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Chris chats Calendar Girls: The Musical with Fern Britton as its UK tour begins tonight and talks cycle share schemes with the UK Managing Director of Nextbike, Julian Scriven.

Chris chats Calendar Girls: The Musical with Fern Britton as the shows UK tour begins tonight in Leeds. Plus, we talk to Julian Scriven, the UK Managing Director of Nextbike about his cycle share schemes across Great Britain. Mike is joined in the Sports Locker by Team GB diver, Jack Laugher, as they celebrate what an amazing year he's had and his preparation for the 2020 Olympics. And we Pause For Thought with writer and broadcaster Sheridan Voysey.

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Thu 16 Aug 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • The Police

    Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic

    • Ones On 1 (Radio 1 21st Birthday Albu.
    • 麻豆社.

  • James Bay

    Just For Tonight

    • Electric Light.
    • Virgin.

  • Phil Harris & Bruce Reitherman

    The Bare Necessities

    • The Disney Collection Volume 2 (Various Artists).
    • Pickwick.
    • 6.

  • Kermit the Frog

    Rainbow Connection

    • The Muppet Show: Music, Mayhem, And More (The 25th Anniversary Collection).
    • Rhino Records.
    • 10.

  • Buzzcocks

    Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)

    • Greatest Hits Of The 70's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    A Design For Life

    • Everything Must Go - 20th Anniversary Edition.
    • Columbia.
    • 16.

  • Tom Odell

    If You Wanna Love Somebody

    • Jubilee Road.
    • Columbia.

  • Madonna

    Papa Don't Preach

    • Madonna - The Immaculate Collection.
    • Sire.
    • 4.

  • Paper Lace

    Billy Don't Be A Hero

    • Living In The 70s (Various Artists.
    • BMG.
    • 1.

  • Nile Rodgers & Chic

    Till The World Falls (feat. Mura Masa, Cosha & Vic Mensa)

    • It's About Time.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Daft Punk

    Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Gregory Porter

    Liquid Spirit

    • Liquid Spirit.
    • Blue Note.
    • 001.

  • Madonna

    Like A Prayer

    • (CD Single).
    • Sire.
    • 9.

  • The Chainsmokers

    Side Effects (feat. Emily Warren)

    • (CD Single).
    • Disruptor Records.

  • Gary Barlow

    Yorkshire (Calendar Girls The Musical) (feat. The Original London Cast of Calendar Girls The Musical)

    • Calendar Girls The Musical - Original London Cast Soundtrack.
    • Decca Records.
    • 11.

  • Go West

    We Close Our Eyes

    • Now 1985 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • Rihanna

    Umbrella (feat. JAY-Z)

    • (CD Single).
    • Def Jam.

  • The Kooks

    狈补茂惫别

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • Queen

    Bicycle Race

    • Jazz.
    • Island.
    • 4.

  • Rod Stewart

    Didn't I (feat. Bridget Cady)

    • Blood Red Roses.
    • Decca.

  • Underworld

    Born Slippy

    • Huge Hits 1996 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.

  • The Beloved

    Sweet Harmony

    • Now 24 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Gabrielle

    Shine

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.
    • 1.

  • Madonna

    Like A Virgin

    • Finally Enough Love (Deluxe Edition).
    • Rhino.
    • 7.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Chris, let me apologise now. At some point in the future I may well call you by another name. When I first met your Radio 2 colleague Sara Cox, I spent the whole conversation calling her Jo. (I have a friend named Jo Cox鈥攜ou can see what my brain did.)

听

This brain-freeze on names happens regularly and has led to great embarrassment. Years ago, walking down the road with my girlfriend, I bumped into an old schoolmate. I said, 鈥淪teve! Please meet my girlfriend鈥攖his is鈥� this is鈥︹�� But I couldn鈥檛 remember her name!

听

I have faced some justice, though. I once rented a flat from an Italian man who got my name wrong on rent receipts, calling me 鈥楽tefan Wysley鈥� one week and 鈥楽heldon Voyeur鈥� the next. Then there was the colleague who couldn鈥檛 stop calling me Eugene.

听

Names are more than mere words. To me, they鈥檙e suitcases holding the essence of our identity鈥攕tuffed full of the memories and experiences that make us who we are. So it can be jarring to have our names mistaken, forgotten, or never used. It can suggest we aren鈥檛 really known.

听

I鈥檓 struck by two stories in the Christian scriptures. In one, Jesus meets a guy named Nathanael, about whom he reveals all sorts of unlearned details. Nathanael says in astonishment, 鈥淲e鈥檝e never met鈥攈ow do you know me?鈥� In the other story, Jesus calls a conman named Zacchaeus out of the crowd by name鈥攁n event that turns Zacchaeus鈥� life around.

听

For me, these aren鈥檛 just nice stories; they鈥檙e stories of God walking on earth. And they lead me to believe that even in our loneliest moments there is Someone who still knows us鈥攅very atom, molecule, and nanosecond of our existence; every success, loss, failure, dream鈥擲omeone who knows us intimately and calls us by name.

听

I believe that鈥檚 good news for everyone, not least those whose names I mess up.

听

Sorry Ken, but that could next include you.

听

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