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Kylie Minogue and Chris and Rosie Ramsey

Kylie Minogue has something special to share with Zoe, Chris and Rosie Ramsey have all the details of their podcast tour and the QI elves are back with another Why Workshop.

Kylie Minogue has something very special to share with Zoe. Collectively, Kylie’s singles have spent over 300 weeks in the Official UK Singles Chart Top 40 and she has sold more than 80 million albums worldwide. Kylie has multiple awards and accolades to her name, including 3 BRIT Awards, 2 MTV Music Awards and a Grammy. Her 2019 Glastonbury performance was the most-watched TV moment in the festival’s history.

Chris and Rosie Ramsey have all the info on their podcast tour, '.... Married. Annoyed'. The podcast pokes fun at arguments, parenting, relationships and other aspects of their married life and is one of the most listened to in the UK, with more than 70 million downloads so far. It won both the Best Podcast award and the British Podcast Listeners’ Choice award in 2020. The podcast tour broke the record for the world’s biggest live podcast audience ever by selling out their hometown of Newcastle’s Arena as well as selling out their whole tour within just 60 minutes of going on sale!

Plus it’s 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 Jim Harris and listeners on the line as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Wed 6 Oct 2021 06:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Don't Stop

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 009.

  • Coldplay & BTS

    My Universe

    • Music Of The Spheres.
    • Parlophone.

  • LeAnn Rimes

    Can't Fight The Moonlight

    • (CD Single).
    • London/Curb Records.

  • Womack & Womack

    Love Wars

    • Soul Years: 1984 (Various Artists).
    • Knight Records.

  • The Monkees

    I'm A Believer

    • Rediscover The 60's-With A Little Hel.
    • Old Gold.
    • 7.

  • Ike & Tina Turner

    Nutbush City Limits

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1973 (Various).
    • EMI.

  • Average White Band

    Let's Go Round Again

    • The Best Of.
    • Rhino.

  • Rod Stewart

    One More Time

    • The Tears Of Hercules.
    • Rhino.

  • Katy Perry

    Chained To The Rhythm (feat. Skip Marley)

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol Records.

  • Will Young

    Your Game

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG/19.

  • Peter Gabriel

    Solsbury Hill

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • R.E.M.

    Shiny Happy People

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1991 (Various).
    • Telstar.

  • Tom Grennan

    Don't Break The Heart (That's Loving You)

    • Evering Road (Deluxe Edition).
    • Insanity Records.

  • Moloko

    Sing It Back

    • Club MTV (Various Artists).
    • Universal Music On Demand.

  • Gregory Porter & Troy Miller

    Dry Bones

    • The Collection.
    • Blue Note.

  • Madonna

    Vogue

    • Finally Enough Love (Deluxe Edition).
    • Rhino.

  • Elton John & Dua Lipa

    Cold Heart

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin/EMI.

  • Spice Girls

    Spice Up Your Life

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

  • Four Tops

    I Can't Help Myself

    • The Singles Collection.
    • Polygram TV.

  • Kylie Minogue & Years & Years

    A Second To Midnight

  • TLC

    No Scrubs

    • (CD Single).
    • Laface.

  • Foo Fighters

    Times Like These

    • Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.

  • µþ±ð²â´Ç²Ô³¦Ã©

    Crazy in Love (feat. JAY-Z)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 3.

  • Sarah Brightman & Andrea Bocelli

    Time to Say Goodbye (Con Te Partirò)

    • Andrea Bocelli - Romanza.
    • Polydor.

  • ABBA

    Don't Shut Me Down

    • Voyage.
    • Polar.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

I am not a young man and so it’s a relief, midway along the journey of my life, to find I am mostly not lost in the dark forest. I can do my job.  I have helped raise children I am proud of. I know how to hold a knife and fork. I am, at a basic level, socially adequate. Last Saturday night, though, I had to do something for which I was sorely unprepared; that is to say, perform an online gig in aid of a small, but amazing charity, with the band I played in in the distant days of the 1980s. Now this involved remembering a lot of things I had forgotten, exercising skills I had long neglected, and doing it all in public, on behalf of people who were relying on me.

It was an anxiety dream made real; and the fact is that when I am anxious, I am not, despite my hard-won, social adequacy, unflappable. I am capable of extreme flapping. And Saturday might have been designed specifically to flap me. I was nervous and exposed and substantially flapped. And then, as the moment of truth approached, I was knocked completely off-balance. Oddly, though, nothing catastrophic happened.  No one was rude to me; no one was mean. Rather, as I tried unsuccessfully to hold it together, my equilibrium was upset by love.

Now, Jesus had a habit of showing up at the moments of his friends’ most extreme vulnerability.  He’d reach out a hand, deflect criticism directed at a person in distress, quietly say something kind. And that’s what happened to me. The boys in the band reached out and spoke kindly to me.  My friends stood with me when I wasn’t really standing for myself. And it knocked me over, such that I could barely speak until I realised that actually I could, because they had given me back my voice, free from anxiety and ready for work.  And the work was good.  Even if the trumpet playing was not. The thing is, I reckon, that discovering, or rather remembering, we are loved and cared for is sometimes the most discombobulating thing of all. We are taught to be self-reliant, and finding that we are not is liable to crush us.  It nearly crushed me. But being shown that we can rely on someone else is quite another thing. And that, as they say, is what friends are for.

Broadcast

  • Wed 6 Oct 2021 06:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2