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Matt LeBlanc, David Baddiel, Michelle Collins and Primal Scream

Chris has breakfast with Friends star and new Top Gear co-host Matt LeBlanc, comedian David Baddiel and actor Michelle Collins, and Primal Scream play live.

Chris has breakfast with Friends star and new Top Gear co-host Matt LeBlanc before they set off on their big motoring adventure to...Blackpool! Comedian David Baddiel shares the history behind the Silk Road and actress Michelle Collins tells us about her tour across the UK in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Live music courtesy of musical legends Primal Scream! Plus a Pause For Thought from Rev'd Richard Coles.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 19 Feb 2016 06:30
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Music Played

  • Free

    All Right Now

    • Back To The 70's (CD1) (Various).
    • EMI.
    • 15.

  • Jess Glynne

    Ain't Got Far To Go

    • I Cry When I Laugh.
    • Atlantic.
    • 005.

  • Kenny Loggins

    Danger Zone

    • Top Gun O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • CBS.

  • Santana

    Smooth (feat. Rob Thomas)

    • (CD Single).
    • Arista.

  • Scissor Sisters

    Take Your Mama

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Yazz & The Plastic Population

    The Only Way Is Up

    • Wanted (Deluxe Edition).
    • Cherry Pop.
    • 010.

  • Ronan Keating

    Let Me Love You

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

  • Roxette

    Joyride

  • Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

    D.I.Y.

    • What Have We Become.
    • Virgin EMI.
    • 001.

  • The Big Bopper

    Chantilly Lace

  • Coldplay

    Hymn For The Weekend (feat. ΅ώ±π²β΄Η²Τ³¦Γ©)

    • A Head Full Of Dreams.
    • Parlophone.

  • Go West

    King Of Wishful Thinking

    • Pretty Woman - Soundtrack.
    • EMI.

  • Bachman–Turner Overdrive

    You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet

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

  • ABC

    Poison Arrow

    • Abc - The Lexicon Of Love.
    • Mercury.

  • 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.

  • The Corrs

    I Do What I Like

    • White Light.
    • Atlantic.

  • R. M. Sherman & R. B. Sherman

    Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

  • Josef Salvat

    Open Season

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

  • Rod Stewart

    Hold The Line

    • Another Country.
    • Capitol Records.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Rev’d Richard Coles, cleric and broadcaster:

Μύ

A woman called in at church the other day on a cycling tour with her husband. She was retired but in good shape and looked fun. I showed her our stained glass and 18th-century organ and Green Man, when she suddenly said: β€œYou’re a handsome man. Are all the women of the parish after you?” Most people just ask what’s the difference between a Vicar and a Rector and I was unprepared for the question, let alone the answer, which would need to explain exactly why, if they were, they’d be barking up a very wrong tree indeed.

Μύ

β€œDon’t priests get chased by women?”, she said, β€œsomething to do with being unavailable?” and I wondered if the revelations this week of the correspondence between Pope St John Paul II and the philosopher Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka were in her mind. While there is no suggestion that the relationship was a vow-breaker it was nonetheless intimate and even passionate and some have winced.

Μύ

That’s a shame. To me, discovering that St John Paul was a man who knew passion and longing and deep affinity with another is, first, not a surprise – no one who led such a rich outer life could have done so without a rich inner life – and, second, very encouraging. β€˜I bring you life in its fullness’, says Jesus, but all too often the church seems to offer something less than that.

Μύ

Is that because vocation obliges people to live more narrowly than may be bearable?Μύ Sometimes. But perhaps it is in part our problem, that we like our saints and popes and even simple country parsons to stand, however precariously, on pedestals. I remember a Vatican insider once telling me that Pope Benedict would sit late into the night in his study watching DVDs of Keeping Up Appearances, a revelation which almost made me spit out my Campari. Who knows, perhaps he was a Friends fan too?

Μύ

I cannot verify this but I want it to be true, I want our saints and popes and simple country parsons (who can’t even keep strictly to the disciplines of Lent) to be fully alive, and to be faithful, and to live sacrificially, as Jesus lived. For a sacrifice that comes at no cost is no sacrifice at all.

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