Witty chat and top tunes for all night-owls on the Best Time of the Day Show with Alex. 
Clips
Music Played
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Stealers Wheel Stuck In The Middle With You
(Single), A&M
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Seal Weight Of My Mistakes
Seal 6: Commitment, Warner Bros, 1
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Big Screen Belter
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Queen A Kind Of Magic
Queen - Greatest Hits II, Parlophone
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Leroy Anderson Sleigh Ride
100% Christmas (Various Artists), Telstar
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Amy Macdonald This Pretty Face
(CD Single), Mercury, 1
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Elbow One Day Like This
(CD Single), Fiction, 1
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Hall & Oates Kiss On My List
Looking Back - The Best Of Hall & Oat, BMG
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Plain White T's Rhythm Of Love
(CD Single), Hollywood Records, 1
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Tom Jones & Cerys Matthews Baby It's Cold Outside
(CD Single), Gut Records
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Status Quo Whatever You Want
(CD Single), Polydor
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Christmas Golden Oldie
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Russ Conway Snow Coach
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Caro Emerald Riviera Life
(CD Single), Dramatico, 1
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Del Amitri Kiss This Thing Goodbye
Del Amitri - Waking Hours, A&M
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Badly Drawn Boy Donna Und Blitzen
(CD Single), Xl
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Scissor Sisters Fire With Fire
(CD Single), Polydor, 1
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Rod Stewart Baby Jane
The Best Of Rod Stewart, Warner Bros
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Cee Lo Green It's OK
The Lady Killer, Warner Bros, 1
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Chris Rea Driving Home For Christmas
(Single), WEA, 1
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The Human League Don't You Want Me
Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artis, Columbia
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Take That Rule The World
(CD Single), Polydor
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Bing Crosby White Christmas
That's Christmas (Various Artists), EMI
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Laura Branigan Gloria
The Atlantic Story (Various Artists), Sony
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Adele Make You Feel My Love
19, XL, 1
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The Waitresses Christmas Wrapping
The Best Christmas Album In The World, Virgin
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Pause For Thought
From Revd Ruth Scott, an Anglican vicar in Richmond:
"Tonight is our school candlelit Carol Service. The staff and student choirs have been practising the music. For weeks Yr 9 pupils have been making amazing, almost life-size silhouette nativity figures. They’ll gradually build the stable scene through the service. Boys and girls from different years are acting the Christmas story characters. We filmed Mary in the art room, Joseph in Design Technology, Elizabeth in Food Technology, the Innkeeper in the Canteen, the Shepherds on the school field, and the wise men in the science lab. These clips will be shown during the service – if the IT goes according to plan!
While the kids have been preparing these things, students across the country have been protesting on the streets. I’ve been struck by the contrast between the handful of protesters who’ve used the marches to run riot, vandalise property and fight street battles, and their fellow marchers, some of whom were just school girls, who’ve tried to stop them destroying vehicles and resorting to violence. As one of the student leaders said the next day when the papers were filled with pictures of the fighting, “This isn’t what we wanted to see. Our message has been completely sabotaged by those intent on destruction.”
Now, I think there’s a link between the Nativity story, and the students protesting on the streets. In each of us, the impulse to lash out violently and indiscriminately when we’re at odds with others coexists with the capacity to seek peaceful ways to respond to painful experiences. The two differing Christmas stories in the gospels of Matthew and Luke stand in stark contrast to the violent times in which they were written. They tell how ordinary people, like Mary, can choose to bring love to birth in the messiness of life so that diverse people are drawn together rather than set at odds.
Chris, yesterday, today and forever the Christmas story expresses the human longing for peace and challenges us to become channels for it." -
Today's show was dedicated to anyone who has a lucky shirt!
The show was entitled: "We have Michael McIntyre here with us today and Chris is seeing a bloke after the show called Phil McIntyre - what are the chances of that!"
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Today's show starred:
John Bernthal who chose the Big Screen Belter
Warrant Officer Class 1 Dean Neath is knocking off for good from the army
Susie Moore and her Parish Council from Chedworth are turning on their defibrillator
Kevin Mackeaggan from London who has qualified as a Chartered Surveyor
Tracey Aldridge who chose the Christmas Golden Oldie
Alex Critchley from Tunbridge Wells who went to his school party as the Candyman
Sandy Harris from Maidstone in Kent who is going to his school Christmas party
Comedian Michael McIntyre co-hosted the show
Revered Ruth Scott gave us reason to Pause For Thought
Broadcasts
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BBC Radio 2Thu 16 Dec 2010 06:30 BBC Radio 2
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