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Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, John Bishop and Yusuf/Cat Stevens

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter chat to Zoe about their new Bill and Ted movie. John Bishop is on the line to talk about his new tour and Yusuf/Cat Stevens has a live track.

Wake up to a star-studded breakfast with Zoe Ball and a whole host of celebrity guests, plus live music in the studio!

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter chat to Zoe about the brand new Bill and Ted movie and what it's like to revisit the characters nearly 30 years later. This is the third ‘Bill & Ted’ film, following on from 1991’s ‘Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey’ and ‘Excellent Adventure’ which came out in 1989. Keanu Reeves has starred in all three Matrix movies which began in 1999, and is filming the fourth one at the moment. He is also known for his role in the John Wick series, and a fourth film is rumoured to be in the works. He established himself as an action hero with leading roles in ‘Point Break’ and ‘Speed’.
Alex Winter has been directing documentaries for the past few years and has just completed ‘Zappa’ which is an in-depth look into the life and work of Frank Zappa. He also directed the 2018 documentary film ‘The Panama Papers’.

John Bishop is on the phone talking to Zoe about his brand new tour and also his upcoming ITV documentary series about whales. The documentary was produced by the same people behind ‘The Blue Planet’ as John follows every step of these two beluga whales journeys. The whales, Little White and Little Grey were captured as youngsters in the world. They’ve been in captivity together over the last 10 years performing at an entertainment park. The new owners of the park are committed to returning them to a life in the ocean. His stand up career started in 2000 and the following year he made it to the final of ‘So You Think You’re Funny’ on the BBC. In 2009 he appeared in Channel 4’s series Comedy Showcase and was a contestant on Celebrity Mastermind. Most of his comedy material is drawn from his life's experiences including fatherhood, cycling around the world, playing football and being a nightclub doorman.

Yusuf/Cat Stevens chats to Zoe about his newly recorded version of his iconic album ‘Tea for the Tillerman’ and he’s sent in a specially recorded track from home, an exclusive version of ‘Father & Son’. ‘Tea For The Tillerman’ was the second album Yusuf / Cat Stevens' released in 1970, and his fourth studio album overall, and includes some of his best-known songs such as ‘Where Do the Children Play?’, ‘Hard Headed Woman’, ‘Wild World’, ‘Sad Lisa’, ‘Into White’, and ‘Father and Son’. Since its release in 1970, the songs on the album have been magnified and developed a life of their own thanks to their use in film, TV, and numerous reinterpretations by other artists – such as over the closing credits of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s ‘Extras’, ‘Harold and Maude’, ‘Guardians Of the Galaxy Vol. 2’, ‘The A-Team’ and ‘The Simpsons’ and a UK number 2 cover of ‘Father and Son’ by Boyzone. Yusuf / Cat Stevens was a former art student and took a one-year course at Hammersmith School of Art, and even considered a career as a cartoonist.

Along with Tina Daheley on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Hugh Ferris 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 a Pause For Thought from Reverend Richard Coles as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Fri 18 Sep 202006:30

Music Played

  • Earth, Wind & Fire

    September

    • Greatest Hits Of 1978 (Various Artis.
    • Premier.
    • 3.
  • Clean Bandit & Mabel

    Tick Tock

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • Tina Turner

    The Best

    • Tina Turner - Simply The Best.
    • Capitol.
  • MIKA

    Grace Kelly

    • (CD Single).
    • Casablanca.
  • Fun Boy Three & Bananarama

    It Ain't What You Do...

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

    America

    • Capitol.
  • Ava Max

    Who's Laughing Now

    • Heaven & Hell.
    • Atlantic.
  • The Lightning Seeds

    Lucky You

    • Lightning Seeds - Jollification.
    • Epic.
  • Nile Rodgers & Chic

    Everybody Dance (Radio 2 Live at Home 2020)

  • Madness

    Our House

    • Now 1983 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.
  • Harry Styles

    Watermelon Sugar

    • Fine Line.
    • Columbia.
  • Justin Timberlake

    Señorita

    • (CD Single).
    • Jive.
  • AC/DC

    Back In Black

    • Back In Black.
    • Epic.
    • 6.
  • Taylor Swift

    Blank Space

    • (CD Single).
    • Big Machine Records.
    • 1.
  • Amerie

    1 Thing

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
  • Sam Smith

    Diamonds

  • McFly

    Happiness

    • Young Dumb Thrills.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).
  • Stevie Wonder

    Do I Do

    • Universal.
  • Miley Cyrus

    Midnight Sky

    • Plastic Hearts.
    • RCA.
  • Aretha Franklin & George Michael

    I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)

    • George Michael - Ladies & Gentlemen.
    • Epic.
  • Barry White

    You're the First, the Last, My Everything

    • Barry White - The Collection.
    • Mercury.
  • Yusuf/Cat Stevens

    Father And Son (Radio 2 House Music, 18 Sept 20)

  • Christina Aguilera

    Loyal, Brave & True

    • Mulan O.S.T..
    • Walt Disney Records.
  • Jocelyn Brown

    Somebody Else's Guy

    • Heart Full Of Soul 2 (Various Artist.
    • Global Television.
  • Kings of Leon

    Use Somebody

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.
    • 2.
  • Queen

    Don't Stop Me Now

    • Jazz.
    • Island.
    • 12.
  • Gregory Porter

    Concorde

    • All Rise.
    • Decca Records Jazz France.
  • Annie Lennox

    Walking On Broken Glass

    • Now 1992 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 2.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
From the Reverend Richard Coles:
Autumn is coming, it’s darker when I wake up, there’s a mouldy odour in the woods when I walk the dogs, and Jamie who looks after the Vicarage garden, is thinking about moving stuff inside that doesn’t like the cold. Like me, he’s pushing sixty, and like me, has a bad back. I’m not surprised, considering how much bending and lifting he has to do for his job – working on the land since he was a boy. We were talking over a cup of tea, swapping bad back stories, and I asked him what had done for his. “Northern Soul,” he said. It wasn’t digging the veg patch, it was dancing. 
He used to drive up with his mates to Wigan Casino from Wellingborough in an Austin Princess, dance the night away, and drive home, wide-awake and wide-eyed. 1976, bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, until he started his business and bought his first house, and hung up his Roxy threads. Dance the night away, Northern Soul style. Spins, drops, high kicks, boys in soul bags and singlets, girls in skirts and flatties, sliding and swivelling, with immaculate precision. To enable this they would sprinkle the dance floor with talc, to keep feet fleet and swift. Forty years is a long time to suffer back pain, I said, I know because mine went following an accident when I was eighteen. “It wasn’t then, it was now,” said Jamie. 
He’d started going again, to Northern Soul nights, dancing to The Fascinations and Wayne Gibson and Yvonne Baker, like the old days; but some things have changed. They don’t use talc on the dance floor anymore, they use silicone, which is much more effective, So much more, that when Jamie attempted his first spin he lost control and - crack - his back went. I wondered how long I would manage if I tried to recapitulate the Second Summer of Love on Ibiza, in 1990, when we danced the night away at Amnesia and Ku, and got barred for life from a reputable car hire company. Not long. In the book of Ecclesiastes we read of the times of our lives - times to build, and times to laugh, and times to dance - and times to stop, and do other things. Autumn follows summer, even in the weirdest of years; enjoy the autumn, never go back.

Broadcast

  • Fri 18 Sep 202006:30