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Tom Hiddleston, Helen George, Sophie Turner & Dexys

Chris chats to actress Helen George.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 6 May 2016 06:30
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Erasure

    A Little Respect

    • Erasure - Pop!.
    • Mute Records.

  • Elle King

    Under the Influence

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.
    • 001.

  • Ike & Tina Turner

    Proud Mary

    • What You See Is What You Get.
    • Start.

  • Beverley Knight

    Come as You Are

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Coldplay

    Adventure Of A Lifetime

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Aztec Camera

    Somewhere in My Heart

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Joe and Jake

    You're Not Alone

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music Entertainment.

  • Oasis

    Some Might Say

    • (CD Single).
    • Creation Records.

  • The Housemartins

    Happy Hour

    • Now That's What I Call Quite Good.
    • Go! Discs.

  • Neil Sedaka

    Oh Carol

    • The Very Best Of Neil Sedaka.
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • Roy Orbison

    Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel)

    • The Best Of Roy Orbison.
    • Columbia.
    • 2.

  • Jamie Lawson

    Someone For Everyone

    • (CD Single).
    • Gingerbread Man Records.

  • No Doubt

    Don't Speak

    • Huge Hits 1997 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Red Hot Chili Peppers

    Dark Necessities

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Red Hot Chili Peppers

    By The Way

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • 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.

  • Tom Odell

    Magnetised

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Tom Hiddleston & The Saddle Spring Boys

    Hey Good Lookin'

  • Giorgio Moroder

    Deja Vu (feat. Sia)

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.
    • 001.

  • Josef Salvat

    Paradise

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 002.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Rev’d Richard Coles, cleric and broadcaster:


I called in at a shop the other day to open an account for my church. There was a form to fill in and one of the first questions was "how long has the business been trading?”  “Since 1217,” I replied, which seemed to throw the nice shop lady and the online form. It reminded me that doing what we do is sometimes quite difficult to capture.

 

Computer said no; perhaps, I thought, because most of us march to a very different beat from ours, concerned more with wireless connectivity than the lifting up of the mind and heart to God.

 

I thought that too watching the 400th anniversary Shakespeare celebrations, wondering how a late sixteenth century English playwright, looking back to the Wars of the Roses, could speak to an early twenty-first century audience.

 

Thrillingly, on a good day, when we have confidence in what we do; not by desperately seeking a relevance we don’t actually believe in, but by paying attention to what’s there – voices from distant history speaking to us as compellingly as anything we’ve ever heard. I watched the Hollow Crown on iPlayer and was dumbstruck when Hal, played by Tom, turned his back on Falstaff, his former comrade and friend. It moved me to tears.  

 

It works because we are human, and being human we betray old friends, we worry for our kids, we seek power and prestige, and sometimes yield for love of another, we rejoice in our victories, and hide our humiliations, and we always have done. So Shakespeare speaks to us; the oddness not a barred gate but an opening door.

 

Back to the shop, and the lady filling in the form. She asked, “What is the main purpose of your business?” “The redemption of fallen humanity,” I replied.  

 

There was a pause: “is that leisure or hospitality?”  

 

Hospitality, if we do our job properly, opening the door to welcome everyone, anyone, any time, any place, into the limitless love of God.

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  • Fri 6 May 2016 06:30
    BBC Radio 2

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