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Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball.

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball!

Along with Tina Daheley on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Mike Williams 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 and listeners on the line, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Tue 20 Jul 2021 06:30
成人快手 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Stevie Wonder

    Another Star

    • (Single).
    • Motown.

  • Ed Sheeran

    Bad Habits

    • (CD Single).
    • Asylum Records.

  • Take That

    Relight My Fire (feat. Lulu)

    • Simply The Best Radio Hits (Various).
    • Warner E.S.P..

  • Jennifer Lopez

    Waiting For Tonight

    • Hits 2000 (Various Artists).
    • Warner E.S.P..

  • Neil Diamond

    Cracklin' Rosie

    • Neil Diamond - The Ultimate Collectio.
    • Columbia/Mca.

  • Nina Simone

    My Baby Just Cares For Me

    • Heartbeat - The 60's Gold Collection.
    • Global Television.

  • Ricky Martin

    Livin' La Vida Loca

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Diana Ross

    Thank You

    • (CD Single).
    • Decca.

  • Oasis

    She's Electric

    • What's The Story Morning Glory -Oasis.
    • Creation Records.

  • 叠别测辞苍肠茅

    Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)

  • Starship

    Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now

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

  • Will Young

    Crying On The Bathroom Floor

    • Crying On The Bathroom Floor.
    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • Wings

    Listen To What The Man Said

    • The 7" Singles Box.
    • MPL.

  • Justin Wellington

    Iko Iko (My Bestie) (feat. Small Jam)

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Kylie Minogue

    On A Night Like This

    • Light Years.
    • Parlophone.

  • Coldplay

    Viva La Vida

    • Viva La Vida Or Death & All His Friends.
    • Parlophone.
    • 1.

  • KSI

    Holiday

    • All Over The Place.
    • BMG Rights Management (US).

  • Deep Blue Something

    Breakfast At Tiffany's

    • This Year's Love (Various Artists) C.
    • Global Television.

  • Rita Moreno, George Chakiris & The Sharks & Girls

    America

    • West Side Story: The Original Motion Picture Sound Track Recording.
    • Columbia.
    • 6.

  • Ariana Grande

    One Last Time

    • My Everything.
    • Republic Records.

  • Prince & The Revolution

    Take Me With U

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Jake Bugg

    Lost

    • Saturday Night, Sunday Morning.
    • RCA.

  • Sparks

    This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us

    • Fantastic 70's (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Dua Lipa

    Levitating

    • Future Nostalgia.
    • Warner Records.

  • Norman Greenbaum

    Spirit In The Sky

    • Million Sellers Vol.18 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Baccara

    Yes Sir, I Can Boogie

    • Million Sellers Vol.14 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • John Miles

    Music

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1976 (Various).
    • Premier.

  • Barbra Streisand

    Sweet Forgiveness

    • Release Me 2.
    • Columbia.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

I was really excited recently to meet up with my old Sunday football coach. I hadn鈥檛 seen Lenny for years. I was in awe of him playing for Beckfield Rangers FC. His blood vessel-bursting passion was so infectious. I remember his screams of encouragement at me to stop giving the ball away. It seldom worked, but he had a gift of making us very average players feel like world beaters. He鈥檇 run onto the pitch to plead with the referee to have mercy on us after we made a bad foul. That never worked either. But we loved that Lenny cared so much about our unremarkable little team. Always supplying endless orange slices to revive us at half time.听

And drying out our awful yellow kit on his sagging washing line. They were happy days.听听

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So it was heartbreaking to hear how hard Lenny鈥檚 life鈥檚 been since then. He told me he was left grief-stricken after the tragic death of his beloved wife and youngest son. He became a bit lost. Increasingly socially isolated. Or, as he put it:听鈥楧rowning in loneliness鈥�.

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Thankfully things have been better for him recently. Lenny鈥檚 thrown himself back into community life. Going on walks with friends and neighbours. Attending local gatherings. Like a small friendship group who meet in a cosy allotment shed. Lenny鈥檚 story was a stark reminder to me that the loneliness disease can strike anyone - regardless of background or character. He certainly challenged me to keep being part of the cure. To never tire of creating friendship-making opportunities for people where I live.

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So I鈥檝e been inspired to make a community lunch happen. And keep organising games of volleyball in our local park. I鈥檝e realised that these are among the best things my faith can ever stir into action. Creating spaces and places for people to belong and find companionship - regardless of belief or religious affiliation. For me, it鈥檚 a non-negotiable part of being a Jesus follower. One of the most powerful ways I can ever live up to his challenge of loving my neighbours. As for Lenny, I鈥檝e encouraged him to organise a Becky Rangers reunion. A night of wild stories and loads of laughs. We were good at that, Zoe. It was just the football we struggled with.

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  • Tue 20 Jul 2021 06:30
    成人快手 Radio 2