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Tom Allen and Jay's Virtual Quiz

Tom Allen, the comedian and TV presenter is on the line, and Jay's Virtual Quiz returns for another round to test the team on their general knowledge.

Tom Allen, the comedian and TV presenter is on the show, telling Zoe all about taking part in this year's Great Stand Up To Cancer Bake Off. Tom started as a stand up at the age of 22 and went on to win both So You Think You鈥檙e Funny in Edinburgh and the 大象传媒 New Comedy Awards in the same year. Since then he has honed his unique style of sharp, acerbic wit and camp, riotous storytelling by performing to audiences all over the UK and around the world. He has also been making several appearances on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Mock the Week, The Great British Bake Off鈥檚 Extra Slice, Celebrity The Crystal Maze as well as the John Bishop Show and Channel 4鈥檚 Comedy Gala at the O2 along with several appearances on Just a Minute including the 50th anniversary episode alongside Prince Charles.

Jay Flynn returns with another round of his Virtual Radio Quiz where he tests the team on their general knowledge to see who comes out on top.

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 with Nick Baines as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Thu 11 Feb 2021 06:30
大象传媒 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson

    Say Say Say

    • The 7" Singles Box.
    • MPL.

  • Gary Barlow

    Enough Is Enough (feat. Beverley Knight)

    • Music Played By Humans.
    • Polydor.

  • Rachel Stevens

    Sweet Dreams My LA Ex

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • The Bangles

    Walk Like An Egyptian

    • Take A Break (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Dean Martin

    Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu)

    • Best Of The Capitol Years - Dean Mart.
    • Capitol.

  • Miley Cyrus

    Edge Of Midnight (Midnight Sky Remix) (feat. Stevie Nicks)

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Luther Vandross & Janet Jackson

    The Best Things In Life Are Free

    • (CD Single).
    • DEF JAM.

  • Jason Derulo

    Lifestyle (feat. Adam Levine)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Foo Fighters

    You Should Be Dancing (Sofa Session, 10 February 2021)

  • Four Tops

    It's The Same Old Song

  • Charlie Puth

    Marvin Gaye (feat. Meghan Trainor)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Boy Meets Girl

    Waiting For A Star To Fall

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

  • Skerryvore

    You & I

    • (CD Single).
    • Tyree Records.

  • Glen Campbell

    Rhinestone Cowboy

    • Ultimate Country (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • Jessie Ware

    Remember Where You Are

    • What's Your Pleasure?.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • 补鈥恏补

    The Living Daylights

    • The Best Of James Bond 30th Anniversa.
    • EMI.
    • 11.

  • Nina Simone

    Ain't Got No, I Got Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony BMG.

  • Marisha Wallace

    Faith

    • Tomorrow.
    • Decca.

  • Lou Bega

    Mambo No. 5

    • Now 44 (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Baccara

    Yes Sir, I Can Boogie

    • Million Sellers Vol.14 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • KT Tunstall

    Suddenly I See

    • (CD Single).
    • Relentless Records.

  • Passenger

    Sword From The Stone

    • Songs For The Drunk And Broken Hearted.
    • Black Crow Records.

  • Gibson Brothers

    Cuba

    • Disco & Dance Party Hits (Various Artists).
    • BMG.

  • BTS

    Dynamite

    • (CD Single).
    • BigHit Entertainment.

  • Haircut One Hundred

    Fantastic Day

    • Pelican West - Deluxe Edition.
    • Cherry Pop.
    • 007.

  • Guns N鈥� Roses

    Welcome To The Jungle

    • Greatest Hits.
    • Geffen.

  • Mental as Anything

    Live It Up

    • Drive Time (Various Artists).
    • Dino.

  • Ike & Tina Turner

    Proud Mary

    • What You See Is What You Get.
    • Start.

  • Nathan Evans

    Wellerman - Sea Shanty

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Carly Simon

    Nobody Does It Better

    • The Very Best Of Carly Simon.
    • Global Television.

Pause For Thought

Nick Baines, the Bishop of Leeds:

I grew up in Liverpool, by the sea. Even though I now live in Yorkshire - between the coasts - I can still smell the salt in the air and listen for the sound of seagulls enjoying target practice on unsuspecting children. Somehow it鈥檚 like a memory muscle that takes me straight back to the smells and sounds of my youth.

I remember being taught sea shanties at school and putting them in the same bracket as other hey-nonny-no folk music - something that didn鈥檛 appeal when I was discovering Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple. It was what we used to call 鈥榮andals and socks鈥� music. So, I have ignored them for decades until - yes, you鈥檝e guessed it - Nathan Evans sang one called 鈥榃ellerman鈥� on TikTok and it all kicked off. Now, just to add to my surprise, I keep seeing big names like Gary Barlow and Ronan Keating picking them up and doing their own.

What is going on?

Well, I think it鈥檚 brilliant. Not only have loads of people been getting together virtually to sing these old songs, but they鈥檙e also discovering a rich part of our tradition as an island people. Sea shanties aren鈥檛 merely romantic ditties about abstracted emotions. No, they鈥檙e rooted in and emerge from the working experience of ordinary people in local places. They鈥檙e about everyday things. They鈥檙e sometimes romantic in substance, but always coloured by the stuff of communal work and colleagues and hard lives.

In other words, they sing of what they know. And the singing has a raw authenticity because it鈥檚 drawn from the depths of real life with all its edges unrounded.

I think this is why I have rediscovered sea shanties with surprised joy. I come from a tradition which is sunk in poems and songs and stories of everyday life, human experience in all its richness and agony: the Psalms; Jesus telling stories and using images that people could relate to (usually called parables) because they emerged from normal life. And people got stuck in - together - talking, singing, playing.

Why don鈥檛 you try it? Sing along with a shanty and your spirits rise. And I still have no idea what a wellerman is.

Broadcast

  • Thu 11 Feb 2021 06:30
    大象传媒 Radio 2