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Chris Hadfield, Eddie Redmayne, James Martin and Gregory Porter

Chris gets that Friday feeling going with Chris Hadfield, Eddie Redmayne and James Martin. Plus, Gregory Porter joins us to perform live music throughout the show.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 12 Dec 2014 06:30
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Music Played

  • Adam and the Ants

    Stand And Deliver

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • The Animals

    We Gotta Get Out Of This Place

  • Coldplay

    Ink

    • Ghost Stories.
    • Parlophone.
    • 001.

  • The Cure

    Friday I'm In Love

    • True Brit (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • The Darkness

    Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Sammy Davis Jr.

    Talk To The Animals

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

  • Adam Faith

    Lonely Pup (In A Christmas Shop)

    • The Hits Of 1961 (Various Artists).
    • MFP.

  • Lenny Kravitz

    New York City

    • (CD Single).
    • Roxie Records.

  • Brenda Lee

    Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree

    • Brenda Lee - The EP Collection.
    • See For Miles.

  • Olly Murs

    Up (feat. Demi Lovato)

    • Never Been Better.
    • Epic.
    • 004.

  • Paolo Nutini

    10/10

    • Sunny Side Up.
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • Tom Odell

    Real Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Pratt & McClain

    Happy Days

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

  • Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

    The Tears Of A Clown

    • Motown: The Ultimate Hits Collection (Various Artists).
    • Motown.

  • Ed Sheeran

    Sing [Live at ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Music Awards]

  • Slade

    Merry Xmas Everybody

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.

  • Sam Smith

    Like I Can

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.
    • 007.

  • Taylor Swift

    Blank Space

    • (CD Single).
    • Big Machine Records.
    • 1.

  • Meghan Trainor

    All About That Bass

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
    • 1.

  • U2

    Desire

    • U2 - The Best Of 1980-1990.
    • Island.

  • Andy Williams

    It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year

    • Christmas Love Songs (Various Artist.
    • Arcade Records.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Rev’d Richard Coles, cleric and broadcaster:

Three carol services this week, and we sang three times of the star of Bethlehem, westward leading, through the night skies of Palestine to the birth of Christ. I though of the night skies of Finedon, my parish, and me and my eight year old neighbour Hattie standing in the garden looking at the International Space Station, westward leading on its orbit of earth. β€œWave to the astronauts,” I said, and she waved and so did I.

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I’ve renewed that acquaintance this week, but in proximity rather than at distance. In fact the Space Station’s former Commander, Chris Hadfield, and I have spent so much time together lately people are beginning to talk.

We met on Monday, to discuss science and religion, among other things, so speaking sky-pilot to sky-pilot I asked, β€œWhat’s Christmas like in space?”

Complicated, was the answer. The Space Station orbits the earth at 17,000 miles per hour – rather a challenge for Rudolf and his reindeer pals to catch up with that – but there are presents, double helpings actually, because the Russians on board, following the Julian calendar, keep Christmas on a different day; thanks to the mission safety-protocols crackers are definitely out; but there is a Christmas Tree, looking a bit tatty now, he said, and disappointingly no bigger than a poinsettia.

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However, the best thing, he said, was going to the cupola, the 360 degree observation dome, and looking out at planet earth in the vast blackness of space, so fragile, so beautiful that the astronauts lower their voices and speak in hushed tones, marveling at a view that changes the way you see everything.

And I thought then of the wise men, led by a star to a crib, and looking into its radiance, and seeing a tiny baby, so fragile, so beautiful; and how that changed the way they saw everything.

O magnum mysterium, O great mystery, that comes out of nowhere and lights the stars and sends them spinning into space.

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