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Alice Levine and The QI Elves!

Zoe chats to Alice Levine about her Â鶹ԼÅÄ Sounds podcast series Sports Strangest Crimes – The Trillion Dollar Conman. Plus Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with your questions.

Zoe Ball chats to Alice Levine about her Â鶹ԼÅÄ Sounds podcast series Sports Strangest Crimes – The Trillion Dollar Conman. In the series, Alice Levine traces the story from Nottingham to North Korea, to discover how conman Russell King took the oldest club in the football league to the brink of oblivion with promises beyond their wildest dreams.

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, she and the team have the best start to your morning. With celeb guests, quizzes, headlines, tunes chosen by listeners, and more music that you can shake a glitterball at!

There's also a daily Pause For Thought from Muneera Pilgrim and listeners texts, emails and voice notes, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Wed 2 Mar 2022 06:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Prince

    1999

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.

  • The Shires

    I See Stars

    • 10 Year Plan.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Whitney Houston

    Million Dollar Bill

    • (CD Single).
    • Arista.
    • 1.

  • The Corrs

    Dreams

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • The Ronettes

    Be My Baby

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

  • 10cc

    The Things We Do for Love

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1976 (Various).
    • Premier.

  • George Benson

    Lady Love Me (One More Time)

    • George Benson - The Very Best Of.
    • Warner E.S.P..
    • 4.

  • Charlie Puth

    Light Switch

    • Charlie.
    • Atlantic.

  • M People

    One Night In Heaven

    • The Best Of M People.
    • BMG.

  • Take That

    The Flood

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 16.

  • Spice Girls

    Who Do You Think You Are

    • Now 37 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Westlife

    Alone Together

    • Wild Dreams.
    • Warner Music.

  • Tina Turner

    The Best

    • Tina Turner - Simply The Best.
    • Capitol.

  • The Kids From Fame

    Hi-Fidelity

    • (Single).
    • RCA.

  • Becky Hill & Galantis

    Run

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Coldplay

    A Sky Full Of Stars

    • Â鶹ԼÅÄ Music Awards (Various Artists).
    • UMOD.

  • Jax Jones

    Where Did You Go? (feat. MNEK)

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Shalamar

    I Can Make You Feel Good

    • Friends - Deluxe Edition.
    • Big Break Records.
    • 4.

  • Anne-Marie

    Bad Habits (R2 Piano Room Month, 3 Feb 2022)

  • Bon Jovi

    Livin' On A Prayer

    • Music Of The Millennium (Various).
    • Universal Music Tv.
    • 1.

  • Clean Bandit

    Everything But You (feat. A7S)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Mis-Teeq

    Scandalous

    • The Very Best Of All Woman 2003 (Various Artists).
    • Telstar TV.

  • The Michael Zager Band

    Let's All Chant

    • The Last Days Of Disco (Film Soundtra.
    • Columbia.

  • Happy Mondays

    Step On

    • Now 17, Part 1 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Razorlight

    In The Morning

    • (CD Single).
    • Vertigo.

  • The Smiths

    How Soon Is Now?

    • Drive Time 2 (Various Artists).
    • Dino.

  • Michael Bublé

    I'll Never Not Love You

    • Higher.
    • Reprise.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

The other day at the museum, I was in what, for the purposes of the Breakfast Show, I will refer to euphemistically as the Bathroom. ÌýThere is, needless to say, no bath in there. What there is, though, as in many such modern public, er, bathrooms, is a cord to be pulled in case of emergency. And I, in an absent moment, pulled it. Two things ensued. First, I got at as fast as I could to escape the horrific, piercing noise of the alarm I had inadvertently sounded. ÌýAnd second, I practically ploughed into my colleague John from security as he ran up the stairs to make sure I was alright.

Ìý

Of course, other than feeling ridiculous, I was fine. ÌýI am not vulnerable in a way that requires an alarm, or action in response to it. ÌýBut still, I was very glad that action was taken. ÌýBecause, well, you never know. Now, we are at a moment when the real vulnerability of others, of the people of Ukraine, is before us night and day. ÌýThis is not new. ÌýFor the Uighur people of China, for example, for the Rohinga people of Myanmar and many others, to be vulnerable in the face of the violent abuse of power is an old story. One way that Christians have always responded to intense need is to pray; and there are people all over this country, all over the world praying for Ukraine right now. ÌýThis is good.ÌýFor people of any faith it seems the obvious thing to do.

Ìý

But I am struck, when I read his story in the Bible, by how little Jesus prayed when confronted by the needs of the most vulnerable. ÌýBroadly speaking, he didn’t pray. ÌýHe acted. ÌýHe healed them; he fed them; he became angry and he comforted them in sorrow. He lived and died in solidarity with them. Pretty well every paper is publishing information just now about actual things we can do to help the people of Ukraine. There are medical charities to support and local news outlets to follow. They are easy to find. There are innumerable places to give something – socks, a coat, a sleeping bag, gloves. If you are a praying person, by all means pray. But find something else to do too. Run upstairs when you hear the alarm. Because this time there really is an emergency.

Broadcast

  • Wed 2 Mar 2022 06:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2