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Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer and Tom Odell

Wake up to a star-studded Friends Round Friday with Zoe Ball and a whole host of celebrity guests, including Vic and Bob, plus live music from Tom Odell!

Wake up to a star-studded breakfast with Zoe Ball and a whole host of celebrity guests, including Vic and Bob, plus live music in the studio from Tom Odell! Comedy duo Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer bring tales of the new series of their Big Night Out plus Tom Odell plays live and discusses his Radio 2 series Around The Piano With Tom Odell.

We also hear from our 12-year-old Strictly Come Dancing correspondent Kate, who previews this Saturday's semi-final.

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 Matt Taylor, a Pause For Thought from Dr Jim Harris and listeners on the line as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 6 Dec 2019 06:30
成人快手 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Average White Band

    Let's Go Round Again

    • The Best Of.
    • Rhino.

  • James Blunt

    The Truth

    • Once Upon A Mind.
    • Atlantic.

  • Michael Bubl茅

    Cold December Night

    • Michael Buble Christmas.
    • 143.
    • 12.

  • James Ingram & Michael McDonald

    Yah Mo B There

    • Duets - 36 Of The World's Greatest Ev.
    • Telstar.

  • James Brown

    Living in America

    • 40th Anniversary Collection.
    • Polydor.
    • 4.

  • Alexander O鈥橬eal

    Criticize

    • Hits Album 7 (Various Artists).
    • Hits.
    • 9.

  • Little Mix

    One I've Been Missing

  • Kool & the Gang

    Get Down On It

    • Classic Kool & The Gang.
    • Mercury.

  • Andy Williams

    It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year

    • Christmas Love Songs (Various Artist.
    • Arcade Records.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Every Day's Like Christmas

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Sheryl Crow

    All I Wanna Do

    • The No.1 Acoustic Rock Album (Variou.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Sigala

    We Got Love (feat. Ella Henderson)

    • (CD Single).
    • Ministry Of Sound Recordings.

  • Rod Stewart

    You Wear It Well

    • The Best Of Rod Stewart.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Lucky Daye

    Fly

    • Spies In Disguise O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Keep Cool/RCA Records.

  • Bob Dylan

    Must Be Santa

    • Christmas In The Heart.
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • KC and the Sunshine Band

    That's the Way (I Like It)

    • Disco Fever (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Stevie Wonder

    What Christmas Means To Me

    • 20 Motown Christmas Classics (Variou.
    • Hitsville.

  • The Mantovani Orchestra

    As Time Goes By

    • Some Enchanted Evening: The Very Best Of Mantovani CD1.
    • Decca Music Group Limited.
    • 13.

  • Keane

    Stupid Things

    • Cause & Effect.
    • Island.

  • Stereophonics

    Don't Let The Devil Take Another Day

    • Kind.
    • Parlophone.

  • The Waitresses

    Christmas Wrapping

    • NOW That's What I Call Christmas (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Ronettes

    Frosty The Snowman

    • A Christmas Gift For You (Phil Spect.
    • Phil Spector Int.

  • Dua Lipa

    Don't Start Now

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Records.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Dr Jim Harris, Art Historian:

I am feeling young today.聽 But it is not because I have a youthful spring in my step.

Nor am I dazzled by the heady possibilities of a world yet unexplored, the rich potential of a life yet to be lived.

No. I am feeling young like a naughty schoolboy: it鈥檚 the end of term and my essay is overdue.聽

This is vexing.聽 My essay is actually finished but the editor has sent it back with questions:聽 鈥淲here did you find this?鈥� 鈥淲hat is the source for this?鈥� 鈥淚s this really true?鈥�

聽So now I face the aggravating, pernickety work of adding footnotes, checking references and acknowledging sources.聽 It鈥檚 boring.

But it鈥檚 also important.聽 Because unless we do that work, how do we trust what we read?聽 How do we know it鈥檚 true?

Happily, not everything needs a footnote to be true.

As Tom no doubt knows, we recognise truth when we hear it in a song.聽 It鈥檚 the song we want to hear again.

I鈥檓 not sure of the precise relationship between Eranu, Uvavu and the truth, but I鈥檓 sure that Vic and Bob know the difference between a truly funny gag and a dud.聽 We laugh at the true one.聽

True songs and true jokes touch us more deeply than cheap knock-offs because somehow we need the truth.聽 Yet, weirdly, this time of year, Christmas, looks nothing like the truth.聽 And it鈥檚 not just the sheer, gaudy excess of it all.

It鈥檚 God - who suddenly, strangely, is the precise opposite of God: infinitely weak, infinitely small, infinitely insignificant.聽 God as a baby.

And yet Christians believe that this baby, Jesus, is what God truly is, God as the truth of love: generously given, utterly vulnerable, without status or pride, incapable of dishonesty.

It鈥檚 why Christmas, for all the gaudy, phony excess, still rings true among all the bad songs and unfunny jokes.聽 It鈥檚 a reminder of what love can be, even what we can be, given the choice and given the courage.

Broadcast

  • Fri 6 Dec 2019 06:30
    成人快手 Radio 2