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Vicky McClure and Jennie McAlpine

Vicky McClure tells Zoe about the new series of Line of Duty coming to Â鶹ԼÅÄ One. Jennie McAlpine from Coronation Street has the latest news from Weatherfield.

Vicky McClure tells Zoe all about the new series of Line of Duty coming to Â鶹ԼÅÄ One. Vicky is back with co-stars Adrian Dunbar and Martin Compston who return alongside Shalom Brune-Franklin, a new addition to the AC-12 team. Kelly Macdonald makes her debut as guest lead Detective Chief Inspector Joanne Davidson, the senior investigating officer on an unsolved murder case whose suspicious conduct attracts the attention of Anti-Corruption. The series was created and written by Jed Mercurio, who also wrote Bodyguard. Vicky is well known for her work in the films of Shane Meadows. She starred as Ladine, Romeo's sister, in A Room for Romeo Brass and in Meadows' most successful film, This Is England. Vicky also went on to continue playing Lol in Meadows' critically acclaimed TV series' This Is England '86, and '88 and '90.

Jennie McAlpine aka 'Fiz Brown' from Coronation Street is on the phone to tell Zoe all about the latest news from the cobbles of Weatherfield. Jennie has starred in the soap since she 2001 after auditioning for the role at the age of 17. She also took part in I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! in 2017.

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, quizzes, headlines, 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

  • Stevie Wonder

    Another Star

    • (Single).
    • Motown.
  • Ella Henderson & Tom Grennan

    Let's Go Â鶹ԼÅÄ Together

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • Daryl Hall & John Oates

    Out Of Touch

    • Collections.
    • Sony.
  • Girls Aloud

    The Promise

    • (CD Single).
    • Fascination.
    • 1.
  • Natalie Cole

    This Will Be

    • Women In Love (Various Artists).
    • MFP.
  • The Farm

    All Together Now

    • Smash Hits Massive! (Various Artists).
    • Dover Records.
  • Ed Sheeran

    Castle On The Hill

    • ÷ Divide.
    • Atlantic.
  • Amy Macdonald

    Statues

    • The Human Demands.
    • Infectious Music.
  • Judy Garland & MGM Studio Chorus

    The Trolley Song

    • Judy Garland In Hollywood: Her Greatest Movie Hits.
    • Rhino Movie Music.
  • Level 42

    Lessons In Love

    • Now That's What I Call Music '86.
    • Now.
  • Camila Cabello

    Havana (feat. Young Thug)

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco Music.
  • Black Box

    Ride On Time

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

    Break My Heart

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Records.
  • ABC

    When Smokey Sings

    • Now 1987 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.
  • Make A Difference Voices

    I Dare You

    • TheatreMAD Recordings.
  • Lighthouse Family

    Ocean Drive

    • Lighthouse Family - Ocean Drive.
    • Polydor.
  • Bruno Mars

    24K Magic

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • Jessie Ware

    Remember Where You Are

    • What's Your Pleasure?.
    • Virgin EMI Records.
  • The Pointer Sisters

    Jump (For My Love)

    • The Best Of The Pointer Sisters.
    • RCA.
  • Lewis Capaldi

    Someone You Loved

    • Breach.
    • Vertigo.
    • 3.
  • The O’Jays

    I Love Music

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1976 (Various).
    • Premier.
  • Peter Gabriel

    Sledgehammer

    • Now 1986 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • Silk City

    NEW LOVE (feat. Ellie Goulding)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
  • Cliff Richard

    We Don't Talk Anymore

    • Cliff Richard - Private Collection.
    • EMI.
  • Gwen Guthrie

    Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But The Rent

    • Now 1986 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • Madness

    One Step Beyond

    • Greatest Hits Of The 70's (Various).
    • EMI.
    • 5.
  • The Selecter

    On My Radio

    • Rip It Up (Various Artists).
    • EMI.
  • The Specials

    Too Much Too Young

    • The Connoisseur Collection: 30 Years Of Number Ones Vol.9.
    • Connoisseur.
    • 6.
  • James Smith

    My Oh My

    • (CD Single).
    • Bad Music.
  • Al Stewart

    Year Of The Cat

    • 25 Years Of Rock 'N' Roll 1977 (Various Artists).
    • Connoisseur Collection.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

I like to think I know my friends, and what to expect from them: not much from Jack, who lives a mile away, but extreme affection from Steve, who lives in Australia. But occasionally, they surprise me. Last week, a friend found an old piece of broken pottery in a rabbit hole and, because I work in a museum, sent me a picture of it. I didn’t say it was an exciting surprise.

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They wondered if it might be a bit of Roman tile and, after applying my expert forensic eye, I was able to report with some degree of confidence that I had no idea.ÌýÌýHowever, I did look at it carefully and I saw faint lines scratched into the wet clay before it was fired.ÌýÌýI saw pale scars from its time buried underground.ÌýÌýWhere it was broken, I saw it was buff and dark grey; and I saw, hidden, embedded in the clay, a fragment of stone.

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And as I got to know this thing, it made me wonder how well I know my friends, even after decades of looking. Not so well, perhaps.ÌýÌýI probably don’t know what’s caused the scratches on their surface; I don’t know all the rabbit holes they’ve been down; I don’t know what’s hidden inside them.

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When Christians gather to remember Jesus, we share bread and wine and we say, ‘Although we are many, we are one body, because we all share one bread’. St Paul wrote that and I’m struck by his choice of words. We’re not one body because we agree with each other, or because we look the same, or because we know each other’s birthdays. We are one body because we all share one bread.

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And I reckon that’s what makes for friendship: breaking bread, not knowing everything.ÌýÌýWe become one, gradually, by virtue of what we share - a walk, a letter, forty years of taking the mickey or forty minutes with a broken tile. We share, and that’s how we build each other up, feed each other, love each other.ÌýÌýWe literally become companionsÌýÌý- ‘com’, meaning ‘with’; ‘panis’, meaning bread.

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I still have no idea if that old bit of pottery was Roman.ÌýÌýBut I’m glad to have shared the question.ÌýÌýI’m glad when anything is shared.ÌýÌýI’m glad there is friendship in the breaking of a tile just as surely as there is in the breaking of bread.

Broadcast

  • Tue 16 Mar 2021 06:30