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Sienna Miller joins Zoe to chat about her new film American Woman. It’s 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! Sienna Miller joins Zoe in the studio to chat about starring in the new film American Woman ahead of its UK cinema release.

It’s The Why Workshop, and Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with more wonders and ponders. This week the elves tackle time zones at the North Pole, why plastic is called plastic and what was the reference point for time before BC/AD?

Zoe announces a special theatre performance of Mary Poppins for Children in Need and you tell us about your early morning superhero shenanigans.

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 weather with Carol Kirkwood and a daily Pause For Thought from Rae Duke, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Wed 9 Oct 2019 06:30

Music Played

  • John Parr

    St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)

    • Now 1985 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.
  • Pet Shop Boys

    Dreamland (feat. Years & Years)

    • (CD Single).
    • x2 Recordings.
  • The O’Jays

    Back Stabbers

    • The Ultimate Sound Of Philadelphia.
    • Columbia.
  • Keane

    Everybody's Changing

    • (CD Single).
    • Transcopic Records.
  • Kim Wilde

    Kids In America

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.
  • Eurythmics & Aretha Franklin

    Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves

    • Duets - 36 Of The World's Greatest Ev.
    • Telstar.
  • Maroon 5

    Cold

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope Records.
  • Mary Poppins Australian Cast

    Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

    • Original Australian Cast Album.
  • The Beach Boys

    I Get Around

    • The Best Of The Beach Boys (CD 1).
    • EMI.
  • Quincy Jones

    Ai No Corrida (feat. Dune)

    • Hits Of 1981 & 1982 (Various Artists.
    • Polydor.
  • Ingrid Andress

    Lady Like

    • Lady Like.
    • Warner Music Nashville.
  • Jax Jones

    Breathe (feat. Ina Wroldsen)

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
  • Niall Horan

    Nice To Meet Ya

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol Records.
  • The Four Seasons

    December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night)

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 11.
  • Tavares

    Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel

    • 20 Songs Of Love From The 70's (Vario.
    • MFP.
  • Charlie Puth

    Mother

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • Pink Floyd

    Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2

    • Pink Floyd.
    • Harvest.
  • Queen

    You're My Best Friend

    • Queen - Greatest Hits.
    • Parlophone.
    • 4.
  • The La’s

    There She Goes

    • Love - 38 All Time Love Classics.
    • Polygram Tv.
  • Wham!

    Bad Boys

    • Wham! - Fantastic.
    • Epic.
  • Post Malone

    Circles

    • (CD Single).
    • Republic Records.
  • The Boo Radleys

    Wake Up Boo!

    • Various Artists - Untitled.
    • Global Records & Tapes.
  • Jack Savoretti

    Greatest Mistake

    • Singing To Strangers.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).
  • King

    Love & Pride

    • The Ultimate Eighties (Various).
    • Hit Records.
  • XTC

    Senses Working Overtime

    • Power Pop Anthems (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.
    • 3.
  • Carly Simon

    You're So Vain

    • The Very Best Of Carly Simon.
    • Global Television.
  • Emeli Sandé

    You Are Not Alone

    • Real Life.
    • Virgin EMI.
    • 03.
  • Just Jack

    Starz In Their Eyes

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
From Rae Duke, Religion and Ethics teacher and broadcaster:
I can be a real sucker for an online personality test. Whether it promises to shine further light on how I think, work or communicate – they’re just a bit of fun with the potential to boost that all important self-knowledge. The most recent one to grab my attention - and to then eat-up 6 minutes of my day - was the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú’s ‘How eccentric are you?’ test. It kicked off with the question; what’s your favourite mode of transport? - With the options of car, bike or Besaddled Llama as available answers. 
It was at this early point, that my hopes of a high-ish score were dashed… I had wondered whether my brief dabbling with an 80’s esque mullet aged 14, featuring a shaved section above my left ear no less, was evidence of a masked eccentricity. Alas no, this ill-advised hairdo of the early noughties was just not going to cut it here. The quiz came off the back of a documentary highlighting that though the individuals who sprinkle a bit of eccentricity on the vanilla of life are idolized by us, they’re increasingly rare to find – and this is no good thing. Because what our more basic understanding of the term ‘eccentric’ looses sight of is that the word actually describes those who are entirely original, who do not sheepishly follow the crowd; those with a strong conscience whose principles and beliefs, though sitting on the edges of society to begin with, end up steering us in new and better directions.
In his latest book, Dominion, the historian Tom Holland explains how Christianity – despite being a small, revolutionary - you might say eccentric - movement in its infancy, singlehandedly transformed the West; without it, for instance, we’d have no ‘All you need is love’ lyric. We may live in an increasingly secular society, yes, but many of our ideals remain undeniably Christian. I’m definitely of the thinking that, much like the mullet of my youth and that poor Besaddled llama, many of life’s gems are to be found ‘out of the centre’ and that, as Greta Thunberg’s example so stunningly demonstrates; no one is too small to make a difference.

Broadcast

  • Wed 9 Oct 2019 06:30