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Jonathan Van Ness

Queer Eye's Jonathan Van Ness wakes up and embraces the day with Zoe Ball! It鈥檚 The Why Workshop, and Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with more wonders and ponders.

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball! Queer Eye grooming expert Jonathan Van Ness chats about his memoir Over The Top.

It鈥檚 The Why Workshop, and Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with more wonders and ponders. Today Anne Elf and James Social Elf answer tricky questions that both kids and grown-ups want to ask, from how much water is needed to put out the sun, why moustache hair makes you sneeze and do cats get goose bumps?

Plus the listeners take over the show with their running playlist suggestions.

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 than you can shake a glitterball at!

There's also weather with Carol Kirkwood, former footballer Emile Heskey discusses the recent racism problems in the sport and his book Even Heskey Scored and a Pause For Thought from vicar Paul Oxley as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Wed 23 Oct 2019 06:30
成人快手 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Barry White

    You're the First, the Last, My Everything

    • Barry White - The Collection.
    • Mercury.

  • James Blunt

    Cold

    • Once Upon A Mind.
    • Atlantic.

  • ABBA

    Angeleyes

    • Abba - Voulez-Vous.
    • Polydor.

  • 尝脡翱狈

    You And I

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.

  • Dee Edwards

    Why Cant There Be Love

  • Billy Ocean

    Red Light Spells Danger

    • Billy Ocean - Love Is For Ever (L.I.F.
    • Jive.

  • Jackie Wilson

    Reet Petite (The Finest Girl You Ever Want To Meet)

    • That's Rock'n'Roll (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Faithless

    Insomnia

    • Now 35 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • 补鈥恏补

    Take On Me

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Pet Shop Boys

    Dreamland (feat. Years & Years)

    • (CD Single).
    • x2 Recordings.

  • David Bowie

    Let's Dance

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Emeli Sand茅

    Next To Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
    • 1.

  • Luke Evans

    Changing

    • At Last.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Queen

    We Will Rock You

    • News Of The World.
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • Daryl Hall & John Oates

    Maneater

    • Looking Back - The Best Of Hall & Oat.
    • BMG.

  • Jonas Blue

    Younger (feat. HRVY)

  • Kygo & Whitney Houston

    Higher Love

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA Records.

  • Buggles

    Video Killed The Radio Star

    • Our Friends Electric (Various Artist.
    • Telstar.

  • S Club

    Don't Stop Movin'

    • (CD Album Sampler).
    • Polydor.

  • Kelly Clarkson

    Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 81 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Script

    The Last Time

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    From Out Of Nowhere

    • From Out Of Nowhere.
    • Columbia.

  • George Michael

    Amazing

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Paul Oxley, vicar of St Mark鈥檚 in Milton Keynes:

听Last week we had my girls鈥� school harvest assembly. Still awaiting West-End fame, my daughters currently make do with stage blocks and scenery hung on PE wall apparatus.

Having practised their songs for weeks, they performed with enthusiastic pizzazz; something which can鈥檛 quite be said for the boys on the back row! 听

I know for a fact that those boys had attended numerous rehearsals, but鈥o watch them you鈥檇 think a passing UFO had dropped them in the playground without explaining what a school hall looked like, what the dickens Harvest is about, or what the words to any of the songs might be!

Mumbling through the songs, desperately hoping to stumble upon the correct words鈥 totally felt their pain! I feel like that all the time!

I don鈥檛 know the correct words to describe the haircut I want in the barbers.

I never think of a winning point in an argument until long after the event.

I can鈥檛 explain to my kids what makes a joke funny.听 I can鈥檛 converse with taxi drivers about anything other than hi-bred fuel economy.
I鈥檓 at a total loss to know what to say to mates struck by grief, and I have a nagging anxiety about tomorrow which is impossible to articulate.

Sometimes I try and pray about this stuff, which has to burst out of me at some point鈥ut when I do, honestly, I struggle to find the words then too.

A couple of Fridays ago when Elbow were in the studio, after one of his songs, Zoe you said to Guy Garvey 鈥渁s a human you want to express yourself in so many ways, but we don鈥檛 need to cos Guy, you do it for us.鈥�

You reminded me of a biblical poet who once wrote, 鈥渂efore a word is on my tongue, you know it completely O God鈥�. That poet was amazed that God might hear, understand, and bless the mumbled prayers of someone like me who lacks so much in expression or faith.

This beauty opens the Divine up to anyone, from poets to tongue-tied blokes in barber chairs, which I think, to those of us who know what it鈥檚 like to not be OK, is good news. 听

Broadcast

  • Wed 23 Oct 2019 06:30
    成人快手 Radio 2