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Eric Bana, Cyndi Lauper, Daisy Waterstone, Callum Woodhouse and Rick Astley

Chris chats to actor Eric Bana, singer Cyndi Lauper and Daisy Waterstone and Callum Woodhouse from The Durrells, plus Rick Astley live in the studio.

Chris chats to actor Eric Bana about working alongside Ricky Gervais in his new film Special Correspondents, superstar Cyndi Lauper tells us about conquering country music with her new album Detour and how she feels to be finally on the Glastonbury line-up. Stars of The Durrells Daisy Waterstone and Callum Woodhouse, swap the dreary British weather for the curious sands and sunshine of Corfu. One of the best baritones in the business, Rick Astley performs live in the studio, including his new single Keep Singing and his classic Never Gonna Give You Up, and Bishop Nick Baines provides the Pause For Thought this fun filled Friday.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Fri 8 Apr 2016 06:30
麻豆社 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Level 42

    Something About You

    • The Complete Polydor Years: Volume 2 (1985-1989).
    • Cherry Red Records.

  • Years & Years

    Desire (feat. Tove Lo)

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • The Fratellis

    Chelsea Dagger

    • Now 65 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Everywhere

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 008.

  • Mark Ronson

    Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • The Clash

    Rock The Casbah

    • The Singles.
    • Epic.

  • Mayer Hawthorne

    Love Like That

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG Rights Management.

  • Roxette

    The Look

    • Now 15 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Barenaked Ladies

    One Week

    • New Hits 99 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.

  • Jeff Beck

    Hi Ho Silver Lining

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1967 (Various).
    • EMI.

  • All Saints

    One Strike

    • (CD Single).
    • London Records.
    • 1.

  • Andrew Gold

    Lonely Boy

    • Super Hits Of The '70s - Have A Nice Day, Vol. 19 (Various Artists).
    • Rhino Records.
    • 1.

  • Jackie Wilson

    (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher

    • Midnight Soul (Various Artists).
    • Music Club.

  • Paolo Nutini

    10/10

    • Sunny Side Up.
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • The Weeknd

    Can't Feel My Face

    • Beauty Behind The Madness.
    • Republic.
    • 7.

  • Pratt & McClain

    Happy Days

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

  • Gwen Stefani

    Make Me Like You

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.
    • 1.

  • Cyndi Lauper

    Walkin' After Midnight

    • CD Single.
    • Rhino.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Ain't It A Drag

  • Richard Ashcroft

    This Is How It Feels

    • (CD Single).
    • Cooking Vinyl.

Chris' Pause For Thought: Nick Baines

Chris' Pause For Thought: Nick Baines

From Nick Baines, the Bishop of Leeds:

听

I realise this might come as a bit of a shock, but I need to tell you: I don't have a tattoo. I'm beginning to think this makes me a bit weird, but so far the only needles to have got under my skin have been medicinal ones.

But ... (a question put to me last week) if I was going to have one, what would it be: image or words? Now, that got me thinking. If I had just one thing to be my identifying feature (as it were) - the thing that really gets under my skin -, what would I want the world to see? Now, that's hard, isn't it?

OK. I wouldn't want something merely aspirational or something exotic in Sanskrit that I am told means 'romantic hero' but actually means 'idiot'. And I wouldn't want an image that might stretch or shrink with age and end up looking like something it shouldn't. I think I'd want something real. Something that showed my true colours.

One of my heroes - not the Hulk exactly - is a guy who thought he was a big man - leader of the pack - only to find he melted when the heat was on. His illusions about himself led to him promising his best friend that he would never give him up to the authorities and would never let him down, but caved in remarkably quickly. His name was Peter and his mate was Jesus of Nazareth. And his failure set him free never again to have to pretend to be what he was not - the failure wasn't the end of the world, after all.

So, maybe my tattoo ought to just portray a face - eyes that are open and unafraid, knowing from experience that we don't have to be trapped by our reputation or the illusions about ourselves that we too often try so hard to protect.

Or, maybe I ought just to relax, and have the words of Psalm 139 etched into my epidermis: "Oh Lord, you have searched me and known me" ... because that freedom sets me free to be loved and, thus, to love, never to give up.

But, maybe I don't need body art to tell me that, after all.

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