Barry Manilow, Charley Boorman, Charlotte Riley and Imelda May
Barry Manilow tells Chris about his new album, Charley Boorman on his Long Way Back and actress Charlotte Riley on King Charles III. Plus Imelda May performs live in the studio.
Barry Manilow tells Chris about his new album This is My Town: Songs of New York, motorbike adventurer Charley Boorman talks about his life-changing accident and book Long Way Back. Actress Charlotte Riley tells us about playing Kate Middleton in 麻豆官网首页入口 Two's new drama King Charles III, plus Imelda May performs live in the studio with music from her latest album Life. Love. Flesh. Blood.
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Mark Ronson
Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars)
- (CD Single).
- Columbia.
- 001.
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Erasure
Love You To The Sky
- (CD Single).
- Mute.
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The Brothers Johnson
Strawberry Letter 23
- Eighties Soul Weekender 2 (Various).
- Pump.
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Primal Scream
Rocks
- Dirty Hits.
- Columbia.
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Pete Tong, Heritage Orchestra, Jules Buckley & Cookie
Lola's Theme
- (CD Single).
- Polydor.
- 3.
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David Bowie
Fashion
- David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
- EMI.
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Rick Astley
This Old House
- (CD Single).
- BMG Rights Management GmbH.
- 004.
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Take That
Shine
- (CD Single).
- Polydor.
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Modern Romance
Best Years Of Our Lives
- The Platinum Collection.
- Rhino.
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Frank Sinatra
Come Fly With Me
- The Capitol Years.
- Capitol Records.
- 28.
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Nickelback
Song on Fire
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Katy Perry
Chained To The Rhythm (feat. Skip Marley)
- (CD Single).
- Capitol Records.
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Tina Turner
The Best
- Tina Turner - Simply The Best.
- Capitol.
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McFadden & Whitehead
Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now
- Million Sellers Vol.19 - The Seventie.
- Disky.
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Survivor
Eye Of The Tiger
- The No.1 Movies Album (Various Artist.
- Polygram Tv.
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The Weeknd
Can't Feel My Face
- Beauty Behind The Madness.
- Republic.
- 7.
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Pratt & McClain
Happy Days
- Television's Greatest Hits Volume 3 70s & 80s.
- Silva Screen Records Ltd.
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Clean Bandit
Symphony (feat. Zara Larsson)
- (CD Single).
- Atlantic.
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Barry Manilow
Copacabana
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- Arista.
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Barry Manilow
Could It Be Magic
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Barry Manilow
Can't Smile Without You听
- Manilow Greatest Hits - Platinum Coll.
- Arista.
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Imelda May
Johnny Got A Boom Boom [Live]
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Barry Manilow
New York City Rhythm / On Broadway
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Imelda May
Should've Been You [Live]
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Barry Manilow
NYC Medley
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Imelda May
Big Bad Handsome Man [Live]
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Imelda May
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (U2 Cover) [Live]
Pause For Thought
Rev Richard Coles
It may
have looked like a very poor effort at a Village People tribute act, but the
reason I was got up like a construction worker on Tuesday was for the topping
out ceremony of the new Senate House for the University of Northampton, where I
am Chancellor. Topping out traditionally is the ceremony when the last brick or
beam of a new building is put in place. It goes back to the Vikings, but in
more recent times was usually done by a lady in a hat and gloves who would
deposit a blob of cement on a brick with a silver trowel and everyone would
have sandwiches while a real builder finished the job. Today鈥檚 construction
methods are rather different, and the honour on Tuesday, which fell to the Lord
Lieutenant of the county, was done not with a silver trowel but an Allen key,
tightening the last screw on a truss holding the plate glass balcony on the top
floor in place.
It
reminded me of when I was curate at Boston Stump, the great medieval church
looking out from Lincolnshire to the Wash. When Phil and Tony the stonemasons
were working at the top of its tower, on the great lantern built in the 1500s,
they found a penny left under a stone by the anonymous master mason who
finished it.
But
that鈥檚 not all they found. Also hidden by that stone was an exquisite carving
of a bird in the nest with her chicks, as fresh and as clean as if it has been
done yesterday, but unseen for five hundred years. Why would a master mason
expend such creativity and craft on a carving that would be seen by no-one for
half a millennium?
I
expect it was because he saved his best not for man but for God. That was a
commonplace idea in the Middle Ages, and lasted through to our own era, I
guess, in the tradition of wearing Sunday best.
That鈥檚 largely gone now, but something mysterious and powerful endures I think, in marking out buildings for great purposes: singing the praises of God, singing the songs that make the whole world sing, providing showgirl venues in the hottest spots north of Havana (sorry, Barry, I'm a bit star struck), and being places of illumination, learning, transformation, and empowerment.
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