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Gary Davies sits in with All Day PopMaster

Wake up and embrace the day with Gary Davies and the team. Gary kicks off All Day PopMaster at 0735 with Ken Bruce taking the reigns for the nation's favourite quiz.

Wake up and embrace the day with Gary Davies as we kick off All Day PopMaster on this Bank Holiday Monday special.

In this very special event, some of the UK’s most loved celebrity quiz brains go up against listeners in the nation’s favourite pop quiz, with everyone fighting to be crowned only the second ever All Day PopMaster Champion.

Contestants during the show include Rick Edwards, host of the BBC One quiz show Impossible, and Shaun Wallace AKA The Dark Destroyer from The Chase.

Along with Adam Porter on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Mike Williams on sport, Gary and the team have the best start to your morning. With headlines, tunes chosen by listeners and more music than you can shake a glitterball at!

There's also a Pause For Thought from poet Harry Baker and listeners on the line as Gary entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Mon 31 May 202106:30
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • ABBA

    Summer Night City

    • Abba - More Abba Gold.
    • Polydor.

  • Texas

    Mr Haze

    • Hi.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd.

  • Room 5

    Make Luv (feat. Oliver Cheatham)

    • New Woman 2003 (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Lighthouse Family

    Lifted

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Jackie Wilson

    (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher

    • Midnight Soul (Various Artists).
    • Music Club.

  • The Lotus Eaters

    First Picture Of You

    • New Frontiers (Various Artists).
    • Temple Records.

  • Katrina and the Waves

    Walking On Sunshine

    • The Best Summer Ever (Various Artist.
    • Virgin.

  • Moby

    Natural Blues (Reprise Version) (feat. Gregory Porter & Amythyst Kiah)

    • Reprise.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa

    One Kiss

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • New Radicals

    Get What You Give

    • (CD Single).
    • MCA.

  • Yola

    Diamond Studded Shoes

    • Stand For Myself.
    • Easy Eye Sound/Concord.
    • 1.

  • Queen

    Another One Bites The Dust

    • The Game.
    • Island.
    • 3.

  • Queen

    Killer Queen

    • NOW - Yearbook 1974 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Average White Band

    Let's Go Round Again

    • The Best Of.
    • Rhino.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    Orwellian

    • The Ultra Vivid Lament.
    • Columbia.

  • Jennifer Lopez

    Love Don't Cost A Thing

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.

  • Tears for Fears

    Everybody Wants To Rule The World

    • Rule The World: The Greatest Hits.
    • Virgin EMI Records.
    • 4.

  • The O’Jays

    Back Stabbers

    • The Ultimate Sound Of Philadelphia.
    • Columbia.

  • P!nk

    All I Know So Far

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Tina Turner

    The Best

    • Tina Turner - Simply The Best.
    • Capitol.

  • Tina Turner

    Steamy Windows

    • Tina Turner - Simply The Best.
    • Capitol.

  • TLC

    No Scrubs

    • (CD Single).
    • Laface.

  • Ed Sheeran

    Lego House

    • (CD Single).
    • Asylum.
    • 1.

  • Counting Crows

    Mr. Jones

    • Geffen.

  • Rina Sawayama

    Chosen Family (feat. Elton John)

    • (CD Single).
    • Dirty Hit.

  • John Paul Young

    Love Is In The Air

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

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Sharing my poems on stage has always felt like an act of worship to me. When I was at university I used to feel guilty that I felt more in touch with God performing at a gig on a Saturday night than I did when I was struggling to stay awake in church the following morning. When I explained this to a student youth worker at the time, he explained as if it were the most obvious thing in the world, that is because you are getting in touch with God the creator (and I’ve learnt to cut myself a bit more slack ever since).

This Wednesday will be the first time I perform on stage to an audience in 444 days. While that is mathematically quite a satisfying number, emotionally it is a more startling reminder of how much I have missed it, so I have written a new poem to celebrate this momentous occasion.

444

I’ve been looking forward to this for 444 days

It’s been more that four seasons since I last performed on stage

And yet in 48 hours, those fortunes will all change,

Even a fortress of forklifts couldn’t force me away.

We won’t forget that foreboding as things headed for closure

But for now the forecast affords us more hope.

I’ll feel more fortunate than a four-leafed clover

If folks left their four-poster and forayed their way over

Whether you’re a French Quatre (“cat”) or German facing your Vier (“fear”) 

Out foraging, or out for a drink with your peers

It’s like formaldehyde - the way we are preserving art here

I’ve waited for this for over a year

Here’s a formal invitation to join forces together

We are formidable when we forge these connections

We can reform our former world now we’re informed for the better

I hope to keep on performing forever.

Broadcast

  • Mon 31 May 202106:30
    BBC Radio 2