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Tom Jones and the Thursday Theme

Jo chats to showbiz legend Tom Jones about his forthcoming album Surrounded By Time.

Plus Jo has the Thursday Theme - songs relating to relaxation.

Jo chats to showbiz legend Tom Jones about his forthcoming album Surrounded By Time, which the singer is releasing at the age of 80.

Surrounded By Time is out on April 23rd. Co-produced by Ethan Johns and Mark Woodward, it marks out new territory with a sonic landscape of outstanding musicianship and a vocal delivery that re-imagines a diverse set of songs of personal importance that have impacted the artist throughout a long career.

Surrounded By Time inhabits new ground, with Talking Reality Television Blues a startling opener that catalogues the impact and changing role of television from its beginning to current times. A driving, almost menacing track accompanies a cool, spoken-word vocal from a performer who has an intimate personal and working knowledge of this cultural force. As Tom explains, 鈥滻 was there when TV started -- didn鈥檛 know I鈥檇 become a part of it -- but it could be that its power is to remind us how wonderful, crazy and inventive we are, but also how scary the reality it reflects can be.鈥�

Plus Jo has the Thursday Theme - songs relating to relaxation, as April is Stress Awareness Month. Send all your peaceful and calming song suggestions to jo.whiley@bbc.co.uk

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Thu 8 Apr 2021 19:30
大象传媒 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Laura Mvula

    Church Girl

  • Richard Walters

    Unconditional

    • Unconditional.
    • 1.

  • k.d. lang

    Miss Chatelaine (St. Tropez Mix)

    • Miss Chatelaine (St. Tropez Mix).
    • Nonesuch Records.
    • 1.

  • The Selecter

    Missing Words

    • Too Much Pressure.
    • 2 Tone Records/Chrysalis Records.
    • 1.

  • Rag鈥檔鈥橞one Man

    Fall In Love Again

    • Life By Misadventure.
    • Columbia.

  • Paul Weller

    Shades Of Blue

    • Cosmic Fringes.
    • Polydor.

  • Little Richard

    Rip It Up

    • Little Richard 22 Classic Cuts.
    • Ace.

  • Tom Jones

    One More Cup Of Coffee

    • Surrounded By Time.
    • EMI.

  • Vaughn Monroe

    Riders In The Sky

  • Elvis Presley

    Heartbreak Hotel

  • Tom Jones

    Delilah

    • Delilah - Jukebox 60's Hits.
    • Old Gold.

  • Groove Armada

    At The River

    • (CD Single).
    • Pepper.

  • Air

    All I Need

    • Source Records.

  • Morcheeba

    The Sea

  • This Mortal Coil

    Song To The Siren

    • 4 A.D.

  • John Martyn

    Sunshine's Better

    • Cafe Del Mar (The Best Of Compiled By Jose Padilla).
    • Mercury.
    • 6.

Broadcast

  • Thu 8 Apr 2021 19:30
    大象传媒 Radio 2