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Dermot O'Leary sits in

Wake up and embrace the day with Dermot O'Leary! Rock music icon Roger Daltrey phones in to tell us about the new look of his charity gigs!

Wake up and embrace the day with Dermot O'Leary and the team. Rock music icon and lead singer of The Who, Roger Daltrey call in to tell us what we can expect from the new look of his charity gigs!

Dermot chats to toady's Long Distance DJ listener Linda, who wanted to play a track for her son Lewis and his family living in Singapore. Plus its National Thank A Teacher Day so we hear your brilliant teacher tales.

With the usual team of Tina Daheley and Richie Anderson, Dermot 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 Rae Duke and listeners on the line, as Dermot entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Wed 20 May 2020 06:30

Music Played

  • Olivia Newton鈥怞ohn & Electric Light Orchestra

    Xanadu

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.
  • Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

    A Good Day Is Hard To Find

    • Manchester Calling.
    • Virgin EMI Records.
  • Years & Years

    King

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 90 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers

    Universally Speaking

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.
  • Billy Joel

    Don't Ask Me Why

    • Billy Joel - Glass Houses.
    • CBS.
  • Wham!

    I'm Your Man

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

    Little Thing Called Love

    • Twenty Twenty.
    • Decca.
  • Adele

    Rolling In The Deep

    • (CD Single).
    • XL.
    • 1.
  • Rihanna

    Umbrella (feat. JAY-Z)

    • (CD Single).
    • Def Jam.
  • Bryan Adams

    Cloud Number Nine

    • Now 43 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • The Weeknd

    In Your Eyes

    • After Hours.
    • XO.
  • Craig David

    7 Days

    • Now 47 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • Jessie Ware

    Save A Kiss

    • What's Your Pleasure?.
    • Virgin.
  • Peter Gabriel

    Solsbury Hill

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
  • The Boo Radleys

    Wake Up Boo!

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

    Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 1.
  • Kelly Clarkson

    I Dare You

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • Electronic

    Getting Away With It...

  • Sam & Dave

    Hold On, I'm Comin'

    • Atlantic Soul (Various Artists).
    • Warner E.S.P..
  • Alexander O鈥橬eal

    Criticize

    • Hits Album 7 (Various Artists).
    • Hits.
    • 9.
  • Simon & Garfunkel

    Mrs. Robinson

    • Old Friends.
    • Columbia.
  • Niall Horan

    Black And White

    • Heartbreak Weather.
    • Capitol Records.
  • The Who

    Won't Get Fooled Again

    • The Who Hits 50! (Deluxe Edition).
    • Polydor.
    • 021.
  • Bonnie Tyler & Lorraine Crosby

    Through Thick And Thin (I'll Stand By You)

  • The Who

    Who Are You

    • CSI: O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Hip-O-Records.
    • 9.
  • Joni Mitchell

    Big Yellow Taxi

    • Joni Mitchell.
    • Reprise.
  • Sigrid

    Don't Feel Like Crying

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
  • Soul II Soul

    Back to Life (However Do You Want Me) (feat. Caron Wheeler)

    • NOW 100 Hits 80s No.1s (Various Artists).
    • NOW.
  • The Specials

    Ghost Town

    • NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC 1981 (VARIOUS).
    • Two-Tone.
    • 5.
  • The Beatles

    With A Little Help From My Friends

    • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
    • Parlophone.
    • 2.
  • The Shires

    About Last Night

    • Good Years.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd.
  • Diddy & Faith Evans

    I'll Be Missing You (feat. 112)

    • Huge Hits 1997 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.
  • Barbra Streisand

    Woman In Love

    • All Time Greatest Love Songs: Vol III.
    • Columbia.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
From Rae Duke, Religion and Ethics teacher and broadcaster.聽
A few weeks ago I did something I haven鈥檛 done since school. It wasn鈥檛 sliding the tables back an inch every time the maths teacher turned his back, ending up with our desks flush against the wall. Nor was it sneaking sweets into church services. And neither was it the rebellious act (though to us only genius at the time) of bringing in a toasted sandwich maker, finding an empty classroom and transforming our humble cheese and tomato sarnies into golden, temptingly warm lunch treats. (I鈥檓 still so grateful that smoke alarm never did detect us!) It was, however, roller-blading.聽
A couple of decades ago I used to spend hours zooming around on a pair of inline skates 鈥 I loved it. But I鈥檝e grown a little rusty on those underfoot wheels since and only just managed to avoid pavement tumbles. I鈥檓 a work in progress. Regardless of the grazed knee or three it might take to get there, I felt like this was the right moment, what with the gift of time some of us have been given, to ditch the relative comfort of a walk or a jog and instead attempt to glide my way back to the glory days of skating. (If not now, then when? and all that鈥) One of my favourite quotes of all time is attributed to the great Christian writer William Shedd. He said this: 鈥淎 ship is safest in the harbour, but that鈥檚 not what a ship is built for.鈥澛
At the moment, all of us have left the safety of harbour and life as we knew it. We鈥檙e uncomfortably out at sea. Whether making difficult decisions to help keep a business alive, turning hands to home schooling, or doing as Richie鈥檚 doing and getting the low down on a wholly different kind of travel 鈥 everything鈥檚 at sixes and sevens. Of course the image of leaving a safe harbour feels even more of a fit for essential workers, particularly our NHS staff. I believe these weeks/months are providing a pause to contemplate what we were (and weren鈥檛) made for. What we long to rush back to and the stuff we鈥檒l be lighter and brighter without. Perhaps it鈥檚 also who we were made for, as its clear that we were built for connection. That, and a spot of roller-skating!

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  • Wed 20 May 2020 06:30