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The Strictly Finalists

The final four couples in this year's Strictly Come Dancing join Chris live in the studio before one of them gets to lift the Glitterball Trophy at this year's Grand Final on Saturday.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Thu 13 Dec 2018 06:30
主播大秀 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Kelly Clarkson

    Underneath The Tree

  • Los Unidades & Pharrell Williams

    E-Lo (feat. Jozzy)

    • Global Citizen EP1 (Various Artists).
    • Parlophone.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Landslide

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 005.

  • Robbie Williams

    Let Me Entertain You

    • Now 39 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Silk City & Dua Lipa

    Electricity

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.

  • Michael Bubl茅

    Frosty The Snowman (feat. The Puppini Sisters)

    • Christmas: Deluxe Special Edition.
    • Reprise.

  • The Chainsmokers

    This Feeling (feat. Kelsea Ballerini)

    • (CD Single).
    • Disruptor Records.

  • Backstreet Boys

    I Want It That Way

    • (CD Single).
    • Jive.

  • Albert Hammond

    Free Electric Band

    • The Very Best Of Albert Hammond.
    • CBS.
    • 10.

  • Josh Groban

    Bigger Than Us

    • Bridges.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Jamie Cullum

    Show Me The Magic

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • Rita Ora

    Anywhere

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Whitney Houston

    Million Dollar Bill

    • (CD Single).
    • Arista.
    • 1.

  • The Waitresses

    Christmas Wrapping

    • NOW That's What I Call Christmas (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Jessica Mauboy

    Land Of A Thousand Dances

  • Arctic Monkeys

    I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor

  • Birdy

    Keeping Your Head Up

  • Winifred Shaw, Dick Shaw & The Chorus

    Lullaby Of Broadway

  • Mark Ronson

    Nothing Breaks Like A Heart (feat. Miley Cyrus)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Martha and the Muffins

    Echo Beach

    • The Best Summer Ever (Various Artist.
    • Virgin.

  • Bon Jovi

    Livin' On A Prayer

    • Music Of The Millennium (Various).
    • Universal Music Tv.
    • 1.

  • Barbra Streisand

    The Rain Will Fall

    • Walls.
    • Sony Music CMG.

  • Lady Gaga

    Always Remember Us This Way

    • A Star Is Born O.S.T..
    • Interscope.
    • 17.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

聽From Sheridan Voysey, Writer and broadcaster:

I was in London recently for a meeting. It was a cold night, pouring with rain, and I was late. I paced through Leicester Square, turned a corner鈥� then stopped still. There they were: Angels鈥攁 dozen of them hovering above Regent Street, their giant shimmering wings stretching across the traffic. Made of thousands of pulsing lights, it鈥檚 the most jaw-dropping Christmas display I鈥檝e seen. Hundreds of us stood there getting drenched, gazing up, whispering Wow.

To me, the power of that Christmas display isn鈥檛 just the angel鈥檚 beauty, but the sense of awe they evoke. And awe is central to the Christmas story. When the angel tells Mary she鈥檚 going to miraculously conceive, and then appears to the shepherds announcing 鈥済ood news to all people鈥�, each reacts with wonder and awe.

According to polls, one-in-three of us believe angels exist. I can鈥檛 say I鈥檝e met one myself, but some friends might have.

One friend, with muscular dystrophy, found herself on the Tube, facing a large flight of stairs without a lift or escalator. On the verge of tears, a man with 鈥渢he most amazing face鈥� picked up her bag, took her arm, and helped her up the stairs. When she turned to thank him, he was gone.

Another friend was late for a meeting. Already stressed from a relationship breakdown, he started battling London鈥檚 traffic only to get a flat tyre. As he stood helplessly in the rain, a man stepped out of the crowd, opened the boot, jacked up the car, and changed the wheel. When my friend turned to thank him, he was gone.

They might鈥檝e just been kind strangers. Or maybe鈥�? You may think I鈥檓 crazy suggesting it鈥攁nd that the only place you鈥檒l see a flying angel is in a Strictly routine鈥攂ut the awe those friends felt in each case leads me to wonder if angels might hover in more places than we realise. And if that鈥檚 true then who knows perhaps the shepherds outside Bethlehem weren鈥檛 so crazy after all.

Chris, this is our last Pause for Thought together. May celestial wings waft yuletide cheer upon you!

And if you see a guy on Regent Street gazing up, getting drenched, it鈥檚 probably me. But if he鈥檚 wearing a suit and starts changing flat tyres鈥� get a selfie while you can.

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