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Nicki Chapman sits in with Mark King

Wake up and embrace the day with Nicki Chapman and the team. Level 42's Mark King chats about his festive break and plans for 2020, including a special concert for Radio 2.

Wake up and embrace the day with Nicki Chapman and the team. Level 42's Mark King chats about his festive break and plans for 2020, including a special concert for Radio 2 at the London Palladium with the 成人快手 Concert Orchestra.

Along with Katharine Cracknell on news, Jules Lang on travel and Betty Glover 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 a daily Pause For Thought from Dr. Jim Harris and Harlequin women's captain Rachael Burford chats to Betty about their fixture against Leicester Tigers. With listeners on the line, as Nicki entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Fri 27 Dec 2019 06:30
成人快手 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Journey

    Don't Stop Believin'

    • Rock Of America (Various Artists).
    • Trax Label.

  • Sigala

    We Got Love (feat. Ella Henderson)

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

  • Bee Gees

    More Than A Woman

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.

  • Justin Timberlake

    Can't Stop The Feeling!

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Soft Cell

    Tainted Love

    • Hits & Pieces - The Best of Marc Almond & Soft Cell.
    • UMC.

  • Lenny Kravitz

    California

    • Lenny Kravitz - Baptism.
    • Parlophone.

  • Scissor Sisters

    I Don't Feel Like Dancin'

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Coldplay

    Everyday Life

    • Everyday Life: Sunset.
    • Parlophone.

  • Nik Kershaw

    Wouldn't It Be Good

    • Now 1984 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • Kelly Rowland

    Daylight (feat. Travie McCoy)

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony BMG.
    • 1.

  • Tony Christie

    (Is This the Way to) Amarillo

    • Dance Hits Of The '60's & '70's.
    • Old Gold.

  • Chesney Hawkes

    The One and Only

    • (CD Single).
    • Chrysalis.

  • Blur

    Girls & Boys

    • Now 28 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Avicii

    Fades Away (feat. MishCatt)

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Music.
    • 03.

  • James Bay

    Don't Look Back In Anger (Radio 2 Session, 31 May 2019)

  • Starship

    Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Billy Joel

    Don't Ask Me Why

    • Billy Joel - Glass Houses.
    • CBS.

  • Rick Astley

    Together Forever

    • NOW - Yearbook 1988 (Various Artists).
    • NOW.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Sweet Talkin' Woman

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.

  • James Blunt

    The Truth

    • Once Upon A Mind.
    • Atlantic.

  • Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa

    One Kiss

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Sister Sledge

    Frankie

    • Back To The 80s (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.

  • Dr. Alban

    Sing Hallelujah!

    • (CD Single).
    • Logic Light.

  • Britney Spears

    Oops!... I Did It Again

    • Now That's What I Call No.1's (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Kash Doll, Kim Petras, ALMA & Stefflon Don

    How It's Done

    • Charlie's Angels O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Silver Cloud.

  • Level 42

    Running In The Family

    • The Complete Polydor Years: Volume 2 (1985-1989).
    • Cherry Red Records.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Big Love

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 005.

  • Harry Styles

    Adore You

    • Fine Line.
    • Columbia.

  • T. Rex

    I Love to Boogie

    • T. Rex - The Singles As & Bs.
    • Repertoire.

  • Ottawan

    D.I.S.C.O (POTP version)

  • Kelly Marie

    Feels Like I'm In Love

    • NOW Boogie Nights - Disco Classics (Various Artists).
    • Now! Music.

  • Roxy Music

    Love Is the Drug

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

  • Jessie J

    One More Try

    • & Juliet (Original London Cast Recording).
    • Atlantic.

  • Clean Bandit

    Symphony (feat. Zara Larsson)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Dr Jim Harris, Art Historian:

Around Christmas, time is strange. We go to bed late.聽 We get up early because, despite the absence of work, there is still way too much work to do.

Even the days of the week cease to have meaning.聽 Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday give way to Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day, as time acquires a pleasing kind of elasticity.

Days are longer; evenings longer still.聽 In my childhood home, the gap between Dinner and Presents lasted for a geological age. The Cretaceous period was shorter than that couple of hours.

And, weirdly, in all these ample, comfortable days of time stretched and misshapen like a stocking on Christmas morning, surrounded by the people we love, the distant past seems closer than last week. Christmases pile in on us, so present, so immediate, so full of everyone we ever cared for, that decades seem no longer than the time it takes to pop out and put the kettle on.

And then December 27th arrives.

Not Christmas Eve.聽 Not Christmas Day.聽 Not Boxing Day.聽 Just December 27th.

December 27th brings the worry that time is ordinary again, with only New Year standing between us and cold January, flat and full of dark and work and flu.

But December 27th is not ordinary.聽 Christmas has only got as far as three French hens.

Even so, December 27th does beg the question of where we will be when our true love has stopped sending inconveniently large gifts.

Christians have a habit of stitching the long term into their prayers.聽 Even 鈥榞ive us today our daily bread鈥� ends with a reminder that we, and God, are in this 鈥榝orever and ever鈥�. Which holds out the hope that when ordinary time does finally come, and we find ourselves apart again from the people, perhaps the one person, we love, we will still be loved.

And unlike Christmas, ordinary time lasts.聽 In its steady rhythms is the slow return of light and when, in nine days鈥� time, it is finally Not Christmas, the last partridge roasted and the last pear poached, we will be glad of that.

But for now, Happy December 27th.

It is after all only the third day of Christmas and there is still time for true love this year.

And next year.聽 And forever and ever. Amen.

Broadcast

  • Fri 27 Dec 2019 06:30
    成人快手 Radio 2