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Fearne Cotton sits in, with Aidan Gillen and KT Tunstall

Aidan Gillen joins Fearne on Friends Round Friday to chat about Project Blue Book. Plus KT Tunstall brings us live music from her latest album WAX.

Aidan Gillen joins Fearne on Friends Round Friday to chat about Project Blue Book, a drama series where he plays renowned astrophysicist Dr. Josef Allen Hynek who studied UFOs throughout his career. We also ask him about the final season of Game of Thrones and look back at highlights from his career, including Queer as Folk.

KT Tunstall brings us live music from her latest album WAX, plus details of her current UK tour and covers Belinda's Carlisle's classic Heaven Is A Place on Earth.

Along with Clare Runacres on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Mike Williams on sport, Fearne and the team have the best start to your morning. With celeb guests, quizzes, headlines, tunes chosen by listeners and more music than you can shake a glitterball at!

There's also weather with Sarah Keith-Lucas, a Pause For Thought from Reverend Kate Bottley and listeners on the line as Fearne entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Music Played

  • Journey

    Don't Stop Believin'

    • Rock Of America (Various Artists).
    • Trax Label.
  • Ava Max

    So Am I

    • Heaven & Hell.
    • Atlantic.
  • Cornershop

    Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook Remix)

    Remix Artist: Norman Cook.
    • The 1999 Brit Awards (Various Artists.
    • Columbia.
  • James Arthur & Anne-Marie

    Rewrite The Stars

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

    Take Your Mama

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
  • The KLF

    Justified & Ancient (Stand by The JAMs) (feat. Tammy Wynette)

    • (CD Single).
    • K.L.F. Communications.
  • Bebe Rexha

    Last Hurrah

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.
  • Chic

    Good Times

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

    Nothing Breaks Like A Heart (feat. Miley Cyrus)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
  • Diana Ross

    Chain Reaction

    • Now That's What I Call Music '86.
    • Now.
  • Gabrielle

    Every Step

    • Under My Skin.
    • BMG.
    • 4.
  • Joe Jackson

    Steppin' Out

    • Now 1983 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.
  • Sam Smith & Normani

    Dancing With A Stranger

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.
  • Four Tops

    It's The Same Old Song

  • Pat Benatar

    Love Is A Battlefield

    • The 80's Collection: 1984 (Various).
    • Chrysalis.
  • Madonna

    Express Yourself

    • (Single).
    • Sire.
  • Vampire Weekend

    Harmony Hall

    • Father Of The Bride.
    • Columbia.
  • Rita Ora

    Only Want You

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • Room 5

    Make Luv (feat. Oliver Cheatham)

    • New Woman 2003 (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd

    Sweet ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Alabama

    • The All Time Greatest Rock Songs ....
    • Columbia.
  • David Bowie

    The Jean Genie

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.
  • Chuck Berry

    You Never Can Tell (C'est La Vie)

    • The Best Of Chuck Berry.
    • MCA.
  • Jess Glynne

    No One

    • Always In Between.
    • Atlantic.
  • Haircut One Hundred

    Fantastic Day

    • Pelican West - Deluxe Edition.
    • Cherry Pop.
    • 007.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
From the Reverend Kate Bottley: 
On Monday of this week I had the pleasure of spending the afternoon with the splendid souls of Surrey Women’s institute. A formidable group of females if ever there was one. Amongst the displays of handicrafts and home-made preserves, there was a chance to sign a petition against climate change, discussions about reducing plastic usage and a workshop on combatting loneliness. 
A true gathering of minds and a force for good. Definitely not just jam and Jerusalem. At lunchtime, looking for somewhere to sit and not knowing anyone, I spotted Pat. I couldn’t miss her really, she was wearing bright orange, a pair of lovely leopard skin flats and laughing so heartily I heard her all the way from the tea table. We hit it off immediately. Chatting pets and pastimes, failed diets and favourite TV shows, it felt like we’d known each other for years. 
As we scoffed the last of the scones, the call to return to the conference hall sounded, Pat quickly jotted down her email and I mine, promising that if ever she was en route to Retford or I was down Dorking way, we’d look each other up. I don’t know if we will but it’s nice to think we might. Jesus was the king of the casual encounter, a woman at the well spent a few minutes chatting theology one lunchtime and went away enriched, a tax collector stuck up a tree ended up inviting him and the disciples back for dinner and was never quite the same again. 
Reminding me that it’s not the quantity of a friendship that is it’s defining quality but rather the depth of the connection of the encounter that makes it count, or as the book of proverbs puts it ‘Some people just play at friendship but some friends are closer than your kin.’ So, whether it’s the person you chat to at the bus stop, a stranger in the supermarket or even you good looking lot here in the studio today for our ‘Friends round Friday’, friendship, when it happens, even if it’s fleeting, is always to be welcomed especially when they are a new BFF in animal print slip ons.

Broadcast

  • Fri 22 Mar 2019 06:30