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Barry Manilow, Roger Taylor, Bear Grylls, Alan Shearer and Beverley Knight

Chris is joined by singer Barry Manilow, drummer Roger Taylor, survival expert Bear Grylls and former footballer Alan Shearer. Plus Beverley Knight performing live.

Sonic superstar Barry Manilow tells Chris about going on tour one last time, Queen's drummer Roger Taylor talks about headlining the Isle of Wight Festival and what he's been doing to prepare. 麻豆约拍 Sport's Alan Shearer offers his expert opinion ahead of Euro 2016 and sensational survivor Bear Grylls gives us a sneaky peak of his new Endeavour stage tour. Queen of soul, Beverley Knight performs live in the studio, including a cover of an Ann Peebles classic, plus the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu provides the daily Pause for Thought on Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh's 95th birthday.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Music Played

  • Michael Jackson

    Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough

    • Michael Jackson - History.
    • Epic.
  • Stereophonics

    Mr And Mrs Smith

    • (CD Single).
    • Ignition Records.
  • John Travolta

    Greased Lightning

    • I Love Musicals.
    • 9.
  • The J. Geils Band

    Centrefold

    • And The Road Goes On Forever Vol 1.
    • Debutante.
  • Noah and the Whale

    5 Years Time

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Don't Stop

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 009.
  • Adele

    Send My Love (To Your New Lover)

    • 25.
    • XL.
  • Wet Wet Wet

    Sweet Little Mystery

    • Wet Wet Wet - Greatest Hits & More.
    • Precious Organisation.
  • Madonna

    Who's That Girl

    • Celebration.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 8.
  • Trini Lopez

    If I Had A Hammer

    • 25 Years Of Rock'n'Roll 1963 (Vol 2).
    • Connoisseur.
  • Stevie Wonder

    Sir Duke

    • Stevie Wonder - Song Review.
    • Motown.
  • Mark Ronson

    Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars)

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

    Can't Feel My Face

    • Beauty Behind The Madness.
    • Republic.
    • 7.
  • Pratt & McClain

    Happy Days

    • Television's Greatest Hits Volume 3 70s & 80s.
    • Silva Screen Records Ltd.
  • Richard Ashcroft

    Hold On

    • (CD Single).
    • Cooking Vinyl.
  • Queen

    We Will Rock You

    • News Of The World.
    • Island.
    • 1.
  • Queen

    Fat Bottomed Girls

    • Queen - Greatest Hits.
    • Parlophone.
  • Beverley Knight

    Come As You Are [Live]

  • Paul Simon

    Wristband

    • (CD Single).
    • Concord Music Group.
    • 1.
  • Barry Manilow

    I Write the Songs

    • Manilow Greatest Hits - Platinum Coll.
    • Arista.
  • Barry Manilow

    Mandy

    • Manilow Greatest Hits - Platinum Coll.
    • Arista.
    • 3.
  • Beverley Knight

    Middle of Love [Live]

  • Sigma

    Cry (feat. Take That)

    • (CD Single).
    • 3Beat.
    • 001.
  • Beverley Knight

    Soul Survivor [Live]

  • Beverley Knight

    I Can't Stand The Rain [Live]

Chris鈥 Pause For Thought: John Sentamu

Chris鈥 Pause For Thought: John Sentamu
From The Most Revd & Rt Hon Dr John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York

One of the delightful characteristics of a human being is our insatiable desire to keep promises 鈥 in spite of our tendency to forget or our repeated failure to keep them.

For example, as a minister of the Gospel, many, many people say or write to me asking, 鈥淧lease pray for me and for such and such鈥.

Normally, I do it straight away. Thankfully many a time prayers offered for people or situations are answered. What about the unanswered?

Well, with the passage of time, keeping the promise to pray constantly without ceasing is very challenging!

Chris and your listeners, am I the only one who struggles with the keeping of a whole host of promises alive? Keeping them not only for a day, a week, a month, a year, but as long as I live?

Her Majesty by Divine Providence Queen Head of the Commonwealth Defender of the Faith, in her first Christmas Day Broadcast in 1952, asked the people of the Commonwealth and Empire 鈥渢o pray for her on the day of her coronation 鈥 that God may give her wisdom and strength to carry out the solemn promises she would be making, and that she may faithfully serve God and her peoples, all the days of her life.鈥

And the Queen writing in a foreword to the book, 鈥The Servant Queen and the King she serves鈥, published to celebrate her ninetieth birthday, she said:

鈥淚 have been 鈥 and remain 鈥 very grateful to you for your prayers and to God for His steadfast love. I have indeed seen His faithfulness.鈥

Ah! That鈥檚 it! The prayers of others, God鈥檚 steadfast love and faithfulness, made visible, are key to the keeping of promises.

So is the sincerity and devotion manifested consistently by Her Majesty throughout her long and glorious reign. They have served greatly to strengthen that bond between the Sovereign and all her Peoples.

The keeping of promises? 鈥淧ut your hand into the hand of God 鈥︹

And 鈥渟tay always within the boundaries where God鈥檚 love can reach and bless you鈥 (Jude 21a).

So rejoice and give thanks and have confidence for the future. Live today as if tomorrow is already here. Keep the promises. For the best is yet to be.

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