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Zoe and the gang help Rylan as he enters the final stretch of his 'Great Ka-RY-Oke Challenge', raising money for Children In Need by belting out the tunes for 24 hours.

Zoe and the gang help Rylan as he enters the final stretch of his 'Great Ka-RY-Oke Challenge', raising money for Children In Need by belting out the tunes for 24 hours.

Starting during Zoe's show yesterday, Rylan will be also be helped in his last few hours by some very special guests, including Heather Small, Craig David, Frankie Bridge, the voice of Radio 2 Collette Collins and the return of Mike Up Your Life.

Zoe also speaks to 7 year old Cain who explained how all the money raised for Children In Need has personally helped him and his family. You can watch every high note, every missed line and every catastrophic/awe-inspiring chorus live on 大象传媒 iPlayer and the 大象传媒 Red Button.

Along with Tina Daheley on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Mike Williams on sport, and a daily Pause For Thought from Nick Baines, the Bishop of Leeds, Zoe and the team have the best start to your morning!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Wed 13 Nov 2019 06:30
大象传媒 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Madonna

    Express Yourself

    • (Single).
    • Sire.

  • S Club

    Don't Stop Movin'

    • (CD Album Sampler).
    • Polydor.

  • Culture Club

    Karma Chameleon

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

  • Bee Gees

    More Than A Woman

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.

  • Kylie Minogue

    I Should Be So Lucky

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • George Ezra

    Paradise

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Spice Girls

    Wannabe

    • Bad Girls (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.

  • Justin Timberlake

    Can't Stop The Feeling!

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Dead or Alive

    You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)

    • Wave Party (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.
    • 4.

  • Shirley Bassey

    Goldfinger

    • Heartbeat - The 60's Gold Collection.
    • Global Television.

  • Phil Collins

    You Can't Hurry Love

    • Singles.
    • Rhino.

  • Bryan Adams

    Summer Of '69

    • Bryan Adams - The Best Of Me.
    • Mercury.

  • 叠别测辞苍肠茅

    Crazy in Love (feat. JAY-Z)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 3.

  • Craig David

    Fill Me In

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 45 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Maroon 5

    Moves Like Jagger (feat. Christina Aguilera)

    • (CD Single).
    • A&M.
    • 1.

  • Candi Staton

    Young Hearts Run Free

    • Disco Fever (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman

    Somethin' Stupid

    • (CD Single).
    • Chrysalis.

  • Kelly Clarkson

    Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 81 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Eurythmics

    Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

    • Our Friends Electric (Various Artists.
    • Telstar.

  • T. Rex

    I Love to Boogie

    • T. Rex - The Singles As & Bs.
    • Repertoire.

  • Heather Small

    Proud (The Great Ka-RY-oke Challenge)

  • Tina Turner

    The Best

    • Tina Turner - Simply The Best.
    • Capitol.

  • Tom Walker

    Better Half Of Me

    • What A Time To Be Alive (Deluxe Edition).
    • Relentless Records.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Nick Baines, the Bishop of Leeds:

Karaoke! I鈥檝e never done it. Been tempted once or twice, but I value my life too much to inflict my inner Gloria Gaynor on anyone else. How Rylan has managed it for 24 hours is anybody鈥檚 guess.聽 However, I did once get arrested in Paris for busking when I was younger - the police just didn鈥檛 appreciate my art.

My favourite karaoke experience is Bill Murray in the great film Lost in Translation belting out Elvis Costello鈥檚 鈥榃hat鈥檚 so funny 鈥榖out peace, love and understanding?鈥� in Tokyo.

But, even those of us who don鈥檛 do karaoke do sing other people鈥檚 songs - in the bath, quietly on the train, walking the dog. There are always those songs that creep up on you when you鈥檙e thinking about something else and then, like Kylie, you can鈥檛 get it out of your head. It always amazes me to watch Glastonbury on the telly and see thousands of people singing every word of a song I鈥檝e never heard sung by someone I just don鈥檛 recognise.

We all have those songs - words written by other people - that give us a vocabulary for saying what we can鈥檛 frame for ourselves. This isn鈥檛 new, though. Go back nearly three thousand years and you find poems giving voice to experiences of joy, wonder, anger, frustration, fear, hope: you name it, you鈥檒l find it in the Psalms. Which is why in churches and synagogues you keep hearing them read or sung. They get under your skin. Sometimes, feeling fine, you find yourself doing a Psalm that expresses different emotions or experience; but, sing or say it anyway and, after time, you find it whispering through the mist of misery when you鈥檝e lost the words to say what you feel.

I guess this also inevitably leads me to think about what it might look like to sing my own song. Not just to go along with someone else鈥檚 poetry, but to write my own. Some of the Psalms were written by and for a people living in exile - keeping the songs of home alive in a strange land. They had to work at it, not letting hope be swamped by the 鈥榥ow鈥�.

Give Rylan a medal ... and I鈥檒l find the words today that give voice to my own song.

Broadcast

  • Wed 13 Nov 2019 06:30
    大象传媒 Radio 2