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Natalie Dormer, Robert Plant, Armando Iannucci and Shed Seven

Robert Plant on his new solo album Carry Fire, actress Natalie Dormer chats about play Venus in Fur and Armando Iannucci talks about his new film. Plus Shed Seven perform live.

Chris is joined by Led Zeppelin legend Robert Plant who stops by with his brand new solo album Carry Fire ahead of his UK and Ireland tour. Game of Thrones and Hunger Games star Natalie Dormer tells us about stepping out on the West End stage in Venus in Fur. Alan Partridge writer Armando Iannucci tells us about his latest satire, a film called The Death of Stalin. Plus Shed Seven perform songs from their new album 'Instant Pleasures' live in the studio!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 13 Oct 2017 06:30
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Music Played

  • New Order

    True Faith '94

    • (CD Single).
    • London.

  • Craig David

    Heartline

    • (CD Single).
    • Insanity Records.

  • Queen

    We Will Rock You

    • News Of The World.
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • Calvin Harris

    Feels (feat. Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry & Big Sean)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Blur

    Parklife

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Coldplay

    Viva La Vida

    • Viva La Vida Or Death & All His Friends.
    • Parlophone.
    • 1.

  • Sam Smith

    Too Good At Goodbyes

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.

  • Michael Jackson

    Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough

    • Michael Jackson - History.
    • Epic.

  • Neil Diamond

    Sweet Caroline

    • Neil Diamond - The Ultimate Collectio.
    • Columbia/Mca.

  • Morrissey

    Spent The Day In Bed

    • Low In High School.
    • BMG.

  • Justin Timberlake

    Can't Stop The Feeling!

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Livin鈥� Joy

    Dreamer

    • (CD Single).
    • MCA.

  • Yazz & The Plastic Population

    The Only Way Is Up

    • Wanted (Deluxe Edition).
    • Cherry Pop.
    • 010.

  • Sister Sledge

    He's The Greatest Dancer

    • The Last Days Of Disco (Film Soundtra.
    • Columbia.

  • Scissor Sisters

    I Don't Feel Like Dancin'

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • The Coral

    In The Morning

    • (CD Single).
    • Deltasonic.

  • Pratt & McClain

    Happy Days

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

  • Roy Orbison & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    I Drove All Night (feat. Ward Thomas)

    • A Love So Beautiful: Roy Orbison & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Legacy Recordings.

  • Kelly Clarkson

    Love So Soft

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Shed Seven

    Going For Gold (Radio 2 Session, 13 Oct 2017)

  • Robert Plant

    The May Queen

  • Shed Seven

    It鈥檚 Not Easy (Radio 2 Session, 13 Oct 2017)

  • Maroon 5

    What Lovers Do (feat. SZA)

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.

  • Shed Seven

    Chasing Rainbows (Radio 2 Session, 13 Oct 2017)

  • Shed Seven

    Don鈥檛 Get Me Wrong (Radio 2 Session, 13 Oct 2017)

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Rev鈥檇 Richard Coles, cleric and broadcaster:

聽There鈥檚 a certain finality to be being booted off Strictly. The process has the merit of clarity - once you鈥檙e out, you're out. Last dance, bunch of flowers, and a walk towards the car waiting to take you home (dance shoes, which you鈥檝e carried round like a new born baby, now abandoned in Wardrobe).聽


Of course is should be like that. Exits, specially unsought one, should be brief and purposeful; but looking back, as I shed the last flakes of glitter and the spray tan fades, what endures most powerfully in the memory is not perhaps what I expected it to be. It鈥檚 not the dazzle, or making my entrance playing a golden harp on a cloud, or the extraordinary backstage operation that gets fifteen couples successfully across the dance floor live on prime time television, fascinating though they may be; it鈥檚 the human detail that endures, at the heart of the show, and I think its success.

What I think of most often is queueing up in pairs backstage, waiting to make our entrance at the beginning of the show. The band strikes up the theme and we are released, couple by couple, to arrive at the top of the stairs waving to the audience just as Alan Voice-of-Strictly Dedicoat, announces our names. It鈥檚 a moment of pure showbiz - but what we really do, standing there waving, is look at the section where friends and family are seated, scanning the rows for a friendly face, a look of encouragement. Everybody does it.

What does it tell you? That there鈥檚 a faint memory of gladiators walking out into the stadium at the back of our minds, even if we鈥檙e in wigs and dance shoes rather than helmets and armour; and that at moments of trial we all want to know that those whom we love, and love us, are behind us.

It鈥檚 a common misconception, I think, that Christianity offers an escape from the trials of life. Not so. The life of Jesus teaches us that no one truly lives without enduring trial - if you try to dodge it, it will only come for you by other means - and that beyond all the adventures and triumphs of life what endures is love - in which we are truly, finally, known.

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