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Amol Rajan sits in with Mary Wilson

Motown legend Mary Wilson wakes up and embraces the day with Amol Rajan and the team.

Wake up and embrace the day with Amol Rajan! Motown legend Mary Wilson chats to Amol about founding the Supremes with Diana Ross and shares her Motown memories. Mary recalls when she first met Stevie Wonder and what it was like 60 years ago when The Supremes formed and their iconic fashion style.

Along with Tina Daheley on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Hugh Ferris on sport, he 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! Hugh chats to England cricketer Rory Burns. You tell us about the reunions you are planning from Greece to Skegness.

There's also weather with Carol Kirkwood and a daily Pause For Thought from writer and musician Jahnavi Harrison, as Amol entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Wed 21 Aug 2019 06:30
大象传媒 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • The Supremes

    Baby Love

    • Diana Ross & The Supremes - 40 Motown.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Kygo & Whitney Houston

    Higher Love

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA Records.

  • Katy Perry

    Chained To The Rhythm (feat. Skip Marley)

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol Records.

  • Lewis Capaldi

    Hold Me While You Wait

    • Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extinct.
    • Vertigo.

  • The Four Seasons

    December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night)

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 11.

  • Texas

    Black Eyed Boy

    • Hits Zone - The Best Of 97 (Various).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • 尝脡翱狈

    Falling

    • 尝脡翱狈.
    • 尝脡翱狈 Recordings.

  • ABC

    Poison Arrow

    • Abc - The Lexicon Of Love.
    • Mercury.

  • Niall Horan

    On The Loose

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI.

  • The Monkees

    Daydream Believer

    • The Definitive Monkees.
    • Warner Strategic Marketing.
    • 5.

  • The Pointer Sisters

    I'm So Excited

    • Greatest Hits.
    • BBR.
    • 020.

  • Dido

    Friends

    • Still On My Mind.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd..

  • Keith Urban

    The Fighter (feat. Carrie Underwood)

    • Ripcord.
    • Capitol Nashville.
    • 001.

  • Keane

    Love Too Much

    • Cause & Effect.
    • Island.

  • Soft Cell

    Tainted Love

    • Hits & Pieces - The Best of Marc Almond & Soft Cell.
    • UMC.

  • Cher

    Love & Understanding

    • (CD Single).
    • Geffen.

  • Donna Summer

    Hot Stuff

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

  • Emeli Sand茅

    Shine

    • Real Life.
    • Virgin.

  • The Supremes

    Automatically Sunshine

    • Diana Ross & The Supremes - 40 Motown.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Take That

    The Flood

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

  • Ingrid Michaelson

    Young And In Love

    • Stranger Songs.
    • Cabin 24 Records.

  • The Divine Comedy

    Lay All Your Love On Me (Radio 2 Session, 12 July 2019)

  • David Grant & Jaki Graham

    Could It Be I'm Falling In Love

    • Jaki Graham: 35th Anniversary Collection.
    • Cherry Pop.

  • Europa

    All Day And Night (feat. Madison Beer)

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Spin Doctors

    Two Princes

    • Driving Rock (Various Artists).
    • Global Records & Tapes.

  • Paul Simon

    Graceland

    • The Paul Simon Anthology (Disc 2).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 1.

  • Marc Cohn

    Walking In Memphis

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

  • Dolly Parton

    Jolene

    • Million Sellers Vol.15 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Sheryl Crow

    Prove You Wrong (feat. Stevie Nicks & Maren Morris)

    • Threads.
    • Big Machine Records.

  • Lemar

    Dance (With You)

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
Writer and Musician, Jahnavi Harrison:聽
Someone that's been catching my eye and heart this week is Greta Thunberg - the 16 year old girl who's making waves with her unrelenting message on climate change. As many will know, she's sailing across the Atlantic over the next three weeks, on a solar powered boat, to attend a Climate action summit in New York. She's going about it unconventionally to demonstrate that there are ways of travelling which don't harm the environment. I think she's really brave. It inspires me to see a young woman so deep in her conviction, doing something difficult in the interest of the global community.聽
I mean, I've read the usual sort of snarky comments and finger poking on social media...no surprises there. Yes, she's sailing with a team of professionals, but conditions on board are basic - a blue plastic bucket affair for all calls of nature, and the size of the boat means every swell and storm is experienced to the full. Though they're posting on social media when they can, there's no artifice in their daily experience with the elements. I don't know if I could do it...I remember catching the ferry to Spain when I was 10 - I think it took two or three days to reach Santander. Our initial excitement turned into a queasy bad dream as rough seas had us all counting the hours til we could see dry land again.聽
And that relief when we were finally driving off the boat! I remember the intense smell of petrol and nibbling cautiously on a cracker - which was the first thing I could stomach in days. The Hindu sacred texts feature many histories of enlightened children whose profound words and actions still echo today. Thousands of years ago, a five year old prince called Prahlad - the son of an extremely powerful and materialistic King - sat on his father's lap and sweetly explained to him that his envy, lust, greed and disconnection from nature and God would have terrible long term implications, for the whole world. Greta believes that her message too, has profound implications for the planet. Her actions inspire me to be more responsible in my relationship with the earth, and to never think that I'm too small to make a difference. So I'm watching her progress and hoping her journey is as smooth as can be...

Broadcast

  • Wed 21 Aug 2019 06:30
    大象传媒 Radio 2