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Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball and the team! Zoe chats to Libby Jackson from the UK Space Agency about the upcoming NASA rocket launching into space!

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball! Libby Jackson from the UK Space agency tells Zoe all about the historic NASA rocket launch into space.

It鈥檚 The Why Workshop, and Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with more wonders and ponders. Today we find out why clouds don't freeze and how come all plants are round.

With the usual team of Tina Daheley and Richie Anderson, Zoe 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 Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Wed 27 May 2020 06:30
大象传媒 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Wham!

    Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go

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

  • Niall Horan

    Black And White

    • Heartbreak Weather.
    • Capitol Records.

  • Everything but the Girl

    Missing (Todd Terry Remix)

    Remix Artist: Todd Terry.
    • Passion (Various Artists).
    • Universal.

  • John Newman

    Come And Get It

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 001.

  • Whitney Houston

    How Will I Know

    • The Best Of.
    • Arista.

  • Gotye

    Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra)

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • Modjo

    Lady (Hear Me Tonight)

    • Now 47 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Isley Brothers

    Summer Breeze

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

  • Travis

    Side

    • (CD Single).
    • Independiente.

  • Melanie C

    Blame It On Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Red Girl Media Ltd..

  • Mike Oldfield

    Moonlight Shadow

    • Now 1983 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.
    • 13.

  • ABBA

    Lay All Your Love On Me

    • Abba Gold (40th Anniversary Edition).
    • Polar.
    • 005.

  • The Killers

    Caution

    • Imploding The Mirage.
    • Island Records.

  • David Guetta

    When Love Takes Over (feat. Kelly Rowland)

    • (CD Single).
    • Positiva.

  • Queen

    Crazy Little Thing Called Love

    • The Game.
    • Island.
    • 5.

  • The Coral

    Pass It On

    • (CD Single).
    • Deltasonic.

  • The Mock Turtles

    Can You Dig It? (Remix)

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • Kelly Clarkson

    I Dare You

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Talk Talk

    It's My Life

    • More Greatest Hits Of 80's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • The Weeknd

    In Your Eyes

    • After Hours.
    • XO.

  • Four Tops

    Walk Away Ren茅e

    • The Four Tops - The Singles Collectio.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • David Bowie

    Heroes

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Todd Rundgren

    I Saw The Light

    • My Girl (Original 1992 Film S/Track).
    • Epic.

  • Fountains of Wayne

    Stacy's Mom

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • Nell Bryden & 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra

    Amy (Radio 2 House Music, 14 May 2020)

  • Pet Shop Boys

    West End Girls

    • Now That's What I Call Music '86.
    • Now.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
From Rae Duke, Religion and Ethics teacher and broadcaster.聽
Today is my Mum and Dad鈥檚 wedding anniversary. 38 years ago they said 鈥業 do鈥� and, although I wasn鈥檛 there to witness it, I did later manage (aged 4) to tamper with one of their most treasured memories of the day. Because, several years before that favourite childhood game of recording your own radio show onto a cassette player, (please tell me you did this too Zoe!) I unintentionally recorded over a song written by my uncle and performed by him on their big day.聽
Just one verse and chorus into the personalised ballad comes the rambunctious babbling of a much younger Rae, an embarrassing audio debut! Despite my interruptions though, my uncle鈥檚 song still makes for a wonderful listen; evoking the mood and transporting you back in time. Whilst heaps of stuff is different right now, one stalwart saviour is music. I鈥檓 reminded of this every single day; a toddler鈥檚 heat-induced meltdown diffused by a Disney sing-along around the piano, the hallowed first drink of the weekend, enhanced by Fleetwood Mac鈥檚 鈥楻umours鈥�. There鈥檚 been an especially powerful example I鈥檝e loved following of just how music can raise spirits, and that鈥檚 of a London vicar (he goes by the title 鈥榯he Portobello Priest鈥�), who鈥檚 taken a couple of big speakers to the streets outside London鈥檚 hospitals and has then boomed out of them Judy Collins鈥� stunning version of that favourite hymn, 鈥楢mazing Grace鈥�.聽
The response has been truly amazing; an emotional outpouring on social media after passers by captured the musical moment on their phones, and care workers and patients alike finding great comfort in hearing the song from inside the hospital. The project isn鈥檛 stopping there though鈥� as Judy (who鈥檚 quite possibly the most glamorous octogenarian folk singer of all time), is teaming up with voices from around the world to re-release her beautiful rendition of Amazing Grace 鈥� and all the proceeds are going to the World Health Organisation Solidarity Response Fund. With this global virtual choir backing her, made up of both pros and those who only sing in the shower, Judy is setting out to bring some healing and calm to the world via a song that鈥檚 been a source of hope for centuries. She says: 鈥淲e will survive this with love and music and amazing grace.鈥�

Broadcast

  • Wed 27 May 2020 06:30
    大象传媒 Radio 2