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Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, James Corden, Matthew Baynton, Frankie Bridge, Kevin Clifton and George Ezra

Chris plays you tinsel tastic tunes and gets those festive feelings going with special guests: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, James Corden, Matthew Baynton, Frankie Bridge, Kevin Clifton and George Ezra.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Mon 15 Dec 2014 06:30
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Music Played

  • Band Aid

    Do They Know It's Christmas?

    • That's Christmas (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • The Beatles

    Good Day Sunshine

    • Revolver.
    • Parlophone.
    • 8.

  • The Beatles

    Twist and Shout

    • Please Please Me.
    • Parlophone.
    • 14.

  • Dario G

    Sunchyme

    • Huge Hits 1997 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • The Darkness

    Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Dexys Midnight Runners

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

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

  • Bobby Helms

    Jingle Bell Rock

  • Chris Montez

    The More I See You

    • This Is Easy (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Chris Montez

    The More I See You

    • This Is Easy (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Mud

    Lonely This Christmas

    • That's Christmas (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Paolo Nutini

    New Shoes

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Gregory Porter & Julie London

    Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.
    • 1.

  • Queen

    Let Me In Your Heart Again

    • Queen Forever.
    • EMI.
    • 001.

  • The Ronettes

    Sleigh Ride

    • A Christmas Gift For You (Phil Spect.
    • Phil Spector Int.

  • Sia

    You’re Never Fully Dressed Without A Smile

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.
    • 1.

  • Sam Smith

    Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.

  • T. Rex

    Jeepster

    • Electric Warrior (Deluxe Edition).
    • A&M.
    • 3.

  • Thin Lizzy

    Jailbreak

    • Best Air Guitar Album In The World II.
    • Virgin.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Canon Ann Easter, Chief Executive of a Charity and Chaplain to the Queen:

I had a lovely day last Wednesday when I was invited to lunch in the House of Commons and given an award to mark my contribution to family life and values in British society! It was mainly about my work with the charity – but the fact that I often talk to you about my family, here on Radio 2, got a special mention.

It made me think of what we mean by family. I was born in my Nan’s house where my parents lived while they saved up for a home of their own; we were there til I was seven, by which time we had my sister too – but we also had my aunt’s mother in law, Aunt Kate, and for a while I remember Uncle Ted living with us – I’m not sure just how we were related, and maybe we weren’t but we made a family nevertheless. Lots of adults were ‘Uncles’ and ‘Aunties’ in those days – and now I’m Auntie to the Asian children next door.

Christmas is a very family sort of time – it seems that everywhere we look, there are adverts with beautiful, lively people laughing as they consume enormous amounts of glossy food – it must be hard for those people who are a long way away, literally or emotionally, from their family, or indeed, for those for whom the word ‘family’ means only pain and disappointment.

And yesterday, I was at our local Cemetery for a bitter sweet carol service with people whose families have been radically and sometimes tragically changed this past year by the death of a loved one – and we remembered that family in heaven is still family.

That other family we see all over the place just now, the ones in the stable, were pretty mixed too; Mary and Joseph were a pair of unmarried refugees who had to camp out with the animals in someone’s stable to have their first baby - with Joseph still wondering who was the father.

Christmas isn’t about the perfect family; it’s about the imperfect, real life, ordinary families just like yours and mine; and for those of us who don’t have a family, there’s a welcome into the Holy Family along with the shepherds, the kings and the angels. We’re all part of that picture.

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