Greg James, Demot O'Leary, Lauren Laverne, Dotty and Harpz Kaur hosted the broadcast from separate studios
UK radio listeners formed a nationwide choir on Thursday, as five BBC stations teamed up for a communal singalong. For the first time, Radio 1, Radio 2, 6 Music, 1 Xtra and Asian Network all broadcast the same programme, designed to lift spirits during the lockdown.Songs were suggested by listeners, with choices including Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline and Prince's Raspberry Beret.Radio 1's audience submitted Florence + The Machine's You Got The Love, while 1 Xtra listeners chose Toast, an uplifting reggae-soul song by up-and-coming Jamaican artist Koffee.
"For anyone hearing this for the first time, I promise it's exactly what we need right now," said 1 Xtra's breakfast host Dotty, calling Toast"the most uplifting song I've heard in years".Asian network listeners selected Punjabi MC's infectiously catchy bhangra anthem Mudian To Bach Ke - which presumably received its first ever airing on Radio 2 as a result.
During the broadcast, people were encouraged to film themselves singing along and post videos on social media; with several BBC presenters joining the fun from home.
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Please don’t
In another country that I shall not name “ celebrities “ have raised €2M for hospital equipment. Yes is a country that doesn’t have much and who’s ppl pay big taxes for free healthcare, yet the system is shit , corruption all the way.
This is not fucking news, BBC. Stop peddling celebrity crap on your news feed, and start to tell us the news!
Save me now...😱😣
Please share to your friends, we would like the message to spread to say thank you NHS. A group of us in our gig community got together to make this, all completed during the lockdown by social media and email. Thank you NHS
yawn
Can any of them actually sing
The BBC personal cannot be furlowed because the great British public already pay their astronomic salary’s already ,bet there’s no lay offs at the bbc ,oh and the television licence has just gone up,£3.00 ,great timing
Haven’t people suffered enough
Ugh I swear if I was a celeb I wouldn't do this. I don't want to see massively wealthy people self isolating in their huge mansions.
Celebrities keeping the pandemics about what’s its important... celebrities
Nooo, can they stop being annoying, out-of-touch pricks and just donate and stay quiet.
If the BBCtrending want to cheer everyone up they should suspend the license fee
Won’t someone pay attention to me!!FFS when will these egotists start reading the room?
How about no freaking TV licence for crappy shows
Nah. Donations are needed. Not warbling.
OMG... fcuk right off. Are these people for real...
How about they all take a pay cut from their massive salary and donate PPE equipment to the NHS?
Trash news
Why does anybody think that this is what people want?
Stars? I only recognise Dermot!
FFS
Tone deaf, BBC.
First Coronavirus, and now this cancer? When will it end?
Oh, the vanity!
All a PR stunt
About £5 million in pay in that pic alone. Cushy
Lead the nation in a mass singalong? Seriously we are not all 3 year olds.
🙄
We're only 10 days in FFS! What if this goes on for months? People are going to be so bored of staying in that they will break the rules & just go out regardless, especially if we have a cracking summer. Somebody stop these self promoting assholes now. PLEASE!
Heaven help us 🙈🙈😩😩😩
God help us, don’t we have enough to put up with?
Please, God, no!
Thought it was awful and switched off!
They should be praying and repenting their sins instead!
Oh fuvk off!😖
It's hard enough to be stuck in our gaffs without having to listen these z list celebrities warbling and attention seeking.
Singing? Prayers are needed and the truth
Are we not suffering enough!
No.
Nice
Great😏
Nooooooooo please don’t!
They’re not stars anymore, just ordinary people.
Stars....🤔
No thanks
No, they didn’t lead anybody but rich donkeys giving self gratification
Please don’t. If you have spare time volunteer to help, if you have spare money donate to buy PPE or help research for a vaccine. We don’t need you to sing thanks all the same.
Oh they can sod right off
Can someone come up with an app that lets us automatically send “likes” to all celebrities to get them through this crisis.
Did they aye
A mass cringealong more like, just feck off.
Give it A rest!! Celebs!.....👎
No thank you. Just no.
No thanks!!
Do not fall for this bull. BBC have lost the support of the taxpayer, and they know it. DefundtheBBC
Haven’t we suffered enough? defundthebbc
They won’t be leading me!
Keep the myth going! FakeNews BBC
Aren’t we suffering enough ?
When I hear of a so called celeb doing something useful in this difficult time I might take some notice of what they are doing.
Oh no, please no
Please, someone start a petition to stop this. Aren't we suffering enough?
Shuv you're sing a long up your arse!
Righto
As long as there's a library of books behind them I'm happy 😴
🤮🤮🤮 make it stop
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh noooooooolllllllllllk
Narcissistic stars you mean.
sheldon1creates As if things aren't bad enough...
I listened to this on BBC6Music , which eejit thought this up? embarrassing COVID19
😷🤢🤮 No, just no
Please NO! Are we not suffering enough?
Please don’t
Any chance of a mass donation-along for those on massive salaries to help the struggling NHS instead or use platforms to apply pressure to the Government? I appreciate this might help people on their own for a bit and donations could have been done in private but come on..
Wooopty fuckin doo.. NO ONE CARES
ffs 😱.... it’s a ‘don’t forget us we’re celebrities’ kind of bullshit
Go away. Sing to yourself
Please stop it now!! 😣
For goodness sake give us a rest from These people it’s bad enough for us all without them saying remember me I am a ⭐️ star
Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse👍
Noooooo thank you
I’d rather those who could volunteered to harvest crops in their locality. Much more useful . Failing that offer their services to schools, supermarkets . Good deeds don’t have to be glamorous or public.
Oh God no!
Bad enough trying not to listen to bloody Dermot O'Leary when he's on radio and TV without him bloody singing the man's a pain.
Ah no, just stop please.
No. Just no.
How much are they charging for this?
This is so dystopian it’s not even funny any more.
Erm, let me think.... Listen to a bunch of people of limited ability ruin a song or Spotify? 🤔
Scrap bbc fee give it to nhs now.
Just what we need 😫
Did you people learn nothing from Imagine debacle?
I think the BBC could raise a huge lot of money than by instead organising a SINGASTOP ; “Our operators are ready to take your pledges. If we can hit that 1million target by lunchtime then talentless Dermot Mulroney and Laurence Laverne will call off the Rihanna duet”
Choosing some singalong tunes would have helped. Only SweetCaroline worked
So brave
Buzzin for this 👏👏
Please noooooo!
Don’t bother
Oh God no... This hand-clapping, emoting, cheesefest has to stop now. Please...
Isn’t BBC radio and stars an oxymoron?
Jolly good!
We don't want to fuck*ng sing. We want medical equipment and safety gear. We want a government not made up of self-serving, coke snorting philanderers and dilettantes. We want a properly funded NHS. We want to live.
Fair to say the majority of people commenting didn't read the article 🙄
z list celebrities trying to stay relevant as the nhs is getting the spotlight the now ( and rightly so ) ..cringe
Stunning and brave .
'BBC Radio Star' 🤡🌍
Don’t like you anymore BBC after your falSe documentary on Michael Jackson
No. Just NO!
Mass singalong? Seems like someone wants to compete with Italy.
Let's have a mass thinkalong instead NoPoliceState NoLockDown LockdownsDontWork LockdownsKill EconomicCollapse kills
I rather pull my nails out!
And we need all these at the same time, why? Close 50% of the BBC radio stations, get rid of the staff, save some money..
Unless the Singalong is Public Enemy’s Fight the Power, I ain’t interested.
Stop with this cringing crap.
oh god, no
how about getting someone who can actually sing?
God give me strength
Fed up with celebrities in their big mansions. How to exercise ect. I have a small flat no garden ect.
Cos everyone loves when radio DJs sing along... 🙄
'Stars' You are so full of yourselves.
Maybe getting more PPE to NHS frontline staff and getting more people tested might be a better use of time! FFS
If things weren’t bad enough 🙄
There seems to be a theme running through these replies 🤣 Perhaps a re-think is in order.
Another 2 months and we’ll be eating them.
Here for the ratio
Missing their fix of publicity during the pandemic are they?
Put your hands in your pockets and donate to the NHS some of your easy earned money instead
Are they feeling outdone by the initiative of ordinary members of the public. Some displaying better art than some of these celebrities do via a pre written script.
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