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Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball and Carol Klein. It鈥檚 The Why Workshop, and Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with more wonders and ponders, including your questions.

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball! Zoe chats to gardening sensation Carol Klein about her book RHS Grow Your Own Veg and Fruit Bible as well as answering all our listeners gardening woes.

Zoe talks to 13 year old Ava Garside, who tells Zoe all about her science project which helps people avoid air pollution. Eva's invention has just won a the UK Space Agency SatelLife Competition.

It鈥檚 The Why Workshop, and Zoe quizzes the QI Elves this week they answer how cats know where they live and how the term unsavoury came about.

Along with Tina Daheley on news, Jules Lang 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 Rae Duke and listeners on the line, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Wed 15 Jul 2020 06:30
大象传媒 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Elton John

    I'm Still Standing

    • Diamonds.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Topic

    Breaking Me (feat. A7S)

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • Shania Twain

    That Don't Impress Me Much

    • Now 44 (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Vampire Weekend

    This Life

    • Father Of The Bride.
    • Columbia.

  • Elvis Presley

    Moody Blue

    • Presley - The All Time Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.

  • Chaka Khan

    I Feel For You

    • The Divas Of Dance (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • Coldplay

    Adventure Of A Lifetime

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Ella Henderson

    Take Care Of You

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • James Ingram & Michael McDonald

    Yah Mo B There

    • Duets - 36 Of The World's Greatest Ev.
    • Telstar.

  • The Mamas & the Papas

    California Dreamin'

    • The Best Of.
    • MCA.
    • 2.

  • Rita Ora

    Anywhere

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Queen

    A Kind Of Magic

    • Queen - Greatest Hits II.
    • Parlophone.

  • Regard & RAYE

    Secrets

    • (CD Single).
    • Ministry Of Sound.

  • All Saints

    Pure Shores

    • (CD Single).
    • London.
    • 8.

  • Becky Hill & Sigala

    Heaven On My Mind

    • CD Single.
    • Polydor.

  • Kylie Minogue

    On A Night Like This

    • Light Years.
    • Parlophone.

  • Pharrell Williams

    Happy

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande

    Rain On Me (Purple Disco Machine Remix)

    Remix Artist: Purple Disco Machine.
    • Chromatica.
    • Interscope Records.

  • Boy Meets Girl

    Waiting For A Star To Fall

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.

  • The La鈥檚

    There She Goes

    • Love - 38 All Time Love Classics.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Blur

    Parklife

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • John Legend

    Never Break

    • Bigger Love.
    • Columbia.

  • Everything but the Girl

    Missing (Todd Terry Remix)

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

  • Westlife

    Hello My Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI.

  • The Isley Brothers

    Behind A Painted Smile

    • Isley Brothers - Greatest Motown Hits.
    • Motown.

  • Simple Minds

    Don't You (Forget About Me)

    • Glittering Prize - Best Of Simple Min.
    • Virgin.

  • U2

    The Fly

    • The Best Of U2: 1990-2000.
    • Island.

  • Robyn

    Dancing On My Own

  • Tom Walker

    Wait For You

    • (CD Single).
    • Relentless Records.

  • Glenn Frey

    The Heat Is On

    • Above The Clouds: The Very Best Of.
    • Universal.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
From Rae Duke, Religion and Ethics teacher and broadcaster.聽
The last few months will be remembered for many things but in our household what won鈥檛 go unforgotten is the insight my husband and I have had into each other鈥檚 working lives. We鈥檝e often said how much we鈥檇 love to do a grown-up version of take your friend or spouse to work day 鈥� just to get a glimpse into what we do during our, as Dolly sung, 9-5鈥檚. Now, we鈥檝e had our chance. As we鈥檝e beavered away at our desks, we鈥檝e had more of a sense of one another鈥檚 day-to-day realities. I鈥檓 a teacher, so from my end of the house it鈥檚 online lessons on the ethics of veganism, and my students鈥� 鈥榥o homework鈥� excuses expertly morphing from 鈥渢he dog ate it鈥� to 鈥渕y wifi went down as you set it鈥�.聽聽
My husband鈥檚 a doctor so from his; phone and video consultations with patients and prescription printouts all with a bagful of PPE to hand, ready for any in-person visits. These peeks into each other鈥檚 worlds have been so interesting - and they鈥檝e been widespread. I鈥檝e loved the many memes whose gist was, 鈥渘ever again will we question what a stay-at-home parent does all day鈥� or those that attempted to put into words their now visceral recognition of exactly what a teacher does. The singer Nick Cave wrote recently about what he calls 鈥渢he compassionate act of witnessing鈥�, he said; 鈥渓ove has something to do with the notion of being seen.鈥� The importance of visibility and understanding others was never better put or lived-out than by the American activist for Children鈥檚 Rights, Marian Wright Edelman. She was the daughter of a Baptist minister who went on to become the first woman of colour to be admitted to the Mississippi Bar; her social Christianity led her to the Civil Rights Movement, organising marches with Martin Luther King in the 60鈥檚.聽
But what she鈥檚 best known for is the claim she made which went on to underpin a lifelong dedication to helping disadvantage kids. She said: 鈥測ou can鈥檛 be what you can鈥檛 see鈥�, in other words, young people need a full rainbow of faces to model the education routes and career paths available to them. Marian鈥檚 optimistic view of moral progress is rooted in being seen. As this illuminating time tails off she reminds me to hold onto all the new ways of seeing 2020 has granted us.

Broadcast

  • Wed 15 Jul 2020 06:30
    大象传媒 Radio 2