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Big Bee Challenge winner reveal

Zoe reveals the winner of Radio 2鈥檚 Big Bee Challenge competition and Jay Flynn returns with his Virtual Quiz.

Zoe reveals the winner of Radio 2鈥檚 Big Bee Challenge competition! Listeners will find out whose garden has been transformed from a daring design to a perfect plot and built at an NHS Trust site in Doncaster. Children aged 6-12 years were asked to design a bee-friendly garden for Big Bee Challenge, which launched in June this year. And the winning creation is being brought to life at the Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service in Doncaster, which will be unveiled at a very special outside broadcast of The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show tomorrow.

Plus Jay Flynn returns with another round of his Virtual Radio Quiz where he tests the team on their general knowledge to see who comes out on top.

Along with Adam Porter 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 a Pause For Thought from Sheridan Voysey and listeners on the line as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Music Played

  • Olivia Newton鈥怞ohn & Electric Light Orchestra

    Xanadu

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

    Secret Life

    • Europiana.
    • UMG.
  • Janet Jackson

    When I Think Of You

    • Janet Jackson - Design Of A Decade.
    • A&M.
    • 7.
  • Barry White

    You See The Trouble With Me

    • Barry White - The Collection.
    • Mercury.
    • 2.
  • Tanita Tikaram

    Good Tradition

    • The Best Of Tanita Tikaram.
    • East West Records.
  • Culture Club

    It's A Miracle

    • Culture Club - Greatest Moments.
    • Virgin.
  • The Trammps

    Disco Inferno

    • NOW Boogie Nights - Disco Classics (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • Silk Sonic, Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak

    Skate

    • An Evening With Silk Sonic.
    • Atlantic.
  • Jennifer Lopez

    Love Don't Cost A Thing

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
  • CeeLo Green

    Cry Baby

    • The Lady Killer.
    • WEA.
    • 1.
  • The Beatles

    Get Back (feat. Billy Preston)

    • The Beatles - 1.
    • Apple.
    • 022.
  • 补鈥恏补

    The Living Daylights

    • The Best Of James Bond 30th Anniversa.
    • EMI.
    • 11.
  • Texas

    You Can Call Me

    • Hi.
    • BMG Rights Management.
  • Ellie Goulding

    Burn

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 86 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • Blossoms

    Care For

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.
  • Spice Girls

    Stop

    • Spice Girls - Spiceworld.
    • Virgin.
  • Madonna

    Vogue

    • Finally Enough Love (Deluxe Edition).
    • Rhino.
  • Steps

    Take Me For A Ride

    • What The Future Holds Pt. 2.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).
  • Phil Collins

    Sussudio

    • Singles.
    • Rhino.
  • Elton John & Kiki Dee

    Don't Go Breaking My Heart

  • Yola

    Starlight

    • Stand For Myself.
    • Easy Eye Sound.
  • Mis-Teeq

    Scandalous

    • The Very Best Of All Woman 2003 (Various Artists).
    • Telstar TV.
  • Riton & Nightcrawlers

    Friday (Dopamine Re-Edit) (feat. Mufasa & Hypeman)

    • (CD Single).
    • Ministry Of Sound.
  • Benny Hill

    Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West)

    • Chegger's Choice (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.
  • Jasper Carrott

    Funky Moped

    • Hits Of The 60s, 70s & 80s (Various).
    • Kenwest.
  • Lonnie Donegan

    My Old Man's a Dustman

    • 60's Number Ones Vol 1.
    • Old Gold.
  • James Smith

    Got The Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Bad Music.
  • Yazoo

    Don't Go

    • Electronic 80's (Various Artists).
    • EMM.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Last November, my wife and I spent a couple of nights in the seaside town of Hunstanton, in Norfolk. We stayed at a lovely old hotel with high sash windows and thick stone walls. With the challenges of Covid and having heard some difficult family news, it was good to get some respite.

Located on a peninsular, the November wind ripped forcefully through Hunstanton one afternoon鈥攃hurning up the sea, sending hats flying, making the flags of the war memorial snap violently. By that evening gusts were pounding our hotel like angry fists on a door. And yet we were at peace. Those stone walls were so strong, the foundations so solid. While nature鈥檚 war raged outside, our room was a refuge.

Like many, I鈥檝e watched speechless this week as events in Afghanistan have unfolded. Taliban flag raised over Kabul, desperate crowds chasing planes down runways. Better minds than mine can assign blame; all I鈥檝e been able to do is recall that moment in Hunstanton and turn it into a prayer鈥攁 prayer for refuge:聽

Refuge for those left on that airport tarmac, fearful of life ahead, and for Afghani soldiers and others fearing reprisal. Refuge for the women and girls fearing a loss of education, employment and innocence; for Afghanistan鈥檚 Christians who are already being targeted, and for veterans wondering if the lives and limbs lost these last twenty years were worth it.

Refuge is an important theme in scripture. God himself is described as a refuge for the vulnerable, and for many people I鈥檝e met who鈥檝e faced terror, worship has been their prime source of resilience. But scripture also talks of refuge as something聽we聽provide, whether through safe cities those fearing reprisal can flee to, or communities offering hospitality to refugees. As heaven and earth join forces, the vulnerable find safety鈥攕o I鈥檓 praying for governments, councils, churches and aid聽organisations聽too.

The storm in Hunstanton had passed by the following morning鈥攕oft breeze, calm sea, warm sun making the seagulls glow. It鈥檚 an image I鈥檓 holding for the people of Afghanistan: refuge today and a brighter tomorrow.聽

Broadcast

  • Thu 19 Aug 2021 06:30