in Chorley, sometimes works near here, and stays at the Vicarage, where I would otherwise be on my own. I learned a lot from living with another northerner, his brother David, but he moved south, and, according to Mark, acquired soft southern ways. You could have fooled me. I thought he was as northern as Toyah Battersby and the M62; he talked to everyone on the bus, crashed the National Grid with his Christmas lights, would have had gravy on a satsuma.听

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I think Mark meant he was more likely to knit mittens from organic alpaca than strip a compressor with his teeth. David wasn鈥檛 exactly practical, unlike his brother, who鈥檚 only here five minutes and he鈥檚 rewiring the guest room, or chain-sawing logs.

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One thing they had in common was a love of tater 鈥榓sh. I thought it was a kind of cheese from the Haute Savoie. Not so, it is a classic of Lancastrian cuisine, mince cooked with chunky spuds and carrots, topped with a suet crust. It鈥檚 served with brown sauce, and pickled red cabbage. 鈥淥oh cavolo nero?鈥� I said, when Mark made it the other night.

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It was delicious, even better on the second day, but by then it had ignited a controversy, for there are as many versions of tater 鈥榓sh, I discovered, as there are petals in a red rose. it鈥檚 called different things in different places, some say it should come without a crust, others it should be beetroot not cabbage... even as I speak I can imagine the 麻豆约拍 switchboard lighting up like Blackpool鈥檚 Illuminations.

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On this all agree: it鈥檚 comfort food. What could be more comforting than mince and potatoes, or more thrifty and filling, when times are hard?

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And it鈥檚 comfort not only for the body, but the soul also. It was David鈥檚 forty-fourth birthday yesterday, but he died a week after his forty-third, so this is a tough time. In Grief Awareness Week lots of us bereaved have been sharing our stories, stories like this, not only about loss, but about care and comfort, and light in darkness.

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David and I, divided by so many things, were united in a shared belief; that in the bleak midwinter, to the world鈥檚 surprise, angels suddenly sang a new song, and new light glowed in a stable at Bethlehem, inextinguishable. May it shine for you.听

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  • Fri 11 Dec 2020 06:30
    麻豆约拍 Radio 2