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Timothy Spall, Simon Amstell and Jax Jones

Wake up to a star-studded Friends Round Friday! Timothy Spall and Simon Amstell join Zoe, plus there's live music in the studio from Jax Jones.

Timothy Spall and Simon Amstell join Zoe for Friends Round Friday, plus live music from Jax Jones in the studio! Timothy discusses playing the famous English painter L.S. Lowry in his new film Mrs. Lowry & Son. Comedian Simon Amstell talks about his latest Netflix stand up special Set Free. Jax Jones and his guest vocalists Ella Henderson, RAYE, Sonna and Izzy Chase perform tracks from his upcoming debut album Snacks (Supersize) and a cover from Fleetwood Mac's Everywhere.

Zoe also catches up with Live & Kicking's lovable leprechauns Sage & Onion, who are still as cheeky as ever since we last saw them on our TV screens back in 2001!

Along with Tina Daheley on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Mike Williams on sport, Zoe 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 Nick Miller and a Pause For Thought from comedian and writer Paul Kerensa as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Fri 30 Aug 2019 06:30
大象传媒 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Rick Astley

    Never Gonna Give You Up

    • Rick Astley - Whenever You Need Someb.
    • RCA.

  • Ariana Grande & Social House

    boyfriend

    • (CD Single).
    • Republic.

  • Bruce Hornsby & the Range

    The Way It Is

    • Life In The Fast Lane (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • David Guetta

    Stay (Don't Go Away) (feat. RAYE)

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • The Monkees

    I'm A Believer

    • Rediscover The 60's-With A Little Hel.
    • Old Gold.
    • 7.

  • Madonna

    Vogue

    • Finally Enough Love (Deluxe Edition).
    • Rhino.

  • Status Quo

    Liberty Lane

    • Backbone.
    • Ear Music.

  • Ed Sheeran

    Shape Of You

    • 梅 Divide.
    • Atlantic.

  • Taylor Swift

    ME! (feat. Brendon Urie)

    • (CD Single).
    • Republic Records.

  • Chic

    Good Times

    • The Last Days Of Disco (Film Soundtra.
    • Columbia.

  • Scouting for Girls

    Grown Up

    • The Trouble With Boys.
    • SonyCMGUK.

  • Toto

    Africa

    • The All Time Greatest Rock Songs ....
    • Columbia.

  • The Cardigans

    My Favourite Game

    • Q The Album (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • The Primitives

    Crash

    • Into The Eighties - Various Artists.
    • Global Television.

  • ABBA

    Voulez-Vous

    • Abba Gold.
    • Polydor.
    • 013.

  • Michael Gray

    The Weekend

    • (CD Single).
    • Eye Industries.

  • The Goo Goo Dolls

    Indestructible

    • Miracle Pill.
    • Warner Music.

  • 尝脡翱狈

    Falling

    • 尝脡翱狈.
    • 尝脡翱狈 Recordings.

  • M

    Pop Muzik

    • Million Sellers Vol.16 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Westlife

    Dynamite

    • Spectrum.
    • EMI.

  • Laura Branigan

    Gloria

    • Disco Queens: The '80s (Various Artists).
    • Rhino.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From comedian & writer Paul Kerensa:听

This week the 大象传媒 announced it鈥檒l launch a new digital voice assistant next year 鈥� one of those domestic devices that wakes up on command. 鈥楤eeb鈥� will apparently be the wake-word.听

But earlier this week, a similar device gave me a humiliating radio blunder. Cover-presenting a three-hour show on my local 大象传媒 station, my first job on Sunday at 6am was to read the news. The first minute went fine 鈥� but then I announced a news story about Syria. My phone 鈥� on silent, but not on airplane mode 鈥� misheard 鈥楽yria鈥� for 鈥楽iri鈥�.

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Next to the microphone, my not-very-smartphone woke up 鈥� early for a Sunday. It鈥檚 called a 鈥榲irtual intelligent assistant鈥� 鈥� but it鈥檚 not emotionally intelligent. So this automated voice interrupted the news, asking if I needed any help. I awkwardly read the next story, and it chimed in again 鈥� 鈥淚鈥檓 waiting.鈥� It wouldn鈥檛 let go. 鈥淟et me know if you need any help.鈥� I threw the phone across the studio, partly because I was about to say 鈥楽urrey鈥�, and I thought that might wake the beast again.

When we hear the news, I think sometimes we respond like that phone. Asking into the void: 鈥淗ow can I help? What do you want from me?鈥� But then certain stories reappear, and we get used to them. We become numb to them, they stop waking us up.

Last month at the United Nations, the global response to Syria was called a 鈥渃ollective shrug鈥�. Yet we know that almost every news story 鈥� global, local, political or personal 鈥� needs help, protection, or simple empathy. If it鈥檚 made the news, it鈥檚 probably life at the extremes.

This might prompt an emotional response, and for some, that also means prayer. In our church each Sunday, we pray en masse for those news stories: for those caught up in warfare, for aid agencies, for those influencing Brexit, those in leadership, and, not often enough any more, for Syria.

My hope for myself, is that I鈥檇 wake up to these news stories as quickly as my phone did. Because whatever word we cry out to an invisible force 鈥� whether to God in prayer or to Alexa, Siri or Beeb to go behind the story 鈥� I hope we won鈥檛 switch ourselves to silent, even if sometimes, our phones need to be.

Broadcast

  • Fri 30 Aug 2019 06:30
    大象传媒 Radio 2