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Sir Chris Hoy, Giles Coren and All Saints

Chris has breakfast with Olympic Gold champion Sir Chris Hoy, journalist Giles Coren, Harry Potter star Katie Leung and All Saints play live.

Chris has breakfast with Olympic Gold champion Sir Chris Hoy, who whizzes by to tell us about his brand new children's book series 'The Flying Fergus'. Journalist Giles Coren talks about exploring his own failure when he attempted to write a novel. Actress Katie Leung keep us up to speed with her new 91热爆 One drama 'One Child' and All Saints return after a six year hiatus, playing music from their new album 'Red Flag'.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 26 Feb 2016 06:30
91热爆 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • David Bowie

    Rebel Rebel

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Janet Jackson

    The Great Forever

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

  • Billy Idol

    Hot In The City

    • Greatest Hits Of The 80's (Various).
    • Disky.
    • 2.

  • The Human League

    Don't You Want Me

    • Dare!.
    • Virgin.

  • AC/DC

    You Shook Me All Night Long

    • AC/DC - Back In Black.
    • EMI.

  • Van Morrison

    Bright Side Of The Road

    • The Very Best Of Van Morrison.
    • Polydor.

  • Gilbert O鈥橲ullivan

    No Way

    • (CD Single).
    • Union Square Music.
    • 001.

  • Michael Jackson

    Billie Jean

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

  • Maureen Evans

    Acapulco Mexico

    • Four Boppin' Ladies Of The '60s Volume 1.
    • 21.

  • James

    Nothing But Love

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.

  • The Mock Turtles

    Can You Dig It? (Remix)

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • Texas

    Black Eyed Boy

    • Hits Zone - The Best Of 97 (Various).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • The B鈥�52s

    Love Shack

    • Now 1990 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.
    • 3.

  • 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.

  • Jess Glynne

    Ain't Got Far To Go

    • I Cry When I Laugh.
    • Atlantic.
    • 005.

  • LunchMoney Lewis

    Bills

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Travis

    3 Miles High

    • (CD Single).
    • Red Telephone Box.
    • 001.

  • Zara Larsson

    Lush Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.
    • 001.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Rev鈥檇 Richard Coles, cleric and broadcaster:

听

Wednesdays in the parish begin with age and end with youth. In the morning I go up to our residential home to lead the service for the ladies and gentlemen who live there. We start with a hymn or two, belters everyone knows, and then we have an address from me and some prayers and finish with another couple of belters. Any requests, I usually ask? The Old Rugged Cross, How Great Thou Art, Amazing Grace, all have their fans, though not from one gentleman who whenever he saw me arriving demanded loudly to be wheeled to his room. 鈥楢ny requests鈥� also risks going a bit off piste, which happened a while ago when the ladies insisted on doing YMCA with all the actions, which was great fun but not entirely suitable for the Feast of the Epiphany.

听

The day ends at our primary school where I lead Collective Worship as we now call it. I have lost count of the number of times I have walked unwittingly into a trap of my own making by asking the children a question and eliciting an unforeseen reply. Wishing to talk about John the Baptist, I asked who lives in the wilderness eating locusts and wearing animal skins? Bear Grylls, came the reply, which led to an interesting discussion, just not the one I had planned.

听

I suppose it just tells you that the Christian story, entrusted to the Church, can be elusive.

听

As we continue through Lent we continue towards the amazing conclusion of that story, the never-before and never-since seen day of resurrection. 听Tell it out abroad, the Easter hymn insists, but that鈥檚 easier said than done. From the very beginning of the church鈥檚 life this unlikely news was greeted with disbelief and derision. We should take a leaf out of Jesus鈥� book, perhaps, who often addressed his hearers not with a mighty peroration, but taught them in parables, little stories that, before we鈥檙e fully aware of what鈥檚 going on, tell a big truth.

听

In truth, the great and the good are no more likely to get it than the past-it and the under-tens, whose undimmed joy and unquenched curiosity, just might get you a step closer than the sermon and the hymn. 听

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