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The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show: Anna Friel and Mica Paris

Anna Friel and Mica Paris

BBC Radio 2 - The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show, Anna Friel and Mica Paris

Anna Friel tells Zoe about the new series of Marcella and Mica Paris has live music.

Anna Friel tells Zoe about the new series of Marcella on ITV and Mica Paris has live music from home exclusively for the show.

Anna Friel, the hugely successful actor, tells Zoe about the brand news of series of Marcella on ITV. Anna’s character Marcella Backland was an unflinching and unrelenting detective in the previous two series. However, at the end of series two, after discovering that she killed her own daughter, Marcella rejected who she was and, in effect, wanted to erase herself. Now she’s undercover with a new persona, Keira Devlin. The series was filmed entirely on location in and around Belfast. Anna Friel has received a number of awards, including a National Television Award for Most Popular Actress for her work on Brookside, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a TV Series Musical or Comedy for Pushing Daisies. In 2017 she won the International Emmy Award for Best Performance by an Actress for Marcella. 

Mica Paris, one of the most respected British soul singers, has recorded two live exclusive tracks for Zoe from home with music from her new album 'gospel'. This album is a passion project for Mica who has always wanted to record a gospel album. Mica was brought up on gospel music and sang in her south London church in Lewisham every weekend with her grandparents. Following the success of ‘Gospel According to Mica: The Story of Gospel Music in Six Songs’ on the BBC earlier this year Mica began recording the album with the Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir. Since scoring her first Top 10 Hit in 1988 with ‘My One Temptation’ Mica has since gone onto release six more albums, published a book and became a popular media personality, from hosting her own Radio 2 soul show, a panelist on ITV’s Loose Women, to more recently - an addition to the cast of EastEnders where she is playing Ellie Nixon, grandmother to Phil and Denise’s adopted baby Raymond. 

Along with Clare Runacres 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,  headlines, tunes chosen by listeners, and more music that you can shake a glitterball at!

There's also a daily Pause For Thought with Reverend Kate Bottley as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

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