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Sir Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Dawn French, Henry Winkler and Gregory Porter

Chris gets that Friday feeling going with Sir Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Dawn French and Henry Winkler. Plus, Gregory Porter performs in the studio live!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 16 May 2014 06:30
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Music Played

  • 10cc

    Good Morning Judge

    • The Very Best Of 10cc.
    • Mercury.

  • The Beach Boys

    God Only Knows

    • The Best Of The Beach Boys (CD 1).
    • EMI.
    • 4.

  • James Blunt

    Postcards

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 001.

  • Bon Jovi

    Wanted Dead Or Alive

    • The Chart Show: Rock The Nation (Various Artists).
    • Dover.
    • 3.

  • Culture Club

    Karma Chameleon

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • Sammy Davis Jr.

    Talk To The Animals

    • Sammy Davis Greatest Hits.
    • Curb.
    • 1.

  • Deloris And The Sisters

    I Will Follow Him (Chariot)

  • Doctor and the Medics

    Spirit In The Sky

    • Laughing At The Pieces.
    • Irs.

  • Roberta Flack

    The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

    • Atlantic Rhythm & Blues 1947-1974.
    • Atlantic.

  • Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

    D.I.Y.

    • What Have We Become.
    • Virgin EMI.
    • 001.

  • Joe Jackson

    Is She Really Going Out With Him?

    • Stepping Out - Very Best Of Joe Jacks.
    • A&M.

  • Michael Jackson

    Love Never Felt So Good (feat. Justin Timberlake) (feat. Justin Timberlake)

    • Xscape.
    • Sony Music.

  • Michael Jackson

    Farewell My Summer Love

    • The Best Michael Jackson & Jackson Fi.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 1.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Can't Get You Out Of My Head (Live At Maida Vale)

  • Hank Mizell

    Jungle Rock

    • Rock & Roll Classics (Various Artists).
    • Knight Records.
    • 14.

  • Pratt & McClain

    Happy Days

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

  • Lou Rawls & Dianne Reeves

    Fine Brown Frame

    • At Last.
    • Capitol.

  • Lou Rawls

    You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine

    • Million Sellers Vol.13 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Lou Rawls

    Groovy People

    • Million Sellers Vol.14 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Mark Ronson

    Valerie (feat. Amy Winehouse)

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony BMG.

  • Spice Girls

    Who Do You Think You Are

    • Now 37 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Squeeze

    Cool For Cats

    • Fantastic 70's (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Ultravox

    Vienna

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.
    • 3.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Nick Baines, the Bishop-elect of Leeds for the Diocese of West Yorkshire & the Dales:

听

About twenty years ago I did an interview with a radio station in the Midlands about a book I'd recently published. I'd just explained that I'd written the book for a woman whose husband had died in very tragic circumstances when the DJ put on the next song: "Don't worry, be happy." Now, if I'd known it was that easy, I wouldn't have bothered writing the book.You can't just switch it on, can you? You can't demand happy days as if they are a right.

听

It's like when you're leaving someone and you say goodbye and then they say, "Be good." And I always think, well I hadn't thought about not being until you mentioned it. But, that's what we are like, isn't it? My kids were like that, my grandchildren are like that, and... er... I think I'm like that. Tell me to do something and I immediately think of the alternatives.

听

A mate of mine once said to me: "You can't legislate for goodness." And he was right. You can tell people how to be and what to do - and you can even make laws to try to keep them on the straight and narrow. But, you can't make them good.

听

In one sense, this shouldn't need saying. After all, we do know ourselves - and all of us know that, if we are honest, there's something tempting about ditching the good stuff from time to time and having a go at the dark side. Feeling good isn't actually enough - and experience tells us that we all love the odd illusion that let's us off the moral hook.

听

What I'm getting at is that we really need to go beyond an imitation of life - playing at being good - and learn to do the right thing. Doing right - being good - gradually changes us so that we become better at it. Or, at least, at being honest about the mess we usually make. It's about forming a character, not just ticking a moral box.

听

Or, as someone once sang, when love was king the rest followed on. Isn't that just a tiny bit marvellous?

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After eight years of hosting the Breakfast Show, Chris Evans leaves Radio 2.

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