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Steve Coogan, Tom Jones, Stellan Skarsgard and Bryan Adams

Chris gets that Friday feeling going with special guests: Steve Coogan, Sir Tom Jones, Stellan Skarsgard and Bryan Adams, who plays live in session.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 9 Oct 2015 06:30
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Music Played

  • The Rolling Stones

    Jumpin' Jack Flash

    • The Rolling Stones - Remastered.
    • Abkco.

  • Van Morrison & Bobby Womack

    Some Peace Of Mind

    • Duets.
    • RCA.
    • 001.

  • Mark Ronson

    Valerie (feat. Amy Winehouse)

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony BMG.

  • Zac Brown Band

    Jump Right In

    • (CD Single).
    • Southern Ground.
    • 1.

  • Slade

    Cum On Feel The Noize

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Squeeze

    Happy Days

    • Cradle To The Grave.
    • Virgin EMI.
    • 001.

  • John Lennon

    Imagine

    • GIMME SOME TRUTH. (Deluxe).
    • Calderstone.

  • Madness

    Our House

    • Now 1983 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • Elvis Presley

    What'd I Say

  • Ryan Adams

    Bad Blood

    • 1989.
    • Blue Note.

  • Madonna

    Open Your Heart

    • Celebration.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 13.

  • Laurie Johnson

    The New Avengers TV Theme

    • Cult TV Themes (Various Artists).
    • Castle Music.

  • 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.

  • Bill Haley and His Comets

    Rock Around The Clock

    • That's Rock'n'Roll (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Scouting for Girls

    Life's Too Short

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Music.

  • Tom Jones & Cerys Matthews

    Baby It's Cold Outside

    • (CD Single).
    • Gut Records.

  • Tom Jones & Imelda May

    Honey, Honey

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI.
    • 1.

Chris' Pause For Thought: Richard Coles

Chris' Pause For Thought: Richard Coles

From Rev’d Richard Coles, cleric and broadcaster:

A week of high drama: perorations at Tory Conference, congratulations at the Bake Off final, denunciations and to be stood in the street shouting at Steve Coogan as he drove past in his Lotus - all of these fade into utter inconsequentiality, because of contractions at Finedon Vicarage, where I live. Β Two of our sausage dogs, Audrey and H, after a whirlwind romance (of about thirty seconds) contrived to produce three puppies, three chipolatas, which arrived on Wednesday afternoon, ironically, just as I was dedicating a new banner for Mothers’ Union.

Francis, Benedict and Hilda, named after the founders of two religious orders and the toughest nun in the history of the English church, popped out in time for tea. Twitter tottered, Facebook froze, as puppy pictures poured forth in a cataract of squee.

I’m not one really for puppies and kittens on social media, or so I thought but now I’m as wearying as any doting dad, or granddad.

Well not really – puppies aren’t babies – they’re much more expensive to start with – and I strongly resist the impulse to dress them up as little people and rewrite my will in their favour.

But as I stood watching them latched on to Audrey’s multiple busts, it occurred to me that this is probably as near as I'll get to parenthood. Civilly partnered, targeted by Saga, while not impossible, it’s hardly likely, and it’s never been part of my plan.

And then I was surprised by a thought not thought before: that these puppies, an hour into life, were already inevitable. That the dividing cells, and double helixes and enzymes and zygotes, whatever they are, that happened so they happened were united from the very beginning in the triple purpose of making them.

β€œIt was you who formed my inward parts,” said the writer of Psalm 139, β€œyou knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works”.

Wonderful indeed that out of cosmic chaos these things happened so that these three happened, to keep me awake all night and delight my heart.

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