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Fearne Cotton sits in, with Westlife and John Newman

Westlife join Fearne on Friends Round Friday to chat about their new single and upcoming tour, plus there's live music in the studio from John Newman.

Westlife join Fearne on Friends Round Friday to chat about their new single Better Man and their upcoming 20th anniversary tour The Twenty Tour, which starts in Belfast in May.

John Newman performs three tracks live in the studio, Come and Get It, his brand new single Feelings, and a cover of Bob Dylan's Make You Feel My Love, once famously covered by Adele.

Along with Clare Runacres on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Mike Williams on sport, Fearne and the team have the best start to your morning. With celeb guests, quizzes, headlines, tunes chosen by listeners and more music than you can shake a glitterball at!

There's also weather with Matt Taylor, a Pause For Thought from Reverend Richard Coles and listeners on the line as Fearne entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Music Played

  • OutKast

    Hey Ya!

    • Outkast - Speakerboxxx.
    • Arista.
  • Zedd & Katy Perry

    365

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
  • Womack & Womack

    Teardrops

    • And They Danced All Night.
    • Debutante.
  • Mabel

    Don't Call Me Up

    • High Expectations.
    • Polydor.
  • Busted

    Year 3000

    • Top Of The Pops Spring 2003 (Various).
    • Universal.
  • Simply Red

    Ain't That a Lot of Love

    • (CD Single).
    • East West Records.
  • Rita Ora

    Only Want You

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • Jimmy Nail

    Ain't No Doubt

    • Now That's What I Call Music Vol.22.
    • Now.
  • Lewis Capaldi

    Someone You Loved

    • Breach.
    • Vertigo.
    • 3.
  • Cher

    The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.
  • Ricky Martin

    Livin' La Vida Loca

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
  • George Ezra

    Pretty Shining People

    • Staying At Tamara's.
    • Columbia.
  • Duran Duran

    A View To A Kill

    • The Best Of James Bond 30th Anniversa.
    • EMI.
  • 尝脡翱狈

    You And I

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.
  • Bob Sinclar

    Love Generation (feat. Gary 鈥淣esta鈥 Pine)

    • Now 63 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • Earth, Wind & Fire

    Fantasy

    • The Best Of Earth Wind & Fire.
    • CBS.
    • 5.
  • Westlife

    Better Man

  • Vampire Weekend

    Harmony Hall

    • Father Of The Bride.
    • Columbia.
  • Emeli Sand茅

    Sparrow

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin Records.
  • Scissor Sisters

    I Don't Feel Like Dancin'

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
  • Leo Sayer

    You Make Me Feel Like Dancing

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Music Club Deluxe.
    • 6.
  • The White Stripes

    Seven Nation Army

    • (CD Single).
    • Xls.
  • Emma Bunton

    Baby Please Don't Stop

    • My Happy Place.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).
  • Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine

    1-2-3

    • Gloria Estefan - Greatest Hits.
    • Epic.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
From the Reverend Richard Coles:
The B word is banned in our Vicarage. Not because everyone鈥檚 sick to death of Brexit, but because of the dogs. We have four very lively dachshunds and the cue word for their feed in the morning is breck-breck. I wake up every day to the news headlines on the wireless, and as we flip from Westminster to Brussels and back again, every time it鈥檚 mentioned they howl and start drooling on the duvet. A solution would be to switch it off, but I find the political drama fascinating, with more twists and turns than a boxset; and if it were simply a drama, I might simply enjoy it.听
Alas, it鈥檚 real, and the consequences fill us with anxiety, and that makes us volatile and angry - and that I really would like to switch off. I (sort of) have, by giving up Social Media for Lent. For a heavy user like me, it鈥檚 quite a sacrifice, and for the first couple of days I鈥檓 as twitchy as a new non-smoker, and anxiously keep picking up my phone while my thumbs twitch involuntarily. But before long the twitchiness decreases, and as the days turn into weeks my surging blood pressure subsides, I shout less at the television, I am unwontedly gracious turning right from Bell Hill onto the A510 in the rush hour.听
Sometimes Social Media can feel like your head鈥檚 in a biscuit tin being pelted with stones. When it feels like that, withdraw. Resist the temptation to follow every thread, to feed your own indignation and outrage, and add to the aggro. Walk the dog. Smell the flowers. Crochet a hammock for a marmoset. Do whatever it takes to restore your equanimity, not to dodge the tough questions we鈥檙e all facing right now, but to deal with them better, with circumspection, and forbearance, and patience.听
Because eventually this will be over. This crisis, like every other, will fade and pass. And when it does we are going to have to look at each across the divisions that have opened up like crevasses in a calving glacier and start to reconcile. We must not lose sight of what lies beyond the clamour of politics and the drama of the present moment, the values that transcend our non negotiables and passionate convictions; on these we build our common life. And the time for that is always now.

Broadcast

  • Fri 29 Mar 2019 06:30