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Brian May, Liam Payne, Amber Riley and Sheryl Crow

Chris is joined by One Direction's Liam Payne and Glee's Amber Riley tells Chris about her Olivier award winning role in the musical Dreamgirls. Plus Sheryl Crow performs live music from her new album Be Myself live in the studio.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 19 May 2017 06:30
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Music Played

  • Lenny Kravitz

    Are You Gonna Go My Way

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • Dan Auerbach

    Shine On Me

    • Waiting On A Song.
    • Easy Eye Sound.

  • M|A|R|R|S

    Pump Up The Volume

    • Now 10, Part 1 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 4.

  • Stevie Wonder

    Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours

    • You've Got Mail (Film S/Track).
    • Warner Sunset/Atlantic.

  • Emeli Sand茅

    Next To Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
    • 1.

  • 补鈥恏补

    Take On Me

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

  • Hurts

    Beautiful Ones

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music Entertainment.

  • Destiny鈥檚 Child

    Survivor

    • Now 49 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Nancy Sinatra

    These Boots Are Made for Walkin'

    • The Greatest Hits Of Nancy Sinatra.
    • Boulevard.

  • JP Cooper

    Passport Home

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Justin Timberlake

    Can't Stop The Feeling!

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Black Eyed Peas

    I Gotta Feeling

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

  • Neil Diamond

    Sweet Caroline

    • Neil Diamond - The Ultimate Collectio.
    • Columbia/Mca.

  • 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.

  • Erasure

    Love You To The Sky

    • (CD Single).
    • Mute.

  • Queen

    Fat Bottomed Girls

    • Queen - Greatest Hits.
    • Parlophone.

  • Amber Riley

    And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going

  • Liam Payne

    Strip That Down

    • Capitol Records.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Abdul-Rehman鈥檚 back Friday 2nd of June.

Chris, I went to the kind of high school where the cliques were rather well defined. The jocks, beefy and loud would share last night鈥檚 scores in front of the gym. The Goths would play Nine Inch Nails on their ghetto blaster in the parking lot. The gamers would sit in the corner of the lunchroom arguing whether Orcs could overpower Dwarves.


If it sounds like an Eighties teen flick 鈥� it kind of was.


Every May, a great pantomime would take place: student council elections. The results were almost always a foregone conclusion. There was, after all, a student government clique too. It was a tight group of ridiculously popular girls and boys, and they鈥檇 decide who would contest what positions. Upstart challengers were usually crushed at the ballot box.

I had a reputation of being a bit of a political rabble-rouser, but you can still imagine my surprise when Craig and Greg 鈥� two certified jocks 鈥� walked up to my locker and asked me to manage their campaign for student council president and vice-president.听


I laughed at first, but they were serious and earnest. They cared about the school and, frankly, they had the coolest campaign song: We Will Rock You written by a certain Mr Brian May. I was sold. 听

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"Start a huge, foolish project,鈥� advised the mystic Rumi. 鈥淏e like Noah! After all, it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.鈥�

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Running that campaign might not have been like building an Ark, but there were times when it felt downright pointless. At first, almost everyone sniggered behind our backs.

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We campaigned hard, but the lads did one better. They went out of their comfort zone and made friends with the Goths, the Gamers and the misfits like me.

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鈥淏e a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder,鈥� continued Rumi. 鈥淗elp someone鈥檚 soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd."

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On Election Day, Craig and Greg rocked the vote. They were magnanimous winners and asked their opponents to come on the council as well. It was the most successful student council in our school鈥檚 history.听


We don鈥檛 have to fight an election to make others feel like they matter. Sometimes it鈥檚 just a good heart, a good ear 鈥� and that uncanny ability to ignore the ones who at first might laugh at you. They鈥檒l come around eventually. 听听Maybe, as the man said, by 鈥楽houting in the street you gonna take on the world some day...鈥�

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