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Robbie Williams, Michael Pena, Mark Strong, Anne Robinson and The Shires

Chris chats to pop star Robbie Williams, TV presenter Anne Robinson, actors Mark Strong and Michael Pena and The Shires perform live in the studio.

Chris speaks to superstar Robbie Williams who returns with new music from his album The Heavy Entertainment Show. Quizmaster Anne Robinson fills us in on her documentary series Anne Robinson's Britain and gives the guests a lesson in proper pronunciation. Actor Michael Pena tells Chris about his comedy cop film War On Everyone and Mark Strong talks about his return to the National Theatre in his new play The Red Barn. Plus The Shires play tracks from their new album The Universe and cover one of Robbie's biggest hits. The last Pause For Thought in September comes from Nick Baines.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 30 Sep 2016 06:30
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Music Played

  • The Rolling Stones

    Start Me Up

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.
    • 7.

  • Smoove & Turrell

    You Could've Been A Lady

    • (CD Single).
    • Jalapeno Records.
    • 1.

  • Rupert Holmes

    Escape (The Pina Colada Song)

    • Various Artists - Open Top Cars.
    • Temple Records.

  • Junior Senior

    Move Your Feet

    • Smash Hits Chart Summer 2003.
    • EMI/Virgin/Universal Music.

  • Zac Brown Band

    Jump Right In

    • (CD Single).
    • Southern Ground.
    • 1.

  • µώ±π²β΄Η²Τ³¦Γ©

    Crazy in Love (feat. JAY-Z)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 3.

  • Bon Jovi

    This House Is Not For Sale

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.

  • Simply Red

    Fairground

    • Simply Red Greatest Hits.
    • East West Records.

  • Buddy Holly

    It Doesn't Matter Anymore

    • Very Best Of Buddy Holly & The Cricke.
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • Van Morrison

    Too Late (Radio 2 Session, 29th Sept 2016)

  • Daft Punk

    Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Cliff Richard

    Wired For Sound

    • Cliff Richard - Private Collection.
    • EMI.

  • Justin Timberlake

    Can't Stop The Feeling!

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • 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.

  • Robbie Williams

    Party Like A Russian

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Coldplay

    A Head Full Of Dreams

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Nick Baines, the Bishop of Leeds:

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This might mark me down as a sad man, but one of my favourite film scenes is Bill Murray doing karaoke in Tokyo in Lost In Translation. The song he gets is the Elvis Costello version of What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding? which he belts out with a tunefulness guaranteed to close down any hope of a music contract. It's brilliant, even if it's not heavy entertainment. Certainly better than declaring war on everyone.

But, to answer his question: there's actually nothing funny about peace, love and understanding - it's just funny that they sound like a good idea.

Peace, love and understanding. Where on earth do we go with that?

Well, we've just opened a new office in Leeds and everywhere you look you see three words: Loving. Living. Learning. A bit like peace, love and understanding, they sum up how we want to be.

For Christians like me it means loving God, the world and one another.

It also means getting stuck into the world as it is, but fired by a vision of what it could be. So, we work hard at enabling individuals and communities to flourish and thrive. That's living.

But, all this loving and living is done with the humility that we keep making an almighty mess of it and can't seem to help getting it wrong. We are all learning together and from one another. In other words, we need a huge dose of humility in our attempts to love and live.

To twist the words of a well-known album, we need to sing when we're losing as well as when we are winning. Or, as I discovered again this week while driving down a no-entry road in Cambridge, I learn better from my mistakes than from my successes.

So, loving, living and learning shape a lens through which we can look at what we do, why we do it, where our priorities are, working out what and who really matter. Not three words that imprison us, but words that open up the possibility of living differently in a complicated and messy world.

Perhaps, if we did a bit more loving, living and learning, we might end up with a bit more peace, love and understanding. And it wouldn't seem funny at all.

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