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Al Murray's New Year Resolutions

Live from London, Al Murray welcomes 2012 in with a bang of the drums and your failed resolutions. Al hears from people who got a drum kit for Christmas.

Live from London, Al Murray welcomes 2012 in with a bang of the drums and your failed resolutions.

When it comes to New Year's Resolutions, "I'm giving up drinking", or chocolate, or joining a gym, or being nicer to my husband is a little bit .... passé. What's far more interesting to Al is finding out what you've resolved to do in previous New Year's - and failed at miserably. Al would like to know what your failed new year's resolutions have been - what you've resolved to do and hit a snag with. The more spectacularly you failed - the better!

If you got a drum kit for Christmas Al wants to know whether you can bang out a tune better than he can. He has a drum kit in the studio - and if you have one at home and you can play it whilst you're on the phone - Al wants to hear your drumming skills.

2012 is a leap year - we get one extra day - and Al wants to hear from "leap children", born on February 29th.

So it's New Year's Resolutions with a twist, leap year babies, drums, and Al's favourite music.

1 hour, 57 minutes

Last on

New Year's Day 201211:00
BBC Radio 2

Music Played

  • Talking Heads

    Road To Nowhere

    • Now 1985 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.

  • Kaiser Chiefs

    Ruby

    • (CD Single).
    • B-Unique.

  • CeeLo Green

    Anyway

    • Ladykiller: Platinum Edition.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 1.

  • Queen

    We Will Rock You

    • News Of The World.
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • Chris Isaak

    Live It Up

    • Beyond The Sun.
    • Rhino.
    • 1.

  • Coldplay

    Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.
    • 5.

  • Status Quo

    Movin' On

    • Quid Pro Quo.
    • Fourth Chord Records.
    • 1.

  • Joni Mitchell

    Big Yellow Taxi

    • Joni Mitchell.
    • Reprise.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 16.

  • The Rolling Stones

    It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It)

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.

  • Genesis

    Turn It On Again

    • Genesis - Duke.
    • Virgin.

  • George Harrison

    My Sweet Lord

    • All Things Must Pass.
    • EMI.
    • 4.

  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    AKA... What A Life!

    • (CD Single).
    • Sour Mash Records.
    • 1.

  • Led Zeppelin

    All My Love

    • Led Zeppelin - Latter Days.
    • Atlantic.

  • Beyoncé

    Love On Top

  • Duran Duran

    Is There Something I Should Know?

    • Duran Duran - Decade.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • Noah and the Whale

    Give It All Back

    • Last Night On Earth.
    • Mercury.
    • 1.

  • Kraftwerk

    The Model

    • Into The Eighties (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Megan Henwood

    Making Waves

    • (CD Single).
    • Dharma Records.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • New Year's Day 201211:00
    BBC Radio 2