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Barry Manilow, Charley Boorman, Charlotte Riley and Imelda May

Barry Manilow tells Chris about his new album, Charley Boorman on his Long Way Back and actress Charlotte Riley on King Charles III. Plus Imelda May performs live in the studio.

Barry Manilow tells Chris about his new album This is My Town: Songs of New York, motorbike adventurer Charley Boorman talks about his life-changing accident and book Long Way Back. Actress Charlotte Riley tells us about playing Kate Middleton in Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two's new drama King Charles III, plus Imelda May performs live in the studio with music from her latest album Life. Love. Flesh. Blood.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Fri 28 Apr 2017 06:30
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Music Played

  • Mark Ronson

    Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Erasure

    Love You To The Sky

    • (CD Single).
    • Mute.

  • The Brothers Johnson

    Strawberry Letter 23

    • Eighties Soul Weekender 2 (Various).
    • Pump.

  • Primal Scream

    Rocks

    • Dirty Hits.
    • Columbia.

  • Pete Tong, Heritage Orchestra, Jules Buckley & Cookie

    Lola's Theme

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 3.

  • David Bowie

    Fashion

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Rick Astley

    This Old House

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG Rights Management GmbH.
    • 004.

  • Take That

    Shine

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Modern Romance

    Best Years Of Our Lives

    • The Platinum Collection.
    • Rhino.

  • Frank Sinatra

    Come Fly With Me

    • The Capitol Years.
    • Capitol Records.
    • 28.

  • Nickelback

    Song on Fire

  • Katy Perry

    Chained To The Rhythm (feat. Skip Marley)

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol Records.

  • Tina Turner

    The Best

    • Tina Turner - Simply The Best.
    • Capitol.

  • McFadden & Whitehead

    Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now

    • Million Sellers Vol.19 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Survivor

    Eye Of The Tiger

    • The No.1 Movies Album (Various Artist.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • 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.

  • Clean Bandit

    Symphony (feat. Zara Larsson)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Barry Manilow

    Copacabana

    • (Single).
    • Arista.

  • Barry Manilow

    Could It Be Magic

    Lyricist: Adrienne Anderson.

  • Barry Manilow

    Can't Smile Without YouΜύ

    • Manilow Greatest Hits - Platinum Coll.
    • Arista.

  • Imelda May

    Johnny Got A Boom Boom [Live]

  • Barry Manilow

    New York City Rhythm / On Broadway

  • Imelda May

    Should've Been You [Live]

  • Barry Manilow

    NYC Medley

  • Imelda May

    Big Bad Handsome Man [Live]

  • Imelda May

    I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (U2 Cover) [Live]

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Rev Richard Coles


It may have looked like a very poor effort at a Village People tribute act, but the reason I was got up like a construction worker on Tuesday was for the topping out ceremony of the new Senate House for the University of Northampton, where I am Chancellor. Topping out traditionally is the ceremony when the last brick or beam of a new building is put in place. It goes back to the Vikings, but in more recent times was usually done by a lady in a hat and gloves who would deposit a blob of cement on a brick with a silver trowel and everyone would have sandwiches while a real builder finished the job. Today’s construction methods are rather different, and the honour on Tuesday, which fell to the Lord Lieutenant of the county, was done not with a silver trowel but an Allen key, tightening the last screw on a truss holding the plate glass balcony on the top floor in place.

It reminded me of when I was curate at Boston Stump, the great medieval church looking out from Lincolnshire to the Wash. When Phil and Tony the stonemasons were working at the top of its tower, on the great lantern built in the 1500s, they found a penny left under a stone by the anonymous master mason who finished it.

But that’s not all they found. Also hidden by that stone was an exquisite carving of a bird in the nest with her chicks, as fresh and as clean as if it has been done yesterday, but unseen for five hundred years. Why would a master mason expend such creativity and craft on a carving that would be seen by no-one for half a millennium?

I expect it was because he saved his best not for man but for God. That was a commonplace idea in the Middle Ages, and lasted through to our own era, I guess, in the tradition of wearing Sunday best.

That’s largely gone now, but something mysterious and powerful endures I think, in marking out buildings for great purposes: singing the praises of God, singing the songs that make the whole world sing, providing showgirl venues in the hottest spots north of Havana (sorry, Barry, I'm a bit star struck), and being places of illumination, learning, transformation, and empowerment.

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