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Joel Kinnaman, Noel Fitzpatrick, Joe Wicks and LeAnn Rimes

Chris chats to action man Joel Kinnaman, supervet Noel Fitzpatrick and body coach Joe Wicks, while sublime songstress LeAnn Rimes performs live in the studio.

Chris chats to supervet Noel Fitzpatrick about his a mission to transform the veterinary world with the advancements in bionic technology. Body coach Joe Wicks shares his advice for getting healthy and action man Joel Kinnaman gives us the lowdown on The Killing, Robocop and his latest blockbuster Suicide Squad. One of America's biggest country music stars and sublime songstress, LeAnn Rimes performs live in the studio, including a soulful Tracy Chapman cover and Paul Kerensa provides the daily Pause For Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Music Played

  • Duran Duran

    Rio

    • Duran Duran - Greatest.
    • EMI.
  • Vaults

    Midnight River

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI.
    • 009.
  • Underworld

    Born Slippy

    • Huge Hits 1996 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.
  • Kid Rock

    All Summer Long

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.
  • OneRepublic

    Wherever I Go

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.
  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Livin' Thing

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.
  • Deacon Blue

    The Believers

    • (CD Single).
    • Ear Music.
    • 001.
  • Dead or Alive

    You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)

    • Wave Party (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.
    • 4.
  • Sigma

    Cry (feat. Take That)

    • (CD Single).
    • 3Beat.
    • 001.
  • Danny & the Juniors

    At The Hop

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

    Tilted

    • (CD Single).
    • Because Music.
  • The Beatles

    Good Day Sunshine

    • Revolver.
    • Parlophone.
    • 8.
  • The Beatles

    Got To Get You Into My Life

    • Revolver.
    • Parlophone.
    • 13.
  • The Beatles

    Tomorrow Never Knows

    • Revolver.
    • Parlophone.
    • 14.
  • The Beatles

    And Your Bird Can Sing

    • Revolver.
    • Parlophone.
    • 9.
  • The Beatles

    Taxman

  • The Beatles

    Here, There and Everywhere

    • Revolver.
    • Parlophone.
    • 5.
  • The Beatles

    Yellow submarine

    • The Beatles - 1.
    • Apple.
    • 015.
  • The Beatles

    Eleanor Rigby

    • The Beatles - 1.
    • Apple.
    • 016.
  • The Weeknd

    Can't Feel My Face

    • Beauty Behind The Madness.
    • Republic.
    • 7.
  • Pratt & McClain

    Happy Days

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

    Breathless

    • (CD Single).
    • 143 Records.
  • Taylor Swift

    Shake It Off

    • (CD Single).
    • Big Machine.
    • 1.
  • LeAnn Rimes

    Can't Fight The Moonlight [Live]

  • U2

    Sweetest Thing

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
  • LeAnn Rimes

    The Story

  • Dolly Parton

    Pure & Simple

    • Pure & Simple.
    • RCA Nashville.
  • Barry Manilow

    Copacabana

    • (Single).
    • Arista.
  • LeAnn Rimes

    How Do I Live [Live]

  • Tracy Chapman

    Give Me One Reason [Live]

    Performer: LeAnn Rimes.

Chris' Pause for Thought: Paul Kerensa

From comedian & Writer Paul Kerensa:

It鈥檚 humbling to meet anyone advancing the field of medicine, for humans or animals. A supervet enabling bionic dogs? Sounds like a future superhero movie to me鈥 but how blessed we are that this is reality. I鈥檝e benefitted from artificial repair, though not bionic, born as I was with an external bladder 鈥 sorry anyone eating breakfast. Perhaps my bladder might have glanced back at my body, pondering that Leann Rimes lyric, 鈥楬ow do I live without you? I want to know鈥︹

Well I鈥檒l tell you: They patch it up and pop it back in. I鈥檓 sure it鈥檚 more complicated than that, but the point is, I鈥檝e got a bladder I wasn鈥檛 born with, that鈥檚 now mine. So I call it鈥 my stepbladder. The Body Coach will rightly tell us, look after our bodies. We only get one. I believe in a Creator, but also in human frailty, that we鈥檙e born into imperfect shells, delicate yet resilient. I鈥檝e had a few earthly saviours along the way, pioneering surgeons like Professors Philip Ransley and Christopher Woodhouse. Like our esteemed supervet, their professorial titles rarely came up 鈥 indeed Prof Woodhouse鈥檚 title was actually Baron. Instead, they got on with the job of healing.

The New Testament gives Jesus over 200 names and titles 鈥 Rabbi, Anointed One, Lord, Saviour鈥 but day-to-day, it was as a healer, that he encountered people, and without discrimination, left them changed. There鈥檚 a remarkable surgeon, equally indiscriminate, recently castaway on Desert Island Discs: Dr David Nott. My wife worked alongside him as a nurse, before he moved to work in warzones 鈥 I鈥檓 not saying it was working with my wife that made him go.

Across the Middle East, Dr Nott鈥檚 patients ranged from Syrian child to IS militant. As Joel Kinnaman鈥檚 new film shows, even those we think of as bad guys have beating hearts.

The warzone doctor-for-all returned from one trip and met the Queen, but was too traumatised to converse. Sensing this, she fetched the corgis, and they quietly stroked them, feeding biscuits. Physician, heal thyself.

Which returns full circle to pets, who sometimes need healing, but also can heal 鈥 and we鈥檙e identical, all owning that superpower. Whether ruptured relationships or fractured friendships, like the owner said to the dog, 鈥淐ome on 鈥 heal.鈥

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