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Patrick Kielty sits in

Patrick Kielty gets us ready for the weekend, chatting to David Baddiel, Suggs and Ben Miller, plus there is a sprinkling of Strictly glitter with Rachel Riley and Natalie Gumede!

It's a Friday, so it's got to be time for Patrick Kielty to welcome a host of great guests to the Radio 2 Green Room!

Comedian David Baddiel is here to talk about returning to stand-up, after he performed Fame: Not The Musical to great acclaim at the Edinburgh Festival.

80s icon Suggs - aka Graham McPherson - pops by to talk about his autobiography, and the new Madness single.

Actor and comedian Ben Miller fills us in on The Duck House, a new West End comedy set in a world of dodgy receipts, dodgier deceit, and Parliamentary panic!

And there's a sprinkling of Strictly glitter too, as we chat to Rachel Riley and Natalie Gumede.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Fri 25 Oct 2013 06:30

Music Played

  • Iggy Pop

    Real Wild Child (Wild One)

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1987, Pt.2 (Var).
    • Telstar.
  • James Blunt

    Bonfire Heart

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.
  • Manic Street Preachers

    Your Love Alone Is Not Enough (feat. Nina Persson)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
  • Seal

    Crazy

    • The Hit Pack (Various Artists).
    • CBS.
    • 4.
  • Black Eyed Peas

    I Gotta Feeling

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.
    • 4.
  • Wax

    Bridge To Your Heart

    • American English.
    • Lemon Recordings.
    • 5.
  • Paul McCartney

    New

    • New.
    • Virgin/EMI.
  • Michael Jackson

    The Way You Make Me Feel

    • The Essential.
    • Epic.
    • 14.
  • The Beach Boys

    California Girls

    • The Best Of The Beach Boys (CD 1).
    • EMI.
    • 6.
  • Ricky Valance

    Tell Laura I Love Her

    • That's Rock'n'Roll (Various Artists).
    • EMI.
  • OneRepublic

    Counting Stars

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony.
  • Toploader

    This Is The Night

    • (CD Single).
    • Underdogs Management Ltd.
  • The Specials

    A Message To You, Rudy (feat. Rico Rodriguez)

    • Greatest Hits Of The 70's (Various).
    • EMI.
  • Jessie J

    Domino

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal.
    • 1.
  • Duran Duran

    Is There Something I Should Know?

    • Duran Duran - Decade.
    • EMI.
    • 1.
  • David Baddiel, Frank Skinner & The Lightning Seeds

    Three Lions

    • Beautiful Game (Various Artists).
    • Universal.
  • Lisa Stansfield

    Can't Dance

    • (CD Single).
    • Monkeynatra.
    • 001.
  • Bon Jovi

    Livin' On A Prayer

    • Music Of The Millennium (Various).
    • Universal Music Tv.
    • 1.
  • Gipsy Kings

    Bamboleo

    • Mundo Latino (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.
  • Nelly Furtado

    Maneater

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 64 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 2.
  • Lissie

    Sleepwalking

    • Back To Forever.
    • Columbia.
    • 1.
  • Madness

    House Of Fun

  • Madness

    La Luna

    • Oui Oui, Si Si, Ja Ja, Da Da.
    • Cooking Vinyl.
    • 001.
  • Cher

    I Hope You Find It

    • Closer To The Truth.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 001.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Canon Ann Easter, Chief Executive of a Charity and Chaplain to the Queen:

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What lovely pictures of the royal christening this week! Her Majesty the Queen and prince Philip look so proud with their family around them and no fewer than three future Kings, please God. They say that Prince George Alexander Louis was very well behaved, looked gorgeous and no doubt was passed around between all his adoring guests, bless him - along with the cake and champagne!

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I wasn’t at the christening but I have preached in the Chapel Royal at St James’s Palace and it is an intimate and beautiful setting for such a delightful occasion. I have baptised people in other, rather different places though. I’ve baptised tiny, very premature babies, surrounded by tubes in incubators, lots of dear little wrigglers in various churches and, on one occasion, a gentleman in his eighties who suddenly decided that that was what he wanted. I have a feeling that, on Wednesday, when a godparent was asked to ‘Name this child’ they didn’t say ‘Yes please’ and also I suspect that, when the baby was passed to the Archbishop of Canterbury, nobody said ‘He’s just been sick’ as once happened to me!

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ÌýBut, wherever they happen, christenings – or baptism, the words mean the same -Ìý are occasions which bring together great joy and thanksgiving for a child’s life with an opportunity for family and friends to welcome the newest member, all wrapped up with our hopes and prayers for this child and all humanity.

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And because we know that we can’t keep a baby in bubble wrap for ever, as Christians, we want to set them up in the faith which will comfort and support them through whatever life throws at them; to hold out to them a pattern for their life which will connect them with all creation, on earth and in Heaven, and to teach them to rejoice in the knowledge that, to God, each and every one of us is unique, special and precious – just like royalty.

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