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Enya, Darcey Bussell, Evgeny Lebedev and the Corrs

Chris is joined by singer Enya and Strictly's Darcey Bussell and newspaper owner Evgeny Lebedev, and the Corrs perform live in the studio.

Ethereal Irish singer Enya tells us about her first new album in seven years 'Dark Sky Island'. Newspaper giant, Evegeny Lebedev gives us the lowdown on this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards. The dazzling Darcey Bussell spills the beans on Strictly Come Dancing's Saturday night Blackpool extravaganza. And superstar siblings The Corrs provide the fun Friday soundtrack, playing songs from their forthcoming album 'White Light'.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 20 Nov 2015 06:30
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Music Played

  • Erasure

    Sometimes

    • Erasure - Pop!.
    • Mute Records.

  • James Bay

    If You Ever Want To Be In Love

    • Chaos & The Calm.
    • Republic Records.
    • 001.

  • Bryan Adams

    (Everything I Do) I Do It For You

    • (CD Single).
    • A&M.

  • Kylie Minogue

    All The Lovers

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

  • Richard Hawley

    Tonight The Streets Are Ours

    • (CD Single).
    • Mute.

  • Modern Romance

    Best Years Of Our Lives

    • The Platinum Collection.
    • Rhino.

  • CeeLo Green

    Music To My Soul

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Bachman–Turner Overdrive

    You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet

    • And The Road Goes On Forever Vol 1.
    • Debutante.

  • Florence + The Machine

    Ship To Wreck

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 001.

  • Nancy Sinatra

    These Boots Are Made for Walkin'

    • The Greatest Hits Of Nancy Sinatra.
    • Boulevard.

  • Adele

    Send My Love (To Your New Lover)

    • 25.
    • XL Recordings.

  • Mark Ronson

    Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Shania Twain

    That Don't Impress Me Much

    • Now 44 (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Neil Diamond

    America

    • Neil Diamond - The Jazz Singer.
    • Capitol.

  • Morecambe & Wise

    Bring Me Sunshine

    • Summer Holiday (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music.

  • Dexys Midnight Runners

    Geno

    • Greatest Hits Of The 80's (Various).
    • Disky.
    • 5.

  • Enya

    Echoes In Rain

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Canned Heat

    Let's Work Together

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1970 (Various).
    • Premier.

  • Imelda May

    Johnny Got A Boom Boom

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Classics & Jazz.
    • 1.

  • Coldplay

    Adventure Of A Lifetime

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Pentatonix

    Can't Sleep Love

    • Pentatonix.
    • RCA.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Abdul-Rehman Malik, journalist and broadcaster

Chris, I have come to the conclusion that I was born with an unusually bad case of wanderlust.

I come from a family that always found out it hard to sit still. As a young man, my grandfather caught a boat across the Indian Ocean to work on the then recently discovered oilfields of Arabia. As the British Raj broke apart, my grandmother guided her family to safety in newly created Pakistan. My father’s own journey led him from Lahore to London to Toronto. Β Β Β 

Growing up, I used to leaf through travel magazines, dreaming of undertaking dangerous journeys to mysterious lands. I would look up tour companies in the Yellow Pages and ask them to send me brochures for their most exotic expeditions. In my high school library, I would pour over maps and guidebooks and plan month long excursions to places like Patagonia and Samarkand.

I have to thank you, Enya, for providing the soundtrack for those imagined voyages. Β Your music – ethereal and magical – carried me away down my own Orinoco flows and flights of fancy. When I finally started making some of those trips, the music of course went with me.
β€œGod is gentle,” said the Prophet Muhammad, β€œand God loves gentleness. God gives for gentleness what He does not give for violence. Indeed, God gives for it as He does for nothing else.”

Journeys can be testing, but they also teach us that the tightest corners can often be navigated by gentleness and love.

This week I was glad not to be travelling – but to be at home. As we watched violence and terror unfold, not far from us, I was blessed to be near the ones I love most. The perpetrators of violence do not act in the name of any God I worship. They do not adhere to any faith I hold dear.

The world feels like it’s in a tight corner. I feel overwhelmed by the complexity of the challenges we face. But when I hold my son close and imagine the kind of world I want him to grow up in, I realise that this is no time for silence or fear.

It reminds of another Enya lyric: β€œSince love is lord of heaven and earth/How can I keep from singing?”

Right now, it’s a song I think we could all do with.

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