Peter Kay
Chris is joined by comedian Peter Kay to chat about getting the nation grooving. Plus Chris clues up on the history of scents with the help of perfume expert Lizzie Ostrom. And Ruth Scott provides the wise words in Pause For Thought.
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Spin Doctors
Two Princes
- Driving Rock (Various Artists).
- Global Records & Tapes.
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Jess Glynne
Take Me Â鶹ԼÅÄ
- I Cry When I Laugh.
- Atlantic.
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Annie Lennox & Al Green
Put a Little Love in Your Heart
- Scrooged O.S.T. (Various Artists).
- A&M.
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Michael Bublé
Everything
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- Reprise.
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Bad Company
Can't Get Enough
- Driving Rock (Various Artists).
- Global Records & Tapes.
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The Banana Splits
The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)
- Television's Greatest Hits Vol. 5: In Living Color (Various Artists).
- TVT Records.
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Heaven 17
Temptation
- A Kick Up The Eighties Vol. 5 (Various Artists).
- Old Gold.
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Florence + The Machine
Delilah
- How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful.
- Island.
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Carpenters
Top Of The World
- The Carpenters - Yesterday Once More.
- A&M.
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Meghan Trainor
Lips Are Movin
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- Epic.
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Loretta Lynn
Country Christmas
- Country Christmas.
- Universal-Island Records Limited.
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New Order
Tutti Frutti
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- Mute.
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No Doubt
Don't Speak
- Huge Hits 1997 (Various Artists).
- Global Television.
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Pink Floyd
Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2
- Pink Floyd.
- Harvest.
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The 5.6.7.8’s
Woo Hoo
- The Best Summer...Ever! (Various).
- Virgin.
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Dean Martin & Helen O’Connell
How D'Ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning?
- Cool Couples (Various Artists).
- Sanctuary.
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Coldplay
Christmas Lights
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- Parlophone.
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Coldplay
Adventure Of A Lifetime
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- Parlophone.
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Edwin Starr
H.A.P.P.Y. Radio
- Edwin Starr: The Essential Collection.
- Spectrum.
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Thelma Houston
Don't Leave Me This Way
- Any Way You Like It (Expanded Edition).
- SoulMusic Records.
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Chic
Le Freak
- The Very Best Of.
- Rhino.
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Paul Anka
Smells Like Teen Spirit
- Rock Swings.
- Universal.
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Bryan Adams
You Belong To Me
- (CD Single).
- Polydor.
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The Zutons
Valerie
- (CD Single).
- Deltasonic.
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JD McPherson
Twinkle (Little Christmas Lights)
- Socks.
- New West Records.
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Adele
When We Were Young
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- XL Recordings.
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Tony Christie
(Is This the Way to) Amarillo
- Dance Hits Of The '60's & '70's.
- Old Gold.
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Bruce Springsteen
Dancing In The Dark
- Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits.
- Columbia.
Pause For Thought
From Rev
Ruth Scott, Anglican Vicar in Richmond:
As a child I was scared of the dark and could only fall sleep if my bedroom door was open and the landing light left on. For some months I remember being afraid to put my legs between the sheets because I was convinced there was a tarantula lurking in my bed. Darkness is something many of us fear. It’s where our worst nightmares come to life, or we become overwrought with anxieties that don’t trouble us during daylight hours. When our lives fall apart, as they sometimes do, we talk about going through ‘dark times’. Perhaps that’s why those who taught me about Christianity focussed on light overcoming darkness, and associated night with devilish things or divine punishment. It may seem strange that I should be talking about darkness as Christians begin the season of Advent when we prepare for the coming of light into the world at Christmas, but as I’ve grown older I’ve come to see darkness with different eyes. Key moments of painful but important transformation happened in the darkness of night to biblical figures like Abraham, Jacob, Moses and Jesus, and God is seen as the God of darkness as well as light. The anonymous author of the fourteenth century mystical classic, The Cloud of Unknowing, even went as far as suggesting it’s only in darkness that we can have any real experience of the divine. Whatever we do or don’t believe about God, there’s wisdom in recognising we need darkness as well as light. At a basic level, it helps to keep us physically healthy. The stillness of night has often brought me comfort when I’m suffering from sensory overload. More importantly, so-called dark times have taught me important lessons I wouldn’t have learnt when life was hunky-dory. Through them I have developed courage, resilience and deeper compassion. I have come to understand that, like stars, there are rich resources of wisdom which can only be discovered in the dark night of the human spirit.
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