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Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek and Anita Rani

Angelina Jolie and Salma Hayek chat to Zoe about Eternals, Anita Rani looks at Britain by Beach and Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with more of your questions in the Why Workshop.

Hollywood superstars Angelina Jolie and Salma Hayek chat to Zoe about Marvel's newest superhero epic, Eternals. The film tells of an immortal race of 10 super powered Celestials who have been secretly living on Earth for over 7,000 years and are charged with protecting the planet from their evil opposites, the predatory Deviants. The cast also includes Gemma Chan, Kumail Nanjiani and Kit Harrington.

Anita Rani discusses her new Channel 4 series, Britain by Beach, where she travels across the UK to discover the remarkable secret history of Britain’s beaches. The first episode is set in Devon, the quintessential beach county of ice cream and cream teas. On the epic, three-mile long Slapton Sands, Anita discovers the hidden story of Exercise Tiger, when over 700 US servicemen died in a German attack during a D-Day rehearsal in spring 1944. Anita is one of the lead presenters on Â鶹ԼÅÄ's Countryfile and also wowed audiences on Strictly Come Dancing in 2015 with her natural dance ability and fearlessness.

Plus it’s The Why Workshop, and Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with more wonders and ponders, including your questions.

Along with Adam Porter on news, Jules Lang 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 Alan Sorensen and listeners on the line as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Wed 3 Nov 2021 06:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Justin Timberlake

    Can't Stop The Feeling!

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Kylie Minogue & Years & Years

    A Second To Midnight

  • Miami Sound Machine

    Dr. Beat

    • NOW 1984 (Various Artists).
    • NOW.

  • Roxy Music

    Dance Away

    • Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music - Street Life.
    • Eg.

  • The Mamas & the Papas

    California Dreamin'

    • The Best Of.
    • MCA.
    • 2.

  • Andy Kim

    Rock Me Gently

    • Super Hits Of The 70's (Various Artis.
    • Rhino.

  • Jamiroquai

    Virtual Insanity

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

  • ABBA

    Just A Notion

    • Voyage.
    • Polar.

  • µþ±ð²â´Ç²Ô³¦Ã©

    Crazy in Love (feat. JAY-Z)

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

  • All Saints

    Pure Shores

  • Sam Smith

    Like I Can

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.
    • 007.

  • Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield

    What Have I Done To Deserve This?

    • Goin' Back - Best Of Dusty Springfiel.
    • Philips.

  • Gregory Porter & Troy Miller

    Dry Bones

    • The Collection.
    • Blue Note.

  • Keane

    Everybody's Changing

    • (CD Single).
    • Transcopic Records.

  • Diana Ross

    I Still Believe

    • Thank You.
    • Decca.

  • The Jacksons

    Can You Feel It

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

  • Becky Hill

    My Heart Goes (La Di Da) (feat. Topic)

    • Only Honest On The Weekend.
    • Polydor.

  • Five

    Keep On Movin'

    • Hits 2000 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.

  • Gwen Stefani

    What You Waiting For?

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 60 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Barry Manilow

    Copacabana

    • (Single).
    • Arista.

  • Jack Savoretti

    Too Much History

    • Europiana.
    • BMG.

  • The Champs

    Tequila

    • The Wanderers (Original S/Track).
    • Sequel Records.

  • Love Affair

    Everlasting Love

    • This Hasn't Changed Us.
    • RPM Records.
    • 001.

  • The Feeling

    Fill My Little World

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Island.

  • Urban Cookie Collective

    The Key: The Secret

    • (CD Single).
    • Peermusic.

  • Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

    If You Leave

    • The Best Of OMD.
    • Virgin.
    • 14.

  • Bryan Adams

    Heaven

    • Bryan Adams - Reckless.
    • A&M.

  • David Bowie

    You've Got A Habit Of Leaving

    • TOY (TOY:BOX).
    • Parlophone.

  • The Kids From Fame

    Hi-Fidelity

    • (Single).
    • RCA.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Every day’s a schoolday so here’s a quick tutorial, here’s a Beginner’s Guide to Making Enemies!  There are three very simple steps to making enemies, and this is guaranteed to work with any individual or any group.  First: believe everything you hear about them, without question.  Second: pass that on. It may be all lies, but pass it on.  Third, and most important, don’t speak to them. 

I assure you it works every time.  People with a different hair colour, different religion, different postcode, from a different school, different sexuality, job, background, colour or ethnicity – if you hear anything bad, believe it.  And just tell lies about them, it’s doesn’t need to be enormous propaganda type lies, just pass on unpleasant half-truths or total rubbish.  But the most important thing is, do not speak to them. Because if you do, you might find that they’re not particularly different after all, or that they don’t do whatever it was they’re ‘well known’ for.  Worse still, you might even like them!  Jews and Jesuits, homosexuals and human rights advocates, muslims and migrants, blondes and bankers, politicians and protesters at Cop26, catholics and convicts, Baptists and benefit scroungers … Pick your minority, and follow the three steps!

It’s Guy Fawkes night this week.  Remember, remember the 5th of November…  I’m not sure that enough of us remember that his plot to blow up the king and Parliament was all about religious intolerance.  And here we are, centuries on, still with the religious and many other intolerances. How sad: I think we seem to have acquired just enough religion to hate one another but not quite enough to love each other.  Yet I do believe in a God of love, of acceptance, of tolerance; who cares for us all, and is especially grieved when the weakest and most vulnerable of his children are picked on. But instead of breaking down walls by blowing them up as Guy Fawkes tried to do, I reckon walls can be dismantled surprisingly easily; by not believing everything we’re told, not telling lies and by actually talking to these people who we think are so different. Except for Scots Presbyterian ministers…keep well clear of them, I mean, you know what they’re like…!

Broadcast

  • Wed 3 Nov 2021 06:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2