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Mary Berry, Years & Years, Katie Derham and Anton Du Beke

Chris is joined by Strictly Come Dancing finalists Katie Derham and Anton Du Beke, Mary Berry answers some Christmas cooking queries, and Years & Years perform live in the studio.

Dancing the Cha Cha Cha at Chris' breakfast table are Strictly Come Dancing finalists Katie Derham and her dance partner Anton Du Beke. Mrs Christmas herself, Mary Berry invites us around for Christmas lunch at her house, and tells us about her puzzling traditions, as well as answering some of your Christmas cooking queries. And there's live music in the studio from the talented trio Years and Years on this terrific tinsel-tastic-Tuesday!

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Tue 15 Dec 2015 06:30
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Music Played

  • Queen

    Another One Bites The Dust

    • The Game.
    • Island.
    • 3.

  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    The Dying Of The Light

    • Chasing Yesterday.
    • Sour Mash.
    • 005.

  • Bing Crosby

    White Christmas

    • That's Christmas (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Belinda Carlisle

    Heaven Is A Place On Earth

    • A Place On Earth - Greatest Hits.
    • Virgin.

  • Keane

    Everybody's Changing

    • (CD Single).
    • Transcopic Records.

  • 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.

  • Van Morrison

    Brown Eyed Girl

    • The Very Best Of Van Morrison.
    • Polydor.

  • Olly Murs

    Stevie Knows

    • Never Been Better.
    • Sony Music.

  • Band Aid

    Do They Know It's Christmas?

    • That's Christmas (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Nat King Cole

    The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot

    • That's Christmas (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • James Morrison

    Stay Like This

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal.

  • David Bowie

    Space Oddity

    • Space Oddity.
    • RCA.

  • Earth, Wind & Fire

    September

    • Greatest Hits Of 1978 (Various Artis.
    • Premier.
    • 3.

  • Noah and the Whale

    L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.
    • 1.

  • Gregory Porter

    A Cradle In Bethlehem (Radio 2 Session, 12 Dec 2014)

    • The Christmas Song.

  • Bryan Adams

    You Belong To Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • Scissor Sisters

    I Don't Feel Like Dancin'

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Lemar

    Higher Love

    • The Letter.
    • BMG.

  • James Bay

    If You Ever Want To Be In Love

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

  • The Jacksons

    Can You Feel It

    • Fantastic 80's Go For It! - Various.
    • Parlophone.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor:

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I wonder what is your favourite passage from Shakespeare?Ìý It could be from Hamlet: To be or not to be.Ìý Or Henvy V:Ìý Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.ÌýÌý But you know what my passage is?Ìý It’s from The Merchant of Venice and it is this:ÌýÌý The quality of mercy is not strained, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath.Ìý It is twice blessed, it blesses him who gives and him who takes.ÌýÌý If you forgive you will be blessed – forgive in your heart, but also, perhaps, by word or in deed.ÌýÌý But it also blesses those who take.Ìý Sometimes we take forgiveness from a neighbour or a member of the family or a friend whom we have offended.Ìý But Shakespeare says, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath.Ìý And that’s us.Ìý

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I want to remind you today that God forgives.Ìý Sometimes I feel very sad that our country sometimes seems so bereft of God.Ìý There is a writer, Julian Barnes, a very good one, and he says, I don’t believe in God but I miss Him.Ìý How people miss God.Ìý He is there to you even though you may not have experienced Him or perhaps have ignored Him or even abandoned Him.ÌýÌý There are nine days to go to Christmas.Ìý That festival is not only about family and festivity and fun and exchange of presents.Ìý It really is about the most extraordinary, wonderful present, the present of love and the present of forgiveness of God.Ìý I believe that He came among us 2000 years ago at Christmas in the person of Jesus Christ.Ìý He came to show that we are accepted by God and that we are forgiven by God and loved by God.ÌýÌý He proved this by the manner of his life and death and his resurrection, so that He is with us still.Ìý So in wishing you all a very happy Christmas, I would like you to think about mercy and forgiveness because it is the wellspring of joy and serenity and of peace.Ìý The quality of mercy is not strained, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed, it blesseth him who gives and him that takes.

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