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Lightweight title but the fight ended in chaos with basement becoming involved in fights in the ring and in the crowd and whether outbreaks of blustery rain in northern parts of the U.K. Particularly in northwest Scotland winds will be strong reaching Gale falls in coastal and upland areas southern areas will be away mainly dry was patchy cloud and sunny spells temperatures reaching highs of 15 Celsius in London 14 in Cardiff And it's just the thing and never really knew my grandparents so I'm trying to be the best. So much fun with my little 4 year old Rosy creating happy memories as from the. Silly now. This is Rachel so interesting to hear the property is using. My great grandparents were my wee Nana and we papa we papa was a minister in the United Free Church thank you for your company today on the drive to work this morning and this hour coming from Johnny. Smith singing. She's got an album out and she's also going to tell you about the time she was a judge on a T.V. Singing not changed on the program. Talking to the actress and comedienne. She's be making a name for us. It's all about grief so you can hear that some great music all the way from Gloria Gaynor Craig David to the 1st this is wrought at his latest single look in her eyes. To. See A. Pretty girl. There. In. The. Sun. 11. Focal. Length. Relents. Says. His caucus we. Can't. Move. I've. I've. I've. Along with Maxine Carolyn Kevin and Ian as well. Yeah I would say winter here Texan e-mails all morning this morning on Grandparents Day and your amazing and wonderful grandparents you can still get in touch for the show 188291 this one is from and that in Colwyn Bay in North Wales and is just 5 So she's doing very well she says Hello I love my nanny and granddad grandma and granddad and my great big Nan And as we color and Nanny pops so I've been taken stories about what you call your grandparents and that's from Emma who's 5 in Colwyn Bay Good morning to all your grandparents and I love calling by all boys Theo as recall their grandparents grandma and granddad bike because more loves biking granddad and grandma are tricky because of a chicken or a mint in their kitchen and then the great grandparents are biscuit and cake because they give out lots of biscuit and cakes. I love that my granny died a couple years ago to my kids was called was called Bird because she always had a lot but so the sweet and this text goes on to say all loved immensely our granddads and grandmas thank you for a wonderful start to the Sunday morning will thank you for getting into a trace lovely to hear from you can get to watch the show on 88 tonight when you can e-mail us at B.B.C. Dot co dot U.K. With your lovely stories of grandparents but the live music coming up but right now let's have Craig David and walking away. With. David Obey B.C. Radio 2 walking away like you tells us how she's as a comedian to talk about grief and that's on the great cast just look at this it's pioneer in its teeth irreverent in the science it's all about. The result and the poetry. To show the charismatic. Road she's called her 82 year old mom up in Scotland to tell her about the show she loves blues and boogie woogie and is a huge Tom Jones. Does it feel like because some of us enough less to the vice like yours Thomas It remembers feeling you know you could express yourself the charismatic he's just such a pleasure to come here and share some of the bastra Goldens my opinion ever made Monday nights from a B.B.C. Radio 2. So we welcome now the brilliantly funny Carrie ad Lloyd best known for her appearances on the likes of Peep Show and I got news for you as well as her critically acclaimed solo shows brilliant improvise ation I mean the accidents and impressions that she does are just a mess and however it was in 28 team the British pod cast Awards where she has shown through most recently winning Best Entertainment podcast best interview and podcast of the year for her show grief cast Now what's amazing to me is that you won Best Entertainment hard cap yeah reality surprise cast all about grief and death and dying yes I know I know when I when I got nominated that was very tough tonight when they read out the way I turned to my editor Kay all and and I said Well we we were when this is about death but this show is entertaining that's one of the main things we're trying to do is make it uplifting show about death but I just didn't think anyone would to agree with me because I always say it's cheerier than it sounds because when you say it was about death but if you comedians and funny people about their experiences of grief and death so it by its nature it's not super depressing because that's the thing isn't it is you know it's one of those subjects that people don't really talk about and certainly to find the humor in it but it is one of the things that unites us all why did the idea come from so my dad died when I was 15 and so we talk about the show a lot like it's like being in a club once you've lost somebody you're in this or awful club you don't be a member of but you kind of are and so I feel like I've been in the club for a very very long time and I've been talking about death and grief with people for you know 20 years and then in 2016 I just thought to myself I wonder if someone else would want to hear these conversations I'm always having a party when I was having a nice time in the corner having an intense chance about death and so I just you know I'm a comedian so I thought well I'll just talk to some other comedians and hopefully it won't be you know it will be a little bit silly because comedians again by their nature like. Making jokes with things or quit and so I just start interviewing comedians and then I just put them out there and as soon as I put the purpose out there I got immediate reaction from people being like. You know I've been waiting to have this conversation no one will talk about death this way like this is this is what I wanted and I thought oh OK I guess other people do want to talk. Death and grief in an honest way that isn't hushed tones and not voice and you know pictures of beaches and sunset you know stuff I never related to we also have that thing down here where we you know we try and give it euphemisms So it's things like passed away and yeah I actually use the D word to know you know people have you know I've lost I lost him and I always think they're not you know somebody's da eat their dead and I think we're so afraid to use the language to talk about it and it's a real shame because then the person who is grieving feels even more isolated and alone because nobody wants to talk about the thing that's actually happened to them ever wants to talk around it but really what's happened them is someone has died and they need to talk about every single person has a story to tell you know it's going to happen to everybody in some way you will know someone who is going to die or you will die and that's the sooner we get used that the easier it is and grief brings with it a sound dollop of guilt at times just. Absolutely because you can't go back and you can't change things and I've spent a long time feeling guilty about various things and then thanks to the show forgiving myself because I speak to so many people who feel guilty about things or when they tell me they go I think that that doesn't sound so much trying to praise dramas like agreat solving I absolutely love it I can completely relate I mean it sounds to me like the great cast is a bit of therapy as well what else do you do all sorts of people have these incredible stories I love I get to talk to extremely you know well known talented comedians with their stories and then also really up and coming comedians who equally have and you have a favorite story sometimes I don't know I have no it is just is this so that. Also different you know so I always say to be what grief do you want like do you want inspiring grief or do you want like oh my God a comic that happened or do you want grandparents moms that you know Michael I came on and told by his dog which affected a lot of people because you know this country loves the dogs and he has grief for his dog was as real as it was for a person he said you know that dog lived with him for 12 years was there for all these hard times that had Emily Dean he's another like radio she does Frank's in the show and she lost you know her sister and both her parents and again very the way she spoke about how she dealt with it was incredible really and then you get people who are still a lot of pain and I think that's just as interesting you know when I you know I couldn't even pick one they're all so different. And in your grief cast was faith and belief was that a theme that runs through any of them yeah it's been really interesting actually because I've gone for Makes you know some people are very religious and then you have Robin Ince who is an absolute atheist but his mom was a real believer and so he was talking about how he had no problem in telling her yeah you know you're going to go to heaven you're going to see your father because the comfort that he gave but he absolutely doesn't believe that and then he had to his son was asking him where do we go and he was talking about you know returning to the earth and becoming atoms and Stardust and and then his son was saying oh OK do I get my own star again he was like Yeah sure like OK well I find really interesting is it's always a narrative even if it's not you know based in God or faith it's always well where where do we go and what happens there's always a need to find that story and what I find sometimes when I'm talking to families who perhaps aren't particularly religious is that faith somehow gives them a script yes their experience I've got no words to say because they don't know what sakes their loved ones died that faith can give them those words and those that music in their language do you know that you know my dad was not a prophet. Churchmen a funeral and I do think there's a comfort in that structure I can really understand and a lot of the Beeb I speak to say Oh well I didn't think I was religious but then when this happened I was glad there was a ceremony to help me through that I think. It can be a great comfort and I'm not I'm one of those people whatever works if a company can't come for get comfort. And chips and watching Eastenders do it it's going to church singing him do it like especially that 1st year you have to really look after those of grief is a thing best taken its own packs Yes definitely absolutely Kerry Lloyd and Carrie it's podcast it's called great cast and you can subscribe to it wherever you normally get your podcast from We've been taking a text and e-mails all morning on Grandparents Day And what's been coming in is the names that people call the grandparent Yes we went expecting that but this is the direction it's going in you lovely Good morning Sunday listeners this is from hasta she's 7 and she's got a granny Duck Duck Go May and Go Go I've no idea why no idea why it is doesn't say good enough for me has to says that's what she's got and then this one is from Eloise in booking she says morning I've got 2 wonderful nuns and when I was younger I called them money Peacock because she owned a hotel called the peacock hotel and Nanny Wolf Wolf because she got a dog nanny peacock a nanny were for they were both very special to me and I love them dearly and Joe needs some help because he says he's exult in sorry but he's from Liverpool he says Good morning you 2 We called my mom's my mini I'm not too sure if that's a little poor thing so let's help Joe out anyone out there think that's just a little poor thing a ninny for a grandma I love that if I'm not on my MA all sorts of things this morning coming out we are so lucky I'm blessed this morning to have live music with John 8 and the woman that won the Grammy and the Oscar winner trained you didn't win the Grammy did Jeff you want to say that OK let's read this way says on my no. Play No no you train some smithing you who's won a Grammy and an Oscar I know how cool is that I know I can't wait to hear you sing as well because you know he. The one that cray cray he doesn't he with only success well he had when he was starting out he was so young and healthy and much else to talk about so I talked about me a lot of great shot in the arm for my career Well well looking forward to having you sing in live in the studio in just a little while but that's music now I go to praise you by poll he said and it's. talented individuals on a Paul Heaton and Jackie ABBOTT I got to praise on B.B.C. Radio 2 we are delighted to welcome Joanna Eden to the Good morning Sunday studio Hello Joanna good morning to. You I just want to say hello to Maxine and Paul good morning old girl from Birmingham community gospel choir we love having live music that we can absolutely label absolutely bless you and we've also a cabin in the studio and Ian as well good morning to you guys great to have you right there listen now John it's great to have you're going to talk to Sam Smith in just a moment but you probably get sick and tired fed up of people talking about sounds Why would you do that because you're a musician in your own right will come out sometime within just a moment but your latest CD says if you're a fan of Joni Mitchell Carole King you will be a fan you happy with well I'm a fan of them so yeah because it's coming through yeah I mean my goodness what songwriters you know amazing So we're going to hear 2 songs from you this morning your new single how low you but 1st oh my God before you play it for us tell us about the meaning well it's weird because I wrote it as a love song for that feeling you get when you use falling in love and you know. Literally O M J What is happening to me. But it's way because I've sung it all over the country and I've And it's it means different things to different people and it can be a very you know spiritual song as well I think a little reception are you getting from your fans in the crowd when you sing hey to know that. I'm getting a lot a lot a lot of love. That's what we do on a Sunday morning we spread love a. Little to be here yeah well you know not just the U.K. Around the world we've got tax from people listenings was all over the world small here have Australia and California and also supply so my fun right reach is so far . I say this to Kate very often we are truly global Yeah because well you know I can't go away far as I know my thoughts and you're. Right OK So are you ready Yeah OK here we go this is John agent and this is. Hugh came to my window. On a while and still mean that I was not looking. To you. Know doubt him. There's no explanation. As you have silenced. This only. Asking. For. 2 a magazine so why I can't tell you I mean a whole lot. Of. Fun tasks take that we're excited to have VS Now of course we need to talk about Sam Smith I mean I you know it's just an amazing talent what age did he come to stop and lessons his mom and dad met me in a gig I was doing and they said would you teach our son and I was I was just newly pregnant and think you know gosh you know new mom baby was born and I was poor and I thought I was going to carry on with all my cakes but that couldn't happen because I had a baby and I was exhausted so I said yeah OK I'll teach your son a s'posed never told people and his dad turned up at my door and he said we think you could sing a bit with Tom what you think at the end and at the end I went I think is extraordinary but I never told anyone maybe everybody is like this but he's been amazing to me. Yeah has on the back unite all sang Come Fly With Me Or was it Fly Me To The Moon I can't memories is a dazzling moment and then 9 years later we were still messing around we just played really good play it was. Songs a few years later a few years ago I met him a part and I went I feel really guilty cause I don't think I taught you anything I just met messed around and what did he say in response that don't don't be modest What did he say he said I He said I wouldn't you know you let me play and that was all I needed and is that really important that joy of me as a lie said that so he said I had all they. Encouraged and everything I wanted all the focus but why did I was just needed a playmate so I felt really like that it was fine then to brag about it then for the rest of my life and you obviously love what you did oh yeah absolutely I tried on that having been around that so many times you know I did I love making young people's day by saying you know I taught science math and. You know they're friends and you've been such Yeah well makes mainly with mom is just so busy you know it's mom and dad very much in touch and I saw him about I think it was about 18 months ago last time and what about that moment then so you work with a lot of fun for 9 years what