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Emma Thompson and other guests

Emma Thompson tells Chris about playing a high court judge faced with a tough case in her new film 'The Children Act', based on the novel by award-winning author Ian McEwan. Plus the usual news headlines, sports updates and a daily Pause for Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 17 Aug 2018 06:30
麻豆社 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Katrina and the Waves

    Walking On Sunshine

    • The Best Summer Ever (Various Artist.
    • Virgin.

  • Lisa Stansfield

    Never Ever

    • (CD Single).
    • Edel.

  • The Beatles

    Twist and Shout

    • Please Please Me.
    • Parlophone.
    • 14.

  • Calvin Harris & Sam Smith

    Promises

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Aztec Camera

    Oblivious

    • The Best Of Aztec Camera.
    • Warner E.S.P..

  • Bruno Mars

    24K Magic

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Lenny Kravitz

    5 More Days Til Summer

    • Raise Vibration.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Bananarama

    Venus

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Nirvana

    Smells Like Teen Spirit

  • Aretha Franklin

    I Say A Little Prayer

    • Aretha Franklin - Queen Of Soul.
    • Atlantic.

  • Aretha Franklin

    Respect

    • Aretha Franklin - Queen Of Soul.
    • Atlantic.

  • Aretha Franklin

    (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman

    • Aretha Franklin - Queen Of Soul.
    • Atlantic.

  • Aretha Franklin

    (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

    • Atlantic.

  • The Rolling Stones

    Brown Sugar

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.

  • The Who

    My Generation

    • The Who Hits 50! (Deluxe Edition).
    • Polydor.
    • 004.

  • The White Stripes

    Seven Nation Army

    • (CD Single).
    • Xls.

  • Kacey Musgraves

    Velvet Elvis

    • Golden Hour.
    • Decca.

  • Pharrell Williams

    Happy

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Pratt & McClain

    Happy Days

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

  • Paul McCartney

    Come On To Me

    • Egypt Station.
    • Virgin EMI Records.
    • 2.

  • AR Rahman & The Pussycat Dolls

    Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny) (feat. Nicole Scherzinger)

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 1.

  • Miles Kane

    Cry On My Guitar

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From comedian & writer Paul Kerensa:

As a comedian, every August part of me yearns for the Edinburgh Fringe. A thousand colleagues are there right now, eyeing up the Award formerly-known-as-Perrier. First won by one Cambridge Footlights troupe, with 鈥� it鈥檚 safe to say 鈥� the best sketch show line-up that鈥檚 ever existed: Tony Slattery, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, and of course, Dame Emma Thompson, you way-paver, you...

听

When it started, the Fringe was a 鈥榝ringe鈥�, to the bigger international festival next door. Nowadays, it鈥檚 outgrown its more serious neighbour. On Edinburgh鈥檚 Royal Mile, you鈥檒l have flyers thrust at you by several actors dressed as gorillas wearing tutus鈥� but not see a single office worker. The previously eccentric is the new norm.

听

The landscape shifts all the time. In the dozen or so shows I鈥檝e taken up, I鈥檝e been called 鈥榓 bit edgy鈥�, then 鈥榝ar from edgy鈥� 鈥� having a pretty clean show 鈥� then edgy again because no one else was being clean. I guess if everyone鈥檚 going for edgy, the edge gets pretty crowded. If everyone鈥檚 saying the unsayable, what鈥檚 left to say?

听

Beyond the arts, the fringes are becoming mainstream too. Fringe beliefs and viewpoints are eyeing up centre-stage. The unsayable is said, tweeted and shared 鈥� while the old mainstream heads to the fringes. Like my own Christian faith, formerly the religion of the masses鈥� Now 滨鈥檓 unusual as a churchgoer. Perhaps the church fits better on the margins, rather than a centrepiece of the nation, a collection of nice old buildings.

听

That familiar tale of The Good Samaritan rings true as ever: The injured person by the wayside, ignored by mainstream passers-by. It鈥檚 the marginalised Samaritan 鈥� used to life on the fringes 鈥� who stopped and helped the poor fellow. Martin Luther King reckoned those walking past were too busy asking themselves: 鈥業f I stop and help, what will happen to me?鈥�

听

Dancing through this changing world, meeting kooks and crazies on the fringes, moments of compassion can be mini acts of rebellion. Empathy and care may not feel like the norm. I know I need to stop more for those who need help, not set my sights on the middle of the road ahead, like 滨鈥檓 being flyered by that actor dressed as a gorilla wearing that tutu.

听

It鈥檚 good to pause in thought, but it鈥檚 something special to pause in deed, thinking 鈥榠f I stop and help, what will happen to them?鈥�

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