Gemma Chan and The Why Workshop
Captain Marvel actor Gemma Chan talks to Zoe about her new drama I Am Hannah. Plus Zoe quizzes the QI Elves on puzzling questions picked by you!
Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball! Captain Marvel actor Gemma Chan talks to Zoe about her TV new drama I Am Hannah and tells us about being included the Duchess of Sussex's Forces For Change in her guest edit of British Vogue, plus travelling to this year's Met Gala after party with Celine Dion on a bus.
It鈥檚 The Why Workshop, and Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with your questions. Today James Elf and Dan Elf answer: who first put the alphabet in alphabetical order? why do the hottest and coldest days of the year not occur on the longest and shortest days of the year? and why do we struggle to sleep when the weather is warm?
Plus we check-in with Ken, on the latest leg of the We Stop For PopMaster tour. He reveals he is travelling to somewhere near Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire and that Blossoms are providing today's live music.
Along with Tina Daheley on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Hugh Ferris 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 weather with Carol Kirkwood, a daily Pause For Thought with journalist Remona Aly, and following his recent haulage of three gold medals at this year's World Aquatics Championships, Hugh chats to Olympic gold medallist Adam Peaty MBE, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!
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ABC
The Look Of Love
- And Then She Kissed Me Vol.1 (Various.
- Debutante.
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Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello
厂别帽辞谤颈迟补
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- Fontana Island Records.
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Chaka Khan
Ain't Nobody
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- Reprise.
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P!nk
Can We Pretend (feat. Cash Cash)
- Hurts 2B Human.
- RCA Records.
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The O鈥橨ays
Love Train
- Shades Of Soul (Various Artists).
- Global Television.
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OutKast
Hey Ya!
- Outkast - Speakerboxxx.
- Arista.
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Jack Savoretti
Youth And Love (feat. MIKA)
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- BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd.
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Madonna
Papa Don't Preach
- Madonna - The Immaculate Collection.
- Sire.
- 4.
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Ava Max
So Am I
- Heaven & Hell.
- Atlantic.
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Donna Summer
On The Radio
- And Then She Kissed Me Vol.1 (Various.
- Debutante.
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叠别测辞苍肠茅
Spirit
- The Lion King O.S.T. (Various Artists).
- Walt Disney Records.
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
AKA... What A Life!
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Scissor Sisters
Only The Horses
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- Polydor.
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KC and the Sunshine Band
That's the Way (I Like It)
- Disco Fever (Various Artists).
- Global Television.
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Ed Sheeran
Beautiful People (feat. Khalid)
- No.6 Collaborations Project.
- Atlantic.
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Freddie Mercury
I Was Born To Love You
- Never Boring.
- Virgin EMI Records.
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Rita Ora
Anywhere
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- Atlantic.
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Odyssey
Native New Yorker
- Million Sellers Vol.17 - The Seventie.
- Disky.
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Kygo & Whitney Houston
Higher Love
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- RCA Records.
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Anne-Marie
2002
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- Atlantic.
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Dolly Parton
9 to 5
- Dolly Parton: The Ultimate Collection.
- BMG/RCA.
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R.E.M.
Losing My Religion
- R.E.M. - Out Of Time.
- Warner Bros.
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Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Radio Radio
- The Very Best Of Elvis Costello.
- Universal Music Tv.
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Cyndi Lauper
Time After Time
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Blossoms
Your Girlfriend
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- EMI.
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INXS
Need You Tonight
- The All Time Greatest Rock Songs ....
- Columbia.
Pause For Thought
I just got back from a trip to Berlin, and as my German hasn鈥檛 had a workout since pre-GCSE days, the only phrase I remember of 鈥淚ch habe keine haustiere鈥� or 鈥淚 don鈥檛 have any pets鈥�, was surprisingly useless on my cultural tourism sprint. Luckily for me, Berlin is a city where everyone seems to speak perfect English, and it鈥檚 also a place of eye popping street art, quirky shops selling things like king prawn earrings, and eclectic architecture that makes your jaw drop to the floor.聽
But there鈥檚 one bit of architecture yet to be built. As my German hosts drove us past a dusty building site, I saw a huge banner with the words, 鈥楬ouse of One: Drei religionen, Ein haus鈥� - three religions, one house. The plan - apparently a first of its kind - is for a mosque, a church and a synagogue to be housed under a single roof. It will include a communal area where worshippers from the three faiths can enjoy a good old interfaith chinwag. Amazing things can happen when difference comes together. Rewind back through the centuries, and I can see how civilisation truly shines when it exists in co-existence.聽
For instance in medieval times, the Muslim empire in Baghdad saw all faiths and backgrounds come together to shape its success - Jews, Christians, Muslims and others worked side by side in hospitals, schools and scientific centres. I think of the coexistence in Prophet Muhammad鈥檚 time fourteen centuries ago, when the Prophet invited the first delegation of Christians into his mosque, where they used the same prayer space as their Muslim brethren. For me, the House of One has been everywhere and is wherever we choose to build it, to celebrate unity and unique difference.聽
I feel that unity and diversity through the words of the Muslim Persian poet, Ibn Muhammad Hadi Rida Quli Hidayat, who wrote: 鈥淭he Sun's shining essence is always just one; but its rays spread out and show it as 鈥榤any鈥�. Each created thing is like a coloured lamp of the Sun - The essence is one, but the attributes many.鈥� I can鈥檛 wait to go back to Berlin to visit the symbolic House of One when it鈥檚 finally built, unless of course I鈥檓 tempted to go back sooner for those bizarre king prawn earrings.
Broadcast
- Wed 31 Jul 2019 06:30大象传媒 Radio 2