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Jeff Goldblum, Jenna Coleman, Jamie Lee Curtis and Tom Odell

Chris is joined in the studio by Jenna Coleman, Jamie Lee Curtis and Jeff Goldblum plus Tom Odell sings live in studio 6C!

Jenna Coleman tells Chris about starring in the new emotional thriller The Cry. Jeff Goldblum chats about his debut jazz album The Capitol Studios Sessions, and Jamie Lee Curtis spills the beans on returning to the role that first made her a household name, forty years ago in Halloween. Plus Tom Odell performs live in the studio with an incredible 4-piece choir! The final Pause For Thought of the week comes from Reverend Richard Coles.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 5 Oct 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • John Parr

    St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)

    • Now 1985 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • Rod Stewart

    Look In Her Eyes

    • Blood Red Roses.
    • Decca.

  • Aretha Franklin

    I Say A Little Prayer

    • Aretha Franklin - Queen Of Soul.
    • Atlantic.

  • Anne-Marie

    Ciao Adios

    • (CD Single).
    • Asylum.
    • 001.

  • The Yardbirds

    For Your Love

    • 25 Years Of Rock'n'Roll - 1965 (Various Artists).
    • Connoisseur Collection.
    • 9.

  • The Darkness

    I Believe In A Thing Called Love

    • The Darkness - Permission To Land.
    • Atlantic.

  • Nina Nesbitt

    Loyal To Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • Deep Blue Something

    Breakfast At Tiffany's

    • This Year's Love (Various Artists) C.
    • Global Television.

  • The Beatles

    Hey Jude

    • LOVE.
    • Parlophone.
    • 021.

  • Led Zeppelin

    Black Dog

    • Led Zeppelin - Early Days.
    • Atlantic.

  • Guns N鈥� Roses

    Welcome To The Jungle

    • Greatest Hits.
    • Geffen.

  • Aerosmith

    Dude (Looks Like A Lady)

    • Greatest Hits.
    • UMC.

  • ZZ Top

    Gimme All Your Lovin'

    • Top Gear 2 - Various Artists.
    • Columbia.

  • Tom Grennan

    Found What I've Been Looking For

    • Lighting Matches.
    • Insanity.

  • Tom Odell performing live

    • Tom Odell

      Piano Man (Radio 2 Session 5th Oct 2018) (feat. Billy Joel)

    • Pharrell Williams

      Happy

      • (CD Single).
      • RCA.

    • Tom Odell

      Another Love (Radio 2 Session 5th Oct 2018)

    • Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra

      My Baby Just Cares For Me (feat. Haley Reinhart)

    • Tom Odell

      Half As Good As You (Radio 2 Session 5th Oct 2018)

    • Silk City & Dua Lipa

      Electricity

      • (CD Single).
      • Sony Music.

    • Tom Odell

      Grow Old With Me (Radio 2 Session 5th Oct 2018)

    • Tom Odell

      Piano Man (Radio 2 Session 5th Oct 2018) (feat. Billy Joel)

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From the Reverend Richard Coles:


Movie Week on Strictly tomorrow - hurrah - but it鈥檚 a bittersweet prospect for me, for last year my Paso Doble, danced to the theme tune from Flash Gordon, achieved the lowest score in Strictly history, and an early departure from the competition.

A week or two later, I was at the Pride of Britain awards doing twirls with fellow competitor Johnnie Peacock, when a lady approached.聽 鈥淚鈥檓 so sorry you were voted off early, bad luck,鈥� she said. It was the Prime Minister.


I was reminded of this on Wednesday, when I watched her make her entrance to Dancing Queen at the Conservative Party Conference; and thought, for a moment, that perhaps my footnote in history will be that I was the inspiration for this unforgettable spectacle. More scream queen than dancing queen, said some (although, Jamie Lee, that鈥檚 more properly your title).

Maybe it will be early doors for her too? Politics can be as unforgiving as Craig Revel Horwood, and like many I felt some sympathy for her, like I did when she busted her moves for those school children in South Africa (as if they hadn鈥檛 suffered enough), and got ridiculed for it by the media.

A brutal experience, but good medicine if you鈥檝e fallen for the myth of universal competence that so many in leadership are expected to show, as if they are superior beings endowed with magical powers, rather than flawed human beings seeking a way through.

I wonder if the inspiration was actually her father, a Church of England vicar, a vocation to leadership of a different kind, which requires you from time to time to make yourself ridiculous, wobbling on a skateboard to show you鈥檙e down with the kids, appearing in a terrible wig in the parish panto, or preaching a gospel of radical inclusion to an all but empty church.

There are worse things than looking ridiculous; being indifferent to the suffering of the poor, as the example of Jesus Christ insists, who also knew something about ridicule. Acclaimed as a king one day, mocked the next, he ended up on the cross - nul points. But that was the narrow judgement of this world, and Christians believe there is a world to come, where there are no wallflowers, and no judges, and no losers. Keeeep dancing.

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