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It's Maximum Music Monday!

Zoe keeps the tunes rolling on Maximum Music Monday.

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball! Between 8 am and 9 am Zoe keeps the tunes rolling on Maximum Music Monday. And Zoe plays three disco classics from her personal collection in the Disco Ball at 8.30!

Along with Adam Porter on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Mike Williams on sport, she and the team have the best start to your morning.

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

2 hours, 59 minutes

Music Played

  • Stevie Wonder

    I Wish

    • Motown Party (Various Artists).
    • Motown.
  • Regard & Years & Years

    Hallucination

    • (CD Single).
    • Ministry Of Sound.
  • Shanice

    I Love Your Smile

    • Now Yearbook '92 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music.
  • Wings

    Silly Love Songs

    • Wings - At The Speed Of Sound.
    • Parlophone.
  • McFadden & Whitehead

    Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now

    • Million Sellers Vol.19 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.
  • Whitney Houston

    I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)

    • Whitney Houston - Whitney.
    • Arista.
  • Jax Jones

    Where Did You Go? (feat. MNEK)

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
  • JLS

    Beat Again

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 74 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • Prince

    Little Red Corvette

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.
  • Annie Lennox

    Walking On Broken Glass

    • Now 1992 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 2.
  • The O’Jays

    Love Train

    • Shades Of Soul (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.
  • Kool & the Gang

    Celebration

    • Kool & The Gang - The Singles Collect.
    • Phonogram.
  • Def Leppard

    Kick

    • Diamond Star Halos.
    • Virgin EMI Records.
  • GAYLE

    abc (nicer)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • Four Tops

    I Can't Help Myself

    • The Singles Collection.
    • Polygram TV.
  • Thomas Rhett

    Paradise

    • Where We Started.
    • Big Machine.
  • Duran Duran

    Rio

    • Duran Duran - Greatest.
    • EMI.
  • Shania Twain

    That Don't Impress Me Much

    • Now 44 (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.
  • Becky Hill & Galantis

    Run

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
  • Pet Shop Boys

    West End Girls

    • Now That's What I Call Music '86.
    • Now.
  • Shanks & Bigfoot

    Sweet Like Chocolate

    • (CD Single).
    • Chocolate Boy.
  • The Coral

    In The Morning

    • (CD Single).
    • Deltasonic.
  • Sylvester

    You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)

    • Sylvester - The Original Hits.
    • Fantasy.
  • The Human League

    Don't You Want Me

    • Dare!.
    • Virgin.
  • Adele

    Rolling In The Deep

    • (CD Single).
    • XL.
    • 1.
  • Bruce Springsteen

    Waitin' On A Sunny Day

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
  • Baccara

    Yes Sir, I Can Boogie

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

    Bam Bam (feat. Ed Sheeran)

    • Familia.
    • Epic.
  • Saint Motel

    My Type

    • My Type E.P..
    • Parlophone.
    • 001.
  • The Jacksons

    Blame It On The Boogie

    • Disco Fever (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.
  • P!nk

    A Million Dreams

    • The Greatest Showman: Reimagined (Various Artists).
    • Atlantic.
  • Albin Lee Meldau

    Forget About Us

    • (CD Single).
    • Glassnote Entertainment Group.
  • k.d. lang

    Constant Craving

    • The No.1 Acoustic Rock Album (Variou.
    • Polygram Tv.
  • Pulp

    Disco 2000

    • Hits.
    • Island.
    • 6.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From swimsuits to snowsuits, sliders to wellies, it’s like the seasons are reversing, because I feel like I’m right back in winter. And they’re not the only ones turning back the clock, because I’ve spent this weekend with my head buried inside a memory box I made when I was 12. Inside is a musty copy of Arthur Ransome’s ‘Swallows and Amazons’, a withered purple thistle, and a fuzzy-little-lamb-soft-toy (who’s had a long old winter with limited reading). This weekend marks 15 years since my lovely Dad passed away, and opening this box is how I pay him tribute. Everything in it is significant - the book for his love of stories, the thistle, his proud Scottish roots, and the little lamb, his term of affection for me.

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But what’s most significant about this box is not its contents, but that I made it when I was twelve, and didn’t reopen it until my twenties. Back then, my little world couldn’t digest a pain so big, and sometimes I wonder if I made this physical box as a way of literally packing-up my grief. As writer CS Lewis says, “it’s easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.’ But, as time ticked on, I stayed stuck, because in suppressing pain, it so easily dominates - feeling sad, when you should be happy, seeing darkness in the world, when it’s full of light, feeling absent, when you were made to be present.Ìý

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The Biblical book of Ecclesiastes says: “For everything there is a season.’ It says there’s a time to laugh and cry, dance but also grieve. In other words, every emotion demands its moment. So, at the age of 20, I finally opened it. And as I stared down at the things inside - yes, it hurt (a lot), but it weirdly filled me with joy, because out of the sadness, I began to feel gratitude for Dad’s life. And in looking back, the ability to move forward. Zoe, I believe pain isn’t meant to be kept in a box forever. Because as the weather flits between spring and winter, warmth and the freezing cold, I’m reminded that sometimes you have to go back a season, if only to make the most of the next.

Broadcast

  • Mon 4 Apr 2022 06:30