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Harvey Weinstein, Mariella Frostrup, Sandi Toksvig and Amy MacDonald

Harvey Weinstein previews the BAFTA's, Sandi Toksvig discusses her new play Silver Lining, Mariella Frostrup talks Â鶹ԼÅÄ One's Big Painting Challenge and Amy MacDonald performs live

Chris is joined by Hollywood's Harvey Weinstein ahead of the BAFTA's. Sandi Toksvig tells us about writing Silver Linings, her new comedy play touring the UK. Mariella Frostrup previews her new Â鶹ԼÅÄ One show The Big Painting Challenge. Plus Amy MacDonald performs live, including tracks from her new album Under Stars.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 10 Feb 2017 06:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Oasis

    Roll With It

    • (CD Single).
    • Creation Records.

  • Michael Bolton

    Old Time Rock & Roll

    • Songs Of Cinema.
    • Frontiers Records.

  • Furniture

    Brilliant Mind

    • (Single).
    • Stiff.
    • 5.

  • The Flying Lizards

    Money

    • Hard 2 Get Hits - Various Artists.
    • Disky.

  • Coldplay

    Hymn For The Weekend (feat. µþ±ð²â´Ç²Ô³¦Ã©)

    • A Head Full Of Dreams.
    • Parlophone.

  • Primal Scream

    Movin' On Up

    • The Best Album In The World Ever!(Va).
    • Virgin.

  • Dua Lipa

    Be The One

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Prince & The Revolution

    I Would Die 4 U

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Michael Bublé

    Nobody But Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Reprise.

  • The Beach Boys

    Barbara Ann

    • The Best Of The Beach Boys (CD 1).
    • EMI.

  • Blondie

    Fun

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.

  • New Radicals

    Get What You Give

    • (CD Single).
    • MCA.

  • Frankie Goes to Hollywood

    Two Tribes

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artis.
    • Gut.

  • Frankie Goes to Hollywood

    Welcome To The Pleasure Dome

    • (Single).
    • ZTT.

  • Frankie Goes to Hollywood

    Relax

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

  • 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.

  • Justin Timberlake

    Can't Stop The Feeling!

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Amy Macdonald

    This Is The Life [Live]

  • Amy Macdonald

    Dream On [Live]

  • Stevie Wonder

    Faith (feat. Ariana Grande)

    • Sing O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Island.

  • Amy Macdonald

    Mr Rock & Roll [Live]

  • Amy Macdonald

    Listen To The Music [Live]

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Rev’d Richard Coles, cleric and broadcaster:

I suppose many of us have a teacher who, years later, we realise turned the course of our lives. Mr Ferguson was mine.

I went to a prep school, an old fashioned sort of place, where instead of drama and IT we were taught Latin and Divinity. It was Mr Ferguson’s unenviable job to get us acquainted with the latter. ÌýThis was particularly tiresome for him, I suspect, because he was, like many brilliant people obliged to perform workaday tasks, from time to time frustrated. This frustration manifested itself in outbursts of explosive temper, which kept us all on our toes, and added to his considerable mystique.
Ìý
Like most schoolboys, we mythologised our masters, and I’m not sure if my recollection of his various distinctions is reliable, but it was whispered that he had been a brilliant student at Oxford and had lost a leg at the Battle of El Alamein. He did have a limp and gave unforgettable les sons so maybe there was something in that. Ìý

One lesson I remember particularly vividly. Perhaps that day the thought of having to listen to us conjugating verbs was too much, so instead he produced a big, glossy art book and opened in front of us a double page spread of a picture the like of which we had never seen. I know now it was Kandinsky’s Red Spot II. Back then it looked like chaos, a meaningless jumble of line and colour - little Philistines in corduroy shorts we booed. But Mr Ferguson covered the red spot on the right hand side of the painting with his hand and made us look again. Then he took his hand away, and in an instant the picture came together. The red spot, that seemed so random, was revealed as the key to its meaning, if you like. We were ten years old.

Latin verbs and the doctrine of the Trinity turned out to be actually quite useful in my life as a church musician and a clergyman But it that’s the lesson which really stays with me: a pattern suddenly appearing out of chaos and the revelation of an utterly unexpected truth.

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