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Thursday Theme: Short Songs!

Jo has the Thursday Theme: really short songs to celebrate the shortest day of the year, the winter solstice, on Sunday!

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1 hour, 15 minutes

Last on

Thu 18 Dec 202519:30
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Cameron Winter

    Nausicaä (Love Will Be Revealed)

    • Partisan.

  • Tori Amos

    Winter

    • East West Records.

  • Amble

    Socrates Smiled

    • Hand Me Downs.
    • Warner Records.
    • 3.

  • Pulp

    Spike Island

    • More.
    • Rough Trade.

  • Bastille

    Fairytale of New York (Radio 2 Sofa Session, 17 Dec 2025)

  • EELS

    Christmas Is Going To The Dogs

    • Interscope.

  • Olivia Dean

    So Easy (To Fall In Love)

    • The Art Of Loving.
    • Capitol.

  • Goldfrapp

    Winter Wonderland

    • Winter Wonderland (Various Artists).
    • EMI.
    • 7.

  • Vince Guaraldi Trio

    O Tannenbaum Vinyl Revival

    • A Charlie Brown Christmas.
    • Fantasy.
    • 1.

  • Liam Lynch

    United States Of Whatever

    • Global Warming.

  • Blur

    Song 2

    • Music Of The Millennium (Various).
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • Yazoo

    Situation

    • Alison Moyet Singles.
    • Columbia.

  • Labi Siffre

    Bless The Telephone

  • Nina Simone

    Ain't Got No, I Got Life

    • Swinging Sixties! (Various Artists).
    • Sony BMG.

  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs

    Pin

    • Polydor.

  • Simon & Garfunkel

    The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)

    • The Definitive Simon & Garfunkel.
    • Columbia.

  • Doja Cat

    Say So

    • Hot Pink.
    • Kemosabe/Ministry of Sound.
    • 005.

  • Elbow

    Golden Slumbers

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Cat Stevens

    Tea For The Tillerman

    • Tea for the Tillerman.
    • Universal Island Records.

  • John Williams

    Carol Of The Bells

    • Home Alone (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Anniversary Edition).
    • Masterworks.
    • 12.

  • Tony Christie

    (Is This The Way To) Amarillo (Radio 2 Piano Room, 18 Dec 2025)

Broadcast

  • Thu 18 Dec 202519:30
    BBC Radio 2