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Dan Snow and Maximum Music Monday

Dan Snow talks history and tells Zoe about his podcast and new UK tour, plus it's Maximum Music Monday and there's three songs back to back in the Disco Ball.

Dan Snow, the BAFTA award winning historian, broadcaster and television presenter tells Zoe about his hugely successful History Hit podcast and his upcoming UK tour.
Dan makes programmes around the world on a range of historical topics, from the abandoned Viking churches of Greenland to war damaged sites of Timbuktu. He regularly works at the Â鶹ԼÅÄ presenting national commemorative events, such as the 75th anniversary of VE-Day and VJ-Day in 2020. He is the host of one of the world’s biggest history podcast, Dan Snow’s History Hit, which is downloaded about one million times per week.

And Zoe plays three disco classics from her personal collection in the Disco Ball at 8.30!

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

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

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Mon 18 Jan 2021 06:30

Music Played

  • Mark Ronson

    Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 001.
  • Jason Derulo & Nuka

    Love Not War (The Tampa Beat)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Sweet Talkin' Woman

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.
  • Keane

    Everybody's Changing

    • (CD Single).
    • Transcopic Records.
  • The Equals

    Baby Come Back

    • Fifty Number Ones Of The 60's (Variou.
    • Global Television.
  • The Boo Radleys

    Wake Up Boo!

    • Various Artists - Untitled.
    • Global Records & Tapes.
  • Spiller

    Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) (feat. Sophie Ellisâ€Bextor)

    • (CD Single).
    • Positiva.
  • Harry Styles

    Treat People With Kindness

    • Fine Line.
    • Columbia.
  • Prince

    Little Red Corvette

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.
  • Everything but the Girl

    Missing (Todd Terry Remix)

    Remix Artist: Todd Terry.
    • Passion (Various Artists).
    • Universal.
  • David Guetta

    When Love Takes Over (feat. Kelly Rowland)

    • (CD Single).
    • Positiva.
  • Philip Bailey & Phil Collins

    Easy Lover

    • Singles.
    • Rhino.
  • Lola Lennox

    La La Love Me

    • (CD Single).
    • LaLennoxa.
  • Adele

    Set Fire To The Rain

    • 21.
    • XL.
    • 5.
  • ´³³Ü²úë±ô

    Weekend Vibe

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • Nancy Sinatra

    These Boots Are Made for Walkin'

    • The Greatest Hits Of Nancy Sinatra.
    • Boulevard.
  • The KLF

    Justified & Ancient (Stand by The JAMs) (feat. Tammy Wynette)

    • (CD Single).
    • K.L.F. Communications.
  • Nathan Dawe & Little Mix

    No Time For Tears

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine

    Get On Your Feet

    • Gloria Estefan - Cuts Both Ways.
    • Epic.
  • Tones and I

    Dance Monkey

    • NOW Thats What I Call Music! 104 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • Kim Wilde

    Kids In America

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

    Feels Like I'm In Love

    • NOW Boogie Nights - Disco Classics (Various Artists).
    • Now! Music.
  • Kool & the Gang

    Celebration

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

    I Love To Love

    • 70's Number Ones Vol 2.
    • Old Gold.
  • Ed Sheeran

    Afterglow

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • David Bowie

    Fashion

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.
  • Jonas Brothers

    X (feat. KAROL G)

    • (CD Single).
    • Republic Records.
  • Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton

    Islands In The Stream

    • The Greatest Love (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.
  • Rihanna

    Diamonds

    • (CD Single).
    • Def Jam.
  • Embrace

    Ashes

    • (CD Single).
    • Independiente.
  • Queen

    Don't Stop Me Now

    • Jazz.
    • Island.
    • 12.
  • Justin Bieber

    Anyone

    • (CD Single).
    • Def Jam.
  • Alessi

    Oh Lori

    • And Then She Kissed Me Vol.1 (Various.
    • Debutante.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
When my son Jacob was born something very beautiful happened. His Mum was being taken care of by the nurses - she needed some attention after the caesarian - so they gave me the baby to hold. I looked into his face for the first time, inhaled his scent and held him close. And kept holding him, as they left me to it for a while. 

I found myself alone in a side room with our boy for the first half an hour or so of his life. 

Now, to be honest, I was knackered. Not as knackered as his lovely Mum, obviously, but still. So I did what I shouldn’t really have done and laid down on the bed in there. It was just me and him, undisturbed. 

I remember, vividly, the feeling of this little baby lying on my chest, sleeping. My breathing changed to match his and I felt as close to him as I have to anyone, ever. 

He’s a long way from me now, Zoe. 

Twenty three years old and living in Cardiff with his beautiful partner Seren, a couple of hundred miles from what I still think of as his home. Lockdown separation is hard, as it is for all of us. His childhood, our time of closeness, felt like it would last forever - but of course it didn’t. 

I could get sad about that, but I’d rather celebrate him and learn something positive.

The poet William Blake, writing in the Christian tradition, describes how we can see the big picture in the smallest things. “To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.â€Â 

I recognise that, in a strange thing that happens when I look at my son’s face and somehow see all the faces of his ages at once, from the baby to the fine young adult. 

And that actually tells me something precious about this bigger moment of suspension we are all in right now. Things shift. I’m not as stuck as I think I am.

I may not feel it or be able to see it happening, but when I think of Jacob as a baby and who he is now, I know a change is going to come. 

Broadcast

  • Mon 18 Jan 2021 06:30