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Noel Fitzpatrick and Christine & The Queens

Chris is joined by The Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick ahead of the first night of his Welcome to My World tour and we meet Chris, the French singer from Christine & the Queens.

Chris is joined by The Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick ahead of the first night of his Welcome to My World tour and discover what it was like to write his new book Listening to the Animals. We meet Chris, the French singer from Christine & the Queens who tells us about going from theatre director to international pop star and the release of her second album Chris. We ask for your claims to the fame of the Ryder Cup in today's Top Tenuous. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by triathlete Alistair Brownlee and Thursday's Pause For Thought comes from comedian Paul Kerensa.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Thu 27 Sep 2018 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Yazz & The Plastic Population

    The Only Way Is Up

    • Wanted (Deluxe Edition).
    • Cherry Pop.
    • 010.

  • Nile Rodgers & Chic

    Sober (feat. Craig David & Stefflon Don)

    • It's About Time.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn & Diane Keaton

    You Don't Own Me

  • TLC

    No Scrubs

    • (CD Single).
    • Laface.

  • Olly Murs

    Troublemaker (feat. Flo Rida)

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
    • 1.

  • Journey

    Don't Stop Believin'

    • Rock Of America (Various Artists).
    • Trax Label.

  • Silk City & Dua Lipa

    Electricity

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.

  • U2

    Beautiful Day

    • Now 47 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Fats Waller

    Ain't Misbehavin'

    • Fats Waller - Ain't Misbehavin'.
    • Past Perfect.

  • LSD & Labrinth

    Thunderclouds (feat. Sia & Diplo)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • The Pointer Sisters

    I'm So Excited

    • Greatest Hits.
    • BBR.
    • 020.

  • Camila Cabello

    Havana (feat. Young Thug)

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco Music.

  • Led Zeppelin

    Whole Lotta Love

    • Early Days.
    • Atlantic.
    • 13.

  • Rod Stewart

    Look In Her Eyes

    • Blood Red Roses.
    • Decca.

  • Rudimental

    These Days (feat. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Shakira

    Hips Don't Lie (feat. Wyclef Jean)

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony BMG.

  • Rihanna

    Umbrella (feat. JAY-Z)

    • (CD Single).
    • Def Jam.

  • Rahim Redcar

    5 Dollars

  • Spin Doctors

    Two Princes

    • Driving Rock (Various Artists).
    • Global Records & Tapes.

  • Don Henley

    The Boys Of Summer

    • The Very Best Of.
    • MCA.

  • Elbow

    One Day Like This

    • (CD Single).
    • Fiction.
    • 1.

  • Rick Astley

    Try

    • Beautiful Life.
    • BMG Rights Management.

  • Survivor

    Eye Of The Tiger

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

  • The Pioneers

    Let Your Yeah Be Yeah

    • Young Gifted & Black (Various).
    • Trojan.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From comedian & writer Paul Kerensa:

True story... Like many mid-to-low-level comedians, I send out the odd update, to what I call a mailing list but is largely my extended family. But I know now: title your email carefully... Forgive me Chris, for I have blundered.

To encourage email opening, I thought let鈥檚 grab the attention with a bit of 鈥榗lickbait鈥�, for the first and, now, last time. This email, simply listing a few gigs, had the deliberately misleading title: 鈥楳eet the new host of the Radio 2 Breakfast Show鈥�.

It was a ruse! The recipient opens the email, to read 鈥淢eet the new host in January, when they start鈥︹�� 鈥� whoever they are. I鈥檝e got no more knowledge than the next man! (Well the next man is you Chris, so maybe that鈥檚 not true.) But surely, all would see through my little jest鈥�

Well. First to congratulate me was my vicar. After a good few seconds, no idea what he was enthusing about, the penny horrifyingly dropped. Phone-call followed text message followed congratulatory email. By mid-morning, my Mum called 鈥� she鈥檇 not been duped, but with her phone ringing off the hook, it was time for my apologetic correction. Tail between legs, I emailed a clarification.

So I鈥檓 now a spreader of fake news. The worrying trend, is there is a rise in internet-fuelled 鈥榓lternative facts鈥�. From flat-earthers to Moon Landing hoax claimants, to more seriously, deniers and doubters of major tragedies and wars. Historical revisionism is a concern. If we can鈥檛 trust the history books, what can we trust?

I鈥檝e heard Jesus flippantly referred to as a fictitious character 鈥� yet even non-Christian historians agree: Jesus of Nazareth was born, baptised and crucified. The disagreement is simply: was he who he said he was?

In one teaching, he said: 鈥淟et your yes be yes, let your no be no.鈥� 鈥� something I need to do more often. Let my jokes be jokes, let my sincerity be clear. Lead, don鈥檛 mislead. Say what I mean, mean what I say. And know that if I say 鈥榯rue story鈥�, it makes everything else sound less true.

So let my sincerity be clear, when I say: Chris, whoever fills that chair, Wogan House will miss you. And that is a true story.

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  • Thu 27 Sep 2018 06:30
    麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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