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Nina Wadia and Emma Willis

Nina Wadia tests her memory in a brand new series for Channel 4 and Emma Willis has a new cooking programme on ITV with Tom Allen. Plus it's the Why Workshop with the QI Elves.

Nina Wadia, the actress best known for playing Zainab Masood in EastEnders, tells Zoe about her new endeavour to improve her memory. The brand-new series of 'Can I Improve My Memory?' Hosted by Sandi Toksvig is set to air this summer on Channel 4. Over the course of the series, five famous faces from the world of TV, entertainment and sport will enter a competition designed to improve their memories. The celebs competing to win the coveted Memory Champion title alongside Nadia are; Strictly Come Dancing legend Len Goodman, boxing heavyweight Chris Eubank, TV presenter Anna Richardson and Love Island Winner Amber Gill. Nina started playing Zainab in EastEnders in 2007 and left the show in February 2013. Since leaving the soap Nina has starred in 'Still Open All Hours鈥�, 鈥楬olby City鈥�, and 鈥楩inding Fatimah鈥�. In 2020, she appeared in the role of Anna Masani in the ninth season of 鈥楧eath in Paradise鈥�.

Emma Willis, the TV presenter and qualified Maternity Care Assistant, chats to Zo about her new cooking TV show with Tom Allen. 'Cooking With The Stars' on ITV will see eight celebrities, each paired with a professional chef who will mentor, teach and take them from passionate amateur to restaurant level chefs. The celeb contestants taking part in the series will be; Griff Rhys-Jones, Shirley Ballas, Naughty Boy, Denise Van Outen, Catherine Tyldesley, Harry Judd, Johnny Vegas and AJ Odudu. The chefs taking part in the series include; Rosemary Shrager, Jack Stein and Francesco Mazzei. Since 2018, Emma has hosted three series of Delivering Babies, which sees the mum-of-three trains at Harlow's Princess Alexandra Hospital in the busy maternity ward as a Maternity Care Assistant. She was working four shifts a week: day and night; alongside the midwifery team helping to deliver babies.

It鈥檚 The Why Workshop, and Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with more wonders and ponders, including your questions.

Along with Clare Runacres 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 and listeners on the line, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Wed 7 Jul 2021 06:30
大象传媒 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • The Doobie Brothers

    Long Train Runnin'

    • The Very Best Of The Doobie Brothers.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Sigrid

    Mirror

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • The Script

    Superheroes

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Daryl Hall & John Oates

    Maneater

    • Looking Back - The Best Of Hall & Oat.
    • BMG.

  • Portugal. The Man

    Feel It Still

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Odyssey

    Native New Yorker

    • Million Sellers Vol.17 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Alexander O鈥橬eal

    Criticize

    • Hits Album 7 (Various Artists).
    • Hits.
    • 9.

  • Ed Sheeran

    Bad Habits

    • (CD Single).
    • Asylum Records.

  • Britney Spears

    Oops!... I Did It Again

    • Now That's What I Call No.1's (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • The Temptations

    Get Ready

    • Dancing In The Street (Various Artis.
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • 补鈥恏补

    The Sun Always Shines on TV

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Beverley Knight & Mark Knight

    Everything鈥檚 Gonna Be Alright (feat. London Community Gospel Choir)

    • (CD Single).
    • Toolroom.

  • Billy Ocean

    When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going

    • Billy Ocean - Love Is For Ever (L.I.F.
    • Jive.

  • Rag鈥檔鈥橞one Man

    Alone

    • Life By Misadventure.
    • Columbia.

  • Joel Corry & MNEK

    Head & Heart

    • (CD Single).
    • Perfect Havoc.

  • ABC

    The Look Of Love

    • And Then She Kissed Me Vol.1 (Various.
    • Debutante.

  • Marshmello & Jonas Brothers

    Leave Before You Love Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • The Pussycat Dolls

    Don't Cha (feat. Busta Rhymes)

    • (CD Single).
    • A&M.

  • Bee Gees

    You Win Again

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.

  • Paul Simon

    Late in the Evening

    • The Paul Simon Anthology (Disc 1).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 10.

  • Martin Garrix, Bono & The Edge

    We Are The People

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.

  • Ellie Goulding

    Burn

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 86 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Riton & Nightcrawlers

    Friday (Dopamine Re-Edit) (feat. Mufasa & Hypeman)

    • (CD Single).
    • Ministry Of Sound.

  • Rose Royce

    Is It Love You're After

    • Sampled (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • John Travolta

    Greased Lightning

    • I Love Musicals CD2.
    • 9.

  • Catatonia

    Mulder And Scully

    • Simply The Best Radio Hits (Various).
    • Warner E.S.P..

  • Joni Mitchell

    A Case Of You

    • Blue.
    • Rhino.
    • 9.

  • Billy Joel

    Just The Way You Are

    • Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Vol.1.
    • CBS.

  • David Baddiel, Frank Skinner & The Lightning Seeds

    Three Lions

    • Beautiful Game (Various Artists).
    • Universal.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

I鈥檓 feeling on edge today, Zoe. Right on the edge of things, but in a good way.听It鈥檚 partly the football: the sense that something exciting is about to happen. It鈥檚 not just England: Scotland and Wales fans have also known this feeling lately, when their teams have given them a surge of belief.听

听

And it鈥檚 not just the football.听The end of term is coming for all those tired teachers.听And there鈥檚 a lot of talk about Freedom Day too, when we鈥檒l finally be shot of all the restrictions, isolations and frustrations of Covid. As if everything will go back to normal, and may even be better.听Maybe. I hope so. I need hope.

听

One of the hardest things for me,听as for a lot of people, was not being able to see my Mum, Marion.听When she got ill I was afraid I would never see her again.听And I felt the pain of friends who lost their Mums, without the chance to hold them and be held. So hard. I needed hope then. But the day did come when I walked into her house, put my arms around her, and breathed in her scent and felt her holding me,听as she first did when I was born, and it was beautiful. A sense of home. A little win after a long time of hurt.

听

The Christian holy stories, and those of other faiths, are full of the hope of heaven or a paradise to come, when all will be made well. So many songs of faith have been sung by people in pain, in prison or in slavery, who somehow managed to have hope. Singing that life is hard now but it鈥檚 not meant to be this way, it鈥檚 not always going to be this way, because, as the civil rights campaigner Jesse Jackson once said,听

it鈥檚 dark, but the morning comes.

听

And there has been a bit of darkness about lately hasn鈥檛 there? But the light hasn't totally gone out.听And suddenly, I feel a surge of optimism, in this national moment of anticipation when good things do feel possible again. An England win? A long hot summer of unrestricted fun? We鈥檒l see. But even if not,听I鈥檓 starting to believe there will be other wins.听Maybe there really is hope.

Broadcast

  • Wed 7 Jul 2021 06:30
    大象传媒 Radio 2