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Anton Du Beke, Kim Wilde, Ed Balls and All Saints

Chris is joined by Anton Du Beke of Strictly fame, '80s pop icon Kim Wilde and ex-politician-turned-media star Ed Balls. Plus, All Saints perform live in the studio.

Anton Du Beke tells Chris about his brand new UK tour 'Dance Those Magical Musicals' with his partner Erin Boag and talks about filming the new series of Strictly. Kim Wilde talks about her new fourteenth album 'Here Come The Aliens', inspired by her own sighting of a UFO. Ed Balls shares tales of touring America's Deep South to meet with Trump supporters for his new Â鶹ԼÅÄ Two series 'Travels in Trumpland with Ed Balls'. All Saints will be perform new music from their fifth album 'Testament' alongside some of their classic hits. Plus the usual news headlines, sports updates and a daily Pause for Thought from Reverend Richard Coles.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 27 Jul 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • Lionel Richie

    Dancing on the Ceiling

    • Dancing In The Street (Various Artis.
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • The Shires

    Echo

    • Accidentally On Purpose.
    • Decca.

  • Otis Redding

    Try a Little Tenderness

    • Atlantic Soul (Various Artists).
    • Warner E.S.P..

  • Duran Duran

    Hungry Like The Wolf

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

  • McFly

    Five Colours In Her Hair

    • Now 58 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Texas

    Black Eyed Boy

    • Hits Zone - The Best Of 97 (Various).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Paul McCartney

    Come On To Me

    • Egypt Station.
    • Virgin EMI Records.
    • 2.

  • Ricky Martin

    Livin' La Vida Loca

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder

    Ebony & Ivory

    • The 7" Singles Box.
    • MPL.

  • Mungo Jerry

    In The Summertime

    • In The Summertime-Sound Of 70's, Part.
    • Old Gold.

  • The Lovin’ Spoonful

    Summer In The City

    • The Lovin' Spoonful Collection.
    • Castle Communications.

  • Status Quo

    Caroline

    • Whatever You Want - V.Best Of Status.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • The Who

    My Generation

    • The Who Hits 50! (Deluxe Edition).
    • Polydor.
    • 004.

  • ZZ Top

    Legs

    • Rancho Texicano: The Very Best Of ZZ Top.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Plastic Bertrand

    Ca Plane Pour Moi

    • VirginMegaMusic Totally 80's (Var).
    • Rhino.

  • The Smiths

    William, It Was Really Nothing

    • The Very Best Of The Smiths.
    • WEA.
    • 6.

  • Pharrell Williams

    Happy

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Pratt & McClain

    Happy Days

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

  • Cheat Codes & Little Mix

    Only You

    • (CD Single).
    • SYCO.

  • All Saints

    Black Coffee (Radio 2 Session, 27 Jul 2018)

  • Kim Wilde

    Kids In America

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Kim Wilde

    Birthday

    • Here Come The Aliens.
    • Wildeflower Records.

  • All Saints

    Under The Bridge (Radio 2 Session, 27 Jul 2018)

  • Blossoms

    There's A Reason Why (I Never Returned Your Calls)

    • Cool Like You.
    • Virgin EMI.

  • All Saints

    Love Lasts Forever (Radio 2 Session, 27 Jul 2018)

  • All Saints

    Automatic (Radio 2 Session, 27 Jul 2018)

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From the Reverend Richard Coles:

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A heatwave: in its haze all is still, the garden parched, and if like me you’re obliged to wear a uniform as well adapted to the weather as a mankini in Antarctica, you long for the shade, the hammock, the cooling glass.

It’s the nearest we’ve got, I think, to summer of ’76, when reservoirs dried up, standpipes were in the streets, and the bath water had to be recycled for the roses. Not only a summer of heat, but a summer of punk. The Sex Pistols exploded onto the scene, and in boiling weather we all went into meltdown at their furious antics. I watched with a mixture of fear and fascination, and loved it.

I was fourteen, a public schoolboy in Northamptonshire, with limited options to join the fray. Â鶹ԼÅÄmade piercings were rather frowned upon in the Chapel Choir, so instead I made myself a badge out of safety pins and nuts and bolts which looked like a tiny plane had crashed on my lapel, or did until I had to dismantle it for infringing uniform regulations. Anarchy at Evensong was not tolerated.

But it changed my life; two years later I escaped, and ended up in London. In the churn of 80s music and politics, energised by punk, we rose to the top the charts and sank to the depths of depravity; but it wasn’t just us. Punk changed all our lives, its impact went far beyond music and popular culture. You could argue it went on to transform media, news, business, tech, politics; and while they may seem very distant from Sid Vicious, Gucci, Elon Musk, and the Alt Right betray his influence.

Vicar in a mohawk sounds like a Morrissey lyric, but actually anyone who knows church history will see a precedent. The early church was punk: a group of unbiddably confrontational nobodies, fearless, who came from nowhere, shocked the world with their contempt for the status quo, lived as if there were no tomorrow (for many there wasn’t) and proclaimed a new life, which they started to live without seeking anyone’s permission to begin. That radicalism can still grab and transform and enliven all sorts of people in all sorts of places - I long for it again in the church, the country, the world.

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