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Matt Lucas sits in, with Alan Carr and Dan Walker

Matt Lucas sits in for Zoe and chats to Alan Carr about the return of Alan Carr's Epic Gameshow on ITV, plus Dan Walker looks forward to an Easter weekend full of football.

It's another Friends Phone In Friday with Matt Lucas!

Dan Walker chats to Matt about his Easter plans, including his own Radio 2 show 'At The Foot Of The Cross', and a full schedule of football fixtures to look forward to on Football Focus on 大象传媒 One. Dan has presented Football Focus since 2009, and 大象传媒 Breakfast since 2016. He also presents shows on 大象传媒 Radio 5 Live and has presented sport on the 大象传媒 News Channel, as well as regularly reporting for Final Score and Match of the Day.

Alan Carr calls in to tell Matt about the return of Alan Carr's Epic Gameshow on ITV, in which some of the nation's all-time favourite game shows are rebooted. The new series begins with a star-studded version of Play Your Cards Right, where couples including Harry and Sandra Redknapp and Martin and Shirlie Kemp take part to be in with a chance of winning the jackpot for their chosen charity.

Along with Jason K on news and Jules Lang on travel, Matt 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 a Pause For Thought from Reverend Richard Coles and listeners on the line as Matt entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 2 Apr 2021 06:30
大象传媒 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Maroon 5

    Moves Like Jagger (feat. Christina Aguilera)

    • (CD Single).
    • A&M.
    • 1.

  • Del Amitri

    It's Feelings

    • Fatal Mistakes.
    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • James Ingram & Michael McDonald

    Yah Mo B There

    • Duets - 36 Of The World's Greatest Ev.
    • Telstar.

  • Ava Max

    Kings & Queens

    • Heaven & Hell.
    • Atlantic.

  • Sam Cooke

    Another Saturday Night

    • Sam Cooke - The Man & His Music.
    • RCA.

  • The Tymes

    Ms Grace

    • 70's Number Ones Vol 3.
    • Old Gold.

  • Olly Murs

    Wrapped Up (feat. Travie McCoy)

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
    • 1.

  • 补鈥恏补

    Take On Me

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

  • Amy Macdonald

    Statues

    • The Human Demands.
    • Infectious Music.

  • Culture Club

    Karma Chameleon

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

  • Jess Glynne

    Don't Be So Hard On Yourself

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 001.

  • Marvin Gaye

    Too Busy Thinking About My Baby

    • Soul (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Nelly Furtado

    Maneater

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 64 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 2.

  • Kon Kan

    I Beg Your Pardon

    • The Hits Album 10 (Various Artists).
    • Hits Album.

  • Boney M.

    Sunny

    • The Magic Of Boney M.
    • Sony BMG.
    • 14.

  • Justin Bieber

    Hold On

    • JUSTICE.
    • Def Jam Recordings.

  • The Beautiful South

    Perfect 10

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.

  • Keisha White

    Someday

    • (CD Single).
    • frtyfve.

  • The Isley Brothers

    This Old Heart Of Mine

    • Soul (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • George Benson

    Never Give Up On A Good Thing

    • George Benson - The Very Best Of.
    • Warner E.S.P..
    • 3.

  • Dua Lipa

    We're Good

    • Future Nostalgia (The Moonlight Edition).
    • Warner Records.

  • Fun Boy Three & Bananarama

    It Ain't What You Do...

    • The Very Best Of Bananarama.
    • Warner Strategic Market.

  • ABC

    Poison Arrow

    • Abc - The Lexicon Of Love.
    • Mercury.

  • Silk Sonic, Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak

    Leave The Door Open

    • AN EVENING WITH SILK SONIC.
    • Atlantic.

  • Calvin Harris

    Feels (feat. Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry & Big Sean)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Sophie Ellis鈥怋extor

    Take Me Home (A Girl Like Me)

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • The Police

    Every Breath You Take

    • The Ivor Novello Winners.
    • EMI.

  • Harry Belafonte

    Jump In The Line

    • The Best Of.
    • Camden.
    • 16.

  • Whitney Houston & George Michael

    If I Told You That

    • (CD Single).
    • Arista.

  • Spice Girls

    Holler

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • Luke Combs

    Forever After All

    • What You See Ain't Always What You Get (Deluxe Edition).
    • River House Artists.

  • Haircut One Hundred

    Fantastic Day

    • Pelican West - Deluxe Edition.
    • Cherry Pop.
    • 007.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

In the first lockdown I started wearing socks with sandals. It seemed a sensible thing to do, optimising both comfort and aesthetics, and of course a vicar in socks and sandals is nothing new.

听

I posted a picture of my feet thus shod on social media, and realised in the hours that followed that to many there is nothing more embarrassing than Christianity.听

听

If socks and sandals are embarrassing, then Good Friday - today - is even worse.听

听

It鈥檚 a misleading name, for it marks a terrible event, a judicial killing, at a rubbish dump outside Jerusalem two thousand years ago, when Jesus of Nazareth, leader of a rabble of unlikely followers, was taken by soldiers, nailed to a cross, and died.

听

What鈥檚 good about that? And why would anyone want to go there?

听

Sorry if this is turning your hot cross bun to ashes in your mouth, but the awful embarrassment of that humiliating end is precisely why today is such a big deal in the church鈥檚 calendar. Not long ago it was marked by shops closing, switching the telly off, leaving the washing for tomorrow; and hot cross buns, originally not a treat, luscious with chocolate and a purring voice over, but starvation rations to keep you going till Easter.听

听

To most, that鈥檚 long gone and Good Friday means the beginning of a long weekend, and a chance - this year - finally to meet in the park and reconnect to the world we鈥檝e been isolated from for so long. Why rain on that parade?

听

Because of what lies beyond the cross. To those who witnessed the death of Jesus, it must have looked like the end of all their hopes, Game Over. And it was in grief and sorrow that one of them, Mary Magdalene, went in the early dawn to his grave to mourn.

听

Been there, done that. I too will visit the grave of my beloved on Easter morning; but I鈥檒l do so knowing that Mary found not death but life, and the rising dawn was not just for a new day, but a new life, of hope restored, light inextinguishable, love unfailing, and joy.

听

Perhaps that will be more than usually resonant this year, as we all emerge from the long Good Friday we鈥檝e been stuck in for a year.

听

The dawn is coming, we will be together again. Happy Easter.

Broadcast

  • Fri 2 Apr 2021 06:30
    大象传媒 Radio 2