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Damian Lewis, Jilly Cooper, Billie Piper, Cam and Hunter Hayes

Chris is joined by amazing actor Damian Lewis, awesome author Jilly Cooper and the Olivier Award nominated Billie Piper plus country artists Cam and Hunter Hayes perform live.

Damian Lewis tells Chris all about his new play The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? and playing New York hedge fund titan Bobby Axelrod in Billions. Multi million selling author Jilly Cooper is in the studio to tell Chris about her latest naughty novel Mount! Billie Piper pitches for why she should win the upcoming Olivier Award for Best Actress for her role in Yerma despite stiff competition from Glenda Jackson.

Plus not one, but two amazing country artists perform in the studio ahead of this weekend's Country 2 Country Festival with coverage on Radio 2 Country. First up, multi-instrumentalist and five-time Grammy nominee Hunter Hayes does a cover of Buck Owen's Act Naturally. Then up and coming star Cam joins us and sings a stunning cover of Tammy Wynette's 1968 country classic Stand By Your Man.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Fri 10 Mar 2017 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Prince & The Revolution

    Let's Go Crazy

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Stevie Wonder

    Faith (feat. Ariana Grande)

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

  • Chuck Berry

    You Never Can Tell (C'est La Vie)

    • The Best Of Chuck Berry.
    • MCA.

  • Justin Timberlake

    Can't Stop The Feeling!

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • The Clash

    I Fought The Law

  • Gibson Brothers

    Cuba

    • Disco & Dance Party Hits (Various Artists).
    • BMG.

  • Maren Morris

    My Church

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Gloria Gaynor

    I Will Survive

    • Disco Fever (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Lenny Kravitz

    California

    • Lenny Kravitz - Baptism.
    • Parlophone.

  • Bert Kaempfert

    A Swingin' Safari

    • Premier Coll'n Of Instrumental Hits V.
    • Kenwest.

  • Lorde

    Green Light

    • Virgin/EMI.

  • Aztec Camera

    Oblivious

    • The Best Of Aztec Camera.
    • Warner E.S.P..

  • The Doobie Brothers

    Listen To The Music

    • The Very Best Of The Doobie Brothers.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Basement Jaxx

    Do Your Thing

  • Basement Jaxx

    Red Alert

  • Basement Jaxx

    Rendez-Vu

    • (CD Single).
    • XL Recordings.

  • 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.

  • Take That

    Giants

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Pilot

    Magic

    • 25 Years Of Rock'n'Roll Vol.2 (1974).
    • Connoisseur Collection.

  • Saint Motel

    Move

    • (CD Single).
    • Elektra.
    • 001.

  • Stone, Ted Hart & RAPOSO

    Sesame Street Theme

    • TELEVISION'S GREATEST HITS.
    • TVT.

  • Katy Perry

    Chained To The Rhythm (feat. Skip Marley)

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol Records.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From writer Abdul-Rehman Malik:

For the son of an accountant, I basically turned out to be a financial dunce. My father聽鈥� and mother for that matter 鈥� can turn sums in their heads, dispense complicated聽multiplications with a wave of their fingers and divide anything by anything. I, on the聽other hand, look at a string of numbers and have to steady myself.

Yet, growing up, I harboured a secret desire to be a tycoon. 聽It all began for me at the public gallery of the Toronto Stock Exchange. 聽Nowadays, the process is entirely virtual, but this was the 1980s and the brokers in聽their funny coloured blazers would dance around each, shaking their fists in the air聽and holding little chits of paper ready to buy long or sell short (or something like聽that). There was mesmerising drama in this kind of commerce as billions passing聽hands before my eyes.

At school my friends and I started a 鈥渟tock market club鈥�, kind of like fantasy football聽for budding billionaires. We鈥檇 start off with the same amount of imaginary money聽and then log our investments with the winner earning bragging rights at the end of the month.

I wish we were suave and cool like the Bobby Axelrod, Damian鈥檚 deliciously聽addictive character from Billions, but we were more like 5 th grade downmarket聽Gordon Geckos. Misfits scanning the business section of the newspaper for stock聽listings at lunch hour, checking out a hot tip on that penny stock that might make us聽鈥� fictitiously 鈥� rich.

鈥淚f you want money more than anything,鈥� the mystic Rumi counselled, 鈥測ou will be聽bought and sold. If you have a greed for food, you will become a loaf of bread. This is聽a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are.鈥�

In the years since my Wall Street reveries, I鈥檝e had the honour of meeting聽remarkable men and women, who know their way around a hedge fund, but know even better how to use their wealth to transform lives. Perhaps, if I鈥檇 had their vision from the start, I would have done better. As for my fear of numbers, I married a woman who manages the balance book with skill. Too bad, she鈥檚 still got to manage me.

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