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Ronnie Wood and Gary Lineker

Guitarist Ronnie Wood chats to Chris about the Rolling Stones' new music and exhibition. Plus Gary Lineker on Leicester City's extraordinary Premier League season.

Guitar superstar Ronnie Wood chats to Chris about the new Rolling Stones exhibition at London's Saatchi Gallery and the band's new music. Plus Gary Lineker discusses Leicester City's extraordinary Premier League season and his promise that he will present Match Of The Day in his pants if they lift the trophy... We also hear from Claire Marshall, landlady of The Dawnay Arms, in the village of West Heslerton, West Yorkshire - the village that is up for sale for £20 million! And finally, art historian Dr Jim Harrison has a Pause For Thought about what to expect from the unexpected.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Tue 5 Apr 2016 06:30

Music Played

  • Spin Doctors

    Two Princes

    • Driving Rock (Various Artists).
    • Global Records & Tapes.
  • DNCE

    Cake By The Ocean

    • (CD Single).
    • Republic.
    • 1.
  • T. Rex

    I Love to Boogie

    • T. Rex - The Singles As & Bs.
    • Repertoire.
  • Talk Talk

    Life's What You Make It

    • More Greatest Hits Of 80's (Various).
    • Disky.
  • Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

    The Austerity Of Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI Records.
  • The Banana Splits

    The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)

    • Television's Greatest Hits Vol. 5: In Living Color (Various Artists).
    • TVT Records.
  • ABBA

    Waterloo

    • Abba Gold (40th Anniversary Edition).
    • Polar.
    • 019.
  • Squeeze

    Nirvana

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
  • Lady Gaga

    Poker Face

    • The Fame.
    • Interscope.
    • 6.
  • Coldplay

    Charlie Brown

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
    • 1.
  • Melanie

    Brand New Key

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1972 (Various).
    • Premier.
  • AURORA

    Conqueror

    • (CD Single).
    • Decca.
    • 001.
  • Michael Jackson

    Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough

    • Michael Jackson - History.
    • Epic.
  • The Beatles

    Twist and Shout

    • Please Please Me.
    • Parlophone.
    • 14.
  • Tom Odell

    Another Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.
    • 1.
  • Dean Martin & Helen O’Connell

    How D'Ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning?

    • Cool Couples (Various Artists).
    • Sanctuary.
  • Pet Shop Boys

    The Pop Kids

  • The Rolling Stones

    Brown Sugar

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.
  • The Rolling Stones

    Start Me Up

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.
    • 7.
  • David Essex

    Hold Me Close

    • 70's Number Ones Vol 2.
    • Old Gold.
  • The Police

    Message In A Bottle

    • The Very Best Of Sting & The Police.
    • A&M.
  • The Kinks

    The Village Green Preservation Society

    • Castle.
  • James Bay

    Best Fake Smile (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2015)

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI.
    • 5.
  • Stereophonics

    White Lies

    • (CD Single).
    • Stylus Records.
  • Robert Miles

    Children

    • New Pure Moods (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.
  • Underworld

    Born Slippy

    • Huge Hits 1996 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.
  • Mayer Hawthorne

    Love Like That

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG Rights Management.
  • The Rolling Stones

    Get Off Of My Cloud

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.
  • Elbow

    One Day Like This

    • (CD Single).
    • Fiction.
    • 1.

Chris' Pause For Thought: Jim Harris

Chris' Pause For Thought: Jim Harris

Art Historian, Dr Jim Harris

Ìý

I was in the car yesterday when I suddenly realised it was Tuesday morning and I’d forgotten this Pause for Thought.Ìý Forgotten to write it.Ìý Forgotten to come to the studio.Ìý Forgotten the whole thing. It was a horror show. ÌýI pulled over. ÌýI started to go over the previous 24 hours to try to understand how it had happened, how I’d got up, eaten breakfast, and missed the calls from your production team asking me where on earth I was.Ìý I got the phone out to dial Jonathan my producer.

Ìý

And then the penny dropped.Ìý There were no calls.Ìý I checked my diary and finally knewÌýfor sure that it was Monday. My absence had gone unremarked because, gloriously, I wasn’t supposed to be here at all.Ìý It was like a new start, a sweaty, breathless rush of joyous relief. I reckon those moments of disorientation, of suddenly feeling out of control, of experiencing the unexpected come to us all sometimes.

Ìý

I once took a group of boys from East London walking in the Peak District and I’ll never forget their howls of dismay (and the accompanying expletives) when they realised that the crag they were running across had no safety barriers installed.ÌýÌý But after the sweary terror, they were exultant.Ìý Here, for the first time, was a place with no restrictions, no limits, no safety barriers

Ìý

In the days after the first Easter, Jesus’ friends had those experiences time and again: they found his tomb empty; he showed up in a locked room where they were gathered; he met them when they were fishing and told them, literally, how to do their job – ‘put the nets on the other side’.Ìý And then he cooked them breakfast.

Ìý

For Jesus friends, the end of his life, the awfulness of his crucifixion was weirdly like a safety barrier. The crazy ride they’d taken with him was finally over and they could return to their everyday lives.Ìý Discovering he was alive must have felt like being at the top of that crag did for those boys: wide-eyed astonishment, fear, and then the careening joy of discovering that what they had thought was the end was just the start of something new and infinitely exciting.

Ìý

Sometimes, the unexpected does that: It rescues us, gives us the chance of something new, gives us the chance to start again. Sometimes the unexpected gives us much more than we expect.

Broadcast

  • Tue 5 Apr 2016 06:30

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After eight years of hosting the Breakfast Show, Chris Evans leaves Radio 2.

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