The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show

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The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show: Alexandra Burke and Maximum Music Monday

Alexandra Burke and Maximum Music Monday

BBC Radio 2 - The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show, Alexandra Burke and Maximum Music Monday

Alexandra Burke tells Zoe about her new musical role on the West End stage.

Alexandra Burke, the actress and singer. tells Zoe about her new musical role in London's West End.

Alexandra Burke, the actress and singer, tells Zoe about her new role as The Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The musical returns to the London Palladium this year and also stars Jason Donovan as the Pharoah and Jac Yarrow as Joseph. Alexandra's many West End credits include the lead roles in The Bodyguard, Sister Act, Chess and Chicago. Alexandra first rose to fame winning The X-Factor in 2008, and has since gone on to sell over 5 million records. Released as a concept album in 1969, the stage version of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat has become one of the world’s most beloved family musicals. The multi-award-winning show, which began life as a small-scale school concert, has been performed hundreds of thousands of times including multiple runs in the West End and on Broadway, international number one tours, and productions in over 80 countries as far afield as Austria and Zimbabwe and from Israel to Peru. 

We’re chatting to family counsellor Dee Holmes as part of our Tiny Happy People Families project – about ways to deal with anxieties around the world opening up a bit more!

Zoe plays three disco classics from her personal collection in the Disco Ball at 8.30!

Along with Adam Porter on news, Jules Lang 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 and listeners on the line, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

Amazing music. Played by an amazing line up.

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