BBC - BBC Radio 2 Programmes - The Chris Evans Breakfast Show, 16/12/2010

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Last broadcast on Thu, 16 Dec 2010, 06:30 on BBC Radio 2.

Synopsis

Today's show was co-hosted by cheerful comic mastermind, Michael McIntyre. He popped in for tea and toast with us from 8:00am and was given the full Radio 2 Breakfast Show welcome.

And he's no slouch when it comes to hosting things. Because tonight on BBC1 at 8:00pm you can see him hosting the whole of the 2010 Royal Variety Performance.

Sandy Harris aged 6 from Maidstone in Kent is going to his school Christmas party today, and will return tomorrow to mark it out of ten.

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Clips (2)

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!"

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

Music played

Stealers Wheel — Stuck In The Middle With You

(Single), A&M
Seal — Weight Of My Mistakes

Seal 6: Commitment, Warner Bros, 1
Big Screen Belter
1. Queen — A Kind Of Magic
  
  Queen - Greatest Hits II, Parlophone
Leroy Anderson — Sleigh Ride

100% Christmas (Various Artists), Telstar
Amy Macdonald — This Pretty Face

(CD Single), Mercury, 1
Elbow — One Day Like This

(CD Single), Fiction, 1
Hall & Oates — Kiss On My List

Looking Back - The Best Of Hall & Oat, BMG
Plain White T's — Rhythm Of Love

(CD Single), Hollywood Records, 1
Tom Jones & Cerys Matthews — Baby It's Cold Outside

(CD Single), Gut Records
Status Quo — Whatever You Want

(CD Single), Polydor
Christmas Golden Oldie
1. Russ Conway — Snow Coach
Caro Emerald — Riviera Life

(CD Single), Dramatico, 1
Del Amitri — Kiss This Thing Goodbye

Del Amitri - Waking Hours, A&M
Badly Drawn Boy — Donna Und Blitzen

(CD Single), Xl
Scissor Sisters — Fire With Fire

(CD Single), Polydor, 1
Rod Stewart — Baby Jane

The Best Of Rod Stewart, Warner Bros
Cee Lo Green — It's OK

The Lady Killer, Warner Bros, 1
Chris Rea — Driving Home For Christmas

(Single), WEA, 1
The Human League — Don't You Want Me

Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artis, Columbia
Take That — Rule The World

(CD Single), Polydor
Lennie Niehaus — White Christmas

That's Christmas (Various Artists), EMI
Laura Branigan — Gloria

The Atlantic Story (Various Artists), Sony
Adele — Make You Feel My Love

19, XL, 1
The Waitresses — Christmas Wrapping

The Best Christmas Album In The World, Virgin