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AC/DC, Jamie Oliver, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, Jodie Whittaker and the Script

Chris gets that Friday feeling going with AC/DC, Jamie Oliver, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, Jodie Whittaker and The Script.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 5 Dec 2014 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • AC/DC

    Highway To Hell

    • AC/DC - Highway To Hell.
    • Albert.

  • Adele

    Rumour Has It

    • 21.
    • XL.
    • 1.

  • Coldplay

    Christmas Lights

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
    • 1.

  • The Corrs

    Breathless

    • (CD Single).
    • 143 Records.

  • Sammy Davis Jr.

    Talk To The Animals

    • Sammy Davis Greatest Hits.
    • Curb.
    • 1.

  • Dexys Midnight Runners

    Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When you Smile

    • Very Best Of Dexy's Midnight Runners.
    • Mercury.

  • Neil Diamond

    In Better Days

    • Melody Road.
    • Mercury.

  • The Doobie Brothers

    Long Train Runnin'

    • The Very Best Of The Doobie Brothers.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Keane

    Silenced By The Night

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • Darlene Love

    All Alone On Christmas

    • Christmas Hits (Various Artists).
    • BMG.

  • Passenger

    Let Her Go

    • (CD Single).
    • Nettwerk.
    • 1.

  • Gregory Porter

    Liquid Spirit

    • Liquid Spirit.
    • Blue Note.
    • 001.

  • Pratt & McClain

    Happy Days

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

  • Queen

    Bicycle Race

    • Jazz.
    • Island.
    • 4.

  • Rainbow

    Since You Been Gone

    • And The Road Goes On Forever Vol 1.
    • Debutante.

  • Status Quo

    Pictures Of Matchstick Men (Aquostic Version)

    • Aquostic (Stripped Bare).
    • Rhino.
    • 001.

  • Stereophonics

    Handbags and Gladrags

    • (CD Single).
    • V2.

  • Take That

    These Days

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Talking Heads

    And She Was

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

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From comedian & writer Paul Kerensa:

It鈥檚 busy in here and it鈥檚 busy outside, because Friday guest day means anyone coming in to Radio 2 battles past autograph hunters, eager for a photo or a scribble or their own personalised request to move out of the way. While the rest of us walk through ignored, the esteemed guests probably wish they could be ignored. The grass is always greener!

If you鈥檙e listening to this outside, you鈥檝e got about seven minutes till I leave the building, so if I could get a 鈥淲e love you Paul!鈥� 鈥淲hat a Pause For Thought!鈥� 鈥淭op pausing!鈥� That sort of thing.

I had this before when I accidentally went to a film premiere 鈥� I'd bought a ticket for Screen 6, not knowing Screen 1 had half of Hollywood. We all walked in the same entrance, past the snapping cameras. I was getting over an eye infection, so had dark glasses on a dark December evening 鈥� looking like Bono, only Bono with an eye infection.

Cameras went up. This is alright, I thought. They think I鈥檓 a rock star! Nothing brings you down to size like hearing a paparazzo shout, 鈥淣o, he鈥檚 a nobody,鈥� and all the cameras drop to the ground as if photographing ants. I shed a tear, although only because of the eye infection.

There鈥檚 nothing wrong with being a 鈥榥obody鈥�. The very first Christmas had a baby making a very 鈥榥obody鈥� entrance to the world, born homeless, with no fanfare. That 鈥榥obody鈥� became a 鈥榮omebody鈥� for 鈥榚verybody鈥�.

I know I need some quiet humility, to learn from Ronald Reagan: 鈥淭here is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don鈥檛 care who gets the credit.鈥� Clearly Reagan didn鈥檛 mind who got the credit: he lifted that line from an 1860s Jesuit priest.

Many folks work and live humbly and anonymously, and building up to Christmas is the ideal time to remind them they鈥檙e not 鈥榥obody鈥�. With cards, gifts, good deeds or visits, we鈥檙e saying: 鈥淵ou鈥檙e 鈥榮omebody鈥� to me.鈥�

When I humbly leave the building, I won鈥檛 need autograph-hunters to yell, 鈥淲e love you Paul! Great thought-pausing!鈥� But if they can refrain from muttering, 鈥淗e鈥檚 a nobody鈥�, that鈥檇 be really nice.

Broadcast

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