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Michael Buble, Alexander Armstrong, Daisy Lowe and Luke Treadaway

The magical Michael Buble performs live in the studio! Alexander Armstrong brings in his new album, and actor Luke Treadaway spills the beans on the film A Streetcat Named Bob.

The mesmerising and magical Michael Buble serenades us live in the studio and performs new music from his ninth album Nobody But Me! Alexander Armstrong returns and brings in his second album Upon A Different Shore. Actor Luke Treadaway spills the beans on his new film A Streetcat Named Bob, which follows the true story of a unique friendship.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 28 Oct 2016 06:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Yazz & The Plastic Population

    The Only Way Is Up

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

  • Bruno Mars

    24K Magic

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • The Ides of March

    Vehicle

    • Billboard Top Rock 'N' Roll Hits - 1970 (Various Artists).
    • Rhino.
    • 9.

  • Supergrass

    Alright

    • The Best Pub Jukebox In The World (V).
    • Virgin.

  • Talking Heads

    And She Was

    • More Greatest Hits Of 80's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • Years & Years

    King

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 90 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Sting

    I Can't Stop Thinking About You

    • (CD Single).
    • A&M.
    • 1.

  • Coolio

    Gangsta's Paradise (feat. L.V.)

    • (CD Single).
    • Tommy Boy Music.

  • The Drifters

    Save The Last Dance For Me

    • Very Best Of Ben E.King & The Drifters.
    • Global Television.

  • Kaiser Chiefs

    Hole In My Soul

    • (CD Single).
    • Fiction.
    • 001.

  • Zara Larsson

    Lush Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.
    • 001.

  • The Housemartins

    Five Get Over Excited

    • The Housemartins - The Best Of.
    • Go Discs.

  • 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.

  • Alexander Armstrong

    Fields Of Gold

    • Upon a Different Shore.
    • East West Records / Warner Music..
    • 005.

  • Alexander Armstrong

    Scarborough Fair/ Canticle

    • Upon a Different Shore.
    • 007.

  • Madness

    Mr Apples (Glastonbury 2016)

    • (CD Single).
    • Daw Bell.

  • Status Quo

    That's A Fact

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Music On Demand.
    • 001.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Rock 'n' Roll Is King

    • ELO's Greatest Hits Vol.2.
    • Epic.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Rev’d Richard Coles, cleric and broadcaster:

‘Oh, Pete Burns has died!’, I said out loud when I read the news on Twitter. I knew Pete a little, we used to hang out together in notorious nightclubs at the end of the 80s when he was the lead singer of Dead or Alive.
Ìý
I really liked him, though he could be as hi-maintenance as he was hi-NRG, with a tongue like Lily Savage, and the patience of an active volcano. Both characteristics were on show when I saw him, years later, in Celebrity Big Brother - fiery, funny, fierce, in fabulous frocks. I was by then a priest in the Church of England, in fabulous frocks too, in a different sort of way: but, goodness, how we’d changed.
Ìý
The most noticeable change in Pete was his face. ÌýAlways an enterprise zone for cosmetic experimentation, by 2010 it had been through more surgeries than the bionic man. It made me feel a bit uncomfortable, and wondering what lies behind the drive to change what we look like. With Pete, at first, it seemed to be part of his unquenchable creativity, his flair for fabulousness, and a total commitment to reinventing himself as often as he wished. ÌýI admired that in him. But I couldn’t help feeling that later it tipped over into something that made him look diminished not improved.
Ìý
Who am I to talk, who spent a fortune on having his wonky teeth fixed at around the time Pete was having his first surgery, and who agonises daily about the depredations of age? I treated myself to a hot tub the other day and catching sight of myself in an unfortunately-placed mirror realized I looked like a haggis in a pan of simmering water.
Ìý
I sometimes think of God as a cosmetic surgeon. Not one who disguises the reality of who we are, nipping and tucking away the years, the lines, the adventures and misadventures, but one who wants to reveal what we really are, to restore in us what was always there: God’s image, the glory of creation, a human being fully alive. Blessings on you Pete, who lived more fully than most, and blessed us so spectacularly.

Ìý

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