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Jake Gyllenhaal, Joanna Lumley, Richard Osman, Go West and Nik Kershaw

Chris chats to Jake Gyllenhaal, Joanna Lumley, Richard Osman, Go West and Nik Kershaw, who play live in session.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 10 Jul 2015 06:30
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Music Played

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Hold On Tight

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Years & Years

    Shine

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • David Bowie

    Magic Dance

  • The Lovin鈥� Spoonful

    Summer In The City

    • The Lovin' Spoonful Collection.
    • Castle Communications.

  • The Lovin鈥� Spoonful

    Daydream

    • The Lovin' Spoonful Collection.
    • Castle Communications.

  • Fiddler鈥檚 Dram

    Day Trip To Bangor (Didn't We Have A Lovely Time)

    • Single - Dingles SID 211.

  • Cliff Richard & The Shadows

    The Young Ones

    • Cliff Richard - 40 Golden Greats.
    • EMI.

  • The Housemartins

    Happy Hour

    • Now That's What I Call Quite Good.
    • Go! Discs.

  • The Beatles

    Day Tripper

    • The Beatles - 1.
    • Apple.
    • 012.

  • Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Redemption Song

  • Jack Savoretti

    Written In Scars

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG Chrysalis.
    • 001.

  • The Shadows

    Apache

    • The Shadows - First 20 Years At The T.
    • EMI.

  • Blur

    Ong Ong

    • The Magic Whip.
    • Parlophone.
    • 011.

  • Bananarama

    Cruel Summer

    • Now 1983 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • KC and the Sunshine Band

    That's the Way (I Like It)

    • Disco Fever (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Katrina and the Waves

    Walking On Sunshine

    • The Best Summer Ever (Various Artist.
    • Virgin.

  • KC and the Sunshine Band

    That's the Way (I Like It)

    • Disco Fever (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Queen

    Bicycle Race

    • Jazz.
    • Island.
    • 4.

  • Wild Cherry

    Play That Funky Music

    • Walk On - Hits From The Last 2 Decade.
    • Columbia.

  • Morecambe & Wise

    Bring Me Sunshine

    • Summer Holiday (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music.

  • Morecambe & Wise

    Bring Me Sunshine

    • Summer Holiday (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music.

  • Morecambe & Wise

    Bring Me Sunshine

    • Summer Holiday (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music.

  • Pratt & McClain

    Happy Days

    • Television's Greatest Hits Volume 3 70s & 80s.
    • Silva Screen Records Ltd.

  • The Rolling Stones

    Street Fighting Man

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.

  • James Bay

    Let It Go

    • Chaos And The Calm.
    • Republic Records.
    • 3.

  • Gabrielle Aplin

    Light Up The Dark

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
    • 001.

  • Brandon Flowers

    I Can Change

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 001.

  • Lauren Wood

    Fallen

    • Pretty Woman - Soundtrack.
    • EMI.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Hanging on the wall in the Vicarage is an 18th C portrait of one of my predecessors, the Revd. Sir John Dolben, Baronet, Vicar, Squire of Finedon. He looked good in a wig, was rather a dear, you can tell from his portrait, and also from his instructions when he died in 1756 that his body be left to medical science 鈥榠n order to prevent my dear children from being distressed by the sore Distempers with which I have been afflicted鈥�. 聽

The Revd Sir John鈥檚 dissected remains, having yielded their mysteries, were eventually laid to rest in my church where yesterday Finedon turned out for another funeral, that of our old GP Mike, who lived over the road and took care of generations of my parishioners.

Clerical and medical matters often overlap, and I thought of our related responsibilities, the care of our community, being keepers of its most intimate secrets, having the cure of its bodies and souls, no less in the 21st C than the 18th. And today that relationship continues, Mike鈥檚 son Charles, following in his father鈥檚 footsteps. He鈥檚 my GP.

In the old days, both were seen as providers of essential services, and not long after the Revd Sir John was dissected, another of my predecessors had the poor of the parish vaccinated against smallpox (for 拢31.10s). 聽Now, however, it is to the doctor鈥檚 surgery rather than the Vicarage door that the people flock. Medical science has got so good at curing people, and souls so faintly elusive, that parsons, unlike doctors, are the wallflowers of community care.

And of course, like you, I would much rather take my ingrowing toenail to the surgery rather than the vestry, but there is an end to science鈥檚 art and skill, for ultimately all our care pathways arrive at the same clinical outcome.聽

Time of Death, the medic calls it. Time for Life, the parson replies, that lies on the far side of our sore Distempers and unclenching hearts and closing-down minds, and rises like the dawn after darkest night.

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