Coldplay

We move on.

And very quickly, the Coldplay couple caught cheating at the gig.

Oh, look at this.

Oh, right.

And we hear from Caelan Hughes, one of the shortlisted authors for the BBC National Short Story Award.

But first, the music for The Proclaimers echoes around the globe, from covers of 500 Miles at the Proms in London and by Metallica at Hamden in Glasgow, to Coldplay performing Sunshine on Leith, to the anthem Let's Get Married played at weddings all over the world.

Then there are the superfans, like the film director Richard Curtis, who says as he goes through his long life, he finds them perfectly expressing the things he's going through.

Well, now in their 60s, Craig and Charlie have laid their present preoccupations bare on this new album, amongst them their concerns about free speech.

Is that not kind of weird?

It is weird, but it's weird the first couple of times and then it happens so many times that it becomes normal, really.

And I mentioned that last weekend, during last night at the proms, tenor Nicky Spence sang I Would Walk 500 Miles and Coldplay have performed a cover of Sunshine and Leaf for a Radio 2 piano room set.

When you're bringing out a new album with new music, how do you feel about your past, including on this show, being highlighted and celebrated? I think it's

Morgan Wallen was there.

Coldplay was there this summer.

ACDC was there in July.

So the latest is Metallica.

A win by Ann Esther in the YouTube chat.

They were at a Coldplay concert.

Oh, yeah, that's very funny.

Hey, by the way, it's Saturday night, if that makes any difference to you, Ann.

they sitting at a bench, do you know? Because I think I saw it.

You know the Coldplay? Yes, they're sitting on a

bench in Central Park.

Yeah, it reminds me of

the Coldplay.

Yes, so it's actually a bit ironic because last summer, they do mention the Coldplay.

I didn't bring it here because it

was

Morgan Wallen was there.

Coldplay was there this summer.

ACDC was there in July.

So the latest is Metallica.

So you had Morgan Wallen.

and Coldplay playing Camp Randall in the summer of 2025.

ACDC played this summer.

Now Metallica is next.

Well, now it's becoming a trend.

So you had Morgan Wallen and Coldplay.

playing Camp Randall in the summer of 2025.

ACDC played this summer.

It's a weird stadium, too, if you've ever been in it.

My wife and I saw Coldplay there.

She was pregnant with our boy, so this would have been going back to 2017.

It's a weird stadium.