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Brian May and Roger Taylor, Lee Mack, Geoffrey Boycott and George Ezra

Chris Evans presents a fully interactive show for all the family, featuring music, special guests and listeners on the phone.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 19 Sep 201406:30
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Bryan Adams

    She Knows Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • Bellowhead

    Gosport Nancy (Radio 2 Live In Hyde Park)

  • Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

    Anything Goes

    • Cheek To Cheek.
    • Interscope.

  • Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Three Little Birds

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

  • Cher

    The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)

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

  • The Dave Clark Five

    Bits and Pieces

    • All The Hits.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Sammy Davis Jr.

    Talk To The Animals

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

  • Earth, Wind & Fire

    Boogie Wonderland (feat. The Emotions)

    • The Best Seventies Album In The World.. Ever!.
    • Virgin.
    • 2.

  • Free

    All Right Now

    • Back To The 70's (CD1) (Various).
    • EMI.
    • 15.

  • Chrissie Hynde

    Down The Wrong Way

    • Stockholm.
    • Caroline.

  • Michael Jackson & Queen

    There Must Be More To Life Than This

    • Queen Forever.
    • Virgin EMI.

  • The Lovin’ Spoonful

    Summer In The City

    • NOW That's What I Call A 60s & 70s Summer: Seasons In The Sun (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Johnny Marr

    Easy Money

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Pratt & McClain

    Happy Days

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

  • Pulp

    Common People

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 5.

  • Queen

    Let Me In Your Heart Again

  • Queen

    Love Kills

  • Ram Jam

    Black Betty

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

  • Saint Etienne

    You're In A Bad Way

    • True Brit (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 5.

  • Stealers Wheel

    Stuck In The Middle With You

    • (Single).
    • A&M.

  • Toto

    Rosanna

    • Walk On - Hits From The Last 2 Decade.
    • Columbia.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From comedian & writer Paul Kerensa:

One of many things I love about this show is that you never know who’ll be in the studio on a Friday. Today it includes, coincidentally, my boss. When I’m not pausing for thought, I lob jokes into Lee Mack’s sitcom scripts (and mighty fine they are too – episode 3, joke 12 is a real corker, if I may say so).

So it’s nice to be almost literally rubbing shoulders with studio neighbours. Two thousand years ago, a legal expert asked a now-famous be-sandaled teacher about his greatest instructions. His greatest? Love God. And his second greatest? Love your neighbour. The lawyer asked, “Who is my neighbour?”

Well here’s a fact: Brian May used to be my neighbour. A road away, in the same village. So hello!

Lee Mack, well I’ve written with him for the last decade, so we were at neighbouring desks for a bit.

Roger Taylor: I was born in the next street from where I believe you grew up in Cornwall.

George Ezra: A trickier link, but those last three were pretty good. Your song ‘Budapest’ was on the EP ‘Did You Hear The Rain’... I went to Budapest once, and it was raining. So that counts.

With Geoff Boycott I was stumped. You once went 246 not out. I’ve worked on Not Going Out. That’ll do.

And Chris, how are you my neighbour? Well I’ve got ginger hair and glasses – what more do you want?

“Who is my neighbour?” Well everyone on this planet is connected. That teacher – Jesus - answered by talking about the Good Samaritan – and Samaritans were loathed at the time. The point of ‘love your neighbour’ is not to love our own kind, but to love the others.

At a time when the planet feels smaller than ever, yet full of more differences than ever, we could say more often: “You’re different from me, and I love you for it.”

And I’ll finally add that in ten years of working with Lee Mack, that’s the longest I’ve spoken without him lobbing a joke in.

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  • Fri 19 Sep 201406:30
    BBC Radio 2

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