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Harry Styles, Guy Ritchie, Nick Mason, Paul Weller

Harry Styles on his self-titled debut album, Guy Ritchie on King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Nick Mason on Pink Floyd's new exhibition and Paul Weller plays live in the studio.

Chris gets that Friday feeling going with Harry Styles who chats about his hotly anticipated self-titled debut album. Guy Ritchie talks about going behind the camera on a new retelling of a classic tale, 'King Arthur: Legend of the Sword'. Pink Floyd's Nick Mason spills the secrets about 'Their Mortal Remains', the band's new exhibition and book covering their 50-year career. Plus, Paul Weller performs tracks from his 13th solo album 'A Kind of Revolution' live in the studio.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 12 May 2017 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Kaiser Chiefs

    Ruby

    • (CD Single).
    • B-Unique.

  • Dan Auerbach

    Shine On Me

    • Waiting On A Song.
    • Easy Eye Sound.

  • Bill Haley and His Comets

    Rock Around The Clock

    • That's Rock'n'Roll (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Florence + The Machine

    Ship To Wreck

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 001.

  • Pet Shop Boys

    It's A Sin

    • Pet Shop Boys - Discography.
    • EMI.

  • Basement Jaxx

    Do Your Thing

    • (CD Single).
    • XL.
    • 12.

  • Take That

    New Day

    • Wonderland.
    • Polydor.

  • Bee Gees

    Night Fever

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.

  • Stevie Wonder

    Faith (feat. Ariana Grande)

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

  • Glen Campbell

    Rhinestone Cowboy

    • Ultimate Country (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • TLC

    Way Back (feat. Snoop Dogg)

    • (CD Single).
    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • One Direction

    Story Of My Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco Music.

  • Dusty Springfield

    Spooky

    • All Time Greatest Movie Songs Vol. II.
    • Columbia.

  • Paul Weller

    The Changingman

    • True Brit (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Pink Floyd

    Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2

    • Pink Floyd.
    • Harvest.

  • 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.

  • Harry Styles

    Two Ghosts

    • Harry Styles.
    • Columbia.

  • Paul Weller

    Have You Ever Had It Blue (Live)

  • Paul Weller

    Long Long Road (Live)

  • Rick Astley

    This Old House

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

  • Paul Weller

    Broken Stones (Live)

  • Harry Styles

    Carolina

    • Harry Styles.
    • Columbia.

  • Paul Weller

    I鈥檝e Never Found A Girl (Who Loves Me Like You Do) (Live)

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From writer Abdul-Rehman Malik:

Chris, I鈥檇 never thought I鈥檇 become a teacher. It wasn鈥檛 that I didn鈥檛 like teachers or appreciate the very hard work they do. I know precisely where my fear of teaching came from and I can squarely lay the blame at the feet of Nick and his bandmates.

I saw the video for Pink Floyd鈥檚 masterpiece 鈥淎nother Brick in the Wall鈥� when I was way too young. The image of kids on a conveyer belt heading towards that menacing grinder never left me. I still shudder a bit when I think about it. Its staying power is what makes it great art.

The song made me think differently about education. Eventually, I sort of measured all my schooling against it. Was I being straightjacketed by a slavish adherence to curriculum? Did the teachers care about what I thought?

I鈥檇 had some pretty great teachers through school, but my shenanigans did push some of their buttons. An 8th grade teacher of mine declared I was an 鈥渋nsubordinate, pig headed child鈥� when I wouldn鈥檛 relent in an argument over the application of some antiquated school policy. I hope Pink Floyd would have been proud.

So when I finally decided to apply to a teaching program, I hesitated. My motivation was to be the opposite of what the song described, but what if I wasn鈥檛 able to live up to my ideals and ended up treating my kids like they were another brick in the聽wall?

鈥淵ou read and write heaps of books; in fact, sacred books are piled up all around you,鈥� observed the Punjabi Sufi mystic Baba Bulleh Shah. 鈥淵ou鈥檙e surrounded by all this light, yet you carry darkness within you. The real trouble is you鈥檝e never bothered to know yourself at all.鈥�

Education is supposed to unleash our potential to be creative, to do good, to be great. I hope during the years I taught high school, I was able nudge my students towards a better version of themselves.聽

Nowadays, I only have my six year-old son鈥檚 increasingly sophisticated arguments to contend with. I want to scream that he鈥檚 being 鈥渋nsubordinate鈥�. But I stop myself, and smile inside. Thank God, he鈥檚 turning out just fine.

Broadcast

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