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Roger Daltrey, Sue Perkins, Alistair McGowan and Gabrielle

Chris chats to Roger Daltrey about his upcoming solo album, Sue Perkins on hosting the BAFTA TV awards, Alistair McGowan on The Week That Wasn't and Gabrielle performs live.

Chris chats to The Who's Roger Daltrey about creating his latest solo album As Long As I Have You and we hear the World Exclusive first play of his brand new single 'How Far'. Sue Perkins tells us what we can expect from this year's BAFTA TV Awards and also reveals we can look forward to a spectacular Strictly Come Dancing reunion. Alistair McGowan talks about his topical comedy show 'The Week That Wasn't' on Sky one and receiving his BAFTA TV Award, and Gabrielle performs a few of her famous hits and a cover of Tina Turner's - What's Love Got To Do With It live in the studio. Today's Pause For Thought comes from cleric Rev'd Richard Coles.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 11 May 2018 06:30
大象传媒 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • The Lightning Seeds

    The Life Of Riley

    • Sense - The Lightning Seeds.
    • Virgin.

  • Anne-Marie

    2002

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • The Who

    5.15

    • Quadrophenia.

  • Olivia Newton鈥怞ohn

    Physical

    • Physical.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Paolo Nutini

    Pencil Full Of Lead

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

  • Katrina and the Waves

    Walking On Sunshine

    • The Best Summer Ever (Various Artist.
    • Virgin.

  • Franz Ferdinand

    Glimpse Of Love (Version)

    • (CD Single).
    • Domino.

  • Cornershop

    Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook Remix)

    Remix Artist: Norman Cook.
    • The 1999 Brit Awards (Various Artists.
    • Columbia.

  • SuRie

    Storm

    Lyricist: Nicole Blair. Lyricist: Gil Lewis. Lyricist: Sean Hargreaves.
    • Eurovision Song Contest 2018: Lisbon (Various Artists).
    • UMC.

  • The Velvelettes

    Needle In A Haystack

    • Leaders Of The Pack (Various Artists.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 6.

  • Gloria Jones

    Tainted Love

    • The Best Northern Soul All-Nighter (V.
    • Virgin.

  • Barry Ryan

    Eloise

    • Hits Of 1967 & 1968 (Various Artists.
    • Polydor.

  • Tom Jones

    Delilah

    • Delilah - Jukebox 60's Hits.
    • Old Gold.

  • Steppenwolf

    Born To Be Wild

    • Rock Anthems Volume 2 (Various).
    • Dino.

  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience

    Purple Haze

  • Black Sabbath

    Paranoid

    • Million Sellers Vol.18 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • AC/DC

    Highway To Hell

    • AC/DC - Highway To Hell.
    • Albert.

  • Arctic Monkeys

    Four Out Of Five

  • Pratt & McClain

    Happy Days

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

  • Pharrell Williams

    Happy

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Paloma Faith

    Make Your Own Kind Of Music

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Roger Daltrey

    How Far

    • As Long As I Have You.
    • Polydor.

  • Reef

    My Sweet Love (feat. Sheryl Crow)

    • (CD Single).
    • earMUSIC.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From the Reverend Richard Coles:

听

On the tube, a stranger comes up, 鈥淩ichard?鈥� he asks.听 I peer at him, thinking 鈥榳ho are you? I really wanna know?鈥� (thank you for that Roger);听 then my facial recognition circuit fires, and I see it is a school friend not seen in forty years. We went to Young Farmers鈥� discos in the seventies. He was handy with a hay bale, as I recall.


I do what you do when you encounter someone not seen in forty years: hairline, waistline, complexion, teeth. All in remarkably good order. His smile was broad, unconstrained by the need to conceal gnashers past their sell-by; his handshake firm, his palm pleasantly dry even on this hot day, and his trousers, unlike mine, showed no evidence of the technology whereby a man with a forty inch waist can maintain the illusion that he鈥檚 still in the high thirties.


Not only nature had been kind: he was smartly turned out, soign茅 but age-appropriate, and as we talked I discovered he was nicely set up in the Home Counties, prosperous and content, running a media company with a fashionably misspelt name. We parted - but I kept thinking about the encounter, and eventually I had to admit I was comparing myself with my old pal. No leafy Home Counties billet for me, no high corner office with a view of St Paul鈥檚, no brilliant children playing in County Youth Orchestras or having trials with Wycombe Wanderers. I don鈥檛 actually know if he even has kids but that was the scenario running through my mind.


And then I thought, get a grip. It鈥檚 just someone else鈥檚 life, not a judgement on your own - and if we really were to compare like with like (maybe he was doing it too?) we would find the same mixture of prestige and disappointment, the stuff we put on show and the stuff we seek to hide.

听

Once you鈥檝e passed the mid-point (and who am I kidding at 56?) you look behind you at genes, luck, the way the wind blows, and see the unique pattern of a life taking shape: but look forwards and the view and different, for what comes into focus is so much more about what we share than what divides us.

听

Be kind to each other, be generous: we鈥檙e all in it together, and heading the same way.

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