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Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball and the team. It鈥檚 The Why Workshop, and Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with more wonders and ponders, including your questions.

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball!

It鈥檚 The Why Workshop, and Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with more wonders and ponders, including your questions.

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

Wed 21 Jul 2021 06:30
成人快手 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Michael McDonald

    Sweet Freedom

    • Michael McDonald - Sweet Freedom.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Marshmello & Jonas Brothers

    Leave Before You Love Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Santana

    The Game Of Love (feat. Michelle Branch)

    • (CD Single).
    • Arista.

  • Deacon Blue

    Real Gone Kid

    • The All Time Greatest Rock Songs ....
    • Columbia.

  • Dusty Springfield

    I Only Want To Be With You

    • Dusty- The Silver Collection.
    • Philips.

  • Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis, Jr.

    You Don't Have To be A Star (To Be In My Show)

    • I Hope We Get To Love In Time.
    • Razor And Tie.

  • James

    Sit Down

    • True Brit (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • S Club

    Don't Stop Movin'

    • (CD Album Sampler).
    • Polydor.

  • Daryl Hall & John Oates

    Private Eyes

    • Single Mixes.
    • RCA.

  • Lola Lennox

    Love Like That

    • (CD Single).
    • Humble Angel Records.

  • DNCE

    Cake By The Ocean

    • (CD Single).
    • Republic.
    • 1.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    A Design For Life

    • Everything Must Go - 20th Anniversary Edition.
    • Columbia.
    • 16.

  • Mabel

    Let Them Know

    • About Last Night....
    • Polydor.

  • Shania Twain

    Man! I Feel Like A Woman!

  • Niall Horan

    Nice To Meet Ya

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol Records.

  • Ian Dury & the Blockheads

    Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick

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

  • Jessie J

    I Want Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Lava Music/Republic Records.

  • Huey Lewis and the News

    Stuck With You

    • Now 1986 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Olivia Rodrigo

    drivers licence

    • (CD Single).
    • Geffen.
    • 1.

  • Gabrielle

    Dreams

    • Now 1993 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • Gene Kelly

    All I Do Is Dream Of You (Outtake)

    • Singin' In The Rain.
    • 9.

  • The Cranberries

    Dreams

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Miley Cyrus

    Nothing Else Matters (feat. WATT, Elton John, Yo鈥怸o Ma, Robert Trujillo & Chad Smith)

    • The Metallica Blacklist.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

I had to go into the Ashmolean Museum Reserve Collections yesterday, to choose some objects to teach with next term. Now this is mostly very good. First of all, without giving away any crucial security secrets, the reserves are in a deep, dark basement, so it was relatively cool. And second, museum reserves are fundamentally exciting places to be, full of unseen treasures.

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However, they are also, very often, the last resting place of stuff we鈥檒l most likely never display; things just don鈥檛 cut it as 鈥榓rt鈥� or are just too knackered.听听Odd little bits of sculpture, indeterminate fragments of pottery.听听Frankly terrible paintings.听Think of the box lurking in the loft or the back of the wardrobe, full of the stuff you don鈥檛 need and doesn鈥檛 work but that reminds you of something or someone, and that you can鈥檛 bear to part with because it might come in useful.听These are the Museum reserves.听And that was the stuff I was after.听听

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Now, one of the most consistent threads in all the wildly disparate books we call the Bible is the way they speak of God dealing with that stuff - the small, the broken, the disregarded.

Because the Bible isn鈥檛 a collection of hero narratives, like so many ancient stories. It鈥檚 a jumble of flawed, fragile individuals who are made useful in spite of themselves, in response to being loved. And, like my odd little bits of sculpture for teaching, it鈥檚 the flaws that are often the most important parts; because it鈥檚 in the crack that you see what something is made of.听听It鈥檚 in the break that you see how it was made.听听And it鈥檚 in the repair that you see how it has been loved.

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Also yesterday, I watched my friends Tim and Kevin frame a poster advertising the Tokyo Olympics of 1964 and I marvelled at the care and skill they lavished on it, keeping this fragile piece of paper safe and secure so it can be seen how beautiful a piece of design it is.

To be kept safe and secure.听听To be cared for despite being fragile, small and broken. And then to be made useful. If we can do that for an obscure, damaged piece of sculpture, or an old advert, I reckon it鈥檚 the very least we can do for each other.听

Broadcast

  • Wed 21 Jul 2021 06:30
    成人快手 Radio 2