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Simon Le Bon, Richie's Eurovision Challenge and The Why Workshop

Simon Le Bon has a World Exclusive new song from Duran Duran for Zoe. Richie Anderson continues with his Eurovision Challenge and it's The Why Workshop with the QI Elves.

Simon Le Bon, from the iconic Duran Duran, is on the show with a brand new World Exclusive for Zoe. British music icons, Duran Duran have sold over 100 million records, had 18 American hit singles, 21 UK Top 20 tunes and have continued to perform to huge concert audiences around the world since the band first formed in 1980. Singer Simon Le Bon, keyboardist Nick Rhodes, bassist John Taylor and drummer Roger Taylor have proven themselves timeless, always innovating and reinventing, to remain ahead of the curve. Their last album, 2015鈥檚 Paper Gods, was the band鈥檚 highest-charting release in 22 years and was hailed by critics and fans alike as their best body of work in more than two decades. Produced by Mark Ronson and Nile Rodgers, alongside Mr Hudson and Josh Blair, the record features collaborations with Janelle Mon谩e and John Frusciante. A global, three year, sold-out arena tour followed.

Richie Anderson continues with his Eurovision Challenge to get James Newman's song 'Embers' played on as many radio stations taking part in the contest as possible.

It鈥檚 The Why Workshop, and Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with more wonders and ponders, including your questions.

Along with Adam Porter on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Hugh Ferris 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 19 May 2021 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • The Trammps

    Disco Inferno

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

  • Texas

    Mr Haze

    • Hi.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd.

  • Daft Punk

    Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • The Pointer Sisters

    I'm So Excited

    • Greatest Hits.
    • BBR.
    • 020.

  • Ike & Tina Turner

    River Deep - Mountain High

    • The Best Of The Rock'n'Roll Years Vo.
    • 麻豆约拍.

  • Sister Sledge

    We Are Family

    • Disco Fever (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Years & Years

    Starstruck

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Jennifer Lopez

    Waiting For Tonight

    • Hits 2000 (Various Artists).
    • Warner E.S.P..

  • Depeche Mode

    Just Can't Get Enough

    • Me Without You O.S.T. - Various.
    • Columbia.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    All Over The World

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.

  • Jessie Ware

    Please

    • What's Your Pleasure? (Deluxe Edition).
    • Virgin.

  • Junior

    Mama Used To Say

    • And They Danced The Night Away.
    • Debutante.

  • Keith Urban

    Out The Cage (feat. Nile Rodgers & BRELAND)

    • The Speed Of Now Pt. 1.
    • Universal.

  • Clean Bandit

    Rather Be (feat. Jess Glynne)

    • Now That's What I Call Music 88 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 4.

  • ABBA

    Voulez-Vous

    • Abba Gold.
    • Polydor.
    • 013.

  • Will Young

    Daniel

    • Crying On The Bathroom Floor.
    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • The La鈥檚

    There She Goes

    • Love - 38 All Time Love Classics.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • George Ezra

    Paradise

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Duran Duran

    A View To A Kill

    • The Best Of James Bond 30th Anniversa.
    • EMI.

  • Paul Weller

    Shades Of Blue

    • Cosmic Fringes.
    • Polydor.

  • Duran Duran

    INVISIBLE

    • FUTURE PAST.
    • S-Curve Records.

  • Diddy & Faith Evans

    I'll Be Missing You (feat. 112)

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

  • James Brown

    I Got You (I Feel Good)

    • Hits Of ... 65 & 66 (Vol.1).
    • Polydor.

  • JAY-Z

    Empire State Of Mind (feat. Alicia Keys)

    • (CD Single).
    • Roc Nation.
    • 14.

  • Fred Astaire

    A Foggy Day (In London Town)

    • Let's Face The Music And Dance.
    • Capitol.
    • 4.

  • Frank Sinatra

    Theme From New York, New York

    • Frank Sinatra - The Reprise Years.
    • Reprise.

  • Rina Sawayama

    Chosen Family (feat. Elton John)

    • (CD Single).
    • Dirty Hit.

  • Jackie Wilson

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

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

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Last week, I bid farewell to the last sunset of Ramadan, and as the curtain lowered over a month of fasting, I plunged gob-first into a day of feasting better known as Eid. This year, instead of my usual low-effort fairy cakes with jelly tots on top, I decided to stretch the baking skills with a complex three-layered Persian Love Cake. Legend has it that a woman who was head over heels for a prince, baked him this cake, and upon eating it, he fell madly in love with her.听

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Now my attempt at a love cake prompted me to rename it 鈥業 Like You as A Friend鈥� cake, as it didn鈥檛 quite look like the picture in the recipe book with its perfectly shaped mascarpone minarets 鈥� as mine looked like poop emojis that someone accidentally trod on. As with so many things in my life, things didn鈥檛 go according to plan, with the reality-versus-expectation game leaving me on the losing side.听

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Various disappointments that have eclipsed my dreams include the likes of potential suitors whose mothers were more interested in me than they were.听Or my yearning for a big work pitch to get taken up, only to be passed over by yet another editor. And after raising my hands in prayer for a loved one to recover, they鈥檝e left me lowering them in tears.听

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Yet each disappointment has brought me a new insight. That with each crush there is a healing. With each dead end, there is a redirection. Hope is as fragile as it is powerful, and that鈥檚 where its beauty lies.听

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As I look to the world around me, with all the pain and injustice, it can feel like the walls are caving in. But I hear the birds sing in my garden as they always do, even before they see the light of day, and they remind me to focus on the promise ahead. The medieval Persian Muslim poet, scholar and mystic, Rumi, says, 鈥淒o not stray into the neighbourhood of despair. For there are hopes: they are real, they exist. Do not go in the direction of darkness 鈥� I tell you: suns exist.鈥�

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I鈥檒l move with those suns and also move with more optimism towards my next crack at a three layered love cake.

Broadcast

  • Wed 19 May 2021 06:30
    麻豆约拍 Radio 2