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Sir Michael Caine, Alex Jones, Nadia Comaneci, Sebastian Stella and Si Cranstoun

Chris gets that Friday feeling going with iconic British actor Sir Michael Caine, stars of the 麻豆官网首页入口's new acrobatic entertainment show 'Tumble': Alex Jones, Nadia Comaneci, and Sebastian Stella. Plus, super singer/songwriter Si Cranstoun plays live in the studio.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 8 Aug 2014 06:30
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Music Played

  • 10cc

    The Dean and I

    • The Very Best Of 10cc.
    • Mercury.

  • Cilla Black

    Alfie

    • Cilla Black- The Best Of The EMI Year.
    • EMI.

  • Nell Bryden

    Wayfarer

    • (CD Single).
    • 157 Records.
    • 001.

  • The Communards

    Don't Leave Me This Way (feat. Sarah Jane Morris)

    • Now 1986 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Sammy Davis Jr.

    Talk To The Animals

    • Sammy Davis Greatest Hits.
    • Curb.
    • 1.

  • Paloma Faith

    Trouble With My Baby

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Dobie Gray

    Out On The Floor

    • The Best Northern Soul All-Nighter (V.
    • Virgin.

  • Buddy Holly

    Peggy Sue

    • Rediscover The 50's-Rock With The Cav.
    • Old Gold.

  • Michael Jackson

    Wanna Be Startin鈥� Somethin'

    • The Essential Michael Jackson.
    • Epic.
    • 7.

  • Journey

    Don't Stop Believin'

    • Rock Of America (Various Artists).
    • Trax Label.

  • M

    Pop Muzik

    • Million Sellers Vol.16 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Millers Daughter

    Undeniable

    • (CD Single).
    • My Major Company.

  • Matt Monro

    On Days Like These

    • Matt Monro Sings Don Black.
    • EMI.

  • The O鈥橨ays

    Love Train

    • Now 100 Hits 70s (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Osmonds

    Love Me For A Reason

    • The Very Best Of The Osmonds.
    • Polydor.

  • Pratt & McClain

    Happy Days

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

  • The Script

    Superheroes

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Sam Smith

    I'm Not The Only One

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.
    • 5.

  • Steely Dan

    Rikki Don't Lose That Number

    • A Decade Of Steely Dan.
    • MCA.

  • Texas

    Summer Son

    • Texas - The Greatest Hits.
    • Mercury.

  • Pharrell Williams

    Happy

Pause For Thought

From Rev鈥檇 Richard Coles, cleric and broadcaster:

A recent survey showed that vicars have one of the highest levels of job satisfaction in Britain 鈥� good news 鈥� but that bare statistic fails to capture the downsides of this life, like having to wear black in midsummer, people expecting you to do something when it all goes pear-shaped on public transport, making strangers feel guilty.

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I would add to these trying to buy a car. This week I turned up in my dog collar to test drive a modest estatecar, suitable to my station in life (too lazy for gears, and with room for three dachshunds and a George III tallboy).

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The salesman who looked after us was unfailingly polite and professional, but I steeled myself for the look of disappointment that would follow when I said, 鈥渏ust the basic spec, please鈥�. If he felt disappointed he didn鈥檛 show it. What he did show me, as he cunningly led me through the showroom, was the top of the range model, glossy and black, two turbocharged litres crammed under its sleek bonnet, its interior clad in softest hide smelling of Alan Sugar. 鈥淎nd this one?鈥� I croaked鈥� By the time he鈥檇 finished, I had in my mind sold the church silver to make it mine, all mine, because I鈥橫 WORTH IT!

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鈥nd at that moment I remembered the words of Jesus; 鈥渨hat does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?鈥� A moment鈥檚 satisfaction, I guess; perhaps the more lasting pleasure of going about in a machine that does its job beautifully well; but is it really suitable to turn up in a funeral cortege driving a growling V6, number plate RIP 1?

听

No, I concluded, and turned away from the gleaming beast in the showroom and configured something vicarish instead (with one concession to the devil 鈥� the dogs get cup holders)

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