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Harry Styles, Michael Rosen and Suranne Jones

Harry's got a new single out, Michael talks to Zoe about his book Many Different Kinds of Love, and Suranne chats about the upcoming second series of Gentleman Jack.

It's another Friends Phone-in Friday and Harry Styles is on the show with NEW MUSIC. His new single 'As It Was' is out today and we're beyond ready for it.

Michael Rosen's also on the show chatting about his latest book 'Many Different Kinds of Love'.

Plus, Suranne Jones talks about the second series of the critically-acclaimed 'Gentleman Jack'.

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 daily Pause For Thought from Jim Harris, plus texts, emails and voice notes, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Fri 1 Apr 2022 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Donna Summer

    Love's Unkind

    • Best Of Donna Summer.
    • Warner Bros..

  • New Kids on the Block, 厂补濒迟鈥怤鈥怭别辫补, Rick Astley & En Vogue

    Bring Back The Time

    • (CD Single).
    • New Kids On The Block.

  • Culture Club

    Karma Chameleon

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • Barbra Streisand

    Stoney End

    • Barbra Streisand Greatest Hits Vol.2.
    • CBS.

  • America

    Ventura Highway

    • Country Roads (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Bee Gees

    Stayin' Alive

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.

  • Snap!

    Rhythm Is A Dancer

    • Holiday Hits: Non Stop Euro Pop (Var).
    • Virgin.

  • Craig David

    7 Days (R2 Piano Room, 31 Mar 2022)

  • Tiggs da Author

    Run (feat. Lady Leshurr)

    • Bridget Jones's Baby O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • Jax Jones

    Where Did You Go? (feat. MNEK)

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Madonna

    Into The Groove

    • Celebration.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 8.

  • Regard & Years & Years

    Hallucination

    • (CD Single).
    • Ministry Of Sound.

  • Harry Styles

    As It Was

    • Harry's House.
    • Columbia.

  • Billy Joel

    The River Of Dreams

    • Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Volume III.
    • Columbia.

  • Jimmy Nail

    Ain't No Doubt

    • Now That's What I Call Music Vol.22.
    • Now.

  • Kygo

    Dancing Feet (feat. DNCE)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Roxy Music

    Same Old Scene

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

  • Ronan Keating

    Lovin' Each Day

    • Now 49 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Technotronic

    Pump Up The Jam (feat. Felly)

    • Holiday Hits: Non Stop Euro Pop (Var).
    • Virgin.

  • Mary J. Blige

    Family Affair

    • Now 50 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Weeknd

    Blinding Lights

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Republic Records.
    • 1.

  • Joss Stone

    Oh To Be Loved By You

    • Never Forget My Love.
    • Bay Street Records.

  • Eliza Doolittle

    Pack Up

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.
    • 1.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

I once took an exam in which I had to write an essay on the connection between intelligence and eccentricity. I argued that wisdom and foolishness are often closer than we think but the trouble was I had no actual evidence to prove my point.听听So, in the true spirit of every student who has not done enough work, I made something up.听听Specifically, I concocted the story of an eminent 18th century magistrate in St Albans, whose judgements were acclaimed for their wisdom but whose foolish custom it was to ride to court on a cow.听听I named this fictional person after my actual friend Richard Tarrant, to whom I would now, forty years later, like to apologise.

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It was hardly the funniest joke ever, but April 1st is a dangerous day to claim to have made the funniest joke ever, because much funnier jokes are happening all around us.听听Everybody鈥檚 hilarious on April Fools鈥� Day, from the Guardian to the child who put a rubber spider in your bed. On the other hand, that also makes April 1st a dangerous time to come here and attempt to say anything serious, because April 1st is the day when seriousness is absolutely not the issue.听听It鈥檚 the precise opposite: April 1st is the birthday of the absurd, the anniversary of the ridiculous, the feast day of fun.听听It鈥檚 the Ken Dodd of days. Strangely, St Paul wrote a letter to his friends in the city of Corinth in which he made the spectacular claim that Jesus himself is a joke, and possibly the funniest joke of all time.听

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Paul called it wise foolishness, and like all the best April Fools, there is joy in the gag: the preposterous, hilarious idea that God chooses, as Christians believe, to become a real human person in order to express love and solidarity with all the other real human people. And if there is joy to be derived from any of the April Fools gags we will read, see and suffer today, it is in the solidarity that comes with laughter, with delight in not only fooling but being fooled and being foolish.听听Because in a serious world, every ridiculous, laughing moment of solidarity reminds us how infinitely better than what divides us are all the foolish human things that bind us together.听

Broadcast

  • Fri 1 Apr 2022 06:30
    麻豆约拍 Radio 2