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Dara Ó Briain and live music from Elbow

Dara Ó Briain chats to Zoe about the return of Mock The Week and his new stand-up tour, So...Where Were We? Plus Elbow perform live from the Â鶹ԼÅÄ's legendary Maida Vale studios.

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

Dara Ó Briain chats to Zoe about the return of Mock The Week, as well as his new stand-up tour, So...Where Were We? Dara is one of the most recognisable faces on British TV, as host of Â鶹ԼÅÄ Two’s long running hit panel show Mock The Week, Stargazing Live, Robot Wars and Comedy Central’s re-boot of the classic quiz show Blockbusters.

Elbow are live from the Â鶹ԼÅÄ's Maida Vale studios. They'll be performing music from their upcoming 9th album Flying Dream 1, plus songs from their back-catalogue. Formed in Bury in the 90’s, Elbow's 2008 Mercury Prize winning album, The Seldom Seen Kid, shot them to acclaim, and the album's single One Day Like This became the soundtrack to everything from the Â鶹ԼÅÄ’s Beijing Olympics coverage to the Big Brother final. In 2009 Elbow won the BRIT award for Best British Group and have also been the recipients of 3 Ivor Novello songwriting awards.

Along with Adam Porter 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 Reverend Richard Coles and listeners on the line as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Fri 12 Nov 2021 06:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • The Trammps

    Disco Inferno

    • NOW Boogie Nights - Disco Classics (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Lil Nas X

    THATS WHAT I WANT

    • MONTERO.
    • Columbia.

  • Lighthouse Family

    Lifted

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Rita Ora

    Anywhere

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Shirley Bassey

    Big Spender

    • Shirley Bassey - The Singles.
    • EMI.

  • Rick Astley

    Together Forever

    • NOW - Yearbook 1988 (Various Artists).
    • NOW.

  • Queen

    A Kind Of Magic

    • Queen - Greatest Hits II.
    • Parlophone.

  • Westlife

    Starlight

    • Wild Dreams.
    • Warner Music.

  • Katy Perry

    Firework

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
    • 1.

  • Tina Charles

    I Love To Love

    • 70's Number Ones Vol 2.
    • Old Gold.

  • Europa

    All Day And Night (feat. Madison Beer)

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Alex Party

    Don't Give Me Your Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Systematic.

  • Boney M.

    Daddy Cool

    • Million Sellers Vol.14 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Ini Kamoze

    Here Comes The Hotstepper

    • Pleasure Island (Various Artists).
    • Global Records & Tapes.

  • Kylie Minogue & Years & Years

    A Second To Midnight

  • Nu Shooz

    I Can't Wait

    • Club Classics From The 80's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • Sting

    Rushing Water

    • The Bridge.
    • Polydor.

  • Prince & The Revolution

    Let's Go Crazy

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.

  • ABBA

    Just A Notion

    • Voyage.
    • Polar.

  • David Guetta

    Titanium (feat. Sia)

    • (CD Single).
    • Positiva.

  • Aztec Camera

    Somewhere in My Heart

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Elbow

    Six Words (Radio 2 Session, 12 Nov 2021)

  • Elbow

    Harvets Moon (Radio 2 Session, 12 Nov 2021)

  • M

    Pop Muzik

    • Million Sellers Vol.16 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • The Darkness

    I Believe In A Thing Called Love

    • The Darkness - Permission To Land.
    • Atlantic.

  • Madonna

    Who's That Girl

    • Celebration.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 8.

  • Gala

    Freed From Desire

    • Friday Night Fever (Various Artists).
    • PolyGram TV.
    • 18.

  • James Blunt

    Unstoppable

    • The Stars Beneath My Feet (2004-2021).
    • Atlantic.

  • Elbow

    Mirrorball (Radio 2 Session, 12 Nov 2021)

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

I was not encouraged to join the army cadets at school — I can’t bear shouting, and bangs make me jump — so my military achievements date from later in life. The most illustrious was quite recent, on a visit to Lympstone Commando, the Royal Marines’ training base in Devon, where I preached in the chapel to the King’s Troop, passing out that year.

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I had never stayed on a base before, and didn’t read the email, so in the morning, when I got out of the shower in the officers’ accommodation provided, I discovered they do not provide guests with a towel. I was dripping wet, my hair was a mess, and I could not be late for training, what to do?

Ìý

Think like a Commando, of course.

Ìý

So I opened the windows and jumped around as vigorously as possible, waving my arms about, like washing flapping on a clothes line. It was only at breakfast that I discovered I had been observed doing this by a dozen Royal Marines, wondering why a middle-aged Padre was performing a challenging contemporary dance stark naked. The commandant actually gave me a medal.

Ìý

I think of those young men - now young women too - every Remembrance Sunday. You will find them in some of the worst places on earth, serving professionally, risking their lives for reasons that sometimes might look obscure to the subtlest of military historians.

Ìý

Risking their lives is no overstatement. On Remembrance Sunday I will read out the names — again — of the nearly two hundred men from my parish who went to war and did not come back. Most of them more than a century ago, just about beyond the furthest reach of living memory.

Ìý

So let it go; give glory to God, not war; leave the dead to rest in peace.

Ìý

No. I’ve spent too much time with people trembling in front of me because of what happened to them forty, fifty, sixty, years ago, to forget.

Ìý

I’ve seen too many names preserved in the chapel at Lympstone, Royal Marines who gave their lives, and too many surviving Royal Marines in the rehab centre next door, rebuilding bodies shattered by bullets and blasts, and minds undone by the horrors they thought they’d left behind, but brought with them.Ìý

Ìý

How could we forget that?


No.

Ìý

We will remember them.

Ìý

We will remember them.

Broadcast

  • Fri 12 Nov 2021 06:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2