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Joanne Froggatt, Sheridan Smith, Mark Gatiss and Jason Mraz

Chris chats to actresses Joanne Froggatt and Sheridan Smith plus writer and actor Mark Gatiss and singer Jason Mraz performs live in the studio.

Golden Globe winning actress Joanne Froggatt shares secrets from the film set of the new Mary Shelley drama. Actor, writer and comedian Mark Gatiss tells us what we can expect from The League of Gentlemen Live tour. Grammy Award winner Jason Mraz performs his new single Have It All live in the studio.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 29 Jun 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • The Killers

    Human

    • Day & Age.
    • Mercury.
    • 1.

  • Bastille

    Quarter Past Midnight

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin Records.

  • Shirley Bassey

    Diamonds Are Forever

    • The Best Of James Bond 30th Anniversa.
    • EMI.

  • Joni Mitchell

    Big Yellow Taxi

    • Joni Mitchell.
    • Reprise.

  • Nina Simone

    Ain't Got No, I Got Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony BMG.

  • Roger Daltrey

    How Far

    • As Long As I Have You.
    • Polydor.

  • David Bowie & Mick Jagger

    Dancing In The Street

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Amy Winehouse

    Tears Dry On Their Own

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Sparks

    This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us

    • Fantastic 70's (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Free

    All Right Now

    • Back To The 70's (CD1) (Various).
    • EMI.
    • 15.

  • Def Leppard

    Animal

    • Def Leppard - Hysteria.
    • Phonogram.

  • Black Sabbath

    Paranoid

    • Million Sellers Vol.18 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Years & Years

    If You're Over Me

    • Palo Santo.
    • Polydor.

  • Pharrell Williams

    Happy

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Pratt & McClain

    Happy Days

    • Television's Greatest Hits Volume 3 70s & 80s.
    • Silva Screen Records Ltd.

  • Cher & Andy GarcΓ­a

    Fernando

  • Carrie Underwood

    Cry Pretty

    • Cry Pretty.
    • Capitol Nashville.
    • 1.

  • Britney Spears

    Toxic

    • (CD Single).
    • Zomba.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From the Reverend Richard Coles:

Μύ

I was on the train to Town the other day and suddenly remembered that week I lost a rubber gardening clog on the Mull of Kintyre. Replacement required, so I fired up the laptop, and my fingers scampered over the keyboard until I found the website. But then, with satisfaction only a click away, it crashed and crashed again. The carriage went quiet. And I realised that, without thinking, I had been muttering; and when it crashed the second time used an extremely rude phrase (usually abbreviated to three letters, but in the long form). I blushed, and the man sitting opposite smiled and said, β€œI’d love to hear one of your sermons”.

Bad Vicar. But why does it make people laugh? There’s always comedy in the gap between what we want to be and what we actually are. With clergy, called to an impossible standard, our failures are frequent and eye-catching, and ridiculous, as writers from Chaucer to the League of Gentlemen, to name two creditable examples, have discovered.

But what persists most strongly, I think, is the stereotype of the bumbling unworldly cleric, unlikely to say anything stronger than β€œflip” when he accidentally sits on the church cat.

I thought of this on Sunday in the Cathedral at Peterborough where we’d gathered for ordinations. A batch of new clergy stepped out into the brilliant sunshine to cheers - how gratifying I thought, that the community takes them to its heart, until I realised it was England fans on their way home from watching the Panama game.

And it was hard to see caricatures on parade in that diverse group of the newly-ordained; and I thought of my own cohort, leaving theological college all those years ago. A faded pop starlet, the man who looked after the last working gallows at Wandsworth nick, a food scientist responsible for monitoring the mould in Stilton, and a ref - whole new meaning to the phrase β€œwho’s the… gentleman… in the black?” Μύ

It’s real life, you see. The call, if it comes, may be wholly unexpected, and very surprising, not to mention inconvenient; but then all points on this earth, are equidistant from the Saviour of All, and the challenge to live in light and love and grace.

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