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Jamie Oliver chats to Zoe about his latest TV series, The Great Cookbook Challenge, and Zoe keeps the tunes rolling on Maximum Music Monday.

Jamie Oliver chats to Zoe about his latest TV series The Great Cookbook Challenge, which is a cooking competition show where Jamie and one of the biggest publishers in the UK embark on an nationwide search to find the next best-selling cookbook author, and offer the winning cook a huge publishing deal.

Plus, Zoe speaks to the latest celebrity to be unmasked from The Masked Singer about what it was like appearing on the show.

Zoe keeps the tunes rolling on Maximum Music Monday between 8 am and 9 am. And Zoe plays three disco classics from her personal collection in the Disco Ball at 8.30!

Along with Adam Porter on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Hugh Ferris 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 Pause For Thought from a writer and presenter Cole Moreton, and listeners calls, texts, emails and voicenotes, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Mon 24 Jan 2022 06:30

Music Played

  • Spiller

    Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) (feat. Sophie Ellis鈥怋extor)

    • (CD Single).
    • Positiva.
  • The Divine Comedy

    The Best Mistakes

    • The Best Of.
    • Divine Comedy Records.
  • George Benson

    Never Give Up On A Good Thing

    • George Benson - The Very Best Of.
    • Warner E.S.P..
    • 3.
  • Aretha Franklin

    Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)

    • Aretha Franklin - 30 Greatest Hits.
    • Atlantic.
  • Dua Lipa

    Love Again

    • Future Nostalgia.
    • Warner Bros.
  • The Mock Turtles

    Can You Dig It? (Remix)

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
  • Carolina Gait谩n, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero, Stephanie Beatriz & [Disney]

    We Don't Talk About Bruno

    • Encanto O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Walt Disney Records.
  • Basement Jaxx

    Do Your Thing

    • (CD Single).
    • XL.
    • 12.
  • Pet Shop Boys

    West End Girls

    • Now That's What I Call Music '86.
    • Now.
  • Junior Senior

    Move Your Feet

    • Smash Hits Chart Summer 2003.
    • EMI/Virgin/Universal Music.
  • Robert Palmer

    Addicted To Love

    • Sounds Of The 80s - Like A Record Baby (1984-1986) (Various Artists).
    • UMC.
  • Griff & Sigrid

    Head On Fire

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Records.
  • Rick Astley

    Together Forever

    • NOW - Yearbook 1988 (Various Artists).
    • NOW.
  • Take That

    Greatest Day

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 1.
  • Natasha Bedingfield

    Unwritten

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.
  • Kylie Minogue & Jessie Ware

    Kiss Of Life

    • DISCO: Guest List Edition.
    • BMG Rights Management.
  • Bruno Mars

    Marry You

    • Doo-Wops & Hooligans.
    • Elektra.
    • 6.
  • A Taste of Honey

    Boogie Oogie Oogie

    • Disco Fever 2 (Various Artists).
    • Universal.
  • Liquid Gold

    Dance Yourself Dizzy

    • NOW Yearbook 1980 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 40.
  • Bee Gees

    Stayin' Alive

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.
  • George Cosby

    We Stand Alone

    • We Stand Alone.
    • Columbia.
  • Supertramp

    Give A Little Bit

    • The Very Best Of Supertramp.
    • Polygram Tv.
  • The Stone Roses

    She Bangs The Drums

    • The Very Best Of The Stone Roses.
    • Silvertone.
  • Cast

    Alright

    • Alright.
    • Polydor.
    • 1.
  • Ella Henderson

    Brave

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • Frank Wilson

    Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)

    • The Best Northern Soul All-Nighter (V.
    • Virgin.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

I do love life but sometimes it all feels a bit much this time of year, doesn鈥檛 it? January is a long month. Spring seems far off in the future. When the rain is in my eyes and the cold in my bones, change feels impossible - even though I know the seasons will go on doing their thing. The days will get longer.听The flowers will bloom.听New life will come, if I can just hold on. But right now, I feel like I did when the boiler broke last winter, the kids were freezing and the dog was freezing and everybody was moaning. I was banging this and prodding that and praying desperately for a spark of warmth, and bits were falling off that I had no idea how to put back.听

I just couldn鈥檛 do it. I hated to admit this,听but I needed some help. And I thought of that when I saw the video Adele posted, saying sorry for cancelling her shows in Las Vegas.听Fans had spent thousands on the tickets and travel and some were even in the air when the announcement came. They were very angry, for good reasons, but I thought she did sound genuine in the clip. Apologetic. Tearful. Sincere. This was a direct appeal for forgiveness. Now I don鈥檛 know Adele at all, but watching her, I felt connected in some small way, because when we see someone in trouble humans are hard-wired to connect.听

The late, great Desmond Tutu, archbishop and hero of the struggle against apartheid, talked about ubuntu. A belief system he grew up with in South Africa and found echoed in Christianity, which he summed up in a few words:听鈥淚 am because we are.鈥 I can鈥檛 be a human being on my lonesome, he said. I wouldn鈥檛 know how to speak, or to walk or to think, without learning these things from others. We need each other.听I am connected to you and you to me. And for me, that makes it easier to forgive - and hopefully be forgiven.听 It makes it easier to stop and say sorry if I need to, like Adele. Or to call the boilerman. Because I think it also means it鈥檚 okay - really okay - to ask for help.

Broadcast

  • Mon 24 Jan 2022 06:30