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Earth, Wind & Fire and Eddie Izzard

Chris speaks to Ralph Johnson from Earth, Wind & Fire after the Grammys, and Eddie Izzard talks about doing 27 marathons in 27 days for Sport Relief.

Chris speaks to Ralph Johnson from Earth, Wind & Fire live in America straight after his aftershow party at the Grammys where they picked up a Lifetime Achievement Award and gave Taylor Swift her gong for Album Of The Year. And Eddie Izzard calls in to tells us about doing 27 marathons in 27 days for Sport Relief! He's going to need one massive ice bath after that...

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Tue 16 Feb 2016 06:30
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Music Played

  • Chris Rea

    Let's Dance

    • Auberge EP.
    • East West Records.

  • Josef Salvat

    Open Season

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

  • Blues Brothers

    Everybody Needs Somebody To Love

    • Simply The Best Movie Album (Various).
    • Warner Strategic Market.

  • Katy Perry

    Roar

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.
    • 1.

  • The Dandy Warhols

    Bohemian Like You

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.
    • 7.

  • 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.

  • The Trammps

    Hold Back The Night

    • (Single).
    • Buddah Records.
    • 14.

  • Mumford & Sons

    Just Smoke

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Born In The USA

    • Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA.
    • CBS.

  • Lily Allen

    Littlest Things

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
    • 4.

  • The Beatles

    Get Back (feat. Billy Preston)

    • The Beatles - 1.
    • Apple.
    • 022.

  • Little Mix

    Secret Love Song (feat. Jason Derulo)

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco Music.

  • Steely Dan

    Reelin' In The Years

    • A Decade Of Steely Dan.
    • MCA.

  • Simply Red

    Money's Too Tight (To Mention)

    • Now 1985 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Coral

    Dreaming Of You

    • (CD Single).
    • Deltasonic.

  • Dean Martin & Helen O’Connell

    How D'Ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning?

    • Cool Couples (Various Artists).
    • Sanctuary.

  • Mark Ronson

    Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars)

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

  • Ronan Keating

    Let Me Love You

    • (CD Single).
    • Decca.
    • 001.

  • Earth, Wind & Fire

    Boogie Wonderland (feat. The Emotions)

    • The Best Seventies Album In The World.. Ever!.
    • Virgin.
    • 2.

  • Taylor Swift

    Bad Blood

    • 1989.
    • Universal.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Dreams

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 007.

  • Starland Vocal Band

    Afternoon Delight

    • Have A Nice Day Vol.18.
    • Rhino.

  • Paul Simon

    Graceland

    • The Paul Simon Anthology (Disc 2).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 1.

  • Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats

    I Need Never Get Old

  • Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton

    Islands In The Stream

    • The Greatest Love (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • Echo & the Bunnymen

    The Cutter

    • Absolution (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Lissie

    Don't You Give Up On Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • Survivor

    Eye Of The Tiger

    • The No.1 Movies Album (Various Artist.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Jamie Cullum

    Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (feat. Gregory Porter)

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 1.

Chris' Pause For Thought: Kate Bottley

From Revered Kate Bottley, Vicar of the churches of Blyth, Scrooby and Ranskill:
I some times think I should get a loyalty card at the hospital car park I visit so often. The other week I found myself going to visit Maureen, a stalwart of village life for the last 7 decades, my verger, church key holder and friend. Maureen sadly knew she was ‘coming in to land’ as she put it and would like a chance to chat.

As I walked to the lifts I heard a shout ‘Reverend Kate’, I turned to see a face I recognised, a young man whose wedding I’d officiated at just a year or two before. ‘It’s a girl!’ he shouted ‘Come and meet her!’ I was taken in to see the lovely Lucy just an hour old and fast asleep in her glowing, but exhausted mum’s arms. ‘Would you bless her?’ the new Daddy asked, with nothing else to hand I looked around and saw a bottle of prosecco open on the night stand, I signed little Lucy with the sign of the cross and had a quick sip myself. Then I went up to the next floor to Maureen. I sat and read her the psalms, we prayed, she told me off for turning the telly down. And I signed her with the sign of the cross just as I had little Lucy, and we said goodbye. A life well lived.

Now you might think that only one of those hospital beds was a joyful one that evening when I visited. Not so. Little Lucy’s mum and Dad were, excited to welcome the next stage of their lives and in a strange sort of way so was Maureen, as she put it ‘I love Jesus I should very much like to go and meet him, if that’s all the same to you’.  At marvellous Maureen’s goodbye service I told stories of her life and in the many years ahead I look forward to seeing what lovely Lucy gets up to as she lives her life. Because that’s what really matters, not the manner of our birth or our death, how we get here or when and how we leave, but what defines us really is the bit in the middle, our life and how we make the most of the time we have.

Farewell Maureen, and welcome to the world little Lucy, I know you both have an awfully big adventure ahead.

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