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Dermot O'Leary sits in

Wake up and embrace the day with Dermot O'Leary and the team. Bill Bailey calls in, having just got back from his holiday on the south coast.

Wake up and embrace the day with Dermot O'Leary and the team.

Dermot chats to Bill Bailey about the latest series of In The Long Run on Sky One. Dermot also finds out about Bill's recent social distance sky dive whilst on a camping trip in Dorset!

In Dermot's Breakfast Book Club for Kids we chat to Lyndsey and her twins Dexter and Darcey who give us their brilliant review of Come Down Mr Jangles by Sue Ashworth Johnson.

Along with Tina Daheley on news, Richie Anderson on travel, Dermot and the team have the best start to your morning. With celeb guests, quizzes, headlines and tunes chosen by listeners!

There's also a daily Pause For Thought from Sarah Joseph and listeners on the line, as Dermot entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Wed 12 Aug 2020 06:30
大象传媒 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Dancing In The Dark

    • Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits.
    • Columbia.

  • Dua Lipa

    Hallucinate

    • Future Nostalgia.
    • Warner Records.

  • Everything but the Girl

    Missing (Todd Terry Remix)

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

  • Liberty X

    Just A Little

    • Now 52 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Bryan Adams

    Summer Of '69

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

  • The Primitives

    Crash

    • Into The Eighties - Various Artists.
    • Global Television.

  • Coldplay

    Viva La Vida

    • Viva La Vida Or Death & All His Friends.
    • Parlophone.
    • 1.

  • Katy Perry

    Smile

  • Blondie

    Maria

  • Harry Styles

    Adore You

    • Fine Line.
    • Columbia.

  • Prince & The Revolution

    Let's Go Crazy

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Phil Collins

    Two Hearts

    • Singles.
    • Rhino.

  • Kygo & Tina Turner

    What's Love Got To Do With It

    • Golden Hour.
    • Columbia.

  • Gabrielle

    When A Woman

    • (CD Single).
    • Go Beat.

  • Sam Smith

    My Oasis (feat. Burna Boy)

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.

  • Supergrass

    Grace

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Ben Folds

    Landed

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.

  • Deacon Blue

    Fergus Sings The Blues

    • Deacon Blue- Our Town (Greatest Hits).
    • Columbia.

  • Jason Derulo

    Take You Dancing

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Stevie Wonder

    As

    • Stevie Wonder - The Definitive Collec.
    • Universal.

  • The Real Thing

    You To Me Are Everything

    • In The Summertime-Sound Of 70's, Part.
    • Old Gold.

  • The Feeling

    Never Be Lonely

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Kid Creole and the Coconuts

    Annie I'm Not Your Daddy

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • Aloe Blacc

    My Way

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

  • Swing Out Sister

    Breakout

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

  • Calvin Harris & Rag鈥檔鈥橞one Man

    Giant

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Moby

    Porcelain

  • The Jam

    A Town Called Malice

    • Jam Story.
    • Universal.

  • Mark Ronson

    Valerie (feat. Amy Winehouse)

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony BMG.

  • Dolly Parton

    9 to 5

    • Dolly Parton: The Ultimate Collection.
    • BMG/RCA.

  • James Bay

    Chew On My Heart

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Records.

  • Adele

    Make You Feel My Love

    • 19.
    • XL.
    • 1.

  • Doves

    Kingdom of Rust

    • (CD Single).
    • Heavenly.
    • 1.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
From Sarah Joseph, Editor of a Muslim lifestyle magazine:
I have been spending A LOT of time in my garden.聽 If the truth be told, it has been an absolute life saver in lockdown.聽 I鈥檓 blessed and fortunate to have it. This year, we got started early. The raised vegetable beds had been mulched and covered over winter. We started sowing tomato and chilli seeds in January. By March I was playing musical chairs with dozens of seed trays and pots. And thank goodness we did! Because then Lockdown happened, and getting seeds and soil was no easy task. We garden organically, and we tend to grow two types of plants: Plants that the insects love, and plants that we can eat. Our insect loving plants are currently alive with activity.聽
The Hollyhock is over three metres tall, and I love to stand and watch huge bumble bees clamber into the flowers, covered in pollen 鈥� almost too heavily laden to fly off. But by far my favourite plant for the insects is the oregano. Everyday I watch it, alive with bees and Gatekeeper butterflies. As for plants we can eat. We have grown well over forty types of vegetables this year, including a lot of new plants. Rhubarb has given us a fair few crumbles and rhubarb ice-lollies are sharp and delicious on a hot day. I wasn鈥檛 expecting any in the first year鈥� but we have ten artichokes on our plant grown from seed I was feeling rather happy with everything, but then鈥� well... It鈥檚 not all been plain sailing. I have been fighting powdery mildew with neem oil 鈥� which works by the way!聽
And we lost FIFTY tomato plants to blight in one night! It was at that point the Qur鈥檃nic verse hit home: 鈥淗e causes crops to grow for you [鈥 in this, behold, there is a message indeed for people who think!鈥� It鈥檚 not me making the growing happen. I facilitate the growing 鈥� I buy the seeds, and I sow them, but ultimately, I believe there is another force at work which causes the growth. Some people will call that force 鈥渘ature鈥� 鈥� but for me it goes further than that, to a point outside of space and time, to something that in English, I call God. And I am forever grateful for the bounty it brings! Indeed, Dermot, if only I was in the studio and could bring you one of the rhubarb iced-lollies鈥�

Broadcast

  • Wed 12 Aug 2020 06:30
    大象传媒 Radio 2