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Kelly Macdonald

Zoe chats to Kelly Macdonald about BBC One drama The Victim. Plus it’s The Why Workshop where Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with more wonders and ponders, including your questions.

Zoe chats to Trainspotting and Boardwalk Empire actress Kelly Macdonald about the BBC One drama The Victim.

It’s The Why Workshop, where Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with more wonders and ponders, including your questions. Today the Elves answer; what's the fastest a human could run, do animals get dizzy and why is Leominster pronounced Lempster?”

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 than you can shake a glitterball at!

There's also weather with Carol Kirkwood, 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 10 Apr 201906:30
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Laura Branigan

    Gloria

    • Disco Queens: The '80s (Various Artists).
    • Rhino.

  • Ava Max

    So Am I

    • Heaven & Hell.
    • Atlantic.

  • Robbie Williams

    Feel

    • (CD Single).
    • Chrysalis.

  • John Legend

    Love Me Now

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • George Michael

    Faith

    • George Michael - Ladies & Gentlemen.
    • Epic.

  • Stevie Wonder

    Isn't She Lovely

    • Songs In The Key Of Life Vol.2.
    • Hitsville.

  • Kate Bush

    Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)

    • Remastered Part I.
    • Fish People.

  • The Stone Roses

    Fools Gold

    • Precious - Various Artists.
    • Dino.

  • Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb

    Guilty

    • Polydor.

  • Super Furry Animals

    Juxtaposed With U

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony.

  • Joni Mitchell

    Big Yellow Taxi

    • Joni Mitchell.
    • Reprise.

  • Aretha Franklin

    Chain Of Fools

    • Aretha Franklin - Queen Of Soul.
    • Atlantic.

  • The Chainsmokers

    Side Effects (feat. Emily Warren)

    • (CD Single).
    • Disruptor Records.

  • Michael Sembello

    Maniac

    • Flashdance O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • VIRGIN.

  • Emeli Sandé

    Sparrow

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin Records.

  • Bobby Brown

    Two Can Play That Game

    • Now 30 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Lauren Daigle

    You Say

    • Look Up Child.
    • Centricity Music.

  • David Bowie

    Modern Love

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Will Young

    All The Songs

    • Lexicon.
    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • Camila Cabello

    Havana (feat. Young Thug)

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco Music.

  • Tom Walker

    Just You And I

    • What A Time To Be Alive.
    • Relentless Records.

  • Diana Ross

    My Old Piano

    • Diana Ross & The Supremes - 40 Motown.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Jonas Brothers

    Sucker

    • (CD Single).
    • Republic Records.

  • Run‐D.M.C. vs Jason Nevins

    It's Like That

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • LÉON

    You And I

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.

  • Prince & The Revolution

    Purple Rain

    • The Love Songs Album (Various).
    • Universal.

  • Radiohead

    Creep

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • S Club

    Reach

    • Huge Hits 2000 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Busted

    MIA

    • Half Way There.
    • Rhino.

  • Donna Summer

    This Time I Know It's For Real

    • Best Of Donna Summer.
    • Warner Bros..

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Sarah Joseph, Editor of a Muslim lifestyle magazine:


21 years ago today, The Good Friday, agreement was signed. The Northern Ireland peace deal was born from secret discussions, followed by two years of talks, and 36 hours of intense final negotiations. I’m old enough to remember The Troubles that The Good Friday Agreement put an end to. I can remember London not feeling safe, and not being allowed to go Christmas shopping in town because my mum was scared of the bombs. And she had good reason to be. The violence felt ever present. Indeed, my friend Laura was saved from the 1981 Chelsea Barracks Bomb as she had turned a different corner to put her neighbour’s rubbish away. 
So I welcomed The Good Friday Agreement with joy, and indeed value work that values peace. Benjamin Franklin said, "There never was a good war, or a bad peace." But peace is hard won, and takes courage. Tonight, I will speak at St James’s Church in Piccadilly, at an Interfaith event reflecting on the massacre of 50 worshippers at a mosque in New Zealand. People from all faiths and none, are coming together to say this is not the world we want! 
Yet, people have openly justified the New Zealand massacre. Messages such as “an eye for an eye”, and “a taste of your own medicine” have been seen on social media. For me, we arrive at violence when we stop seeing each other as humans, and instead start to see each other by labels. When we only see each other in terms of difference. When “us” excludes “them”. Depressingly, when the New Zealand massacre took place I was not surprised. I know from my day to day experiences of anti-Muslim hatred that such an event was a “when” not an “if”, which to be frank, just added to the pain of seeing fellow humans killed. 
Most of us won’t be part of any large peace initiative such as the Good Friday Agreement. I believe we can however call out hate wherever we see it. We can make our personal spaces – on and off line – places where we value our fellow humans. I believe we can all do our bit for peace.

Broadcast

  • Wed 10 Apr 201906:30
    BBC Radio 2