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Fearne Cotton, George Ezra, Mary Berry, Anton Du Beke, Stacey Dooley, The Military Wives Choirs

We get Quiet with Fearne Cotton, Anton & Stacey provide the Strictly scoop and Mary Berry starts the Christmas Party. Plus, George Ezra and the Military Wives Choirs perform live!

Chris catches up with this year’s Strictly champion Stacey Dooley who's delighted with her big win. Staying on Strictly, Anton Du Beke joins Chris in studio to give us all the backstage gossip from this weekend's Grand Final. He also chats about his new tour ‘Dance Those Magical Musicals’. Fearne Cotton helps us unwind with her incredible book ‘Quiet’ which tackles the negativity in life we sometimes have to deal with. Mary Berry also joins the guests in studio ahead of her new TV show ‘Mary Berry’s Christmas Party’ and supplies them with scrumptious shortbread. Each guest provides Chris with their best festive tip, from buying an extra gift to wrapping turkeys in sleeping bags! Plus, the brilliant George Ezra plays tracks from his latest album Staying at Tamara's and performs a beautiful cover of the Shakin’ Stevens classic ‘Merry Christmas Everyone’. The Military Wives Choirs are also on hand to sing some of the nation's best loved carols!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Mon 17 Dec 201806:30
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Kelly Clarkson

    Underneath The Tree

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

  • Mark Ronson

    Nothing Breaks Like A Heart (feat. Miley Cyrus)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Semisonic

    Closing Time

    • MCA.

  • Bruno Mars

    24K Magic

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Greg Lake

    I Believe In Father Christmas

    • The Anthology, A Musical Journey.
    • BMG.

  • Bryan Adams

    You Belong To Me

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

  • Michael Bublé

    Santa Baby

    • Christmas: Deluxe Special Edition.
    • Reprise.

  • Boyzone

    Normal Boy

    • Thank You & Goodnight.
    • Rhino.

  • Take That

    Patience

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Andy Williams

    Happy Heart

    • The Best Of Andy Williams.
    • Dino.

  • KT Tunstall

    Human Being

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin Records.

  • Paul McCartney

    Wonderful Christmastime

    • The 7" Singles Box.
    • MPL.
    • 7.

  • Just Jack

    Starz In Their Eyes

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.

  • Katy Perry

    Cozy Little Christmas

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.

  • Josh Groban

    Bigger Than Us

    • Bridges.
    • Warner Bros.

  • James Arthur & Anne‐Marie

    Rewrite The Stars

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

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Father Brian D’Arcy, a Catholic Passionist priest:

As I get older, change becomes more of a threat to me. It’s always sad to move on from the precious and the comfortable. Yet I know that if I don’t change I won’t grow; when I’m not growing I’m not living.

Even though one friend used to remind me that the only person in favour of change is a baby with a soiled nappy, I realise that when I’m finished changing, I’m finished, full stop.

Today I’m really conscious of change because it’s my final PFT with you Chris. And I’m sad about that.

I’m happy for you though. You thrive on new challenges. Your philosophy is: You cannot say that you’ll definitely be happy when you change direction, but you know deep down that you will not be content unless you change now. And it’s always better to change before you have to. As our mentor Sir Terry used to say: “There’s never a right time to go but there could be a wrong time to go.” If one DOESN’T change direction one may actually end up where you’re going. Life doesn’t get better by chance; life gets better by change.

This morning I’m utterly grateful to you for all you did for us ‘Pausers.’ I believe that Joy is the simplest and best expression of gratitude. As we approach Christmas joy is a good word. A joyous Christmas is more uplifting and more lasting.

Gratitude for what we have and what we had is more useful than moaning about we’re losing. I find that gratitude unlocks the fullness of life within; it turns what we have into enough, a meal into a feast, denial into acceptance, a house into a home and a stranger into a friend.

An attitude of gratitude is vital. I can grumble that roses have thorns or I can be grateful that thorns have roses. My own prayer-life changed dramatically when I first read what the great spiritual writer Meister Eckhart advised: “If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, that will be enough.“

Feeling grateful and not expressing it would be like wrapping a present and not delivering it.

So Chris, God bless you and your family. Thank you.

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  • Mon 17 Dec 201806:30
    BBC Radio 2

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