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Hugh Bonneville and Steps

Hugh Bonneville is on the show telling Zoe about his new movie, To Olivia. Plus there is live music recorded from home from Steps and Zoe chats to Faye and Claire from the band.

Hugh Bonneville calls into the show to tell Zoe all about his new movie, To Olivia, where he stars as the world famous author Roald Dahl. It also stars Keeley Hawes as his American actress wife Patricia Neal. The film is based on a true story, set in 1962 and Roald Dahl, an eccentric, burgeoning children’s author and his wife, Patricia Neal, a glamourous Hollywood movie star, have retreated to the English countryside to bring up their expanding young family. Tragically, their lives are turned upside down by the devastating death of their daughter Olivia and as the couple struggle through the unimaginable loss, their shared grief becomes a source of redemption and strength which changes their lives forever. Hugh is best known for playing the role of Robert Crawley, the Earl of Grantham in Downton Abbey, he also had a starring role in the hit Paddington movies.

Steps have recorded live music from home for the show and Zoe chats to Claire and Faye from the band. British pop legends Steps – aka H, Claire, Faye, Lee and Lisa – are back again with their sixth album, What the Future Holds, , and a huge arena tour across the UK and Ireland in November / December 2021. Steps will be joined on the tour by the brilliant Sophie Ellis-Bextor as special guest. Launching in 1997 with their line-dancing classic 5,6,7,8, Brit award winners Steps set about changing the music landscape via 14 UK top 10 singles and three multi-platinum albums in three years including number one's Tragedy and Stomp. Fast forward twenty years, the band returned with the mighty Tears On The Dancefloor, which hit number one on the physical and iTunes album charts and went Gold within a matter of weeks, becoming the second biggest-selling independent album of 2017 behind Stormzy.

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

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

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Fri 12 Feb 2021 06:30
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Music Played

  • Blondie

    Atomic

    • Atomic: The Very Best Of Blondie.
    • EMI.

  • Armin van Buuren

    Feel Something (feat. Duncan Laurence)

    • (CD Single).
    • Armada Music.

  • Katy Perry

    Chained To The Rhythm (feat. Skip Marley)

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol Records.

  • James Taylor

    How Sweet It Is (to Be Loved by You)

    • James Taylor - Classic Songs.
    • CBS.

  • Shirley Bassey

    Big Spender

    • Shirley Bassey - The Singles.
    • EMI.

  • Bananarama

    Love In The First Degree

    • The Very Best Of Bananarama.
    • Warner Strategic Market.

  • Irene Cara

    Flashdance... What a Feeling

    • Flashdance.
    • Casablanca.

  • ΄³³ά²ϊΓ«±τ

    Weekend Vibe

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • The Weeknd

    I Feel It Coming (feat. Daft Punk)

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Republic Records.

  • Queen

    Crazy Little Thing Called Love

    • The Game.
    • Island.
    • 5.

  • The Coral

    In The Morning

    • (CD Single).
    • Deltasonic.

  • Έι³ά²Τ‐D.²Ρ.°δ. & Aerosmith

    Walk This Way

    • Now 8 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Chaka Khan

    I'm Every Woman

    • NOW Boogie Nights - Disco Classics (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Tom Jones

    She's A Lady

    • Take A Break (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • MAX

    Blueberry Eyes (feat. SUGA)

    • (CD Single).
    • Colour Vision Records.

  • Jackie Wilson

    Reet Petite (The Finest Girl You Ever Want To Meet)

    • That's Rock'n'Roll (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Dua Lipa

    We're Good

    • Future Nostalgia (The Moonlight Edition).
    • Warner Records.

  • Starship

    We Built This City

    • Now 1985 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 1.

  • Harry Styles

    Treat People With Kindness

    • Fine Line.
    • Columbia.

  • Christopher Cross

    Ride Like The Wind

    • Christopher Cross.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Steps

    To The Beat Of My Heart (Radio 2 Session, 12 Feb 2021)

  • Steps

    Stomp (Radio 2 Session, 12 Feb 2021)

  • Sam Cooke

    Another Saturday Night

    • Sam Cooke - The Man & His Music.
    • RCA.

  • Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande

    Rain On Me (Purple Disco Machine Remix)

    Remix Artist: Purple Disco Machine.
    • Chromatica.
    • Interscope Records.

  • Fatboy Slim

    Praise You

    • Now 1999 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.

  • 808 State

    Pacific State

    • (CD Single).
    • ZTT.

  • Tori Amos

    Professional Widow (It's Got To Be Big)

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

  • Riton & Nightcrawlers

    Friday (Dopamine Re-Edit) (feat. Mufasa & Hypeman)

    • (CD Single).
    • Ministry Of Sound.

  • Kym Sims

    Too Blind To See It

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

I don’t think I’d ever bought a tub of cotton buds until last week; suddenly they’re in my life. It began with COVID testing, and a cotton bud on a long stick shoved up my hooter. Now it’s administered by me, for my weekly lateral flow test. Make of this what you will, but I’ve started almost to enjoy the slightly weird sensation when the questing bud makes contact with the back of my nasal cavity. Β 

Sorry.

But I boughtΒ thisΒ tub of cotton buds because next week Lent begins, the season of the church’s year which leads to Easter; and I need cotton buds for that.

It actually begins next Wednesday, Ash Wednesday. In the evening, in church, the congregation comes up one by one, the priest dips a thumb in a pot of ashes, and marks their foreheads with the sign of the cross.

Then we leave church in silence; and as soon as we’re round the corner wipe off the smudgy cross with a tissue lest people on the bus think we’re weirdos.

Not this year. Our church is closed to due to COVID, so I spent last weekend making up Do-It-Yourself Ash Wednesday kits. I put spoonfuls of ash in little plastic bags along with a cotton bud; sealed them, sanitised them, and distributed them to parishioners; so when we meet on Zoom we can mark ourselves with the cross.Β 

Why ash? As we make the mark we say,Β remember you are dust, and to dust you shall return, to focus our minds on the frailty of life, and our need of help to live better.Β 

β€œDo we really need to focus our minds on the frailty of life right now?” asked a friend. β€œDo we really need to give something up - chocolate, alcohol, Real Housewives - to remind us of how tough life can be?”

I get it; for many Lent began a year ago and they’re still waiting for Easter.

But Easter comes: it is never so dark that the promise of light is entirely quenched, even if the darkness seems relentless and overpowering and victorious.

Because this is not the next round in the eternal battle of good and evil. What’s coming is something utterly unlike darkness - not its opposite, not the cause of shadow, or a flash in the pan - but a new reality which darkness, and all its devices, cannot even begin to comprehend.Β 

I’’ll gladly be a weirdo for that.

Broadcast

  • Fri 12 Feb 2021 06:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2