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Let’s start the week right!

Richie Anderson is live from Salford with your Monday Motivation to kick start a brand new week, plus Secret Star and This Week in Songs.

Richie Anderson gets you ready for a brand new week, bringing you Monday Motivation live from Salford.

Make sure you're listening very carefully to his Secret Star. Can you guess the celebrity with the distorted voice from the clues? You'll get one clue every Monday morning, so make sure you make note of them all if you're going to figure it out!

Richie will also be looking ahead to the brand new week, with The Week in Songs, 3 songs linked to 3 things you need to know about in the next 7 days.

To get involved with the show, e-mail Richie@bbc.co.uk

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Produced in Salford by Audio Always for BBC Radio 2.

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2 hours, 58 minutes

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Mon 2 Mar 202600:00
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Take That

    It Only Takes A Minute

    • RCA.

  • Girls Aloud

    Love Machine

    • Now 59 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Human League

    Tell Me When

    • Now 30 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Holly Humberstone

    To Love Somebody

    • Cruel World.
    • Polydor.

  • Avril Lavigne

    Sk8er Boi

    • (CD Single).
    • Arista.

  • Bobby Brown

    Two Can Play That Game

    • Now 30 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • ZAYN

    Die For Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.

  • Bruno Mars

    On My Soul

    • The Romantic.
    • Atlantic Records.
    • 6.

  • Dua Lipa

    Levitating

    • Future Nostalgia.
    • Warner Records.

  • Owl City & Carly Rae Jepsen

    Good Time

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 1.

  • Squeeze

    You Get The Feeling

    • Trixies.
    • Love Records.

  • MIKA & BBC Concert Orchestra

    Grace Kelly (Radio 2 Piano Room, 12 Feb 2026)

  • Madonna

    Express Yourself

    • Express Yourself.
    • Rhino.

  • Appleton

    Falling Into You

    • (CD Single).
    • Appleton Recordings.

  • Boyzone

    Picture of You

    • Polygram Tv.

  • Marissa Jaret Winokur, Harvey Fierstein, Shayna Steele, Kamilah Marshall, Judine Richárd & Original Broadway Cast of Hairspray

    Welcome to the 60's

    • Hairspray (Original Broadway Cast Recording).
    • Masterworks Broadway.
    • 7.

  • LeAnn Rimes

    Can't Fight The Moonlight

    • (CD Single).
    • London/Curb Records.

  • Myles Smith & Niall Horan

    Drive Safe

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Dermot Kennedy

    Funeral

    • The Weight Of The Woods.
    • UMGRI Interscope.

  • Pixie Lott

    Boys & Girls

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.
    • 1.

  • Gabrielle

    Dreams

    • EMI.

  • Christina Aguilera, Lil’ Kim, Mýa & P!nk

    Lady Marmalade

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope Records.

  • Tiwayo

    Up For Soul

    • Outsider.
    • Record Kicks.

  • Pharrell Williams

    Happy

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • U2

    Song Of The Future

    • Days Of Ash E.P..
    • Island.

  • Olivia Dean

    Man I Need

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.

  • DeBarge

    Rhythm Of The Night

    • Dancing In The Street (Various Artis.
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • Rick Astley

    Waiting On You

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Ed Sheeran

    Lego House

    • (CD Single).
    • Asylum.
    • 1.

  • Freya Ridings

    Wild Horse

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Bee Gees

    Jive Talkin'

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.

  • Mica Millar

    A Little Bit Of Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Golden Hour Music.

  • Alicia Keys

    Girl On Fire

    • Now That's What I Call Music 84 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 18.

  • Lady Gaga

    Telephone (feat. Beyoncé)

    • Interscope.

  • One Direction

    Story Of My Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco Music.

Broadcast

  • Mon 2 Mar 202600:00
    BBC Radio 2