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Zoe Ball meets James Corden, David Walliams and Basil Brush!

James Corden is here ahead of the BRIT Awards, David Walliams talks 500 WORDS deadlines and Basil Brush takes us back in TV time!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Wed 19 Feb 201406:30
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • American Authors

    Best Day Of My Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Def Jam.
    • 001.

  • Arctic Monkeys

    When The Sun Goes Down

    • Domino.

  • Acker Bilk

    Stranger On The Shore

    • Jukebox Instrumentals Vol.2.
    • Old Gold.

  • The Blackbyrds

    Walking In Rhythm

    • Afrodisiac (Various Artists).
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • Bob Marley & The Wailers

    One Love / People Get Ready

    • Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend.
    • Island.

  • Bright Eyes

    First Day Of My Life

    • SADDLE CREEK.

  • Paul Carrack

    Life's Too Short

    • (CD Single).
    • Carrack-UK.
    • 001.

  • China Crisis

    Wishful Thinking

    • Greatest Hits Of The 80's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • Elvis Costello & The Attractions

    I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • Céline Dion

    Water & A Flame

    • Loved Me Back To Life.
    • Sony Music.
    • 001.

  • Paloma Faith

    Can't Rely On You

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.
    • 001.

  • Feist

    1234

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Whitney Houston

    How Will I Know

    • The Best Of.
    • Arista.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Into The Blue

  • Paolo Nutini

    10/10

    • Sunny Side Up.
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • Katy Perry

    Firework

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
    • 1.

  • Queen

    Fat Bottomed Girls

    • Queen - Greatest Hits.
    • Parlophone.

  • Ram Jam

    Black Betty

    • 25 Years Of Rock 'N' Roll: 1977 (Various Artists).
    • Connoisseur Collection.
    • 2.

  • Status Quo

    Whatever You Want

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Talking Heads

    And She Was

    • More Greatest Hits Of 80's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • Texas

    I Don't Want A Lover

    • Texas - The Greatest Hits.
    • Mercury.

  • Toto

    Africa

    • The All Time Greatest Rock Songs ....
    • Columbia.

  • Ike & Tina Turner

    River Deep - Mountain High

    • The Best Of The Rock'n'Roll Years Vo.
    • BBC.

  • Wet Wet Wet

    Love Is All Around

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.

  • The Whispers

    It's A Love Thing

    • The Greatest 80's Soul W/Ender (Va).
    • Warner Strategic Market.

  • Robbie Williams

    Angels

    • The Best 90's Album In The World...Ev.
    • Virgin.

  • Stevie Wonder

    Part-Time Lover

    • Stevie Wonder - Song Review.
    • Motown.

Pause For Thought: Leslie Griffiths

Pause For Thought: Leslie Griffiths

From Leslie Griffiths, Methodist Minister:

Steve McQueen’s film “Twelve Years a Slave” is a BAFTA winner. Brilliant! It’s so brave and honest. It deals with painful experience but remains a good story. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender and Lupita Nyong’o and so many others inject a film that looks unflinchingly at slavery with huge doses of their own humanity. And that’s the secret. This is not an on-screen sermon. Nor a documentary. Nor simply social commentary. It goes well beyond all that. It’s the story of a man who’s free and black, a very hard combination to pull off in Pre-Civil War America. He was tricked into slavery, separated from his loved ones, subjected to humiliation and torture, treated as a piece of property. It’s all so gruesome and yet it’s gripping, deeply affecting, and triumphant. It left me with some painful questions.

How could Christian people, people who said their prayers, read their Bibles, went to church, do such things to their fellow men and women? If I felt that my Christian faith required (or even permitted) me to treat others like that, I swear I’d give it up right now, I’d tear up any holy book that told me I could or should behave in that way.

At one point in the film, whilst a group of kidnapped men and women were being shipped down to the plantations, one of them gritted his teeth and urged the others to be brave. “We’ve got to survive,” he said. To which Chiwetel Ejiofor replied, “I don’t want to survive. I want to live.”

And there’s the rub. One of the promises of Jesus came to my mind. “I’m here,” he said, “because I want people to have life, abundant life, life that raises the soul to the very gates of heaven.” That’s more like it.

Survival is one thing. But life, deep-down soul-invigorating life, is what I want. And I want it for everyone regardless of colour and untainted by false ideas.

Broadcast

  • Wed 19 Feb 201406:30
    BBC Radio 2

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