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Tom Kerridge, Paloma Faith, Lee Mack, Catherine Tate

Chef Tom Kerridge shares his festive foodie pointers with Lee Mack and Catherine Tate. Plus, Paloma Faith and The Kingdom Choir perform live!

It's day two of the Breakfast festive week, Tom Kerridge serves up mince pies and chocolate peanut butter brownies to get us all in the party mood. He also shares his Christmas top tips from potatoes to how to spruce up your sprouts. Lee Mack reveals exactly how nervous he is ahead of his live Christmas special of the sitcom Not Going Out. Catherine Tate spills the beans on transforming her award winning sketch show for the stage at London鈥檚 The Wyndham Theatre. Paloma Faith provides the festive soundtrack, including roping all the guests into a sing along or two! Plus, The Kingdom Choir sing carols around Elton John鈥檚 piano. Nick Baines, the Bishop of Leeds provides the daily Pause For Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Tue 18 Dec 2018 06:30
麻豆社 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Wizzard

    I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday

    • That's Christmas (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • P!nk

    A Million Dreams

    • The Greatest Showman: Reimagined (Various Artists).
    • Atlantic.

  • Darlene Love

    All Alone On Christmas

    • Christmas Hits (Various Artists).
    • BMG.

  • Sia

    Santa's Coming For Us

    • Everyday Is Christmas.
    • Atlantic.

  • Tanita Tikaram

    Good Tradition

    • The Best Of Tanita Tikaram.
    • East West Records.

  • The Banana Splits

    The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)

    • Television's Greatest Hits Vol. 5: In Living Color (Various Artists).
    • TVT Records.

  • Michael Bubl茅

    Blue Christmas

    • Christmas: Deluxe Special Edition.
    • Reprise.

  • Jax Jones & Years & Years

    Play

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • The Pogues

    Fairytale Of New York (feat. Kirsty MacColl)

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Music UK.

  • Glenn Miller

    Jingle Bells

    • Swingin' Christmas Party (Various Artists).
    • Bluebird.

  • Barbra Streisand

    The Rain Will Fall

    • Walls.
    • Sony Music CMG.

  • The Killers

    When You Were Young

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.

  • Jona Lewie

    Stop The Cavalry

    • The Ivor Novello Winners.
    • EMI.

  • Rag鈥檔鈥橞one Man

    Human

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

  • Ariana Grande

    thank u, next

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Motown.

  • John Gibbons & Nina Nesbitt

    A Spaceman Came Travelling

    • (CD Single).
    • Good Soldier.

  • Cher

    SOS

    • Dancing Queen.
    • Warner Bros.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Nick Baines, the Bishop of Leeds:

鈥楾is the season to be joyful, 鈥榯is the time to be glad. Apparently. And so it should be, too. Christmas is about God surprising earth with heaven and leaking some hope into the stuff of human life.

A remote fairy tale? Some might think that, but the stories in the gospels tell of ordinary people - sometimes the unlikely people - finding light interrupting their darkness and opening up a new future.

So, 鈥榯is indeed the season to be joyful and a time to be glad. But, 鈥榯is also the season to have humdingers of arguments and family squabbles. How do I know this - when my own family exemplifies perpetual and imperturbable peace and harmony, (of course)?

I read in a newspaper on the train yesterday that it鈥檚 good to argue with your partner and bad to keep it all in. The article was actually about couples where one vents their feelings and irritations and the other keeps schtumm - keeping in what really needs to get out. It seems it鈥檚 bad for your health to do this.

And, as Christmas approaches with the speed of a kid running away from the sprouts, we all know that tensions rise and tempers flare. The pressures of money, time and relationships all pile on, and some people cope with it better than others.

I know people this Christmas who will be spending the day in a church or community centre with people who are alone, lonely or otherwise isolated. Many bishops will be going into prisons where 鈥榟appy Christmas鈥� sounds a bit hollow. I will be in two cathedrals (because I am greedy and have three of the things in my Diocese), conscious that apparent joy can hide grief ... and it needs someone to help it out.

So, 鈥榯is the season to look out for your neighbour - to look behind the tree and the tinsel to the flashes of pain and grief that might be lurking underneath. But, it鈥檚 also the time to belt out the carols - even the ones that have a baby who never cried - be surprised by heaven, and to have your imagination grasped by a God who comes among us as one of us and whispers behind our defences: 鈥淚 am with you, I am on your side.鈥�

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