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Ed Sheeran & Martin Clunes

Ed Sheeran tells Chris about his year off travelling and his difficult conversation with Richard Curtis. Martin Clunes shares tales from his adventures to Australia's islands.

Ed Sheeran tells Chris about his year off travelling, his two new singles: Shape of You and Castle on the Hill, and his difficult conversation with Richard Curtis. Martin Clunes shares tales from his adventures to Australia's islands ahead of his new TV show. We hear what's on your book-it lists for 2017 and bargain holiday Breaking News. Vassos has a Top Tenuous of claims to Ed Sheeran's gap year and Dave Tomlinson provides the pause for thought inspired by a trip to the supermarket.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Tue 10 Jan 2017 06:30
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Music Played

  • Queen

    One Vision

    • Queen - Greatest Hits II.
    • Parlophone.

  • Melanie C

    Dear Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Red Girl Records.

  • Starship

    Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Olly Murs

    You Don’t Know Love

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Train

    50 Ways To Say Goodbye

    • Cailfornia 37.
    • Sony.
    • 5.

  • The Banana Splits

    The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)

    • Television's Greatest Hits Vol. 5: In Living Color (Various Artists).
    • TVT Records.

  • Room 5

    Make Luv (feat. Oliver Cheatham)

    • New Woman 2003 (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Naughty Boy

    Should've Been Me (feat. Kyla & Popcaan)

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Cyndi Lauper

    Girls Just Want To Have Fun

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • Dean Martin

    Gentle On My Mind

    • Acuff-Rose Opryland Music: 50th Anniv.
    • Acuff-Rose Opryland.

  • The Weeknd

    I Feel It Coming (feat. Daft Punk)

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Republic Records.

  • U2

    I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

    • Rock The Planet (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Ocean Colour Scene

    The Riverboat Song

    • (CD Single).
    • MCA.
    • 3.

  • Judy Garland

    Get Happy

    • Musical Wonderland (Various Artists).
    • Warner Strategic Marketi.

  • Justin Timberlake

    Can't Stop The Feeling!

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Ed Sheeran

    Shape Of You

    • ÷ Divide.
    • Atlantic.

  • David Bowie

    Starman

  • David Bowie

    Sound And Vision

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Men at Work

    Down Under

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • Izzy Bizu

    Talking To You

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.

  • Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

    D.I.Y.

    • What Have We Become.
    • Virgin EMI.
    • 001.

  • The Blow Monkeys

    Digging Your Scene

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • David Bowie

    Modern Love

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Rick Astley

    Wish Away

    • 50.
    • BMG.
    • 003.

  • Ed Sheeran

    Sing

    • (CD Single).
    • Asylum Records.
    • 001.

  • Prince

    Alphabet St.

    • 4Ever.
    • Paisley Park.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

Dave Tomlinson, writer and Vicar of St Luke’s Holloway in London:

Last week, I was in the supermarket with the missus. Supermarkets are not my favourite thing – especially standing in a queue at the checkout. But it was one of those particularly annoying times when something was going on at the till and everything just ground to a halt.

Apparently, the customer didn’t have enough money – she was a couple of quid short and was faffing about trying to decide what to put back. Everyone in the queue was huffing and puffing – including me! Yet it was clear the woman was distressed and embarrassed. Then a lovely lady in a hijab stepped forward, spoke kindly to the woman, opened her purse and gave her £10 – clearly a lot more than was required.

It was an epiphanous moment…like a light suddenly went on. I was reminded what religion – what being human – is really about. I could have done the same thing; I could have helped… if I hadn’t been so blinkin’ grumpy.

I love walking around on New Year’s Eve; when even strangers smile and say ‘Happy New Year.’ And yet it’s scary how quickly all that disappears in the grey days of January, when spring seems a long way off and you’re standing in a supermarket queue.

I’m not really into new year’s resolutions, they never seem to work, but I do find January is a good time to think about what really matters to me – who I want to be, how I want to live in the world. It is an opportunity to reboot the spiritual system.

The philosopher Søren Kierkegaard told a parable about two robbers who broke into a jewellery shop. They didn’t actually steal anything. They just went around switching the price tags, so that expensive items became really cheap, and pricey ones were in the sale. Amazingly, when the shop opened, nobody was any the wiser; the customers kept on buying the goods without realising.

I think life has a way of juggling our price tags so we lose sight of what really matters. Which is why it’s good to stop sometimes to sort them out again…

…. otherwise I for one end up being like a grumpy Victor Meldrew instead of spreading a little kindness like that lady in the supermarket queue. 

Broadcast

  • Tue 10 Jan 2017 06:30
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