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John Malkovich, Dominic Cooper, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and a Strictly Come Dancing announcement

Chris has breakfast with John Malkovich and Dominic Cooper. Plus Sophie Ellis-Bextor sings live and Chris announces Anastacia as the tenth Strictly Come Dancing contestant!

Joining Chris at the breakfast table is John Malkovich who's about to make his directorial debut in London with Good Canary, and Dominic Cooper who's returning to the stage as the Earl of Rochester in The Libertine. Sophie Ellis-Bextor sings live in the studio and gives us a sneak peek of her new album Familia. Plus Chris announces Anastacia as the tenth contestant to join Strictly Come Dancing and Reverend Richard Coles has Friday's Pause for Thought.

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Fri 19 Aug 2016 06:30
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  • The Rolling Stones

    Jumpin' Jack Flash

    • The Rolling Stones - Remastered.
    • Abkco.

  • John Newman

    Ole

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • The Pointer Sisters

    Neutron Dance

    • The Best Of The Pointer Sisters.
    • RCA.

  • Coldplay

    Hymn For The Weekend (feat. 叠别测辞苍肠茅)

    • A Head Full Of Dreams.
    • Parlophone.

  • R.E.M.

    The One I Love

    • R.E.M..
    • Irs.

  • Taylor Swift

    Shake It Off

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

  • Richard Ashcroft

    They Don't Own Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Cooking Vinyl.
    • 001.

  • Thin Lizzy

    The Boys Are Back In Town

    • (Single).
    • Vertigo.
    • 10.

  • Gregory Porter

    Don't Lose Your Steam

    • Take Me To The Alley.
    • Decca.
    • 001.

  • Carpenters

    Top Of The World

    • The Carpenters - Yesterday Once More.
    • A&M.

  • Vaults

    Midnight River

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

  • Michael Bubl茅

    Nobody But Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Reprise.

  • Lenny Kravitz

    California

    • Lenny Kravitz - Baptism.
    • Parlophone.

  • 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.

  • Ellie Goulding

    Still Falling For You

  • Anastacia

    I'm Outta Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic/Daylight.

  • Olly Murs

    You Don鈥檛 Know Love

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

Chris' Pause for Thought: Richard Coles

Chris' Pause for Thought: Richard Coles

From Rev鈥檇 Richard Coles, cleric and broadcaster:

Typically English scene: on holiday in deepest Suffolk, I get up to early to drive through glowing fields of just-cut wheat, past spinneys where woodpigeons coo, and ancient churches stand under wide, cloud-flecked skies鈥� desperately seeking wifi.

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A supermarket, on the edge of town, provided, but it was not yet open, so I parked in its empty car park, to wait. And then another driver arrived, circled a couple of times, and parked right next to me - so closely that she couldn鈥檛 easily open the door and made rather a pantomime of struggling to get out as if somehow I had boxed her in. I wound down the window and suggested she park further off, but she just snatched her charity bag-for-life from under the Labrador and glared at me. I鈥檒l leave you to guess which supermarket.

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I remembered once in the camper van parking on the edge of a wild beach in the west of Scotland, miles from civilisation and in the morning finding another parked so close their radio woke us up.

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What鈥檚 that about? Some ancient herding instinct, a primitive impulse that makes us circle our wagons? But it鈥檚 not very typical, I think, of the English, who normally keep a respectful distance. A friend of mine once answered the door to a neighbour who said, 鈥淚鈥檓 terribly sorry to bother you, and do forgive the intrusion, but I think your chimney鈥檚 on fire鈥�.

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Perhaps on a deeper level than stereotypes allow, we find contradictory impulses. Church history is full of examples of people seeking God by retreating from the world,

Up a mountain, or in a misty glen, or beside a tinkling river. That鈥檚 partly why I take off to deepest Suffolk, or remotest Scotland; but, in truth, I have found God to be no less present in the tumult and confusions of cities, where people jostle alongside each other, making a living, competing for space, arguing over parking spaces. In my father鈥檚 house, said Jesus, there are many mansions; maybe heaven will be more like a crowded city than a sunny meadow. And perhaps the challenge for those who want to get there is found just as readily in the city鈥檚 hubbub as the hermit鈥檚 cave?

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