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Holliday Grainger

Holliday Grainger chats to Zoe about 大象传媒 One's new thriller The Capture. Plus another listener tests their showbiz knowledge in The 5 Star Biz Quiz.

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball! Actress Holliday Grainger chats to Zoe about starring in the new 大象传媒 One thriller The Capture. She tells us about spending time with the police to research her role of Detective Inspector Rachel Carey, and her days in the 大象传媒 Radio Drama department.

Another listener tests their showbiz knowledge in The 5 Star Biz Quiz, for the chance to come and watch the Radio 2 Breakfast Show.

In light of ChuckleVision coming top of a poll of Children's TV shows, you tell us about appearing on TV shows from Grange Hill to The Sooty Show.

Along with Tina Daheley on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Mike Williams 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! Mike chats to Bournemouth goal keeper Asmir Begovic about inspiring the next generation of young football goal keepers.

There's also weather with Carol Kirkwood and a daily Pause For Thought from Freelance journalist and editor, Remona Aly, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Thu 29 Aug 2019 06:30
大象传媒 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel

    Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)

    • 20 Number 1's Of The 70's (Various).
    • MFP.

  • Simply Red

    Thinking Of You

    • Blue Eyed Soul.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Destiny鈥檚 Child

    Survivor

    • Now 49 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Tom Walker

    Just You And I

    • What A Time To Be Alive.
    • Relentless Records.

  • Donald Fagen

    Walk Between Raindrops

    • Donald Fagen - The Nightfly.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Wham!

    Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go

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

  • Kygo & Whitney Houston

    Higher Love

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA Records.

  • Santana

    Smooth (feat. Rob Thomas)

    • (CD Single).
    • Arista.

  • Mark Ronson

    Nothing Breaks Like A Heart (feat. Miley Cyrus)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Oasis

    Live Forever

    • Definitely Maybe.
    • Big Brother Records.
    • 003.

  • Pink Floyd

    Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2

    • Pink Floyd.
    • Harvest.

  • Otis Redding

    Hard to Handle

    • Dock Of The Bay (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Don't Stop

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 009.

  • The Beatles

    Something X TO BE PLAYED 290819 ZOE BALL SHOW X

  • Jax Jones & Years & Years

    Play

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Liam Gallagher

    One Of Us

    • Why Me? Why Not.
    • Warner Music.

  • Paul Simon

    You Can Call Me Al

    • The Paul Simon Anthology (Disc 2).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 4.

  • Donna Summer

    This Time I Know It's For Real

    • Best Of Donna Summer.
    • Warner Bros..

  • Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello

    厂别帽辞谤颈迟补

    • (CD Single).
    • Fontana Island Records.

  • Maroon 5

    This Love

    • (CD Single).
    • J.

  • Faithless

    Insomnia

    • Now 35 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Boo Radleys

    Wake Up Boo!

    • Various Artists - Untitled.
    • Global Records & Tapes.

  • Arrow

    Hot Hot Hot

    • The Best Summer Ever (Various Artist.
    • Virgin.

  • Lana Del Rey

    Doin' Time

    • NORMAN F* ROCKWELL!.
    • Polydor.

  • Terence Trent D鈥橝rby

    If You Let Me Stay

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

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
From Remona Aly, Freelance journalist and editor:
I鈥檝e been stuck in the middle of reading a world classic for quite some time now - the Count of Monte Cristo, whose wronged hero - Edmond Dantes - is in danger of spending longer than his sentence of 13 years in the Ch芒teau d'If prison, thanks to me. I鈥檒l shift the blame to the distractions of TV drama and social media, but I do wonder what happened to the days when I demolished books like a box of chocolates. 鈥楾he Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society鈥� has been on the back burner for months, I took two years to get through Vikram Seth鈥檚, 鈥楢 Suitable Boy鈥� - and many more to find one in real life - but the worst of it is, I still have a huge crop of books I鈥檝e not even picked up. The Japanese have a special word for letting unread books pile up on the shelf - 鈥榯sundoku鈥�.聽
I feel other words that sum up my life need to enter the English language. Like the Inuit word, 鈥榠ktsuarpok鈥� - when you keep checking outside to see if someone is coming - basically my state of being when checking my mobile. Or, when I鈥檓 on the road, the German word, 鈥榙eppenfahrerbeaugung鈥�, literally meaning 鈥榤oron driver eyeballing鈥� 鈥� when I give a judgy side glare to a bad driver I鈥檝e just overtaken. I still haven鈥檛 found the right word to define the failure to turn myself into a real go-getter. My complacency means I relegate my life to a waiting room, and I let the days, months, years slip me by, and then wonder how I鈥檝e got to xx age and feel it鈥檚 a life half-lived.聽
A little anecdote from a Sufi Muslim tradition, sums me up pretty well: A man went into a shop and asked the shopkeeper, "Do you have leather?" "Yes," said the shopkeeper. "Nails?" "Yes." "Thread?" "Yes." "Needle?" "Yes" - "Then why don't you make yourself a pair of boots?" I know I鈥檝e got the raw materials in me already, I鈥檝e just got to read that unread book, build that go-getting mode, live life to the full. Like the American author, Gina Greenlee, says: 鈥淓mbrace those parts of yourself that you've skillfully avoided until now. That's your true adventure.鈥�

Broadcast

  • Thu 29 Aug 2019 06:30
    大象传媒 Radio 2