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Dani Harmer and Stacey Dooley

Dani Harmer talks to Zoe about My Mum Tracy Beaker from CΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ and Stacey Dooley has a new show on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ One called This Is My House.

Dani Harmer talks to Zoe about My Mum Tracy Beaker. It became CΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's most successful programme launch ever with streams of over 2.1million on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ iPlayer. Dani has played the role of Tracey Beaker since 2002 and this new drama follows Tracy and her daughter Jess, as they try to scrape by financially, but with a close and loving bond that Tracy missed out on with her own mum. Told from the perspective of 10 year-old Jess, the series tells how their lives are drastically changed with the arrival of Tracy’s rich new boyfriend, Sean Godfrey. He secretly admired Tracy when they were young and he was simply known as 'Football'. Now, recently retired and with all the trappings of a successful football star, he tries to whisk them away to a life of palatial mansions and fancy cars - but when everything starts to go classically Tracy Beaker pear-shaped, can Jess save the day?

Stacey Dooley, Strictly Come Dancing champion, documentary maker and presenter, tells Zoe about her brand new show for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ One. This Is My House was co-created by Richard Bacon and is a property-based guessing game in which four people claim to own the same house. It's then up to celebrity judges (Comic and Strictly champ Bill Bailey, The Inbetweeners actress Emily Atack, comedian Jamali Maddix and Loose Women’s Judi Love) to watch the four `owners' interact and figure out which one is telling the truth and who are the impostors. Each week by a special guest weighs in on who’s real, so Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen joins in the fun for the first edition, set in a converted barn in Ashford, Kent. If the panel correctly guess which of person is telling the truth, the home-owner will win a cash prize.

It’s The Why Workshop, and Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with more wonders and ponders, including your questions. To contact the show email zoeball@bbc.co.uk

Along with Adam Porter 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 and listeners on the line, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Wed 24 Mar 2021 06:30
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Music Played

  • Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel

    Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)

    • 20 Number 1's Of The 70's (Various).
    • MFP.

  • Jessie Ware

    Remember Where You Are

    • What's Your Pleasure?.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Dodgy

    Good Enough

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 34 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Adele

    Rolling In The Deep

    • (CD Single).
    • XL.
    • 1.

  • Donald Fagen

    Walk Between Raindrops

    • Donald Fagen - The Nightfly.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Lionel Richie

    Don't Stop the Music

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.

  • ABBA

    Summer Night City

    • Abba - More Abba Gold.
    • Polydor.

  • Dua Lipa

    We're Good

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

  • Los del RΓ­o

    Macarena

    • The Best One Hit Wonders In The World.
    • Virgin.

  • Calvin Harris

    This Is What You Came For (feat. Rihanna)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 6.

  • Kiki Dee

    Star

    • Young at Heart (Various Artists).
    • Reader's Digest.

  • Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes

    (I've Had) The Time Of My Life

    • The Hits Album 7 (Various Artists).
    • CBS.

  • James Smith

    My Oh My

    • (CD Single).
    • Bad Music.

  • Keisha White

    Someday

    • (CD Single).
    • frtyfve.

  • Shanice

    I Love Your Smile

    • Now Yearbook '92 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music.

  • Tom Jones

    One More Cup Of Coffee

    • Surrounded By Time.
    • EMI.

  • Pharrell Williams

    Happy

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Steps & Michelle Visage

    Heartbreak In This City

    • What The Future Holds.
    • BMG Rights Management.

  • The Brothers Johnson

    Stomp!

    • 10 Star Collection: Soul 2 (Various).
    • Stardust.
    • 5.

  • Girls Aloud

    Can't Speak French

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Eternal

    I Wanna Be The Only One (feat. BeBe Winans)

    • Eternal - Greatest Hits.
    • EMI.

  • Justin Bieber

    Hold On

    • JUSTICE.
    • Def Jam Recordings.

  • Sophie B. Hawkins

    Right Beside You

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • BTS

    Dynamite

    • (CD Single).
    • BigHit Entertainment.

  • Primal Scream

    Rocks

    • Dirty Hits.
    • Columbia.

  • Tina Turner

    The Best

    • Tina Turner - Simply The Best.
    • Capitol.

  • S Club

    Reach

    • Huge Hits 2000 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Let Loose

    Crazy For You

  • Del Amitri

    It's Feelings

    • Fatal Mistakes.
    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • Jackie Wilson

    (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher

    • Midnight Soul (Various Artists).
    • Music Club.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Yesterday marked one year since the first Lockdown.Β Β I can remember the relief in our house once this decision was finally made.Β 

Having watched the situation in Italy unfold, as a family we had become increasingly worried about the same hitting Britain. As a result,Β we had been socially distancing as much as we could in the circumstances, and even wearing masks, or sometimes I’d wrap my scarf around my face.Β 

At the time, I felt like I was the weird one. People we were talking to seemed completely non-plussed about everything. I remember trying to come across as β€œnot worried” when I was really VERY worried, and was constantly telling my Mum to avoid everyone!Β Β 

So by the time Lockdown started on March 23rdΒ last year – my relief was palpable. Finally, the rules lined up with what seemed sensible to me at the time.Β 

It’s hard being the odd one out. Biologists often describe humans as a β€œpack species” – we need to be with the crowd. When we are not it can feel really uncomfortable.Β 

In the Bible and in the Qur’an there are multiple stories of prophets warning people, and people thinking they were mad. Noah was warning of an impending flood. And poor Jonah got so fed up of his people not listening that he went off, and ended up getting swallowed by a whale.

There were scientists warning of a pandemic like this for a long time. The aptly named, Doctor Larry Brilliant, predicted a lot of what we have seen this past year way back in 2006. What he was suggesting seemed wild 15 years ago – the stuff of movies, and indeed he consulted for a Hollywood blockbuster about a pandemic. But given the past year, in hindsight his warnings seem almost prophetic.Β 

It can be difficult being the voice that tells people something that maybe they don’t want to hear. It is hard to look like the weird one. But in many ways for me – that is one of the powers of the prophetic stories… Because it is not always about giant arks saving animals two by two, and whales swallowing humans whole… It’s that the prophets were prepared to be rejected by those around them, prepared to look stupid. That’s not only courageous. It is powerful and necessary!

Broadcast

  • Wed 24 Mar 2021 06:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2