17-time Grammy Award winner Sting shares his brand new single and has an exclusive announcement. Plus it's The Why Workshop, and Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with your questions.
Legendary musician Sting shares his brand new single and has an exclusive announcement to reveal to Zoe. As a solo musician and a member of the Police, Sting has received 17 Grammy Awards: he won Song of the Year for Every Breath You Take, three Brit Awards, including Best British Male Artist in 1994 and Outstanding Contribution in 2002, a Golden Globe, an Emmy and four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. In 2019, he received a BMI Award for Every Breath You Take becoming the most-played song in radio history. In 2002, Sting received the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors and was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and in 2003, he received a CBE from the Queen at Buckingham Palace for services to music.
It鈥檚 The Why Workshop, and Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with more wonders and ponders, including your questions.
Along with Clare Runacres 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 Remona Aly and listeners on the line as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!
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Stevie Wonder
Sir Duke
- Stevie Wonder - Song Review.
- Motown.
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Silk Sonic, Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak
Skate
- An Evening With Silk Sonic.
- Atlantic.
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Santana
The Game Of Love (feat. Michelle Branch)
- (CD Single).
- Arista.
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Miley Cyrus
Midnight Sky
- Plastic Hearts.
- RCA.
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Todd Rundgren
I Saw The Light
- My Girl (Original 1992 Film S/Track).
- Epic.
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The Colour Field
Thinking Of You
- The Singles.
- Connoisseur Collection.
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Bee Gees
Night Fever
- Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
- Polydor.
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Camila Cabello
Don't Go Yet
- Familia.
- Epic.
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George Ezra
Paradise
- (CD Single).
- Columbia.
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Chaka Khan
Ain't Nobody
- (CD Single).
- Reprise.
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Four Tops
It's The Same Old Song
- The Four Tops - The Ultimate Collecti.
- Motown.
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Earth, Wind & Fire
September
- Greatest Hits Of 1978 (Various Artis.
- Premier.
- 3.
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Sophie Ellis鈥怋extor & The Feeling
While You're Still Young
- Everybody's Talking About Jamie O.S.T..
- Island.
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Sting
If It's Love
- The Bridge.
- Interscope.
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Destiny鈥檚 Child
Bootylicious
- (CD Single).
- Columbia.
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Paolo Nutini
Pencil Full Of Lead
- (CD Single).
- Atlantic.
- 1.
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Rick Astley
Together Forever
- NOW - Yearbook 1988 (Various Artists).
- NOW.
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Pet Shop Boys
It's A Sin
- Pet Shop Boys - Discography.
- EMI.
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Anne-Marie & Little Mix
Kiss My (Uh-Oh)
- Therapy.
- Atlantic.
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Michael Gray
The Weekend
- (CD Single).
- Eye Industries.
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Madison Avenue
Don't Call Me Baby (Motez Vicious21 Remix)
Remix Artist: Motez.- Holiday Hits: Non Stop Euro Pop (Var).
- Virgin.
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Paul Simon
Graceland
- The Paul Simon Anthology (Disc 2).
- Warner Bros.
- 1.
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Ed Sheeran
Visiting Hours
- = Equals.
- Atlantic.
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Holly Valance
Kiss Kiss
- (CD Single).
- London.
- 4.
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Marshmello & Jonas Brothers
Leave Before You Love Me
- (CD Single).
- Polydor.
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Carly Simon
Why
- The Very Best Of Carly Simon.
- Global Television.
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Alesha Dixon
The Boy Does Nothing
- (CD Single).
- Asylum.
- 1.
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Nirvana
Smells Like Teen Spirit
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Eminem
Without Me
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David Bowie
Space Oddity
- Space Oddity.
- RCA.
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Flying On The Ground
- Back The Way We Came: Vol 1 (2011-2021).
- Sour Mash Records.
Pause For Thought
A photo flashed up as a memory on my mobile last week, one of those reminders you get telling you what happened eight and four years ago on this day. And more often than not, they make me cringe, as I ask myself, what was I wearing, what was I thinking, or why on earth did I do that.
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Like the day I embarrassed myself bumping into the actor James Norton in an airport cafe, and gawping like a fool while we waited for our coffees at the bar, all I could muster was, 鈥業 love Granchester鈥�. He looked at me, forced a smile, and put a half-hearted thumbs up. I wanted Terminal 1 to swallow me and my cabin luggage whole.听
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But the memory I really wanted to forget was prompted by a photo of a friend taken just before we drifted apart. After a period of time that saw both of us bearing the loss of a parent, and doing some growing up over the years, we eventually came back to each other to rebuild our friendship. 听But I still didn鈥檛 want to face all the times we had missed out on being together.
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There鈥檚 an old Turkish tale about a wise and witty Sufi Muslim teacher called Mulla Nasreddin, who, one day was riding his donkey the wrong way around. 鈥淢ulla!鈥� the people exclaimed, 鈥測ou are sitting on your donkey backwards!鈥� 鈥淣o,鈥� he replied. 鈥淚t's not that I鈥檓 sitting on the donkey backwards, I'm just interested in where I鈥檝e been coming from more than where I am going, my friends.鈥�
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Hiding from the past can mean forgetting who I am and where I come from. As uncomfortable as it might be, as I purvey the bumps and regrets in my lifestory so far, I realise that every hurt I carried, every mistake I made, even every opportunity I missed, have brought me to where and who I am today.听
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I reckon remembering what came before brings a perspective that has the power to heal what was broken. Sometimes it鈥檚 only with the gift of hindsight that I can begin to look forward.
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So I鈥檒l embrace the embarrassing times, the heartbreaks and the headaches. As maybe riding a donkey backwards isn鈥檛 such a bad idea after all.
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- Wed 1 Sep 2021 06:30麻豆约拍 Radio 2