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Alex Kingston and Richie's Eurovision Challenge

Alex Kingston, the actress and writer, talks to Zoe about her new Dr Who book. Richie Anderson has an update from his Eurovision Challenge.

Alex Kingston, the actress and writer, talks to Zoe about her new Dr Who book. Alex is well known for her role in ER as Elizabeth Corday from 1997-2009, and River Song in Doctor Who from 2008-2015. She first appeared in Doctor Who alongside David Tennant when he held the role of the Time Lord. Alex has penned a novel about her Doctor Who character 鈥� River Song - called The Ruby鈥檚 Curse. It's described as a 鈥渟tylish sci-fi noir adventure鈥� about River Song, and her alter-ego Melody Malone. This is a direct reference to the famous Doctor Who episode 鈥� 鈥淭he Angels Take Manhattan.鈥� In that episode, a noir novel about private detective Melody Malone is a key element of the plot. As a child of the TARDIS, River can technically regenerate like other Time Lords and Ladies (meaning she could be recast if they ever wanted to bring her back).

Richie Anderson gives everyone an update on his Eurovision challenge to get James Newman's song 'Embers' played on as many radio stations taking part in the contest as possible.

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

Tue 18 May 2021 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Barry White

    You're the First, the Last, My Everything

    • Barry White - The Collection.
    • Mercury.

  • Coldplay

    Higher Power

    • Music Of The Spheres.
    • Parlophone.

  • Spice Girls

    Spice Up Your Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
    • 11.

  • George Michael

    Amazing

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony.

  • Bobby Vee

    The Night Has A Thousand Eyes

    • Bobby Vee - The EP Collection.
    • See For Miles.

  • The Doobie Brothers

    What A Fool Believes

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.

  • The Jacksons

    Can You Feel It

    • Fantastic 80's Go For It! - Various.
    • Parlophone.

  • Lola Lennox

    Wherever You Go

    • (CD Single).
    • La Lennoxa Touring Inc/Humble Angel Records.

  • Starship

    Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.
    • 1.

  • John Travolta & Olivia Newton鈥怞ohn

    You're The One That I Want

    • Grease (Original Movie S/Track).
    • Polydor.

  • Lewis Capaldi

    Someone You Loved

    • Breach.
    • Vertigo.
    • 3.

  • The Communards

    Don't Leave Me This Way (feat. Sarah Jane Morris)

    • Now 1986 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Rag鈥檔鈥橞one Man & P!nk

    Anywhere Away From Here (feat. The Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Robert Palmer

    Addicted To Love

    • Sounds Of The 80s - Like A Record Baby (1984-1986) (Various Artists).
    • UMC.

  • 闯耻产毛濒

    Dumb

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Sam Cooke

    Twistin' the Night Away

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

  • Kenny Loggins

    Footloose

    • Footloose (Original S/Track).
    • CBS.

  • The Kid LAROI & Miley Cyrus

    WITHOUT YOU (Remix)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Calvin Harris

    This Is What You Came For (feat. Rihanna)

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

  • Mary Poppins Cast Live At the Prince Edward Theatre 2020

    Supercalifragilistic

    • 1963 Wonderland Music Company Inc. (BMI).

  • Rachel Stevens

    Sweet Dreams My LA Ex

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Pulp

    Common People

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 5.

  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    We're On Our Way Now

    • Back The Way We Came: Vol 1 (2011-2021).
    • Sour Mash Records.

  • Sonique

    Sky

    • (CD Single).
    • Serious Records.
    • 1.

  • Silk Sonic, Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak

    Leave The Door Open

    • AN EVENING WITH SILK SONIC.
    • Atlantic.

  • Bananarama

    Nathan Jones

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

  • Let Loose

    Crazy For You

  • The Corrs

    Breathless

    • (CD Single).
    • 143 Records.

  • Jennifer Paige

    Crush

    • Woman (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv/Sony Tv.

  • Nathan Dawe & Anne-Marie

    Way Too Long (feat. MoStack)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Genesis

    Follow You Follow Me

    • And Then There Were Three.
    • Charisma.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

The future troubles me.聽聽

I worry about all sorts of stuff. These are not global concerns.聽聽I鈥檓 good with the great shifts of human and planetary history.

No. With me, it鈥檚 the little things.

When I was waiting for my children to be born, I fretted over what we would call them, about whether they鈥檇 be good at maths or baking. I feared their being taller than me.聽聽I worried they might not like cricket.

But the thing that exercised me most was the noise they would make.

Not the crying and the night-time snuffling; I was weirdly confident about dealing with that. No. My fear of the future was that, when they learned to talk, I wouldn鈥檛 like the sound of their voices. I feared irritating squeakiness.聽聽I feared whining and strange, unfamiliar accents.

It was, of course, entirely irrational.

But fear of the future is irrational.聽聽We cannot see it and we cannot know it and there is just as much sense in hope as there is in fear.聽聽Yet we are still fearful.

Perhaps it鈥檚 understandable, especially now. We鈥檝e spent over a year looking into a future that swims in and out of focus like the bit in a movie where someone wakes with a colossal hangover. Every time we think we can see something clearly - the pub, our grandparents, a choir rehearsal, even just popping round to a friend鈥檚 - it somehow loses sharpness and disappears.

And not knowing the future, we鈥檝e feared the worst.

We always have.

The wise person who compiled the book of Proverbs in the Bible offered this by way of reassurance.

鈥淪urely there is a future鈥�.

And they continue, 鈥淪urely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off鈥�.

It鈥檚 brilliant precisely because it鈥檚 not specific.聽聽I reckon the mere existence of hope, the certainty of a future is a good start.聽聽We don鈥檛 have to articulate everything we hope for.聽聽But neither do we have to fear that our hopes will never materialise.

There is a future.

My children, as it turns out are nothing like I expected and even though none of them really loves cricket, they are far more than I could ever have hoped for.

And as for their voices?

I want to hear them every day.

Broadcast

  • Tue 18 May 2021 06:30
    麻豆约拍 Radio 2