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Gemma Arterton and Zara Larsson

Gemma Arterton tells Zoe about returning to the West End in her new play Walden and Zara Larsson has live music recorded exclusively for the show from her home in Sweden.

Gemma Arterton chats to Zoe about starring in Walden at The Harold Pinter Theatre. Walden is one of several new plays transferring to the West End as part of a new season of works spearheaded by producer Sonia Friedman and director Ian Rickson. The season intends to open to socially-distanced audiences to help re-open and re-energise our theatres. Gemma's previous West End credits include Olivier Award-nominated performances in Nell Gwynn at the Apollo Theatre and Made in Dagenham at the Adelphi Theatre.

Multi-platinum pop star Zara Larsson has recorded two exclusive live tracks for Zoe from her home in Sweden, including new music from her latest album Poster Girl. At just 23 years old, the Stockholm-based singer has already been nominated for 4 BRIT Awards, racked up over 6 million followers on social media, and showcased her sixth sense for hit melodies with a series of chart anthems including Lush Life, Symphony and Ruin My Life to name but a few. Her first international album, So Good, became the second most-streamed debut by a female artist ever on Spotify.

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 than you can shake a glitterball at!

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

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 16 Apr 2021 06:30
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Average White Band

    Let's Go Round Again

    • The Best Of.
    • Rhino.

  • Justin Bieber

    Hold On

    • JUSTICE.
    • Def Jam Recordings.

  • Robert Palmer

    Mercy Mercy Me/I Want You

    • Now 19 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Years & Years

    Shine

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Four Tops

    It's The Same Old Song

    • The Four Tops - The Ultimate Collecti.
    • Motown.

  • Erasure

    Sometimes

    • Erasure - Pop!.
    • Mute Records.

  • Spice Girls

    Who Do You Think You Are

    • Now 37 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Maroon 5

    Beautiful Mistakes (feat. Meghan Thee Stallion)

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope Records.

  • P!nk

    A Million Dreams

    • The Greatest Showman: Reimagined (Various Artists).
    • Atlantic.

  • Madness

    It Must Be Love

    • The 80's Love Album (Various Artists.
    • Virgin.

  • The Beatles

    Help!

    • The Beatles - 1.
    • Apple.
    • 010.

  • Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

    Ain't No Mountain High Enough

    • Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell: Greatest Hits.
    • Tamla Motown.

  • Daft Punk

    One More Time

    • Virgin Records.

  • Shalamar

    A Night To Remember

    • Friends - Deluxe Edition.
    • Big Break Records.
    • 5.

  • Joel Corry, RAYE & David Guetta

    BED

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Sheila & B. Devotion

    Spacer

    • Best Disco Album In The World...Ever!.
    • Virgin.

  • Jennifer Lopez

    Ain't It Funny

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic/Sony.

  • Coldplay

    A Sky Full Of Stars

    • ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Music Awards (Various Artists).
    • UMOD.

  • Jessie Ware

    Remember Where You Are

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

  • Ella Henderson & Tom Grennan

    Let's Go ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Together

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Yvonne Elliman

    If I Can't Have You

    • And They Danced The Night Away.
    • Debutante.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    A Design For Life

    • Everything Must Go - 20th Anniversary Edition.
    • Columbia.
    • 16.

  • Zara Larsson

    Look What You've Done (Radio 2 Session, 16 Apr 21)

  • Zara Larsson

    Watermelon Sugar (Radio 2 Session, 16 Apr 21)

  • The Fratellis

    Need A Little Love

    • Half Drunk Under A Full Moon.
    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • Snap!

    Rhythm Is A Dancer

    • Holiday Hits: Non Stop Euro Pop (Var).
    • Virgin.

  • Reef

    Place Your Hands

    • 21st Century Rock (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Tom Jones

    It's Not Unusual

    • Fifty Number Ones Of The 60's (Variou.
    • Global Television.

  • Jackson Sisters

    I Believe In Miracles

    • 100% Pure Groove (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • Maisie Peters

    John Hughes Movie

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • James Brown

    Living in America

    • 40th Anniversary Collection.
    • Polydor.
    • 4.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

β€œPop the bonnet,” the lady asked - context: motoring, not an Easter Parade - and I said OK, but then realised I didn’t know what she meant. She showed me the little lever, in the passenger side footwell, which you need to pull in order to open it, to fill up the screen-wash reservoir which I discovered I had drained quite dry. No wonder all those little symbols kept lighting up.ΜύΜύ

Μύ

Mission accomplished, and to the fading sound of mechanics’ laughter, I drove away, to reflect that I have never been able to fix anything, to work out what connects with what, or even set the timer on the boiler, which I think is still BC.

Μύ

This amuses my brother-in-law Mark, go-to person in an emergency, who could fix the Northern Ireland Protocol with an Allen key and a brew, and who I once summoned from Chorley, a drive of three hours, to find the fuse box.

Μύ

I don’t know why he’s so good and I’m so hopeless with machines and devices and kit, because in other matters I’m quite the engineer. If you need something in four part harmony transposed, or a COVID compliant communion risk-assessed, I’m your man; competent in these, at least.

Μύ

Horses for courses - better to leave light bulb changing to those unlikely to burn down the Vicarage, and black out Northamptonshire.

Μύ

There’s going to be some unlikely engineering required for all as we come out of lockdown, and the gears of the economy, and our civic life, and our leisure, once again engage. They may be a bit creaky, and grind a little, after an idle year, and maybe skip once or twice, as they take the strain, but we’re doing something new, something we have never done before, so its going to be a bit tentative, hit and miss, exploratory.Μύ

Μύ

I always get a feel for this at this time of year, just after Easter, when I read about the disciples getting used to life after the resurrection. What they witnessed was so mind-blowing it left them with a problem: how can we possibly resume normal service - milking the goats, feeding the family, paying the tax man - now everything’s changed? How do we fit back into our lives?

Μύ

By unlikely engineering, mysterious levers, invisible cogs, which turn, and catch, and move.

Broadcast

  • Fri 16 Apr 2021 06:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2