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Comedian Russell Howard chats to Zoe about his new tour and we reveal the final acts joining Radio 2 in Hyde Park. Plus your chance to watch the show with The 5 Star Biz Quiz.

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball! Comedian Russell Howard tells Zoe about heading out on tour this autumn with his new stand-up show Respite, and what it's like living and working with his mum Ninette.

There's your chance to come and watch the Radio 2 Breakfast Show tomorrow by testing your showbiz knowledge in The 5 Star Biz Quiz.

Plus Zoe reveals that Bananarama and the Pet Shop Boys are the final acts to be joining Radio 2 in Hyde Park for our Festival in a Day.

Along with Tina Daheley on news, Jules Lang on travel and Mike Williams on sport, Zoe and the team have the best start to your morning. With celeb guests, quizzes, headlines, tunes chosen by listeners and more music than you can shake a glitterball at!

There's also weather with Carol Kirkwood who's live from HMS Belfast in London for the anniversary of the D-day landings, Dan Snow reports back from Normandy ahead of his 成人快手 One show D-Day 75: Remembering The Fallen, Chris Waddle previews England's match in the UEFA Nations League finals, a Pause For Thought from the Bishop of Leeds Nick Baines and listeners on the line as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Thu 6 Jun 2019 06:30
成人快手 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Bryan Ferry

    Let's Stick Together

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

  • Samm Henshaw

    Church (feat. EarthGang)

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music Entertainment.

  • Propaganda

    Duel

    • A Secret Wish - Propaganda.
    • ZTT.
    • 12.

  • Tom Odell

    Summer Day

    • MoominsValley O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Gwen Stefani

    What You Waiting For?

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 60 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Eliza Doolittle

    Pack Up

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • Lewis Capaldi

    Someone You Loved

    • Breach.
    • Vertigo.
    • 3.

  • Little Mix

    Shout Out To My Ex

    • (CD Single).
    • SYCO.

  • Katy Perry

    Never Really Over

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol Records.

  • Los Lobos

    La Bamba

    • Hits Of '87 & '88 Vol.12 (Various).
    • Polydor.

  • Michael Bubl茅

    成人快手

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Shawn Mendes

    If I Can't Have You

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Rod Stewart

    Baby Jane

    • The Best Of Rod Stewart.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Keith Urban

    Drop Top (feat. Kassi Ashton)

    • Graffiti U.
    • Hit Red Records.

  • Oasis

    The Importance Of Being Idle

  • Duran Duran

    Wild Boys

    • Duran Duran - Decade.
    • EMI.

  • The Housemartins

    Happy Hour

    • Now That's What I Call Quite Good.
    • Go! Discs.

  • The Beatles

    Get Back (feat. Billy Preston)

    • The Beatles - 1.
    • Apple.
    • 022.

  • Will Young

    My Love

    • Lexicon.
    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • Jim Radford

    The Shores of Normandy

    • CD Single.
    • NOT GIVEN (PROMO).

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
From Nick Baines, the Bishop of Leeds:听
Only four years, almost to the day, after tens of thousands of allied troops had sat on a beach at Dunkirk, being bombed and strafed and hoping for evacuation, 6 June 1944 saw many hundreds of the same men preparing to fight on the European mainland again. Imagine their feelings - about to face the guns once more. That鈥檚 courage. Like young Albert Kings of the 1st Worcester Regiment as his troop ship pulls out of Newhaven Docks, thinking of his wife of less than three months and wondering if she will soon be a widow.听
Later he wrote: 鈥淚 tried to look ahead to better times, but I knew it would only be brought about by our efforts. I was determined to do my best.鈥� What strikes me, reading the stories of D-Day again, 75 years on, is that these guys didn鈥檛 have the luxury of offering opinions or passing distant judgment on the whole operation or those who had planned it. Whatever their feelings, whatever their fears, whatever their thoughts, they got into boats and sought to land on enemy territory in France.听
They weren鈥檛 given opt-outs or asked to fill out a feedback form. The point is that these men - they were mostly men - looked out across the water into the unknown and committed themselves wholly to the mission. Now, I really admire them for this. They knew they might never come back, but they went. They imagined the cost. And they went. But, this notion of commitment didn鈥檛 just emerge from anywhere. This sacrifice was rooted in the Hebrew and Christian notion that belief is not simply about accepting a doctrine about God or an ideology; no, to believe was to commit yourself, body, mind and spirit, to what you believed (however feebly or tentatively) to be true or right.听
Today belief is largely seen as something going on in your head, but that is a bloodless understanding. Albert Kings trusted that, as he played his part, others would play theirs. They were interdependent and had to trust, knowing the mission might also fail. I don鈥檛 have to invade France today. But, I might consider whether it鈥檚 braver to observe from a distance or get stuck in when it comes to helping and loving my neighbour.

Broadcast

  • Thu 6 Jun 2019 06:30
    成人快手 Radio 2