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Elizabeth Day and James Dean Bradfield

Elizabeth Day chats to Zoe about her new novel, Magpie. Zoe releases the next Radio 2 Live set from Manic Street Preachers and Jay Flynn returns with his Virtual Quiz.

Elizabeth Day, the Sunday Times bestselling author, journalist and podcaster, chats to Zoe about her new novel, Magpie. Elizabeth Day is the author of four novels and her bestselling memoir, How to Fail. Her acclaimed debut Scissors, Paper, Stone won a Betty Trask Award and 成人快手 Fires was an Observer book of the year. She is also an award-winning journalist and has written extensively for The Times, the Telegraph, the Guardian, the Observer, Harper鈥檚 Bazaar and Elle. She is currently a columnist for the Mail on Sunday's You magazine and host of the chart-topping podcast, How To Fail With Elizabeth Day.

Zoe speaks to James Dean Bradfield from Manic Street Preachers to reveal the next set to be released from Radio 2 Live, a series of exclusive concerts hosted across the UK, to celebrate the return of live music. Zoe鈥檚 releasing one fabulous set every day this week, from Texas, Westlife, Steps and Manic Street Preachers. You can watch the Manics now on iPlayer, or by pressing the Red Button from any 成人快手 TV channel. Or hear the whole thing on the 成人快手 Sounds app 鈥� just search for Radio 2 Live.

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 Clare Runacres on news, Jules Lang 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 Laura Marks and listeners on the line as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

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Music Played

  • Take That

    Relight My Fire (feat. Lulu)

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

  • Texas

    You Can Call Me

    • Hi.
    • BMG Rights Management.

  • Tavares

    Don't Take Away The Music

    • Wow That Was The 70's (Various Artists).
    • Disky.
    • 8.

  • S Club

    Don't Stop Movin'

    • (CD Album Sampler).
    • Polydor.

  • Nina Simone

    Feeling Good

    • Sex And The City (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Boyzone

    Picture of You

    • Hits Zone - The Best Of 97 (Various).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Pulp

    Disco 2000

    • Hits.
    • Island.
    • 6.

  • ABBA

    Don't Shut Me Down

    • Voyage.
    • Polar.

  • Years & Years

    King

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 90 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    Live Forever (Live Sofa Session)

  • Kaiser Chiefs

    Ruby

    • (CD Single).
    • B-Unique.

  • Silk Sonic, Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak

    Skate

    • An Evening With Silk Sonic.
    • Atlantic.

  • Bananarama

    Nathan Jones

    • The Very Best Of Bananarama.
    • Warner Strategic Market.

  • Supertramp

    Breakfast In America

    • The Very Best Of Supertramp.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Liam Payne

    Sunshine

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.

  • Irene Cara

    Flashdance... What a Feeling

    • Flashdance.
    • Casablanca.

  • Sophie Ellis鈥怋extor & The Feeling

    While You're Still Young

    • Everybody's Talking About Jamie O.S.T..
    • Island.

  • Backstreet Boys

    Everybody (Backstreet's Back)

    • Huge Hits 1997 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • The Drifters

    Saturday Night At The Movies

    • Very Best Of Ben E.King & The Drifters.
    • Global Television.

  • Level 42

    Lessons In Love

    • Now That's What I Call Music '86.
    • Now.

  • Anne-Marie & Little Mix

    Kiss My (Uh-Oh)

    • Therapy.
    • Atlantic.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    A Design For Life (Radio 2 Live 2021)

  • Shanice

    I Love Your Smile

    • Now Yearbook '92 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music.

  • The Temptations

    Get Ready

    • Dancing In The Street (Various Artis.
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • The Beat

    Mirror In The Bathroom

    • The Beat - Beat This!.
    • Sire.

  • The Selecter

    Three Minute Hero

    • Two-Tone Records.

  • The Specials

    Gangsters

  • John Lennon

    Imagine

    • GIMME SOME TRUTH. (Deluxe).
    • Calderstone.

  • Ella Henderson & House Gospel Choir

    Risk It All (feat. Just Kiddin)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Boiling hot, chunky tomato soup in too thin paper cups, and sticky sausages straight from the oven, eaten outdoors dripping grease onto our best clothes.聽聽The meal had all the trappings of our Guy Fawkes night annual party when I was a child 鈥� long before health and safety, rightly, put a ban on roaring, roasting bonfires at home, and spark shooting Catherine wheels attached precariously to our garden fence. Except this was no 1970s November 5th聽family gathering in suburban north London.聽聽Whilst still suburban North London, this was our covid friendly adaptation of Rosh Hashana, Jewish New year, just this week.聽

With so many vulnerable family members - from my dad at 96 to my soon-to-be-born great nephew - the stakes were high.聽聽聽Squishing round a too small table with a shared, over-licked spoon in the symbolic honey jar, and not enough air to breath never mind to flow, was not an option. So after endless feverish taps on the weather app, 20 of us descended on my brother鈥檚 accessible if rather unkempt, garden.聽聽I brought the freshly baked 鈥� not by me 鈥� round challah.聽聽My mum had the fishballs with spicy horseradish.聽聽The apples, sliced to dip in the individual portions of honey for a sweet year, came from the tree literally and precariously above our heads.聽

As Jews have done for thousands of years, and as the sun went down over the urban sprawl, we lit the candles and recited the blessings.聽聽Then, balanced on folding chairs, we dripped honey over our apples, and our un-napkined laps, and main coursed on platters of not remotely Jewish, but delicious, sushi only interrupted by my nephew on holiday in Greece Zooming in to announce his engagement. We weren鈥檛 in my mum鈥檚 cosy flat but at least we were all-together with family.聽聽The eminent Rabbi David Rosen wrote: 鈥淭he family is the central institution of Jewish life around which daily, weekly and annual religious observance resolves鈥�.聽聽And he is right. Unlike our Guy Fawkes gatherings, this tomato soup was from a carton, the paper plates were compostable, the sausages were vegetarian and we were all socially distanced.聽聽But, just like those bonfire parties of my childhood, and from my perspective with huge gratitude, we were, at least all together.聽聽聽

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  • Thu 9 Sep 2021 06:30
    成人快手 Radio 2