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Fearne Cotton sits in, with Gary Barlow

Fearne Cotton sits in and chats to Gary Barlow about his best-selling memoir A Better Me and looks ahead to Take That's Greatest Hits Live tour.

Fearne Cotton sits in and chats to Take That lead singer Gary Barlow about his best-selling memoir A Better Me. He also looks ahead to the upcoming Take That Greatest Hits Live tour and his interview series We Write the Music, which is coming soon to Radio 2!

We spin the Wheel of Four-Tunes once again and revisit Bryan Adam's cover of Carole King's You've Got A Friend - with added Stephen Merchant and Michael Sheen on backing vocals.

Along with Clare Runacres on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Mike Williams on sport, Fearne 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 weather with Carol Kirkwood, 大象传媒 Asian Network's Ankur Desai checks in ahead of the IPL clash between Royal Challengers Bangalore and the Mumbai Indians, plus a Pause For Thought from journalist Remona Aly as Fearne entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Thu 28 Mar 2019 06:30
大象传媒 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Edwyn Collins

    A Girl Like You

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.

  • P!nk

    Walk Me Home

    • Hurts 2B Human.
    • RCA.

  • The Weeknd

    Can't Feel My Face

    • Beauty Behind The Madness.
    • Republic.
    • 7.

  • Mark Ronson

    Nothing Breaks Like A Heart (feat. Miley Cyrus)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Talking Heads

    Once In A Lifetime

    • Talking Heads - Remain In Light.
    • Sire.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Livin' Thing

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.

  • Jess Glynne

    No One

    • Always In Between.
    • Atlantic.

  • Eternal

    I Wanna Be The Only One (feat. BeBe Winans)

    • Eternal - Greatest Hits.
    • EMI.

  • Lizzo

    Juice

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Oh Diane

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 004.

  • Peter Frampton

    Show Me The Way

    • And The Road Goes On Forever Vol 1.
    • Debutante.

  • Gabrielle

    Every Step

    • Under My Skin.
    • BMG.
    • 4.

  • Ne-Yo

    Miss Independent

    • (CD Single).
    • Def Jam.
    • 1.

  • Bananarama

    Stuff Like That

    • In Stereo.
    • In Sync.

  • Blossoms

    Charlemagne

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI.

  • OMI

    Cheerleader

    • (CD Single).
    • Ultra Records.
    • 001.

  • Robbie Williams

    Rock DJ

    • (CD Single).
    • Chrysalis.

  • Jonas Brothers

    Sucker

    • (CD Single).
    • Republic Records.

  • Take That

    These Days

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Marshmello & Anne-Marie

    Friends

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Queen

    Radio Ga Ga

    • Queen - Greatest Hits II.
    • Parlophone.

  • Matt Simons

    Open Up

    • After The Landslide.
    • PIAS.

  • Bryan Adams

    Can't Stop This Thing We Started (Radio 2 Session, 1 MARCH 2019)

  • The O鈥橨ays

    I Love Music

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

  • Jax Jones & Years & Years

    Play

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • 补鈥恏补

    Take On Me

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

  • Genesis

    Invisible Touch

    • Genesis - Turn It On Again.
    • Virgin.

  • Dido

    White Flag

    • (CD Single).
    • Arista.

  • Bebe Rexha

    Last Hurrah

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Dan Hartman

    I Can Dream About You

    • I Can Dream About You.
    • MCA.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
From Remona Aly, Freelance journalist and editor:
We humans may well have set foot on the moon, climbed Mount Everest or even managed to eat 50 cr猫me eggs in under a minute, but I don鈥檛 think mankind has ever really conquered a to do list. While I have in the past enthusiastically struck a task off the page, the satisfaction is nearly always short-lived. There is always something else to do. My most recent list has included: Do pause for thought - TICK. Clean office and sort your life out - BLANK. Procrastination - TICK TICK TICK.聽
A friend of mine even has praying on her list. According to my calculations, I鈥檝e basically been praying five times a day for the past 20 years, which totals 36,500 completed prayers. Now that's a lot of ticks. I heard a talk a while ago where the speaker said, 鈥淲e fill our lives with doing stuff, but forget that we are human beings, not human doings.鈥� I鈥檓 guilty of that. I鈥檓 so busy with what I鈥檓 doing, I forget how I鈥檓 being 鈥� whether that鈥檚 being more mindful in prayer, more grateful in my work, or being more in tune with myself.聽
One of the most influential Muslim thinkers, Imam al-Ghazali took a step back from all the noise in the late 11th century. Al-Ghazali was rolling in celeb status - he became an advisor in the sultan鈥檚 court, a professor at a top-notch university, and got kudos from the masses, but suddenly left it all at the height of his fame because of a spiritual crisis. He went into seclusion for two years, in an effort to get back to his core self, his core being. It led to him writing his masterpiece on Islamic theology and mysticism, that Muslims are inspired by to this day.聽
I can鈥檛 really go off into seclusion for years, but I can use some quiet, undistracted moments to tend to my inner wellbeing. Because maybe then I鈥檒l uncover something truly precious. Imam al-Ghazali said, 鈥淭hose who look for seashells will find seashells. Those who open them will find pearls.鈥� Instead of focusing all my energies on doing things, I鈥檒l open up the treasure inside me. So sorting my life out may just have a mega tick coming its way...

Broadcast

  • Thu 28 Mar 2019 06:30
    大象传媒 Radio 2