Main content
Sorry, this episode is not currently available

Blossoms, Tom Walker and Malorie Blackman are on the show!

Malorie chats about the second series of Noughts + Crosses, Tom on his new single, Serotonin, plus Joe and Tom from Blossoms chat about their new album, Ribbon Around The Bomb.

It's a jam-packed Friday with Zoe Ball on the Breakfast Show.

Joe and Tom from Blossoms join Zoe live in the studio to talk all about their new album 'Ribbon Around The Bomb', Tom Walker has a new single 'Serotonin' and Malorie Blackman's 'Noughts + Crosses' is on 麻豆官网首页入口 One and iPlayer.

Plus, it's the return of The Seven Thirty Three, where you choose the tunes to get you in the mood for the weekend!

Along with Tina Daheley on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Mike Williams on sport, Zoe and the team have the best start to your morning.

There's also a daily Pause For Thought from Paul Kerensa, plus texts, emails and voice notes, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Fri 29 Apr 2022 06:30
麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 2

More episodes

Previous

Rob Beckett and Jay's Quiz

Next

It's Maximum Music Monday and Anita Rani's on the show!

See all episodes from The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show

Music Played

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Shine A Little Love

    • ELO's Greatest Hits Vol.2.
    • Epic.

  • Shawn Mendes

    When You're Gone

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin/EMI.

  • Take That

    Greatest Day

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 1.

  • Nina Simone

    My Baby Just Cares For Me

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

  • Patrice Rushen

    Forget Me Nots

    • Best Disco Album In The World...Ever!.
    • Virgin.

  • Phil Collins

    Two Hearts

    • Singles.
    • Rhino.

  • Sam Ryder

    SPACE MAN

    • There's Nothing But Space, Man!.
    • Parlophone.

  • Sugababes

    Red Dress

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • John Paul Young

    Love Is In The Air

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

  • Tony Christie

    (Is This the Way to) Amarillo

    • NOW That's What I Call A Wedding! (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Faithless

    Insomnia

    • Now 35 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Infernal

    From Paris To Berlin

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 64 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Kungs vs Cookin鈥� on 3 Burners

    This Girl

    • (CD Single).
    • Sound Of Barclay.

  • Jon Batiste

    FREEDOM

    • WE ARE.
    • Verve.

  • Eurythmics

    Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

    • NOW That's What I Call The 80s (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Tom Walker

    Serotonin

    • CD Single.
    • Relentless / Sony Music.

  • Todd Terry, Martha Wash & Jocelyn Brown

    Something Goin' On

    • (CD Single).
    • Manifesto.

  • Mabel, Jax Jones & Galantis

    Good Luck

    • About Last Night....
    • Polydor.

  • Cliff Richard

    Wired For Sound

    • Cliff Richard - Private Collection.
    • EMI.

  • Blossoms

    The Sulking Poet

    • Ribbon Around The Bomb.
    • Virgin/ EMI.

  • Michael Gray

    The Weekend

    • (CD Single).
    • Eye Industries.

  • Debbie Harry

    I Want That Man

    • The Best Millennium Party Ever (Var).
    • Virgin.

  • Peaches & Herb

    Shake Your Groove Thing

    • Night Moves (Various Artists).
    • Double Gold.

  • T. Rex

    I Love to Boogie

    • T. Rex - The Singles As & Bs.
    • Repertoire.

  • Barry Manilow

    Copacabana

    • NOW That's What I Call A 60s & 70s Summer: Seasons In The Sun (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Shires

    Cut Me Loose

    • 10 Year Plan.
    • BMG Rights Management.

  • Michael Bubl茅 & 麻豆官网首页入口 Concert Orchestra

    Feeling Good (Radio 2 Piano Room, 28 Apr 2022)

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

On 麻豆官网首页入口1 tonight, 9:30, it鈥檚 last in the series of Lee Mack sitcom Not Going Out. I鈥檝e been writing for it since the beginning, over 12 series, so I鈥檓 grateful it鈥檚 still on a decade and a half later. Lee Mack plays Lee 鈥� quite a reach for him 鈥� originally a layabout bachelor, now a layabout husband and father. Still each episode he gets into the scrapes and social dilemmae that sitcom characters get into. This series, that鈥檚 included struggling for conversation at the school gates... texting the person a message is听about听instead of who it鈥檚 intended for... and jury service while really you鈥檙e fixated on who鈥檚 scratched your car. All navigated by an everyman who thinks the world is against him, so digs holes for himself, makes it all worse 鈥� but generally admits his faults by the end of each episode.

听

Sitcoms are little morality plays 鈥� modern parables where disorder becomes ordered, misunderstandings lead to deception or cover-up 鈥� but ultimately the truth will out, via hilarity, or attempts at it, along the way. Crime doesn鈥檛 pay and dishonesty doesn鈥檛 prevail in sitcoms. It just doesn鈥檛 make sense to us. Good always wins. From Basil Fawlty to Fleabag, we live vicariously through these characters. 鈥楾here but for the grace of God go we鈥�. Charlie Chaplin observed: 鈥淟ife is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot鈥�. Zoom out, you see life鈥檚 patterns. The mistakes we repeat. The bad habits we can鈥檛 let go 鈥� because like an episodic sitcom, we may learn, but... we come back next week and we make the same mistakes all over again.

听

I see it in the Bible too, from put-upon Job, who can never catch a lucky break in life, to the biblical Proverbs: 鈥楶ride comes before a fall鈥� or 鈥楾he righteous fall seven times, but they rise again.鈥� Ancient and modern, we try and break these cycles 鈥� but our continual blunders are all part of the human condition. Repeats, eh? So as our lives are recommissioned for another series, let鈥檚 laugh at our failings, together. Because no man is an island, apart from the Isle of Man. And yes, that鈥檚 a line from Not Going Out. I won鈥檛 say who wrote it, but let鈥檚 say if you laugh, it鈥檚 one of mine; if you don鈥檛, probably someone else鈥檚.

Broadcast

  • Fri 29 Apr 2022 06:30
    麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 2