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Radio 2's Big Bee Challenge finale

Zoe is live in Doncaster, as she unveils the bee-friendly garden designed by a young listener, as part of Radio 2鈥檚 Big Bee Challenge.

Zoe Ball is live in Doncaster, as she unveils the bee-friendly garden designed by a young listener, as part of Radio 2鈥檚 Big Bee Challenge.

Radio 2鈥檚 new Big Bee Garden is being built at Doncaster鈥檚 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (part of Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Trust), which has recently moved into a new building. This new garden will make it a tranquil place for young people to go and relax with their family before or after a visit or somewhere they can chat with their therapist. It will, of course, also be a fantastic place for bees and insects to thrive.

Zoe will be joined by Radio 2鈥檚 very own travel presenter and The One Show roving reporter, Richie Anderson, as they meet the people who will benefit most from the new garden and will be chatting to the winning designer - who only found out they鈥檇 won on yesterday鈥檚 Breakfast Show 鈥� to find out what they think of their design brought to life. Plus top garden designer Adam Frost tells Zoe how he managed to build the garden, with the help of the Royal Horticultural Society, in a matter of weeks, and more big bee supporters join the celebration. All this and BRIT Award nominated and platinum selling, UK singer-songwriter Ella Henderson performs live.

Along with Adam Porter on news and Richie Anderson on travel, 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 Kate Bottley and listeners on the line as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 20 Aug 2021 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Average White Band

    Let's Go Round Again

    • The Best Of.
    • Rhino.

  • Justin Wellington

    Iko Iko (My Bestie) (feat. Small Jam)

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • The Brothers Johnson

    Stomp!

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

  • Sophie Ellis鈥怋extor

    Love Is You

  • Pretenders

    Back On The Chain Gang

    • The Pretenders - The Singles.
    • WEA.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    The Secret He Had Missed (feat. Julia Cumming)

  • Justin Timberlake

    Rock Your Body

    • (CD Single).
    • Jive.

  • Aretha Franklin

    Respect

    • Aretha Franklin - Queen Of Soul.
    • Atlantic.

  • Sister Sledge

    He's The Greatest Dancer

    • The Last Days Of Disco (Film Soundtra.
    • Columbia.

  • The Weeknd

    Take My Breath

    • (CD Single).
    • Republic Records.

  • Ariana Grande

    One Last Time

    • My Everything.
    • Republic Records.

  • Cher

    The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)

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

  • The Tymes

    Ms Grace

    • 70's Number Ones Vol 3.
    • Old Gold.

  • Prince

    1999

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Coldplay

    A Sky Full Of Stars

    • 麻豆约拍 Music Awards (Various Artists).
    • UMOD.

  • Camila Cabello

    Don't Go Yet

    • Familia.
    • Epic.

  • Chesney Hawkes

    The One and Only

    • (CD Single).
    • Chrysalis.

  • Ella Henderson

    Risk It All (Radio 2 Session, 20 Aug)

  • Ella Henderson

    Ghost (Radio 2 Session, 20 Aug 21)

  • La La Land Cast

    Another Day Of Sun

    • La La Land O.S.T..
    • Interscope.
    • 001.

  • Bee Gees

    More Than A Woman

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.

  • Anne-Marie & Little Mix

    Kiss My (Uh-Oh)

    • Therapy.
    • Atlantic.

  • Paul Simon

    Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard

    • The Paul Simon Anthology (Disc 1).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 3.

  • Ella Henderson

    Honey Honey/Halo (Radio 2 Session, 20 Aug 21)

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Well isn鈥檛 this lovely Zoe? It鈥檚 been such a long time since we were all together it鈥檚 great to see things starting to get back to normal, it鈥檚 probably a good time to take stock too, and gardens, especially beautiful ones like this, are a great place to Pause and reflect.听

听

I think I鈥檝e become a little bit bee obsessed!听听I鈥檝e started seeing them everywhere, on mugs,听t shirts and tattoos as well as real ones on the plants in my garden and the flowers in the park. Thanks to the big bee challenge, I鈥檝e started pointing and shouting 鈥楤EE!鈥� every time I see one and I got very funny looks the other day when I spent half an hour lying on the grass outside church taking pictures of a lavender bush from all angles. Bees really are little flying miracles. I鈥檒l confess to never really paying them too much attention before but without them, well things just wouldn鈥檛 work, would they?听听

听

Everyone has a B team.听听People who do what they do so I can do what I do. For me it鈥檚 the person who makes sure the doors unlocked at church, that the water鈥檚 warm for the Christening, but it鈥檚 also the person who fills the shelves at the supermarket, empties the bins, or does the paperwork for our vaccines, or Zoe makes sure that microphone is working for the breakfast show and we don鈥檛 over run and make Ken Bruce cross.听

听

Hundreds of years ago a Christian theologian wrote 鈥楾he bee is honoured above all other animals, not because she labours but because she labours for others.鈥� Our precious B teams work hard in the background quietly doing what they do to benefit others and just like the buzzy bee they too can sometimes overlooked. I reckon they aren鈥檛 called the B team听because they鈥檙e second place but because the B stands for brilliant.

听

So, thank you to the Bees, the buzzy pollinating insect sort and the Bee teams in our own lives. To the workers, the grafters, the makers, creators and the builders especially of this beautiful garden, which you鈥檝e made for others to enjoy. The bees and the B Teams make the world a more beautiful place for us all.听

Broadcast

  • Fri 20 Aug 2021 06:30
    麻豆约拍 Radio 2