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Stephen Graham and Kelvin Fletcher

Zoe chats to Stephen Graham about his new film, Boiling Point, plus Kelvin Fletcher has made a huge career change and gone on a Big Farming Adventure for 麻豆约拍 One.

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

Zoe chats to Stephen Graham about his new film, 'Boiling Point', and looks ahead to the final series of 'Peaky Blinders' on 麻豆约拍 One. Stephen is best known for playing Andrew "Combo" Gascoigne in the film 'This Is England' and its television sequels. His other film roles include 'Snatch', 'Gangs of New York', 'The Irishman' and Scrum in the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' films. On TV, he's starred in the fifth series of the 麻豆约拍 One series 'Line of Duty' as DS John Corbett, as Al Capone in the HBO series 'Boardwalk Empire' and recently as Tony in Channel 4's 'Help'.

Kelvin Fletcher tells Zoe about embracing Peak District farm life in his new 麻豆约拍 One series, 'Kelvin's Big Farming Adventure'. Strictly winner, racing driver and soap star Kelvin Fletcher has spent most of his working life playing a farmer on 'Emmerdale' - and now he鈥檚 attempting to do it for real. Like tens of thousands of other Brits in the past year, he鈥檚 escaped his urban roots and moved his family to the country to start a new life. And he hasn鈥檛 done things by halves. He's bought a 120-acre farm in the Peak District, and with zero farming experience, he has a baptism of fire as he tries to find ways to make it pay.

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.

There's also a Pause For Thought from Reverend Richard Coles, and your calls, texts, emails and voice notes, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Fri 14 Jan 2022 06:30

Music Played

  • Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel

    Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)

    • 20 Number 1's Of The 70's (Various).
    • MFP.
  • Kylie Minogue & Jessie Ware

    Kiss Of Life

    • DISCO: Guest List Edition.
    • BMG Rights Management.
  • Madonna

    Dress You Up

    • Celebration.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 1.
  • The Tymes

    Ms Grace

    • 70's Number Ones Vol 3.
    • Old Gold.
  • The Drifters

    Saturday Night At The Movies

    • Very Best Of Ben E.King & The Drifters.
    • Global Television.
  • The Bangles

    Walk Like An Egyptian

    • Take A Break (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.
  • Michael Sembello

    Maniac

    • Flashdance O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • VIRGIN.
  • Justin Bieber

    Ghost

    • Justice.
    • EMI.
  • Katy Perry

    Chained To The Rhythm (feat. Skip Marley)

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol Records.
  • Elbow Bones & The Racketeers

    A Night In New York

    • More Greatest Hits Of 80's (Various).
    • Disky.
  • Aretha Franklin

    Respect

    • Aretha Franklin - Queen Of Soul.
    • Atlantic.
  • Elbow

    What Am I Without You

    • Flying Dream 1.
    • Polydor.
  • Jonas Blue & Why Don鈥檛 We

    Don't Wake Me Up

    • CD Single.
    • Virgin/EMI Records.
  • Kool & the Gang

    Celebration

    • Kool & The Gang - The Singles Collect.
    • Phonogram.
  • Pete Tong, Riton & Vula

    Love Can't Turn Around (feat. Jules Buckley)

    • Pete Tong + Friends: Ibiza Classics.
    • Ministry Of Sound.
  • Holly Valance

    Kiss Kiss

    • (CD Single).
    • London.
    • 4.
  • Camila Cabello

    Don't Go Yet

    • Familia.
    • Epic.
  • Chaka Khan

    I'm Every Woman

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

    Spit Of You

    • Seventeen Going Under.
    • Polydor.
  • Loreen

    Euphoria

    • Clubland Eurodance (Various Artists).
    • Universal.
  • Andy Williams

    Music To Watch Girls By

    • Take A Break (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.
  • The Divine Comedy

    The Best Mistakes

    • The Best Of.
    • Divine Comedy Records.
  • Dead or Alive

    You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)

    • Wave Party (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.
    • 4.
  • Steps

    Scared Of The Dark

    • (CD Single).
    • Steps Music.
    • 1.
  • The Weather Girls

    It's Raining Men

    • Success.
    • Cherry Pop.
    • 13.
  • Joss Stone

    Never Forget My Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Bay Street Records.
  • Phats & Small

    Turn Around

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 43 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Thanks to the Duchess of Cambridge I have spent a week tossed on the turbulent seas of controversy. I don鈥檛 suppose she meant to hurl me into a storm, but she did when she released those photographs to mark her fortieth birthday. Many happy returns, and how wonderful she looks, I thought 鈥 and then I saw she had thrust her hands into her dress鈥檚 pockets. I don鈥檛 remember noticing someone do that before, so I tweeted: 鈥渇orgive my ignorance, but are pockets in skirts a thing?鈥 4,734 people replied to inform me that they are a thing. So much a thing that it started an argument which lasted for several days.

Why? Because women love pockets for the same reason men love pockets 鈥 to put things in 鈥 but in spite of this, designers and manufacturers rarely provide them. Women have been complaining about it for years; unnoticed by me, for one, who just assumed pockets in dresses are as commonplace as pockets in my trousers. Perhaps that鈥檚 one reason why inequality in pocketage prevails, because men haven鈥檛 noticed. But that can鈥檛 be the whole story, surely? An on-trend friend told me that designers don鈥檛 like them because they disrupt the line of a garment that鈥檚 been carefully cut. You don鈥檛 see Kate Moss on the cover of Vogue with spanner stuck in her back pocket, do you?

And that鈥檚 the problem: women鈥檚 clothes are designed primarily to be looked at, not worn. At the haute couture end, they鈥檙e expensive wrapping for a precious beauty; at the High Street end, they鈥檙e still intended as eye-catching plumage if a lot cheaper. And for whose benefit? Men. Broad brushstrokes: men can be just as dressy, but ours is utilitarian as well as ornamental. My cassock, for example, a bespoke one-piece in Russell Cord, with thirty nine buttons, matched with a cincture and falls in shot silk, not only has pockets, it has slits to allow me access to underpockets, where I stow keys, face masks, communion wafers, a mini holy water sprinkler, bits of kit for this season of Epiphany, when God is revealed to the world. Like the shepherds and wise men, when we encounter him, we are revealed too. Not as others see us, or would like us to be, or even as we would like to be seen, but as we really are: equal in dignity, equally, infinitely loved; and equally entitled to somewhere to stow the dog treats.听

Broadcast

  • Fri 14 Jan 2022 06:30