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Denzel Washington, Matthew Macfadyen, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and The Coral

Chris has breakfast with Hollywood star Denzel Washington, actor Matthew Macfadyen and singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor with live music from The Coral.

Denzel Washington tells Chris about starring as a retired CIA black ops operative in new thriller Equalizer 2. Matthew Macfadyen tells us what it's like to star in Succession, the American drama series that everyone's talking about. Sophie Ellis-Bextor gives Chris a world exclusive first play of her new single Love Is You. The Coral play live in the studio on the day their new album Move Through The Dawn is released. Plus the usual news headlines with Moira, sports updates from Vassos and today's Pause for Thought with Abdul-Rehman Malik.

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Fri 10 Aug 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • Blondie

    Call Me

    • Atomic: The Very Best Of Blondie.
    • EMI.

  • Lenny Kravitz

    5 More Days Til Summer

    • Raise Vibration.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Natalie Cole

    Wild Women Do

    • Pretty Woman - Soundtrack.
    • EMI.

  • Bruno Mars

    Finesse (Remix) (feat. Cardi B)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Kool & the Gang

    Straight Ahead

    • In The Heart.
    • BBR.
    • 006.

  • Niall Horan

    On The Loose

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI.

  • Blur

    Song 2

    • Music Of The Millennium (Various).
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • Carly Rae Jepsen

    Call Me Maybe

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.

  • Mungo Jerry

    Alright, Alright, Alright

    • 25 Years Of Rock `n' Roll - 1973.
    • Connoisseur Collection.
    • 1.

  • Led Zeppelin

    Immigrant Song

    • Led Zeppelin III.
    • Atlantic.

  • Aerosmith

    Dude (Looks Like A Lady)

    • Greatest Hits.
    • UMC.

  • Whitesnake

    Fool For Your Loving

    • Whitesnake - The Best Of Whitesnake.
    • Geffen.

  • AC/DC

    Whole Lotta Rosie

    • AC/DC - Let There Be Rock.
    • Atco.

  • Paloma Faith

    Warrior

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Pharrell Williams

    Happy

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Pratt & McClain

    Happy Days

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

  • Sophie Ellis鈥怋extor

    Love Is You

  • Spiller

    Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) (feat. Sophie Ellis鈥怋extor)

    • (CD Single).
    • Positiva.

  • Tom Odell

    If You Wanna Love Somebody

    • Jubilee Road.
    • Columbia.

  • Paul McCartney

    Come On To Me

    • Egypt Station.
    • Virgin EMI Records.
    • 2.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Writer Abdul-Rehman Malik:

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Chris, I鈥檝e come to the conclusion that I will never really be cool. It wasn鈥檛 always the case. When I was in high school and decidedly less portly, I used to go through men鈥檚 fashion magazines checking out the latest trends, imagining that one day I鈥檇 be able to pull off both style and substance with the ease of someone like a certain Mr Denzel Washington.

听

I鈥檇 be lying if I said that Denzel wasn鈥檛 one of my style icons. He had swag before they invented the term. Who am I kidding: as Outkast says, he was cooler than being cool 鈥� he was ice cold.

听

If I can鈥檛 be cool, I have decided that I should at least always try to keep my cool. There鈥檚 something supremely admirable about keeping your wits about you when the going gets rough. Alas, this week proved me wrong there as well.听

听

Coming off flu and sweating through the latest heatwave, I was trying to get to grips with an imminent deadline. My son, a perpetual motion machine fuelled by 7-year-old energy, was bouncing about the room firing an interminable line of questions at me. I was trying to shift mental gears, trying to answer 鈥� until I simply couldn鈥檛.

听

It was horrible. Even as the words were coming out of my mouth, I knew he wasn鈥檛 the problem. I was the one of having trouble getting it together. He鈥檚 just enjoying his school break.

听

Shocked by my harsh tone and sharp words, his face immediately fell. He leapt into my arms crying. 鈥淲hy did you say that Abba?鈥� he implored.

听

鈥淥ut of great need,鈥� the mystic Hafez said, 鈥渨e are all holding hands and climbing. Not loving is a letting go. Listen, the terrain around here is far too dangerous for that.鈥� In other words, hold on to each other.

听

I assured my son I loved him, asked for his forgiveness and was honest about being frustrated with myself. To quote Denzel, it was a 鈥渇all forward鈥� moment 鈥� a mistake that I had to use to make things better.

听

We made up.听 A few hours later, thinking it had all been forgotten, I asked him if he thought I was cool. 鈥淣o,鈥� he said categorically. 鈥淏ut,鈥� he added, 鈥測ou鈥檙e interesting. And interesting covers a lot more stuff than cool.鈥� It鈥檚 not quite Denzel 鈥� or Matthew or Coral 鈥� level, but I鈥檒l own it.听

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