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Jamie Oliver, Ruth Wilson and Rita Ora

Jamie Oliver brings us mince pies, Ruth Wilson chats Luther and Rita Ora performs live in the studio. Plus Claudia calls en route to the Strictly dress rehearsal.

Jamie Oliver brings us mince pies, reveals his roast potato plan and his perfect gravy. He also tells us about his new series of Friday Night Feast and how challenging making a Quick and Easy Christmas can be. Ruth Wilson talks about her incredible performance of her grandmother in the Â鶹ԼÅÄ drama Mrs Wilson and reveals all about returning to our screens in Luther. Plus Claudia Winkleman calls us en route to the Strictly Come Dancing final dress rehearsal with her backstage costume and fake tan gossip. Rita Ora performs Silent Night as well as and tracks from her album Phoenix live in the studio. Paul Kerensa provides the daily Pause For Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Fri 14 Dec 2018 06:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Chris Rea

    Driving Â鶹ԼÅÄ For Christmas

    • NOW That's What I Call Christmas (Various Artists).
    • NOW.
    • 1.

  • Katy Perry

    Cozy Little Christmas

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.

  • Billy Mack

    Christmas Is All Around

    • Love Actually O.S.T..
    • Island.
    • 5.

  • Donna Summer

    Bad Girls

    • Donna Summer - Summer Collection.
    • Mercury.

  • The Housemartins

    Happy Hour

    • Now That's What I Call Quite Good.
    • Go! Discs.

  • Leona Lewis

    One More Sleep

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco Music.

  • Rick Astley

    She Makes Me

    • Beautiful Life.
    • BMG Rights Management.

  • East 17

    Stay Another Day

    • East 17 - Steam.
    • London.

  • The Seekers

    Morningtown Ride

    • The Seekers.
    • EMI.
    • 2.

  • Def Leppard

    Pour Some Sugar On Me

    • More Monkey Business From Catalogue Marketing (Various Artists).
    • Universal.

  • Led Zeppelin

    Rock And Roll

  • The Who

    Who Are You

    • CSI: O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Hip-O-Records.
    • 9.

  • Stereophonics

    C'est La Vie

    • (CD Single).
    • Stylus Records.
    • 001.

  • Aerosmith

    Love In An Elevator

    • Aerosmith - Big Ones.
    • Geffen.

  • Clean Bandit

    Baby (feat. MARINA & Luis Fonsi)

    • What Is Love?.
    • Atlantic.

  • P!nk

    A Million Dreams

    • The Greatest Showman: Reimagined (Various Artists).
    • Atlantic.

  • Ariana Grande

    thank u, next

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Motown.

  • James Arthur & Anne-Marie

    Rewrite The Stars

    • The Greatest Showman: Reimagined (Various Artists).
    • Atlantic.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From comedian & writer Paul Kerensa:

The bumper TV listings are out! For many of us, Christmas isn’t Christmas until we’ve got 300 pages of viewing, ready to circle with a pen. The cover picture’s reliably a snowman or Father Christmas – but I love the image on the first Christmas Radio Times in the early 20s, when it just printed the times, of radio, hence the name. The picture was a homely fireplace, but the family had turned their backs away from it, towards a new box in the corner. They’d swivelled their chairs, like the seats on The Voice, except I don’t think they had buttons.

We used to gather around the fire, then the radio, or the TV. Now we long for the days when we’d gather round anything together. Instead we’re left to our own devices – phones and tablets stream different channels to different relatives in different rooms, via networks I barely understand. I still don’t get how you can have a Channel 5 and a Channel 4+1 that show different things.

So in my TV listings, I’m circling some shows we can all watch together. Maybe the family will gather to watch Â鶹ԼÅÄ Alone, then realise we ironically forgot one child upstairs on his smartphone.

One thing I love about the Nativity is how all-comers are welcome. Local salt-of-the-earth shepherds, far-travelling wise men – let alone angels and farm animals, all gathered for that baby. That baby grew up to tell a tale about a lost sheep – how a shepherd leaves the 99 he’s got, to find the one who’s missing – because the missing one is loved and matters.

I guess the shepherds circled with pens too. Not highlighting TV guides, but gathering their flock – no one excluded. Like two brilliant people I know, whose initiative helps those who’d otherwise spend Christmas alone: an online map of Christmas Day events that they – that anyone – can join. 

Whatever we gather round this Christmas – a manger or a log-fire, the box in the corner with a cracking drama, the radio roaring some Rita Ora, or the dinner table with Jamie’s spiced roast goose... Wherever we are, if we include and welcome all, I think that’s a bit of God we’re putting on Earth – and after all, Christmas isn’t Christmas without that.

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  • Fri 14 Dec 2018 06:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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