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Mutya and Siobhan from the Sugababes, Fi Glover, Jane Garvey and Becky Hill

Mutya and Siobhan from the Sugababes chat to Zoe about their debut album re-issue. Fi Glover and Jane Garvey share details of their new book and Becky Hill is live from Maida Vale.

It's another Friends Phone In Friday with Zoe Ball.

Original Sugababes members Siobhan Donaghy and Mutya Buena chat to Zoe about the re-issue of their debut album, One Touch. The album was first released in December 2000, landing at Number 77 on the Official Albums Chart, climbing to its Number 26 peak in April 2001. It spawned four Top 40 singles, including their Top 10 debut hit Overload.

Award-winning broadcasters Fi Glover and Jane Garvey have published their new book , Did I Say That Out Loud?. The book is a collection of hilarious and perceptive essays on modern life, such as to never buy an acrylic jumper, always decline the offer of a limoncello or the possibility that Christmas is a hereditary disease, passed down the maternal line. Their shared Â鶹ԼÅÄ Sounds podcast, Fortunately.... with Fi and Jane, won the Comedy Show of the Year at the Arias in 2018, and a silver Spotlight Award, and has been downloaded more than twenty million times.

Plus Becky Hill performs live from the Â鶹ԼÅÄ's Maida Vale studios, with songs from her latest album, Only Honest On The Weekend. Queen of team-ups, Becky has joined forces with David Guetta, Sigala, Shift K3y, Topic, Ella Eyre, 220 Kid and Banx & Ranx for songs on the record.

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 Rev’d Richard Coles and listeners on the line as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Fri 1 Oct 2021 06:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Barry White

    You See The Trouble With Me

    • Barry White - The Collection.
    • Mercury.
    • 2.

  • Diana Ross

    If The World Just Danced

    • Thank You.
    • Decca.

  • Take That

    Shine

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Kirsty MacColl

    A New England

    • From Croydon To Cuba... An Anthology.
    • Virgin.

  • The Crystals

    Da Doo Ron Ron

    • The Best Of The Crystals.
    • Phil Spector Int.

  • Freddie Mercury

    I Was Born To Love You

    • Never Boring.
    • Virgin EMI Records.
    • 4.

  • Daft Punk

    Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams)

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

  • Kylie Minogue

    In Your Eyes

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Swedish House Mafia

    Don't You Worry Child (feat. John Martin)

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 83 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Sugarhill Gang

    Rapper's Delight

    • The Seventies: A Very Special Collect.
    • Pickwick.

  • Coco Star vs Fragma

    Toca's Miracle

    • (CD Single).
    • Positiva.

  • Sugababes

    Overload

    • Music Vol.1 (Various Artists).
    • Bmg/Telstar.

  • Gregory Porter & Troy Miller

    Dry Bones

    • The Collection.
    • Blue Note.

  • Eurythmics & Aretha Franklin

    Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves

    • Duets - 36 Of The World's Greatest Ev.
    • Telstar.

  • Sting

    If It's Love

    • The Bridge.
    • Interscope.

  • Marvin Gaye

    I Heard It Through The Grapevine

    • Songs Of The Century (Disc 2).
    • Global Records & Tapes.

  • Atomic Kitten

    Whole Again

    • (CD Single).
    • Innocent.

  • Roachford

    Cuddly Toy

    • Walk On - Hits From The Last 2 Decade.
    • Columbia.

  • Natalie Imbruglia

    On My Way

    • Firebird.
    • BMG Rights Management.

  • Becky Hill

    My Heart Goes (La Di Da) (Radio 2 Session,1 Oct 2021)

  • Becky Hill

    Remember (Radio 2 Session, 1 Oct 2021)

  • The Rembrandts

    I'll Be There For You

    • The Love Songs Album (Various).
    • Universal.

  • DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince

    Boom! Shake The Room

    • Code Red.
    • Jive.

  • Tight Fit

    Fantasy Island

    • Heart Full Of Soul (Various Artists).
    • Knight Records.

  • Dua Lipa

    New Rules

    • Dua Lipa.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Lindsey Buckingham

    On The Wrong Side

    • Lindsey Buckingham.
    • Rhino.

  • Becky Hill

    No Time To Die (Radio 2 Session, 1 Oct 2021)

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

There’s a box I keep on a high shelf. In it I keep small objects of sentimental value. They tell the story of my life, in a way: the insignia of a High Sheriff’s chaplain; a long departed dachshund’s collar; the champagne cork from our first date; and a little horde of badges. There’s the cross I wore when I was Hon Chaplain to the Air Training Corps in Boston; there’s my Puffin Club badge (mark of the nerd); and the one I was looking for the other day: a little round badge, in gold metal and red enamel, commemorating the Karl Marx Centenary in 1983. I was twenty-one, not long in London, planning to bring down capitalism, as Karl Marx exhorted us to do, only with cover versions of seventies disco classics rather than riots in the streets. I would have to describe that project as work still in progress, but bliss was in that dawn to be alive…

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I was looking for it for a funeral, of my friend Chris, who I met back in those days. Chris was born into rather a grand family in the thirties, grew up in the Caribbean, come to London, became a Communist, met and married Betty, got taken prisoner by the Soviet Red Army in Prague in 1956. His personal life also got a little complicated, and he became an activist in the gay liberation movement in the seventies and a wonderful support to many in the AIDS crisis of the 80s. He ended up a guide at Westminster Abbey before retiring with Betty to a care home near me. St Kitts to Kettering in ninety four years.Ìý

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As we sang the socialist anthem the Internationale, rather than Abide With Me, I noticed I wasn’t the only one who’d dug out an old badge for the occasion, like campaign medals on a veteran’s blazer, only Lesbians and Gays Support The Miners rather than the Burma Star.ÌýDon’t we all have a box somewhere filled with trophies from our own complicated pasts? It may look like jumble, but in time we see how they form around themes, in Chris’ case justice, compassion, loyalty, courage.ÌýSt John Henry Newman observed that to live is to change: for only then do we discover the themes around which we too are formed. Justice, compassion, loyalty, courage, would do for me.Ìý

Broadcast

  • Fri 1 Oct 2021 06:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2