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Sam Heughan and Eve Muirhead

Zoe chats to Sam Heughan about the latest series of Outlander, and Eve Muirhead discusses Team GB's curling gold medal win at the 2022 Winter Olympics!

Zoe chats to actor and author Sam Heughan about the latest series of Outlander, and Team GB curler Eve Muirhead discusses the curling team's gold medal win at the 2022 Winter Olympics!

Along with Clare Runacres 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 daily Pause For Thought from writer and broadcaster Sheridan Voysey and listeners' calls, texts, emails and voice notes, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Tue 22 Feb 2022 06:30
大象传媒 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Bryan Ferry

    Let's Stick Together

    • Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music - Street Life.
    • Eg.

  • George Ezra

    Anyone For You (Tiger Lily)

    • Gold Rush Kid.
    • Columbia.

  • Laura Branigan

    Self Control

    • Now 1984 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Rita Ora

    Anywhere

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • The Coral

    In The Morning

    • (CD Single).
    • Deltasonic.

  • Odyssey

    Going Back To My Roots

    • Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.
    • 6.

  • Bruno Mars

    24K Magic

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Liam Gallagher

    Everything's Electric

  • Love Affair

    Everlasting Love

    • This Hasn't Changed Us.
    • RPM Records.
    • 001.

  • Gabrielle

    When A Woman

    • (CD Single).
    • Go Beat.

  • Rihanna

    Only Girl (In The World)

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 77 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Tears for Fears & 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra

    Sowing The Seeds Of Love (Radio 2 Piano Room, 21 Feb 2022)

  • Father John Misty

    Funny Girl

    • Chlo毛 And The Next 20th Century.
    • Bella Union Records.

  • SORANA & David Guetta

    Red Rum

    • CD Single.
    • Atlantic.

  • Donna Summer

    On The Radio

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

  • New Order

    Regret

    • Glorious (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Charlie Puth

    Light Switch

    • Charlie.
    • Atlantic.

  • Rick Astley

    Never Gonna Give You Up

    • Rick Astley - Whenever You Need Someb.
    • RCA.

  • Sister Sledge

    Frankie

    • Back To The 80s (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.

  • Lukas Setto

    Here You Are

    • (CD Single).
    • Scorpia Records.

  • Gwen Stefani & Akon

    The Sweet Escape

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.

  • Modjo

    Lady (Hear Me Tonight)

    • Now 47 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The White Stripes

    Seven Nation Army

    • (CD Single).
    • Xls.

  • Cast

    Walkaway

    • Crush (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Joshua Kadison

    Jessie

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.

  • Jackie Wilson

    I Get the Sweetest Feeling

    • Time For Love (Various Artists).
    • Truetrax.

  • Natalie Imbruglia

    Nothing Missing

    • Firebird.
    • BMG Rights Management.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

They may have no more authority than a scribbled-on napkin, but I get a kick out of unofficial holidays. This week alone has a Sticky Bun Day, a Sword Swallowers Day, and even a Dog Biscuit Appreciation Day! In this unofficial calendar of festivities, today is Be Humble Day鈥�24-hours to banish boasting, swallow pride and eat humble pie. In self-effacing fashion, we don鈥檛 know who started Be Humble Day. Checking the hashtag this morning, I鈥檝e found tweets about learning from others and not tooting our own horns鈥攁ll good advice. No one likes arrogance. Along with kindness and generosity, humility is an often-cited quality of a good person. All this is fascinating when you consider that humility hasn鈥檛 always been a virtue.

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As historians tell us, the ancient world considered humility a weakness. What was prized instead was听honour鈥攈aving your merits recognised and your name praised. Boasting about your achievements was expected in the Greco-Roman world, and one never humbled themselves to others as that would sacrifice your well-earned status. Humility was something for children and slaves, not honourable men and women. All this changed, historians say, in 33AD when an innocent man believed to be God鈥檚 son submitted to the most humiliating act the Romans could concoct鈥攃rucifixion. Jesus relinquished his divine status, Christians believed, dying not for himself but for us鈥攚hich left onlookers with a dilemma: either Jesus wasn鈥檛 worthy of honour, or their definition of humility had to change. The definition changed and today we see humility as a virtue.

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If humility is relinquishing our status for others, Be Humble Day could be revolutionary. At the least, it could mean withholding a judgemental tweet because we don鈥檛 know all the facts, or listening carefully to those who vote differently to us. It could mean publicising a colleague鈥檚 achievements instead of our own, or even letting a promotion go to someone else. Humility calls me to relinquish my wishes to do God鈥檚 instead. I find that confronting! But also life-giving. Be Humble Day may be more demanding than its founder imagined鈥攍ess sticky bun, more swallowing swords. As unofficial as it is, I want to try taking up its challenge of putting myself second and others first.

Broadcast

  • Tue 22 Feb 2022 06:30
    大象传媒 Radio 2