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Alicia Vikander, Simon Reeve, Kate Bottley and Phil Collins

Chris has breakfast with Oscar-winning actress Alicia Vikander, Pause For Thought's Kate Bottley, Arctic Live's Simon Reeve and Phil Collins plays live in the studio!

The phenomenal Phil Collins performs live in the studio and he brings in his new book 'Not Dead Yet'. Plus Chris speaks to Oscar-winning actress Alicia Vikander about her latest role in The Light Between Oceans, the film that brought Chris to tears. Kate Bottley shares her scariest moments when making the documentary Believing in Beauty to celebrate Radio 2's Faith in the World Week. Plus adventurer Simon Reeve stops by the studio before he heads to the Arctic for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Two's new series Arctic Live, exploring the planet's last undiscovered wilderness and Rev'd Richard Coles provides the final Pause For Thought of the week.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 21 Oct 2016 06:30
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Music Played

  • Prince

    1999

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Madness

    Mr Apples (Glastonbury 2016)

    • (CD Single).
    • Daw Bell.

  • Buzzcocks

    Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)

    • Greatest Hits Of The 70's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • Sophie Ellis‐Bextor

    Come With Us

    • Familia.
    • Re/Essential.
    • 001.

  • The Kooks

    ±·²ΉΓ―±Ή±π

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • Nickelback

    Rockstar

    • (CD Single).
    • Roadrunner.
    • 5.

  • Tom Odell

    Here I Am (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2016)

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

  • Christina Aguilera

    Genie In A Bottle

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Paul Anka

    Diana

    • Paul Anka - The Greatest Hits Collect.
    • Telstar.

  • Roy Orbison

    Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel)

    • The Best Of Roy Orbison.
    • Columbia.
    • 2.

  • Neil Sedaka

    Oh Carol

    • The Very Best Of Neil Sedaka.
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band

    Born To Run

  • Pretenders

    Holy Commotion

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.

  • Reef

    Place Your Hands

    • 21st Century Rock (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • 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.

  • Smoove & Turrell

    You Could've Been A Lady

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

  • Coldplay

    Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.
    • 5.

  • Elvis Presley & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    A Big Hunk o' Love

    • The Wonder Of You.
    • Sony Music.

  • Bon Jovi

    This House Is Not For Sale

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Rev’d Richard Coles, cleric and broadcaster:

Eight months ago, a ring at the Vicarage doorbell, but when we answered no-one was there, just a basket left on the step and in it a tiny and frightened kitten. ΜύThere’s a precedent in our line of work for taking in abandoned tinies in baskets, so we named him Moses, and after three days hiding from our four sausage dogs under the Hostess trolley he emerged and gradually took his place in the pack, feeding with them, chasing things in the garden with them, sleeping curled up with them, and coming on holiday with them, which didn’t seem weird at all to me.

Μύ

And then, last Friday, a call on my mobile. It was the lady at the vets down the road. Did we have a cat? I thought for a moment it might be our last cat, absconding Thomas, who we took in for Christmas, but he found the dogs too tiresome and made other arrangements. No: β€œgrey tabby with an amazing bushy tail?” ΜύIt was Moses, confirmed by a scan of his chip, who had been hit by car and brought in by a kind stranger, but nothing could be done. Μύβ€œDo you want to collect him or shall I arrange a cremation?”

Μύ

It happens all the time. On the stretch of road outside the Vicarage, a notorious rat run, I know of at least four cats who have met their doom. And Moses was unsentimental about untimely deaths himself, a great many of which he inflicted on the small mammal population of Finedon. Μύ

Μύ

Good news for shrews, but bad for us, and his death has cast a longer shadow than I thought. It’s the way he fitted in that I miss most, finding a way of accommodating four dachshunds with a very different agenda from his own. I found it encouraging and heartwarming, in a divided and intolerant world, that he achieved this unlikely dΓ©tente.

Μύ

The Bible looks forward to the blessed day when the wolf will dwell with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the kid; but it so nearly could have been the tabby cat with the sausage dog. RIP Moses.

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