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Sam Smith, Will Smith, Ella Henderson, John Sergeant, Phil Barnett and Janette Manrara

Chris gets that Friday feeling going with the multi-award winning Sam Smith, Hollywood hotshot Will Smith, jolly journalist John Sergeant, stars of The People's Strictly Phil Barnett and Janette Manrara, plus live music from Ella Henderson.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 27 Feb 2015 06:30
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Music Played

  • Dexys Midnight Runners

    Come On Eileen

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • Mark Knopfler

    Beryl

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal.
    • 001.

  • Iggy Pop

    The Passenger

    • Screen Cuts (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Labelle

    Lady Marmalade

    • Soul Chartbusters (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Sam Cooke

    (What A) Wonderful World

    • Sam Cooke - The Man & His Music.
    • RCA.

  • Creedence Clearwater Revival

    Up Around The Bend

    • Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chroni.
    • Fantasy.
    • 24.

  • The Shires

    Friday Night

    • (CD Single).
    • Decca.
    • 001.

  • Herman’s Hermits

    I'm Into Something Good

    • The Hits Of 1964 (Various Artists).
    • MFP.

  • Eurythmics

    There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)

    • The Female Touch 2 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Johnny Marr

    Easy Money

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • R. Dean Taylor

    There's A Ghost In My House

    • And They Danced The Night Away.
    • Debutante.

  • Maroon 5

    Sugar

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.

  • Yes

    Owner Of A Lonely Heart

    • Top Gear 2 - Various Artists.
    • Columbia.

  • Bee Gees

    Tragedy

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.

  • 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.

  • Will Smith

    Miami

  • James Bay

    Hold Back The River

    • Hold Back The River EP.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Carly Simon

    You're So Vain

    • The Very Best Of Carly Simon.
    • Global Television.

  • Taylor Swift

    Style

    • 1989.
    • Universal.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Rev’d Richard Coles, cleric and broadcaster:

β€œYou only do it for the dressing up”; someone said the other day. I denied it indignantly, but as the verger pointed out later I was at the time wearing a cassock, a box pleated cotta, a gold and purple silken stole, a full length cloak and a biretta with a pom pom.

Well, I’m not the first dressy Vicar round these parts. Since 1217 men (so far) have been robing up in my church, some in glittering chasubles, others in black gowns, some with full-bottomed wigs, others with monk’s tonsures: we all have our kit, in one way or another.

Every Sunday I stand on perhaps the dressiest of all my predecessors, buried near the altar of my church. Father Scorrer, who died in 1969, is best remembered in the village not for dressing up in church but for dressing up in panto. He was our finest Dame, and appeared, year after year, at the Star Hall, our Parish Temperance Theatre. His Twankey, still talked about, set a standard very difficult to beat.

Nevertheless, ever since Vicars have followed him on to the stage, in my own time not as Dame – that’s a part more often taken by the builder Mr Forster, my Churchwarden – but in the much anticipated Act II ultra violet dance number. Partly this is because it’s good for Vicars to get stuck in, partly because it is better to make of a fool of yourself before somebody else does – but partly, I think, because dressing up is important. It distances us from ourselves, it focuses the attention of the crowd, it enables us to say things that might otherwise be unsayable. "Give a man a mask, and he will tell you the truth," said Oscar Wilde, who knew a thing or two about dressing up.Β 

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