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Alesha Dixon, John Barrowman and live music from Deacon Blue.

Wake up to a star-studded breakfast with Zoe Ball on Friends Round Friday! John Barrowman and Alesha Dixon are in the studio plus Deacon Blue perform live!

Wake up to a star-studded breakfast with Zoe Ball and a whole host of celebrity guests, plus live music in the studio! John Barrowman is in the studio with Zo ahead of the Dancing on Ice final tomorrow! The wonderful Alesha Dixon fills us in on her fifth children's book 'Star Switch' as well as all the behind the scenes goss from The Greatest Dancer which concludes this Saturday! Deacon Blue perform a couple of classics and their new single 'Hit Me Where It Hurts' to celebrate the release of their ninth album 'City of Love' which is out today!

Along with Jason K 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!

There's also a daily Pause For Thought from Rev Richard Coles and listeners on the line, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Fri 6 Mar 2020 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.

  • Lizzo

    Cuz I Love You

    • Cuz I Love You.
    • Atlantic.

  • Lionel Richie

    All Night Long (All Night)

    • Dancing In The Street (Various Artis.
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • Avicii

    Hey Brother

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal.

  • Van Halen

    Jump

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

  • KC and the Sunshine Band

    That's the Way (I Like It)

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

  • SZA & Justin Timberlake

    The Other Side

    • Trolls World Tour O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • RCA.

  • Kirsty MacColl

    A New England

    • From Croydon To Cuba... An Anthology.
    • Virgin.

  • Calvin Harris

    Ready For The Weekend

    • Now That's What I Call Music 74.
    • Now.

  • Jess Glynne

    I'll Be There

    • Always In Between.
    • Atlantic.

  • Journey

    Don't Stop Believin'

    • Rock Of America (Various Artists).
    • Trax Label.

  • JP Saxe

    If The World Was Ending (feat. Julia Michaels)

    • (CD Single).
    • Arista.

  • Rose Royce

    Car Wash

    • Now 12 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Camila Cabello

    Havana (feat. Young Thug)

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco Music.

  • The Darkness

    Friday Night

    • The Darkness - Permission To Land.
    • Atlantic.

  • Bruno Mars

    24K Magic

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Mis-Teeq

    Scandalous

    • The Very Best Of All Woman 2003 (Various Artists).
    • Telstar TV.

  • ABBA

    Mamma Mia

    • Abba Gold (40th Anniversary Edition).
    • Polar.
    • 004.

  • Deacon Blue

    Real Gone Kid (Radio 2 Session, 6 Mar 2020)

  • The Shires

    Independence Day

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Deacon Blue

    Chocolate Girl (Radio 2 Session, 6 Mar 2020)

  • Odyssey

    Going Back To My Roots

    • Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.
    • 6.

  • Deacon Blue

    City of Love (Radio 2 Session, 6 Mar 2020)

  • Dua Lipa

    Physical

    • Future Nostalgia.
    • Warner Records.

  • Deacon Blue

    I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Radio 2 Session, 6 Mar 2020)

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From the Reverend Richard Coles:

I was in town the other day and someone stopped me in the street 鈥淐an I ask you something, Vicar?鈥� Of course. 鈥淲hy do you have to be so miserable in Lent? Aren鈥檛 things miserable enough already?鈥� Well, I said, because it鈥檚 the season of the church鈥檚 year when we give some things up and take other things on, and reflect on the things we鈥檝e done wrong - but all for the good of our souls.聽

鈥淟ike medieval peasants whipping themselves and crawling over sharp gravel and being made to feel miserable? Why would anyone want to live like that now.鈥澛�

鈥淚鈥檝e given up Twitter,鈥� I said, 鈥業t鈥檚 not exactly S&M鈥� - and then I noticed we were standing outside a gym, with a glass wall, through which you could see lots of people on rowing machines and pec decks and benches, being shouted at, straining with effort, grimacing with pain, as they put themselves through their punishing daily routines.

Just as punishing as anything Medieval pilgrims put themselves through, it鈥檚 just that it鈥檚 for the good of the body rather than the soul (although maybe soul too, if you鈥檙e doing bikram yoga or high intensity spin cycling - the endorphin rush is like Ibiza in the summer of 1990, they say).

Blessed with a superb physique, dog walking and e-Biking are sufficient to keep me match-fit, but even so in my late fifties moob-droop ain鈥檛 going away, and I鈥檝e had to accept that reality. I鈥檝e had to accept that I鈥檓 never going to run for a bus again, or stoop to pick up a coin of less than a pound in value, or safely execute a cha cha to Crazy in Love without orthopaedics on stand by - it鈥檚 just not worth it.聽

聽But I鈥檝e also found that while training the body may produce diminishing returns, training the soul remains beneficial, in fact it gets more beneficial. Patience, sympathy, resilience, contentedness are among those benefits, and who wouldn鈥檛 want more of those, in times of stress and anxiety and doubt - especially as our bodies age and our bounce, the lustre of our hair, the smooth and reliable operation of our joints, recede behind us.聽

Well, we may never get our knees back, but we can learn how to enjoy better, and endure more bravely, what life brings us - so we don鈥檛 need to live on them.

Broadcast

  • Fri 6 Mar 2020 06:30
    大象传媒 Radio 2