It's cool 5 insults Goss' 1st match in charge base is B.B.C. 5 Live Now the B.B.C. News at 2 o'clock with Nick Hatfield Thank you good morning tributes somebody pays the former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown he's died at the age of 77 he had bladder cancer download his policy for nearly 11 years before stepping down in 1999 still as a former leader of the Liberal Party the last time I spoke to her just to see Ridgeback was about the book she was writing even as he was starting to carve out a new career as a really very interesting author on books really to do with the 2nd World War I. Look at it didn't from where of course the whole of the house well before his political career Lord Ashdown was a Marine the Conservative M.P. Kennel Bob Stewart a former UN commander in Bosnia remembers his visit the peak of it speak to take him to the front lines I wasn't allowed to take anyone to the front lines there generals were meant to go to the front lines on the way back I think great explosion quite You fucked up my vehicle it was a mortar bomb I was standing in the back and I should have said that's done it that's all I want to be reported that I take in the front line it was on the 6 O'clock news in other news this morning a tsunami has hit the coast of Indonesia killing at least 43 people nearly 600 others injured the tsunami around the sun to straight is believed to being caused by the erupting volcano David Lipson is a reporter for A.B.C. Astray in Indonesia organiser accompanied by an earthquake or preceded by or earthquake and that part of the reason that they were all back and shook because so often we now are. Quite out of the ocean which can cause a tsunami one. Struck the cards with that no warning whatsoever Labor says the should be an independent inquiry into drones have to get work had to ground planes a man and woman are being. Question by police Labor claims the government has ignored the risks from drones ministers and says the law is a clear and pays a warning the universal credit system is making too many people choose between turning down jobs or getting into debt the Commons Work and Pensions Committee says working parents have to pay for childcare up front and claim it back after meaning it's a barrier to work our reporter is Mitch Mansfield Committee Chairman Frank Field says the situation is driving parents to despair he says some having to pass on jobs because they can't pay for the child care they need to be able to work while others are having to borrow from friends family and loan providers to cover the cost the government said it would meet some are said to be waiting weeks even months to get the money back through the benefit system. Well the Department for Work and Pensions says the approach is aimed at cutting fraud and error and a partial shutdown of the U.S. Government is likely to continue through Christmas President Trump has canceled his holiday and will stay in Washington to try to break a budget deadlock in the Senate Democrats are against his demands for $5000000000.00 to build a wall along the Mexican border let's get the support now he was incremental to your Pep Guardiola dispelled suggestions that a change lineup cost Manchester City a shock home defeat by Crystal Palace Sergio agüero and Kevin the burner were both on the bench while for Endymion missed out with injury Guardiola said his team created and of chances in their surprise 32 loss Manchester United's Paul Pogba has thanked his former manager chose a Marine yo for improving him as a player and as a person the Frenchman's words came after United's 51 win over Cardiff in only going to solve Sky's 1st match as their interim boss their wins 2 for Arsenal what foodborne with and Southampton but Chelsea were beaten at home by Leicester for them stripped to Newcastle ended goalless Celtic have stayed top of the Scottish Premiership with a 3 nil win over bottom side done Di Yorkshire is just working to and successfully defended his RB a featherweight world title with a unanimous points decision over Northern Ireland's call from Tim in Manchester Charlie Edwards became a world champion taking the W.B.C. 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Time for the day you know track or its best sums up Christmas for you and the way to the better far as I'm concerned text 5 a 5 day at B.B.C. 5 Live and most importantly give our festive bells cracking Captain dangerous make it on the phones because they would love to hear from you you know the number probably 859-996-9302. On your choice is our very own wise man of the cheap cloaks just the way the guy says good morning good morning says I'm a wise man I'm not so sure about that I think I think it's entirely correct Now if I'm sounding mildly Bimini Yes there will be a reason and you you know everything there is to know about music almost I reckon I've had a fair few of you in Dawson there yes and I suspect you've never heard this version of Santa baby before I have and I was immediately thinking of is no. Definitely not but. I just thought I'd get my Christmas baubles out of the box immediately this is May thing I. Shall. Tell you how to. Tell me how was this right so this is this is down to the very me a Grinch that is James work and here is at the same results night 15 years ago I was on a short lived program called Pop Idol and remember that Simon I will yes. Nicky Chapman and Dr Dr Fox and I made it. Quite far really came 5th and the top 10 of us got to make I think what you might call the seminal Christmas album I mean Phil Spector You know he's got for a good one but you know the rest of us he's got the classic Christmas album you know this sounds proper. So this was and this was this is the Steve Mack production. Him of all of the pop legend and to mine memory this is how it came about say thankfully this is finishing. We got to the top 10 and they announced to all of us that the final 10 of us would be making this Christmas album and so we got taken to this very fancy studio in London I can't remember which one it was but it was one of the big ones I think still going and I think we we got that 7 in the morning. And we've been given our songs I think a couple of days before Concord and and I wish I recorded that at about midnight 3rd been there from 7 where you do in between 7 and midnight when you jingling jangling Yeah I would jangling bells we all say did the world's worst cover of Merry Christmas wars over Happy Christmas was over my favorite song of all time exactly and it. Let's just say I wouldn't call that digging out. Be touching John Lennon. Ground so what. Happened to the album I think you can pick it up in a good charity shops Yes I think I think I think just a much as you can get quite a lot of used copies for one pig. And. The other side of the business I couldn't yeah I just could. Just say I returned to my 1st love of radio quite quickly after that have been here ever since but it's tough. What's the word that's a pop to me to some of pop. Things thing they didn't tell you Well it's obvious if you think about it this isn't in the in the until you you voted out Yes I mean it's obvious now I just wasn't expecting to get very far and then all of this. Yeah that's what I hear your voice sounds well I think they can do a lot in post production but if you've got a good producer they know what they're doing anyway and I believe you've got a track for me well I thought we could start with something that. Will not. Be very few people would know that this wonderful gospel path and from there started off in the thirty's for cash. Of Houston who stood in Houston. Called the Pilgrim Travelers and I heard this today. And it's called I'll Be Home For Christmas and it is just heartbreaking maybe to follow and it makes me want to live under a Christmas tree. In the. Snow. To. Be. The. Movie. Dream. I like that very much. And yes but what do you know about them nothing they come from because then they started off in the thirty's they were they were very popular in the States this is this record is from 1952. And I think right Charles was the fluence by them. And it's just the most beautiful thing I've ever heard. It's completely stunning is can we hear a bit more. Than. The. So that's Jonathan's pick for the song that makes it feel like Christmas for you so get in touch this is your chance to have your favorite Christmas song played live on the radio and tell of you and why exactly you think it's the best one so if you're texting as 85 and 58 on Twitter it's at B.B.C. 5 Live and if you want to call we've got cash in my case taking your calls tonight they are both fantastic Christmas elves on the phones give us a call Oh wait 0859096930808599693 mics given is a cool Merry Christmas Mike Oh yeah Good morning are all right if you are scared of me our users are silly how you can go every like and Jonathan say OK I saw her in America I remember strengthen chief for. One of my journey not staying here. I think not only for your own home Mr Wingate think safety is money made Jonathan However yeah good are you having a rock or a Christmas. Right I've become a bit of a Grinch a Christmas Jonathan are for the last 10 years over to work and New Year's Eve star system I mean we're on as well another thing a week is. Said to me I think and that music could change that make not made for it to be a great chain can be. An argument in music means everything. Means it can always think me think puts me in the Christmas so I kind of the feel like it's Christmas until I hear Phil's but Christmas album you know a bit of romance and I suddenly realize it's course. You know your music server and I just quickly run by both of your blogs Firstly always going to you know I've chosen their choice of Charles and I was going to cause the John the not the Christmas wars Iraq because that just takes me start next minute. That's on the best Christmas of all time the question I was going off hundreds of years and you have to kinks called Christmas night. And I've been wrong because once you see what you put a category output is going to show one of 7 looking to raise the. Listen to have Christians all watched it on video and then in the parks and then this kind of obvious the Kinks talk of Christmas so hush struck me off though I had supposedly fought off when he was on the phone and it's almost saw 3 months was anything not enormous but it's like. So had we us I broke boy youngsters in about 20 take. My seem. To want you to have to let that one out if that's not the one you produce about me was it make you if you got another file breaking up the high welfare is how to know you know the time thing you do that one day so I would. Be respected Jonathan John Lennon one I swore. When you get these 2 sunlight a gamble. I know one of the premier going on or are saying that was my original goal when you 1st for the surgery I mean that's like that's like a Dickens play is now in a minute so I'm used to freeway the phone in our. Christmas but there's a romance to that full of now think within the railway and there's the feeling under the same rights of. You can tell in an affection that can you between the day with and I thought it was interesting the who had this in the last couple of weeks with someone saying oh they shouldn't be speaking to each other like that. And. This is it's a pop song and it's poetry and I've got poetic license so I can say whatever. They want about what you are really most of time and cameras a car only violence takes. A shit on over our. Sally. I love this one to make it's one of my favorites. It was. A. True. No says. And. This is. This. But. I have to say they've done well read today the listener has got a mix choice this is a cracking Christmas song what do you know about it Jonathan. He suggests it's perfect says now I think you want to hear a Saudi memory that's just a random memory because not a typical post. I was I was at this Christmas party once and it's because of coast custom because no longer with us for ice. And I was at this Christmas party chugging free drinks as a company policy and then somehow I got talking to customers called who was saw and so the record label and we ended up together. I don't remember what we would have a lot of fun with customer call sitting around. A dustbin with full of champagne as far as I could I think that the best Christmas and exact time yeah this is really funny memory and I loved. You know I just met. Socially if we were chatting away and we ended up saying and. I think so. Good job he did really Yeah except I suppose. If you think about a perfect Christmas so that's it and he's like a Charles Dickens novel it. So I think people. I think people see Shane MacGowan as almost sometimes a cartoon character because of his offstage lifestyle. You know people talk about the teeth and the craziness and but he is a poet you know he's just he's up there with the best of them and so I often think of him you know he's got this kind of pathos running through everything he does so even though he came out of punk rock and he's a very rock'n'roll character he's a true poet you know he's sort of he's like a cross between. Seamus Heaney. It's never been a Christian number one this one today what kept it off the top spot. It wasn't. Now is that when it was originally released so when was it really it was released and everything I think in 97 was pretty well defends it's one letter to our you personally like all that so let me give you credit it wasn't it wasn't actually kept of to buy Christmas songs it was by 2 men in the keyboard. The Pet Shop Boys boys always on my mind that's a superb song and if you. Think it's a yeah but. You should be at a fix the child's just morally someone should have just taken a few of their sales away from them because it is the best Christmas song of all time yeah apart from the one you played they were in touch and ask for the details of that again because they thought it was lovely and they just want to get out through the Pilgrim program quite the Pilgrim Travelers Christmas from 1952 Yeah that's going to be on in my house on Christmas Day I'm just pizza parlors Now do you like now that you've got all this music at your fingertips. I was talking about this with my son and he couldn't believe that you have to go out and buy C.D.'s and 100 pounds because he's going after this generation Y. You just isn't thinking is that in the way you think that's cool I think it takes away some of the romance of it if you think about the Christmas picture yourself a Christmas the age of 14 and you cut to Woolworths and or your local record shop and you know you want to buy the Pet Shop Boys or whatever it is you're into the Pogues order or you know back to the it would have been other things obviously I think that without having a physical thing to hold on to look at the cover. Particularly Christmas records they have to be now you know a picture of a chunky jumper and a bit of tinsel and a Christmas cracker you know. Christmas. Something is lost by looking at they say these things you know online it's brilliant to have all this stuff to to hand you know how would you find the Pilgrim Travelers from 950 to some obscure band that doesn't mean that much over here I wouldn't so. How would you find it if you were saying these things out online so I kind of see both sides of it I think but being out of find everything pretty much at your fingertips is a fantastic thing for music and for someone like me I'm constantly looking into you know my life is music so I'm constantly searching stuff and just looking things up for my own interest it would be about hope if I did this for a living so I think it's just so cool that you can do that but I do think it kind of dissipates the impact of the me see if you can hold the record and with ice tonight all the words to everything and I knew the track listing as well and I think that is an out that has been loath for this isn't late to give moaning front this I don't know your name my name you see that you can call me sees it. Yes hello Jonathan morning Francis Yes I'm there I could I would go for is the original version Band-Aid do they know as Chris is 184 Why do you like it particularly for I'm I'm OK This version to the out of it because there was the 19092000 I didn't like the 2004 the ocean that much from coast and a Band-Aid 22000 for I didn't like that one at home told play on. I think I think it starts with Chris Martin from the 2001 Yes yes for sure I didn't like that when I did the 1000 the original version I think the original question and I think if they could have sworn. Gets every Yeah this. Is still a step and starts against him. You . Come. To. Have you. Say. That this is this is bad and then I remember do you like this is a favorite. To get very powerful at the time but I was talking to a friend a. Couple of days. And she was sort of pulling apart the lyrics as if it was meant to be some kind of political type A you know she was. Instead of you and I said this just to so you know he just did it. Which is what I did you know I think it's a very powerful powerful message. But I did like the song. Yeah it is actually it does stand the test of time is a. Good start easy what we have to blame for this charity singles which. Is the charity video and. Even an enormous headphones and they have to hold their head for some reason and you have to if you're a singer you have to look they were holding hands you could see it's a pretty where you were in the studio now I'm going to see the you holding your head. Just because I have a. Naturally I would just you know I have issues. With. Do you have a favorite line in this mine is. Very hopeful. Isn't it To think that there is not that was the line that was being criticized for and I do think it's it's a perfect you know. But at the production. Francis a favorite line and favorite person thing. To be. Talking in this one I wish I didn't like it when I said we should we reinvent history at this point there are now whether this is going to be at the C.N.N. You know I mean I think he should have staffing they should have left the region I think it was. In the original It's probably my favorite question. I think the words if you think about my favorite line is probably in a world of plenty with and spread a smile of joy smile passed your arms around the world. Really what we're doing tonight we're to do tonight we're always fretting joy with your Christmas songs you can get in touch what is the song that means Christmas for you give us a call 085-996-9693 about the 600008085909693. On digital B.B.C. 7 it's speaking of this is B.B.C. Radio 5 time for the B.B.C. News now with Nick have Field thank you good morning tourism I says Paddy Ashdown served his country with distinction as both a soldier and a politician the former Liberal Democrat leader has died at age 77 after being diagnosed with blood cancer such a major described him as a man of duty passion and devotion at least 43 people have died in a tsunami in Indonesia officials are looking into