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The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show

Music: Classic Pop & Rock

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Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball.

The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show: Mark Kermode and The 5 Star Biz Quiz

Mark Kermode and The 5 Star Biz Quiz

BBC Radio 2 - The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show, Mark Kermode and The 5 Star Biz Quiz

Mark Kermode wakes up and embraces the day with Zoe Ball!

Film critic Mark Kermode tells Zoe about his new book. Plus it's your chance to come and watch the Breakfast Show tomorrow by testing your showbiz knowledge in The 5 Star Biz Quiz.

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball! Film critic Mark Kermode tells Zoe about his new book How Does It Feel?: A Life of Musical Misadventures and following his success with The Dodge Brothers, he teaches Zoe to play the harmonica.

Plus one listener tests their showbiz knowledge in The 5 Star Biz Quiz, in an effort to meet Friday's guests: Tom Holland, Jake Gyllenhaal, Dermot O'Leary and Will Young. 

Along with Clare Runacres on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Hugh Ferris on sport, Zoe 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!

We also have an world exclusive first play of Time Waits For No One, a previously unreleased track sung by Queen's Freddie Mercury, written by Dave Clark of The Dave Clark Five who tells us about writing the track for the musical Time, and about being present during Freddie's recording at Abbey Road Studios in 1986.

Ahead of the upcoming 100th anniversary of the Tour de France, Hugh chats to Scottish TV presenter Gail Porter about cycling the final leg of the first ever Women's Tour of Scotland. There's also weather with Carol Kirkwood live from Ladies Day at Royal Ascot and a daily Pause For Thought from vicar Dave Tomlinson, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

Amazing music. Played by an amazing line up.

Radio 2: Amazing music. Played by an amazing line-up. The home of great music, entertainment and documentaries

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