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Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball and the team. Zoe chats to American author Taffy Brodesser-Akner and invites Hoola Hannah to play Hit, Miss Or Maybe.

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball! American author Taffy Brodesser-Akner chats to Zoe about her debut novel Fleishmann Is In Trouble.

Zoe invites the founder of the UK's first hula hoop school Hannah Murphy to play Hit, Miss Or Maybe with the hottest music right now. She explains why hooping is so good for people of all ages, before choosing between P!nk and Khalid's Hurts 2B Humanl, Heart Explodes by The Darkness and Don't Leave Me Lonely by Mark Ronson and Yebba.

Plus there are live music highlights from Radio 2's Festival in a Day with a track from Pet Shop Boy's brilliant headline set.

Along with Tina Daheley on news, Richie Anderson 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 that you can shake a glitterball at!

There's also weather with Matt Taylor, Jamie Murray previews the Murray Trophy in Glasgow, a Pause For Thought from Krish Kandiah and listeners on the line as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Mon 16 Sep 2019 06:30
成人快手 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Lionel Richie

    Dancing on the Ceiling

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

  • Simply Red

    Thinking Of You

    • Blue Eyed Soul.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Supertramp

    Dreamer

    • The Very Best Of Supertramp.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Dua Lipa

    New Rules

    • Dua Lipa.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Joan Armatrading

    Drop The Pilot

    • The Very Best Of Joan Armatrading.
    • A&M.

  • Wet Wet Wet

    Wishing I Was Lucky

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

  • The Goo Goo Dolls

    Indestructible

    • Miracle Pill.
    • Warner Music.

  • Pet Shop Boys

    Heart (Radio 2 Live In Hyde Park 2019)

  • The Cars

    Drive

    • The Greatest Love (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • Chris Rea

    Let's Dance

    • Auberge EP.
    • East West Records.

  • Ava Max

    Torn

    • Heaven & Hell.
    • Atlantic.

  • Spiller

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

    • (CD Single).
    • Positiva.

  • James Blunt

    Cold

    • Once Upon A Mind.
    • Atlantic.

  • The Beach Boys

    Fun Fun Fun

    • The Best Of The Beach Boys (CD 1).
    • EMI.

  • Billy Joel

    Uptown Girl

    • An Innocent Man.
    • CBS.

  • Keane

    Love Too Much

    • Cause & Effect.
    • Island.

  • Mark Ronson

    Don't Leave Me Lonely (feat. YEBBA)

    • Late Night Feelings.
    • Columbia.

  • Peter Gabriel

    Sledgehammer

    • Now 1986 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • 罢颈毛蝉迟辞

    Ritual (feat. Jonas Blue & Rita Ora)

    • Ritual.
    • Universal Music.

  • INXS

    New Sensation

    • INXS - Kick.
    • Mercury.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    You And I, Part II

    • Fleetwood Mac - Tango In The Night.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Prince & The Revolution

    Let's Go Crazy

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Oasis

    Whatever

    • Smash Hits '95 (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • Coldplay

    Fix You

  • Will Young

    Ground Running

    • Lexicon.
    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • The O鈥橨ays

    Love Train

    • Shades Of Soul (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
From Krish Kandiah, founding director of a national charity:聽
My middle daughter has two birthdays. Not because she is training to be the Queen - although she would make a very good one. But because she is adopted. We celebrate the day she entered the world 鈥� with the significant help of her biological mother 鈥� and we also celebrate the day in September that she became part of our family 鈥� legally, permanently and irrevocably. All dressed up in our Sunday best even though it was a Tuesday afternoon, the adoption celebration hearing in court was a day I will never forget. Our older children鈥檚 headmaster had authorised their day鈥檚 absence for the occasion and various social workers turned up looking nervous 鈥� which made me nervous too.聽
By the end of the morning we were a family of six 鈥� with a certificate stamped by the judge to prove it. Then we all went out for pizza and icecream (in the reverse order) to begin our new life together. Looking back that day was the highlight of an otherwise difficult year. I had been effectively dismissed from my workplace and was in the middle of adjusting to a new job 鈥� which had meant a new house and a new school for the children. My mother was wrestling with a terminal cancer diagnosis, and as for my faith 鈥� I was hanging on by my fingernails. But adopting my foster daughter affected me profoundly. It was becoming an adoptive father myself that helped me understand something new about God. I hadn鈥檛 realised it before but adoption is at the heart of the Christian faith.聽
When I became a Christian God became my heavenly Father, not by default, but by choice. Not because he had to, but because he wanted to. Not because he needed another child but because I needed a heavenly father. Not because of anything I have done, but because of everything Jesus did. This deep truth has reshaped my entire understanding of the Christian faith. So now I have two birthdays too. The one when I entered the world 鈥� with significant help from my late mother. And the one when I became adopted into God鈥檚 family 鈥� permanently and irrevocably. We don鈥檛 always celebrate with pizza and ice-cream 鈥� although, come to think of it, that鈥檚 not such a bad idea!

Broadcast

  • Mon 16 Sep 2019 06:30
    成人快手 Radio 2