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Kylie Minogue World Exclusive and Winnie the Pooh

Chris is joined by Kylie Minogue live from Berlin and has the world exclusive first play of her new single Dancing, and on Winnie the Pooh Day we speak to the V&A's Julius Bryant.

Chris is joined by Kylie Minogue live from Berlin and has the World Exclusive first play of her new single Dancing. She tells us about her upcoming new album Golden, writing in Nashville and when we can expect her back on UK shores. On Winnie the Pooh Day, Chris speaks to the V&A's Julius Bryant about this childhood favourite by AA Milne and the museum's brilliant new exhibition. After hearing about Kylie's Nashville inspiration for her new album, we ask for your claims to the fame of this Tennessee city in today's Top Tenuous. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by English International netball player Geva Mentor. Today's Pause For Thought comes from writer and broadcaster Sarah Joseph.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Music Played

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Rock 'n' Roll Is King

    • ELO's Greatest Hits Vol.2.
    • Epic.
  • Bruno Mars

    Finesse (Remix) (feat. Cardi B)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • Bill Withers

    Ain't No Sunshine

    • Shades Of Soul (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.
  • The Weeknd

    I Feel It Coming (feat. Daft Punk)

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Republic Records.
  • Zac Brown Band

    Jump Right In

    • (CD Single).
    • Southern Ground.
    • 1.
  • Fleetwood Mac

    Don't Stop

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 009.
  • Stevie Wonder

    Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours

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

    Atletico

    • Someone Out There.
    • Atlantic.
  • Chris Montez

    Let's Dance

    • And The Beat Goes On Vol 3 (Various).
    • Debutante.
  • Catherine McGrath

    Talk Of This Town

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 1.
  • Wah!

    The Story Of The Blues (Part 1)

    • Once In A Lifetime (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.
  • TLC

    Way Back

    • (CD Single).
    • Cooking Vinyl.
  • John Newman

    Love Me Again

    • Tribute.
    • Island.
    • 2.
  • Kansas

    Carry On Wayward Son

    • The Best Of.
    • Epic.
    • 3.
  • Manic Street Preachers

    International Blue

  • Kylie Minogue

    Dancing

    • Dancing.
    • BMG Rights Management.
  • New Order

    True Faith '94

    • (CD Single).
    • London.
  • Eurythmics

    I Saved The World Today

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.
  • Tigger

    The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers

    • The Tigger Movie.. And More!.
  • Taylor Swift

    Shake It Off

  • Neil Diamond

    Sweet Caroline

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

    Can't Take My Eyes Off You

    • Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Ve.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 19.
  • Keala Settle & The Greatest Showman Ensemble

    This Is Me

    • The Greatest Showman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
    • Atlantic.
    • 7.
  • Dolly Parton

    Jolene

    • Million Sellers Vol.15 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.
  • The O鈥橨ays

    I Love Music

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1976 (Various).
    • Premier.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Sarah Joseph, Editor of a Muslim lifestyle magazine:

2018 has not got off to the flying start I was hoping for.

I鈥檇 ended 2017 with a wonderful 25th wedding anniversary, and a flurry of positive plans for 2018.
But there are plans, and then there鈥檚 reality!

Starting on New Year鈥檚 Eve, my daughters, my husband and my mother have, one by one, all gone down with flu. Then my son had an accident with an electric grinder on January 4th, which unfortunately became infected.

Basically - last week I spent 6 out of 7 days at the hospital for one family member or another. It gave me the opportunity to marvel at our amazing NHS, but for me personally it has meant working at strange hours to keep up.

My nights have been spent half awake, half 鈥渄ream-worrying鈥.

By this Saturday night I could feel myself slipping, and by Monday 鈥 known apparently as Blue Monday 鈥 听the most miserable day of the year 鈥 I felt almost at my wits end. 听I know so many will be enduring far worse times, but I was just so exhausted I couldn鈥檛 even cry. I just felt like I鈥檇 been drained of all energy, all happy thoughts seemed replaced by an uncharacteristic feeling of panic and foreboding.

I decided to bake bread! There鈥檚 something very therapeutic about kneading dough: seeing it rise, knocking it back again, and then seeing it 鈥減rove鈥 itself by rising again. There鈥檚 something healing about being intimately connected to the food which nourishes us.

Two days hence 鈥 my to-do list hasn鈥檛 magically vanished. I鈥檓 still chasing deadlines, and still juggling a precarious work load. But I鈥檝e managed to regroup.

New Year can put a strange amount of pressure on us, and when the perfect 鈥渇resh start鈥 fails as spectacularly as mine has, it can really hit even the most optimistic of us. But I remind myself that January 1st is just a marker. Any day can be the perfect moment to start afresh.

There鈥檚 a Muslim saying, 鈥淲e plan, and God plans; but indeed God is the best of planners.鈥 It鈥檚 hard to believe sometimes, but as I tell my children 鈥 鈥淟ife doesn鈥檛 go how we expect it, or indeed how we want it, but if we just keep chipping away at things, eventually everything will take shape.鈥

Broadcast

  • Thu 18 Jan 2018 06:30

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