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Fearne Cotton, George Ezra, Mary Berry, Anton Du Beke, Stacey Dooley, The Military Wives Choirs

We get Quiet with Fearne Cotton, Anton & Stacey provide the Strictly scoop and Mary Berry starts the Christmas Party. Plus, George Ezra and the Military Wives Choirs perform live!

Chris catches up with this year鈥檚 Strictly champion Stacey Dooley who's delighted with her big win. Staying on Strictly, Anton Du Beke joins Chris in studio to give us all the backstage gossip from this weekend's Grand Final. He also chats about his new tour 鈥楧ance Those Magical Musicals鈥�. Fearne Cotton helps us unwind with her incredible book 鈥楺uiet鈥� which tackles the negativity in life we sometimes have to deal with. Mary Berry also joins the guests in studio ahead of her new TV show 鈥楳ary Berry鈥檚 Christmas Party鈥� and supplies them with scrumptious shortbread. Each guest provides Chris with their best festive tip, from buying an extra gift to wrapping turkeys in sleeping bags! Plus, the brilliant George Ezra plays tracks from his latest album Staying at Tamara's and performs a beautiful cover of the Shakin鈥� Stevens classic 鈥楳erry Christmas Everyone鈥�. The Military Wives Choirs are also on hand to sing some of the nation's best loved carols!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Mon 17 Dec 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • Kelly Clarkson

    Underneath The Tree

  • Mark Ronson

    Nothing Breaks Like A Heart (feat. Miley Cyrus)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Semisonic

    Closing Time

    • (CD Single).
    • MCA.

  • Bruno Mars

    24K Magic

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Greg Lake

    I Believe In Father Christmas

    • The Anthology, A Musical Journey.
    • BMG.

  • Bryan Adams

    You Belong To Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • Michael Bubl茅

    Santa Baby

    • Christmas: Deluxe Special Edition.
    • Reprise.

  • Boyzone

    Normal Boy

    • Thank You & Goodnight.
    • Rhino.

  • Take That

    Patience

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Andy Williams

    Happy Heart

    • The Best Of Andy Williams.
    • Dino.

  • KT Tunstall

    Human Being

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin Records.

  • Paul McCartney

    Wonderful Christmastime

    • The 7" Singles Box.
    • MPL.
    • 7.

  • Just Jack

    Starz In Their Eyes

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.

  • Katy Perry

    Cozy Little Christmas

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.

  • Josh Groban

    Bigger Than Us

    • Bridges.
    • Warner Bros.

  • James Arthur & 础苍苍别鈥怣补谤颈别

    Rewrite The Stars

    • The Greatest Showman: Reimagined (Various Artists).
    • Atlantic.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Father Brian D鈥橝rcy, a Catholic Passionist priest:

As I get older, change becomes more of a threat to me. It鈥檚 always sad to move on from the precious and the comfortable. Yet I know that if I don鈥檛 change I won鈥檛 grow; when I鈥檓 not growing I鈥檓 not living.

Even though one friend used to remind me that the only person in favour of change is a baby with a soiled nappy, I realise that when I鈥檓 finished changing, I鈥檓 finished, full stop.

Today I鈥檓 really conscious of change because it鈥檚 my final PFT with you Chris. And I鈥檓 sad about that.

I鈥檓 happy for you though. You thrive on new challenges. Your philosophy is: You cannot say that you鈥檒l definitely be happy when you change direction, but you know deep down that you will not be content unless you change now. And it鈥檚 always better to change before you have to. As our mentor Sir Terry used to say: 鈥淭here鈥檚 never a right time to go but there could be a wrong time to go.鈥� If one DOESN鈥橳 change direction one may actually end up where you鈥檙e going. Life doesn鈥檛 get better by chance; life gets better by change.

This morning I鈥檓 utterly grateful to you for all you did for us 鈥楶ausers.鈥� I believe that Joy is the simplest and best expression of gratitude. As we approach Christmas joy is a good word. A joyous Christmas is more uplifting and more lasting.

Gratitude for what we have and what we had is more useful than moaning about we鈥檙e losing.聽 I find that gratitude unlocks the fullness of life within; it turns what we have into enough, a meal into a feast, denial into acceptance, a house into a home and a stranger into a friend.

An attitude of gratitude is vital. I can grumble that roses have thorns or I can be grateful that thorns have roses. My own prayer-life changed dramatically when I first read what the great spiritual writer Meister Eckhart advised: 鈥淚f the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, that will be enough.鈥�

Feeling grateful and not expressing it would be like wrapping a present and not delivering it.

So Chris, God bless you and your family. Thank you.

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