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Harvey Weinstein, Holliday Grainger, Dan Walker and Lissie

Chris has breakfast with movie mogul Harvey Weinstein who tells us about his BAFTA nominations, actress Holliday Grainger who's in a new film called The Finest Hours, ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Breakfast's brand new presenter Dan Walker, and has live music from Lissie!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Fri 12 Feb 2016 06:30

Music Played

  • The Stone Roses

    Fools Gold

    • Precious - Various Artists.
    • Dino.
  • Kelly Clarkson

    Piece By Piece

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.
    • 001.
  • War

    Why Can't We Be Friends

    • Priority.
  • Fleetwood Mac

    Everywhere

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 008.
  • Paolo Nutini

    10/10

    • Sunny Side Up.
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.
  • Robbie Williams

    Candy

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

    Blue Wonderful

    • Wonderful Crazy Night.
    • Mercury.
  • The Doobie Brothers

    Long Train Runnin'

    • The Very Best Of The Doobie Brothers.
    • Warner Bros.
  • Kylie Minogue

    I Believe In You

    • I Believe In You.
    • Parlophone.
  • Petula Clark

    Downtown

    • The Ivor Novello Winners.
    • EMI.
  • Jess Glynne

    Ain't Got Far To Go

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

    Sometimes

    • Erasure - Pop!.
    • Mute Records.
  • Adam and the Ants

    Prince Charming

    • Adam Ant - Hits.
    • CBS.
  • Danny & the Juniors

    At The Hop

    • That's Rock'n'Roll (Various Artists).
    • EMI.
  • 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.
  • Gilbert O’Sullivan

    No Way

    • (CD Single).
    • Union Square Music.
    • 001.
  • Paul Carrack

    Keep On Lovin' You

    • Soul Shadows.
    • Carrack-UK.
    • 001.
  • Coldplay

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

    • A Head Full Of Dreams.
    • Parlophone.

Chris' Pause For Thought: Richard Coles

From Rev’d Richard Coles, cleric and broadcaster:

Last week, seeing Lent coming with its five weeks of fasting, a generous friend took me out for a magnificent dinner. Β She chose a posh restaurant in the West End and when the menu I arrived happened to notice there was caviar among the starters. It was unbelievably good value, just a few quid rather than a king’s ransom; β€œGo on,” she said, β€œtry some”. Β I ordered a generous dollop and then another but noticed a slightly fixed smile appear on my friend’s face and the unmistakable look of someone doing urgent mental arithmetic. Β It was only when I glanced at the menu again I saw that the caviar was actually priced by the gram and my two dollops were equivalent in price to a heritage handbag. β€œBon appetit!”, she said, weakly.

Bad Vicar, I thought, not only impoverishing my friend, but feasting on luxuries while half the world starves. An appetite suppressing thought, and perhaps you want me to say that the caviar suddenly tasted like ashes in my mouth.

But it didn’t. I relished every overpriced morsel, so overpriced I worked out the blob the waiter wiped off the tabletop cost as much as my cab fare home.

Because the truth is, no matter how frugally I try to live I will never be poor like those who are a pound-per-day poor. The gap between caviar and a fish finger sandwich is nowhere near as wide as the gap between the fish finger sandwich and the handful of grain the hungry millions will have to make do with. Β We live, whether we like it or not, in a world of such inequality that even our saintliest efforts are tainted by collusion.

I think this is why Jesus said do not fast for show: do not merely wring your hands and eat gruel, virtue-signalling with gestures that nod to justice without changing anything.

The real fast is not one of the stomach, but of the heart and the mind, to stand with caviar-stained chins in front of the God who forgives us, and wants to remake us, not for this world but for his kingdom, where no one goes hungry, and all at last feast.

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