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The first ever Zoe Ball Breakfast show!

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball, as she hosts the Breakfast Show for the first time! Zoe is joined by John Cleese and invites Nadiya Hussain to play Hit, Miss Or Maybe!

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball, as she hosts the Radio 2 Breakfast Show for the first time! Zoe chats to John Cleese about his latest escapades. Plus she invites Nadiya Hussain to play Hit, Miss Or Maybe with the hottest music right now.

Along with Tina Daheley 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 weather with Carol Kirkwood, a daily Pause For Thought and listeners on the line, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Mon 14 Jan 2019 06:30
麻豆社 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Aretha Franklin

    Respect

  • Rita Ora

    Anywhere

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Boy Meets Girl

    Waiting For A Star To Fall

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

  • Andy Burrows & Matt Haig

    Barcelona

    • Reasons To Stay Alive.
    • Fiction.

  • Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

    The Tears Of A Clown

    • Motown: The Ultimate Hits Collection (Various Artists).
    • Motown.

  • Cher

    Believe

  • Calvin Harris & Rag鈥檔鈥橞one Man

    Giant

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Coldplay

    Adventure Of A Lifetime

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Silk City & Dua Lipa

    Electricity

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.

  • Todd Rundgren

    I Saw The Light

    • My Girl (Original 1992 Film S/Track).
    • Epic.

  • Take That

    Everlasting

    • Odyssey.
    • Polydor.

  • The Cardigans

    My Favourite Game

    • Q The Album (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Lizzo

    Juice

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Dina Carroll

    Ain't No Man

    • The Love Album II (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Bryan Adams

    Do What Ya Gotta Do

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 006.

  • Stevie Wonder

    Do I Do

    • Stevie Wonder - The Definitive Collec.
    • Universal.

  • Kygo

    Happy Now (feat. Sandro Cavazza)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • The Divine Comedy

    National Express

    • New Hits 99 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.

  • Katy Perry

    Chained To The Rhythm (feat. Skip Marley)

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol Records.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Little Lies

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 007.

  • Sam Smith & Normani

    Dancing With A Stranger

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.

  • Busted

    Radio (CLIP)

    • Half Way There.
    • Juno Music.

  • Fleur East

    Favourite Thing

    • Hunter Corp Records.

  • Madonna

    Vogue

    • Finally Enough Love (Deluxe Edition).
    • Rhino.

  • Daryl Hall & John Oates

    You Make My Dreams

    • Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.
    • 5.

  • 搁耻苍鈥怐.惭.颁. & Aerosmith

    Walk This Way

    • Now 8 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Human League

    Don't You Want Me

    • Dare!.
    • Virgin.

  • Backstreet Boys

    Chances

    • DNA.
    • RCA.

  • Phil Collins

    You Can't Hurry Love

    • Singles.
    • Rhino.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From comedian & writer Paul Kerensa:

I know it鈥檚 not my place to 鈥榳elcome鈥� you to your new home 鈥� I鈥檓 just visiting, and you鈥檝e lived elsewhere on Radio 2 Street before. But welcome anyway鈥� and if this is like moving house, I suppose it鈥檚 time for some light unpacking.

We all know day one in a new place 鈥� find the kettle and your favourite mug and you鈥檙e underway, maybe with a neighbour offering a well-timed carton of milk.

And you鈥檝e got some lovely neighbours. Vanessa on one side; on the other there鈥檚 a lovely man called Ken 鈥� he鈥檒l wave over the fence shortly. Jeremy at no. 12 talks about politics quite a lot, but he鈥檚 got a lovely allotment. Then next to Steve鈥檚 big house, there鈥檚 another new neighbour: Sara moves in today too. What a charming neighbourhood!

But of course our neighbours aren鈥檛 just those geographically near. When Jesus was asked 鈥淲ho is my neighbour?鈥�, he gave the famous Good Samaritan story 鈥� famous, but one look at the world I think shows we could still learn from it. The story tells of a poor man beaten, lying in the street 鈥� and his most neighbourly passerby turns out to be the Samaritan, who society had said was his enemy. Only he extended a helping hand.

From MPs we disagree with, to the homeless enduring freezing weather, I reckon we could all up our welcoming game.

So I鈥檒l start here. Radio 2 brekkie being your new home, means you鈥檙e welcomed into other homes across the land too. There鈥檚 a traditional Irish blessing for new homes, spoken as a new resident moves in...

"Bless the four corners of this house聽
and be the lintel blest,
and bless the hearth,聽
and bless the board,聽
and bless each place of rest...."

So perhaps we adapt it:

鈥淏less the corners of this studio,

And be the faders blessed,

And bless those buttons,

The engineers,

And bless each brilliant guest.

And as your neighbour, I鈥檝e brought you a carton of milk... chocolate. Welcome Zoe to your new home, and to ours.

Broadcast

  • Mon 14 Jan 2019 06:30
    麻豆社 Radio 2