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Ray Mears, Emma Willis, David Walliams and Black Grape

Chris is joined by super survivalist Ray Mears, talks Gangsta Grannies with David Walliams, Emma Willis gives us the backstage scoop on The Voice Kids and Black Grape perform live.

Chris is joined by super survivalist Ray Mears who shares his joy of exploring the outdoors and gives us tips for holiday adventures before he embarks on his Born To Go Wild UK tour. Awesome author David Walliams tells us about his mischievous character Gangsta Granny coming to the stage in London's West End and the perils of being a writer. The wonderful Emma Willis stops by the studio with all the backstage gossip before The Voice Kids moves on to the battle rounds on ITV this Saturday night.

Providing the Friday soundtrack is Shaun Ryder and the brilliant Black Grape, with music from their upcoming album Pop Voodoo plus classics In The Name of The Father, Reverend Black Grape and an Elvis cover!

Reverend Richard Coles provides the daily Pause For Thought and we test Vassos' behind the scenes Wimbledon knowledge in Ask Vassos!

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Fri 7 Jul 2017 06:30
成人快手 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Coldplay

    Adventure Of A Lifetime

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

    I Gotta Praise

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.

  • Christina Aguilera, Lil鈥� Kim, 惭媒补 & P!nk

    Lady Marmalade

  • The Troggs

    Wild Thing

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1966.
    • Premier.

  • Aztec Camera

    Oblivious

    • The Best Of Aztec Camera.
    • Warner E.S.P..

  • OutKast

    Hey Ya!

    • Outkast - Speakerboxxx.
    • Arista.

  • LeAnn Rimes

    LovE is LovE is LovE

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Dolly Parton

    9 to 5

    • Dolly Parton: The Ultimate Collection.
    • BMG/RCA.

  • Paolo Nutini

    Pencil Full Of Lead

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • Billy Fury

    When Will You Say I Love You

    • The Billy Fury Hit Parade.
    • London.
    • 4.

  • Carly Rae Jepsen

    Cut To The Feeling

    • (CD Single).
    • School Boy/Interscope.

  • Jamiroquai

    Canned Heat

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony.

  • U2

    With Or Without You

    • U2 - The Joshua Tree.
    • Island.

  • The Weeknd

    Can't Feel My Face

    • Beauty Behind The Madness.
    • Republic.
    • 7.

  • Pratt & McClain

    Happy Days

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

  • The Killers

    Mr Brightside

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Olly Murs & Louisa

    Unpredictable

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Black Grape

    In The Name Of The Father (Radio 2 Session, 7 Jul 2017)

  • Texas

    Midnight

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Black Grape

    Nine Lives (Radio 2 Session, 7 Jul 2017)

  • George Ezra

    Don't Matter Now

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Black Grape

    Reverend Black Grape (Radio 2 Session, 7 Jul 2017)

  • Black Grape

    Viva Las Vegas (Radio 2 Session, 7 Jul 2017)

Pause For Thought

Rev Richard Coles


It鈥檚 Pride this weekend in London: a million people gather for a carnival, a festival, a celebration, of all things LGBT.

How far we鈥檝e come. This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the change in the law, that turned being gay from a crime into something to tolerate, rather than to celebrate, but a change that transformed the lives of countless people immeasurably for the better.

My first Pride - or Gay Pride March as it was more explicitly back then - was 1980. We were numbered 听in hundreds, not tens of thousands, we were policed as heavily as flying pickets, and the atmosphere was militant. For the march, I had defiantly dyed my hair with a pink triangle, symbol of gay liberation, to challenge heterosexism and patriarchy; some builders going past in a van wolf-whistled.

I had just arrived in London, a gay runaway from middle England, here to make up my own life, not one negatively defined by a hostile world. And that鈥檚 what happened. It led, somewhat surprisingly, thirty years later to me being ordained a priest in the Church of England - surprising because even now there鈥檚 still resistance to full equality for LGBT people in some parts of the CofE. What鈥檚 a gay man doing getting mixed up with that?

Well, I鈥檓 not the first, and I鈥檓 not the only one, and we all have our stories. But for me, I think it is largely because I learned about compassion, love, resilience and righteousness, so fundamental to faithful Christian living, in the gay community - and learned it through resisting hostility, rejoicing in being fully alive, coming together during the terrible early years of the HIV epidemic. The wages of sin, some said back then - but what I discovered were not the wages of sin but the fruits of the Spirit. Formed by that, a final destination in the church became for me not unlikely but inevitable. Wouldn鈥檛 work for everyone, but it does for me, not least because it obliges me to find a way through irreconcilable difference with people who implacably disagree with me - transferable skills for a fractured world.

And my dears, the BLING鈥�

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