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Jamie Oliver, Jack Black, John Simm and Razorlight

Chris chats to Jamie Oliver about his 21st cookbook Jamie Cooks Italy. We chat Hollywood with Jack Black and John Simm brings us news of his new drama. Plus Razorlight play live.

Britain’s best-selling chef Jamie Oliver brings us a taste of Italy with his TV Show and recipe book Jamie Cooks Italy. Jack Black spills the beans on his new movie The House With The Clocks In Its Walls. Plus John Simm will share secrets from his new TV drama Strangers. We have live music from Razorlight who are back back back after a 10 year hiatus with new music from album Olympus Sleeping.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 7 Sep 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • David Bowie

    Modern Love

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Jess Glynne

    All I Am

    • Always In Between.
    • Atlantic.

  • AC/DC

    Thunderstruck

    • (CD Single).
    • ATCO Records.
    • 420.

  • The Shires

    Friday Night

    • (CD Single).
    • Decca.
    • 001.

  • Blondie

    Atomic

    • Atomic: The Very Best Of Blondie.
    • EMI.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    People Give In

    • Resistance Is Futile.
    • Columbia.

  • Gloria Gaynor

    I Will Survive

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

  • The Chainsmokers

    Side Effects (feat. Emily Warren)

    • (CD Single).
    • Disruptor Records.

  • George Harrison

    My Sweet Lord

    • All Things Must Pass.
    • EMI.
    • 4.

  • Έι³ά²Τ‐D.²Ρ.°δ. & Aerosmith

    Walk This Way

    • The All Time Greatest Rock Songs ....
    • Columbia.

  • Bon Jovi

    You Give Love A Bad Name

    • Slippery When Wet.
    • Mercury.
    • 2.

  • Bachman–Turner Overdrive

    You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet

    • And The Road Goes On Forever Vol 1.
    • Debutante.

  • Status Quo

    Rockin' All Over The World

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

  • Sophie Ellis‐Bextor

    Love Is You

  • Pharrell Williams

    Happy

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Pratt & McClain

    Happy Days

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

  • Lenny Kravitz

    5 More Days Til Summer

    • Raise Vibration.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Cher

    Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)

    • Dancing Queen.
    • Warner Bros.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From the Reverend Richard Coles:



For the French writer Marcel Proust it was a few crumbs of buttery madeleine and a sip of tea that transported him back to childhood (and thus began one of the longest novels in literature). You as a chef, Jamie, will know that taste and smell are tightly tied to memory. Maybe it’s your mum’s rhubarb crumble, or chicken gravy - for me it’s adhesive.

Not that kind of adhesive. I mean the adhesive used in shoemaking, which I got a whiff of again this week when I visited one of the last shoe factories in Northampton. There used to be hundreds of them, all over the county, and I used to play in one when I was a kid, because my family were shoemakers too. Β 

I remember the din they used to make, deafening the workforce (Health and Safety has curtailed that). I remember the odd vocabulary, of clicking and closing, skiving and gimping (still parts of the process making a shoe); I remember the factory timetable and calendar, going home at noon for your dinner; and the two weeks in August when the whole town went by special train to Hunstanton for Factory-Fortnight.

But that’s just memory: hit me with the smell of adhesive, or rolled up hides in the leather room, or polish from the finishing room, and I am a child again, looking up at the mysterious adult world, of machinery, and camaraderie, and earning a living.

Maybe that sensation is even keener at this time of year, with the return to school. I have no children myself - I took the more expensive option of having dachshunds - but my social media is full of pictures of my friends’ kids in new uniforms on their first day at big school, and suddenly I’m there on my own first day, in long trousers, fashionable Ronnie Corbett specs, and a dental brace that looked like a heavily defended trench at the Battle of the Somme. Β Β 

Jesus said that to enter the kingdom of heaven we must become like children. I don’t think he meant be infantile, though church can do that to people; I think he meant be fully open, to see and feel and hear and smell the world like children again.

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