Kevin and Karen Clifton, Simon Callow, Allen Leech, ABC
Chris gets that Friday feeling going with Downton Abbey star Allen Leech, acclaimed actor Simon Callow, Strictly stars Karen & Kevin Clifton, plus ABC play live in the studio and their singer Martin Fry talks all things 80s and the time he met Andy Warhol.
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Bee Gees
You Should Be Dancing
- Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
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Lemar
The Letter
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- BMG.
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Kenny Loggins
Footloose
- Footloose (Original S/Track).
- CBS.
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The Flaming Lips
Do You Realize??
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- Warner Bros.
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Kirsty MacColl
There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis
- Kirsty Maccoll - Galore.
- Virgin.
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The Monkees
I'm A Believer
- Rediscover The 60's-With A Little Hel.
- Old Gold.
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Kacey Musgraves
This Town
- Pageant Material.
- Mercury Nashville.
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Elton John
Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)
- Diamonds.
- Virgin EMI Records.
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Johnny Marr
Easy Money
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- Warner Bros.
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The Foundations
Build Me Up Buttercup
- Million Sellers Vol.12 - The Sixties.
- Disky.
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George Ezra
Barcelona
- Wanted On Voyage.
- Sony BMG.
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Dexys Midnight Runners
Come On Eileen
- Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artis.
- Columbia.
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Florence + The Machine
You've Got The Love
- Now That's What I Call Music 74 (Various Artists).
- Now.
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The Pogues
Fiesta
- The Very Best Of The Pogues.
- Warner Strategic Marketi.
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Morecambe & Wise
Bring Me Sunshine
- Summer Holiday (Various Artists).
- Sony Music.
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Pratt & McClain
Happy Days
- Television's Greatest Hits Volume 3 70s & 80s.
- Silva Screen Records Ltd.
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Rachel Platten
Fight Song
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- Columbia.
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Ian Dury & the Blockheads
Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
- Fantastic 70's (Various Artists).
- Sony Tv/Columbia.
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Natalie Imbruglia
Instant Crush
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- Sony.
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Barenaked Ladies
One Week
- New Hits 99 (Various Artists).
- Sony Music TV.
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Lock All The Doors
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- Sour Mash Records.
Pause For Thought
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day and the lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea…
 … but not for much longer if farmers can’t get a viable price for a pint of milk. In the village in rural Northamptonshire where I lived twenty years ago there were two dairy herds, which winded slowly along the street knocking wing mirrors off cars and depositing, lavishly, skid hazards on their way. Â
There are no dairy herds there now and generations of careful husbandry and rich tradition have been lost to hard economic realities. Â
So what? Milk’s still abundant on the supermarket shelves, and never more affordably. Farmers can diversify, and have – in the outlying parts of my parish wind turbines turn where once sheep and cattle grazed. The market giveth, the market taketh away, blessed be its name.
 Except we are more than economics. The relationships which make up our communities, our societies, are more complex than any balance sheet can capture, and if we measure what we do only in terms of net present values how can we serve our long term needs?
 Go and live in North Korea, you cry, and see how you get on there chasing down a pint of gold top.
 But I’m not calling for the collectivisation of the milk industry any more than I’m calling to establish Ye Olde England Dairy Preservation Society: I’m suggesting we too acknowledge some hard realities: that we must plan for the future, be good stewards of what has been entrusted to us, not lose sight of the human consequences of economic enterprises. Â
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After eight years of hosting the Breakfast Show, Chris Evans leaves Radio 2.
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