Sheridan Smith and Deacon Blue
Sheridan Smith chats to Zoe about Musicals: The Greatest Show which is coming to Â鶹ԼÅÄ One. Plus Deacon Blue play live from Â鶹ԼÅÄ Pacific Quay in Scotland exclusively for the show.
Multi-award winning performer Sheridan Smith tells Zoe about Musicals: the Greatest Show. Already available to listen to on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Sounds, a 75-minute show is coming to Â鶹ԼÅÄ One and Â鶹ԼÅÄ iPlayer, featuring a glittering cast of UK and international stars performing songs from the musicals. With venues currently unable to open to the public, Musicals: The Greatest Show is a celebration of the nation’s favourite songs and performers from the world of musical theatre.
Deacon Blue are live from Â鶹ԼÅÄ Pacific Quay in Scotland with two exclusive tracks for Zoe from their new album Riding On The Tide Of Love. The new album features 8 brand new songs and is described as a "Lockdown Companion" album, which was recorded piece by piece after the band went into the studio one by one to record their individual parts.
Along with Adam Porter on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Mike Williams on sport, Zoe 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 Pause For Thought from Rev’d Richard Coles and listeners on the line as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!
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Music Played
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Stevie Wonder
I Wish
- Motown Party (Various Artists).
- Motown.
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Harry Styles
Treat People With Kindness
- Fine Line.
- Columbia.
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Sophie Ellisâ€Bextor
Crying At The Discotheque
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Bobby Brown
Two Can Play That Game
- Now 30 (Various Artists).
- Now.
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Barbra Streisand
Stoney End
- Barbra Streisand Greatest Hits Vol.2.
- CBS.
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Junior
Mama Used To Say
- And They Danced The Night Away.
- Debutante.
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P!nk
Get The Party Started
- The Very Best Of All Woman 2003 (Var).
- BMG.
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´³³Ü²úë±ô
Weekend Vibe
- (CD Single).
- Atlantic.
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Chic
Good Times
- The Last Days Of Disco (Film Soundtra.
- Columbia.
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Gladys Knight & the Pips
Midnight Train To Georgia
- 25 Years Of Rock `n' Roll - 1976.
- Connoisseur Collection.
- 9.
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Sigala & James Arthur
Lasting Lover
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- Ministry Of Sound.
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Will Smith
Gettin' Jiggy Wit It
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- Columbia.
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Katy Perry
Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)
- Now That's What I Call Music! 79.
- Now.
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The Jacksons
I Want You Back
- The Best Michael Jackson & Jackson Five.
- Polygram Tv.
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MAX
Blueberry Eyes (feat. SUGA)
- (CD Single).
- Colour Vision Records.
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Sophie B. Hawkins
Right Beside You
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- Columbia.
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Tom Jones
No Hole In My Head
- Surrounded By Time.
- EMI.
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Glen Campbell
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
- Meet Glen Campbell.
- EMI.
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Earth, Wind & Fire
Boogie Wonderland (feat. The Emotions)
- The Best Seventies Album In The World.. Ever!.
- Virgin.
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Sheridan Smith
Don't Rain On My Parade (From Radio 2 Musicals, The Greatest Show)
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Steps
To The Beat Of My Heart
- What The Future Holds.
- BMG Rights Management (UK).
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Nina Simone
My Baby Just Cares For Me
- Heartbeat - The 60's Gold Collection.
- Global Television.
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Phil Collins
Two Hearts
- Singles.
- Rhino.
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Deacon Blue
Riding On The Tide Of Love (Radio 2 Session, 5 Feb 2021)
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Deacon Blue
Wages Day (Radio 2 Session, 5 Feb 2021)
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RAYE & Rudimental
Regardless
- Euphoric Sad Songs.
- Polydor.
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The Rolling Stones
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
- The Rolling Stones - Remastered.
- Abkco.
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Rihanna
We Found Love (feat. Calvin Harris)
- Now That's What I Call Music! 80 (Various Artists).
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Bob Dylan
Subterranean Â鶹ԼÅÄsick Blues
- Bob Dylan - Greatest Hits.
- Columbia.
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Black Eyed Peas
I Gotta Feeling
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Carpenters
Yesterday Once More
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Skerryvore
You & I
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- Tyree Records.
Pause For Thought
After co-presenting Saturday Live on Radio Four, I walk to the station and my route takes me past what used to be Advision, one of the most celebrated recording studios in London. Everyone worked there, from T Rex, to David Bowie, to Queen, to Elton John. Â
So did my band, The Communards; but it was thirty years ago, and I don’t normally walk past with any great feeling of nostalgia. Until the other day, when one of our programme guests was Stephen Morris of New Order. And I recalled in 1986 we were both in Advision at the same time, both working with the same producer Stephen Hague, who was such hot property then, he had three bands in simultaneously, the Pet Shop Boys too, and he was hopping between studios 1, 2 and 3 to fit us all in. I also moonlighted, not with New Order, but the Pet Shop Boys, a piano session with them in a gap between our own.
This means that Never Can Say Goodbye, It’s A Sin, and True Faith were made in the same place, by the same people, at the same time. I remember stopping in my tracks when a mix of True Faith played behind a half-open door, and thinking it was one of the best things I’d ever heard (I still do). In fact, all three records shot to the top of the charts.  So the corridors, and the pool room, and the artists’ lounge, were crowded with 80s pop luminaries, awaiting Avril with the takeaway from Ragam round the corner (best masala dosa in town). Good times.
Today the building is a voiceover studio, and I was booked there for a job a while ago; so it came to pass that three decades after those glorious sessions I walked those corridors again. What would it be like to return?Â
No flashbacks, no ghostly music, no spectral crunch of a popadom.
Have you yearned, in these past weeks and months, to go back? To a time and place before our present troubles? I have, so much it’s been like pain: but there is no going back, no matter how much we want to.Â
There’s only forwards, with all its uncertainty and risk and challenge: and its promise.
And I think of St Peter, cowering in his boat in a storm, and Jesus appears and says do not be afraid; and Peter gets out of the boat, and comes towards him, loses his nerve, begins to sink, and is saved.Â
Broadcast
- Fri 5 Feb 2021 06:30Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2