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Sir Cliff Richard, Rufus Sewell, Sarah Parish & Emeli Sande

Chris has breakfast with Sir Cliff Richard, actors Rufus Sewell and Sarah Parish plus Emeli Sande performs live in the studio and tells us about her new album Long Live the Angels.

Chris has breakfast with Sir Cliff Richard who returns with his 102nd album Just... Fabulous Rock 'n' Roll and gives us an impromptu performance of Elvis' Blue Suede Shoes. Actor Rufus Sewell tells us about treading the boards in his new Parisian play Art. Actress Sarah Parish shares the supermarket secrets behind the sixth series of Trollied. The incredible Emeli Sande serenades the guests playing music from her new album Long Live Angels plus a cover of Bob Marley's Is This Love. Bishop Nick Baines has the final Pause For Thought for the week.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 11 Nov 2016 06:30
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Music Played

  • The Communards

    Don't Leave Me This Way (feat. Sarah Jane Morris)

    • Now 1986 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Clean Bandit

    Rockabye (feat. Sean Paul & ΄‘²Τ²Τ±π‐M²Ή°ωΎ±±π)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Average White Band

    Pick Up The Pieces

    • The Best Of The Average White Band.
    • Hit Label.

  • WALK THE MOON

    Work This Body

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.

  • The Rembrandts

    I'll Be There For You

    • The Love Songs Album (Various).
    • Universal.

  • Cliff Richard

    We Don't Talk Anymore

    • Cliff Richard - Private Collection.
    • EMI.

  • Cliff Richard

    Wired For Sound

    • Cliff Richard - Private Collection.
    • EMI.

  • Cliff Richard

    Carrie

    • Cliff Richard - Private Collection.
    • EMI.

  • Rick Astley

    Pray With Me

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.
    • 001.

  • Britney Spears

    Baby One More Time

    • Now 44 (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • The Troggs

    Wild Thing

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1966.
    • Premier.

  • Simple Minds

    Promised You A Miracle (Acoustic Version) (feat. KT Tunstall)

    • (CD Single).
    • Caroline.

  • Craig David

    All We Needed

    • (CD Single).
    • Insanity Records.

  • Duran Duran

    Rio

    • Duran Duran - Greatest.
    • EMI.

  • Duran Duran

    The Reflex

    • Now 1984 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 6.

  • Duran Duran

    Girls On Film

    • Duran Duran - Decade.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • 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.

  • Cliff Richard

    Roll Over Beethoven

    • Just... Fabulous Rock 'n' Roll.
    • Sony Music.
    • 001.

  • Bruno Mars

    24K Magic

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Little Mix

    Shout Out To My Ex

    • (CD Single).
    • SYCO.

  • Cliff Richard

    Devil Woman

    • Cliff Richard - 40 Golden Greats.
    • EMI.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Nick Baines, the Bishop of Leeds:

Well, it's not been a boring week on the news front, has it? And it's not bad that it will end with us looking to remember the reality of human life: often fragile, conflicted and uncertain. On Sunday I'll be standing in the rain - it usually rains - in Leeds as we stand in silence and bring to memory those who have lost their lives in conflict. No sentimentalism, no romanticising war, no escapism into a glorious past - just silent reflection in the face of enormous loss.

But, did you know that Sunday also has another designation? I have no idea who decides on these things, but apparently it is World Kindness Day. Really.

Now, I realise this might sound a bit out of place, given the lack of kindness that has characterised political debate and filled our headlines recently; but, don't mock it too quickly.

I reckon kindness is one of the most underrated virtues in today's world. It isn't bland or soft or feeble or weak. It isn't about namby-pambyism or avoidance of conflict. Kindness comes when, even where it isn't deserved, we dare to offer an opening to humanity and mercy, regardless of cost or reward. It is more than being nice and it can be very demanding in certain circumstances. If you want a different definition: kindness is what you usually don't see on social media when people you don't know have a big axe of aggression to grind.

Can you imagine what a kinder world would look like? Less suspicion and more openness? More generosity and less selfishness? Try it. It should come as no surprise that one New Testament writer included kindness among other hard-to-do virtues (he called them "fruits of the Spirit") such as love, joy, peace, patience, generosity and faithfulness. None of them easy; all of them costly.

Maybe these fruits should form the pillars of the earth on which we build our lives. In the words of one of Cliff's old songs, they might also help us to travel light in a burdened world, and open space for hope to people who worry that it is all closing down on them.

Remember kindness.

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