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Dame Mary Berry, Claudia Winkleman and Ruti Olajugbagbe

Dame Mary Berry and Claudia Winkleman chat to Zoe about their new TV show, Celebrity Best Â鶹ԼÅÄ Cook, on Â鶹ԼÅÄ One. Ruti Olajugbagbe tells Zoe about her new single with Billy Ocean.

Dame Mary Berry and Claudia Winkleman chat to Zoe about their new TV show, Celebrity Best Â鶹ԼÅÄ Cook, on Â鶹ԼÅÄ One. The programme celebrates the very best of home cooking; in this series, ten stars from the worlds of sport, TV and comedy will cook their hearts out with one goal: to serve up brilliant and tasty food to impress the judges and be crowned Celebrity Best Â鶹ԼÅÄ Cook. The brave celebrities battling it out are: reality TV star Ferne McCann, Welsh rugby legend Gareth Thomas, comedian Desiree Burch, ex-politician and broadcaster Ed Balls, TV presenter Karim Zeroual, actor Ruth Madeley, reality TV star Tom Read Wilson, actor Shobna Gulati, comedian Ed Byrne and journalist Rachel Johnson.

Ruti Olajugbagbe tells Zoe about her new single with Billy Ocean, The Young Voices Choir and YolanDa Brown. They have recorded a version of Lovely Day, originally performed by Bill Withers. The Young Voices Choir is an inclusive education programme designed to use music to develop 21st century skills such as communication, collaboration, creativity, mindfulness and innovation. They have headlined 224 arenas across the UK including a record breaking 49th concert at the Manchester Arena which is the most by any act. Ruti was a part of the Young Voices Choir when she was 8 years old. She says “It’s incredible to think we’ll be singing this single alongside thousands of people across the country and maybe even the worldâ€.

Along with Clare Runacres 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, tunes chosen by listeners, and more music that you can shake a glitterball at!

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

2 hours, 59 minutes

Music Played

  • Simply Red

    Fairground

    • Simply Red Greatest Hits.
    • East West Records.
  • ´³³Ü²úë±ô

    Weekend Vibe

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • ABC

    When Smokey Sings

    • Now 1987 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.
  • Whitney Houston

    I'm Your Baby Tonight

    • Whitney Houston-I'm Your Baby Tonight.
    • Arista.
  • Paolo Nutini

    Pencil Full Of Lead

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.
  • Pilot

    January

    • 25 Years Of No.1 Hits Vol.3 (1974/19.
    • Connoisseur Collection.
  • Stevie Wonder

    Part-Time Lover

    • Stevie Wonder - Song Review.
    • Motown.
  • Lola Lennox

    La La Love Me

    • (CD Single).
    • LaLennoxa.
  • Calvin Harris & Rag’n’Bone Man

    Giant

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
  • Phil Collins

    You Can't Hurry Love

    • Singles.
    • Rhino.
  • Clean Bandit

    Rockabye (feat. Sean Paul & Anne-Marie)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • ²¹â€h²¹

    The Sun Always Shines on TV

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

    Anyone

    • (CD Single).
    • Def Jam.
  • Billy Ocean & Young Voices Choir

    Lovely Day (feat. YolanDa Brown & Ruti)

  • James

    Sit Down

    • True Brit (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.
  • Jason Derulo

    Lifestyle (feat. Adam Levine)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • Frankie Valli

    Grease

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

    Feel Something (feat. Duncan Laurence)

    • (CD Single).
    • Armada Music.
  • Amy Winehouse

    Back To Black

    • Back To Black.
    • Universal Records.
  • The La’s

    There She Goes

    • Love - 38 All Time Love Classics.
    • Polygram Tv.
  • Boney M.

    Daddy Cool

    • Million Sellers Vol.14 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.
  • Now United & R3HAB

    One Love

    • (CD Single).
    • XIX United LLC.
  • Republica

    Ready To Go

    • Live Forever (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.
  • Kygo & Imagine Dragons

    Born To Be Yours

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
  • Leona Lewis

    Bleeding Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony BMG.
  • The Wannadies

    You And Me Song

    • Hollywood Cool (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.
  • Gilbert O’Sullivan

    Matrimony

    • The Essential Collection.
    • BMG.
    • 022.
  • Take That

    Pray

    • Take That - Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.
  • Melanie C

    Into You

    • Melanie C (Deluxe).
    • Red Girl.
    • 1.
  • Katrina and the Waves

    Love Shine A Light

    • Huge Hits 1997 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Without a flicker of warning, our lights went out.  A powercut last month made not only the lights, but oven, and to add insult to injury, our broadband disappear, plunging my stunned family into a strange silent darkness. 

With my husband in meltdown unable to watch the weekly most important match of the Year, and watching our phone batteries tumbling, we frenetically flicked the fuse box switches, which resolutely refused to reset.  

Dejected, we surveyed our options and our uncooked dinner. Huddling in coats, the only heat came from the various festival candles I set blazing on the kitchen table like a giant combined shabbat, Chanukah and birthday celebration.  

Luckily, my neighbour Nicola was away and with her permission and spare key, we decamped with the dogs, our phone chargers and enormous gratitude – to order pizza and await assistance.  

The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day tomorrow, is be the Light in the Darkness and this year the world really does feel dark. We’ll remember the 6 million Jews, the Roma, gay, black, disabled and other victims of the Nazis, and victims of more recent genocides.   Photos of Uyghur Muslims in China being marched into trains, hair shaved and blindfolded, and the surge in White Supremacist racism in America remind us that identity-based hatred hasn’t gone away.  Today’s climate of uncertainty and fear is exploited by people who want to divide us – one group pitched against another. 

For my fortunate family, about to crawl home into cold rooms but snug beds, after just 7 hours, help arrived.  The cooker, heating, computers and, joy of joys, the lights sprang into action – our safe and secure life restored in a millisecond.   Thankfully we can’t begin to imagine facing real darkness, the impenetrable deep darkness of oppression. 

On Holocaust Memorial Day tomorrow, people across the nation will unite by lighting candles at 8pm. So, with this weeks’ most important match of the year on pause, and dinner bubbling in the oven, my family’s little beam of candle light will stream into the dark night through our front window to highlight the dangers of prejudice and hatred, reminding me just how very lucky I am.  

Broadcast

  • Tue 26 Jan 2021 06:30