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Sara Cox sits in for Chris Evans with a fully interactive show for all the family, featuring music, special guests and listeners on the phone.

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Thu 1 Sep 2016 06:30
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Music Played

  • Earth, Wind & Fire

    September

    • Greatest Hits Of 1978 (Various Artis.
    • Premier.
    • 3.

  • Ward Thomas

    Guilty Flowers

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.
    • 1.

  • Squeeze

    Cool For Cats

    • Fantastic 70's (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Elle King

    Ex's And Oh's

    • Love Stuff.
    • RCA.
    • 2.

  • Paolo Nutini

    New Shoes

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Green Day

    Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)

    • Green Day - Nimrod.
    • Reprise.

  • Daft Punk

    One More Time

  • Richard Ashcroft

    They Don't Own Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Cooking Vinyl.
    • 001.

  • Wham!

    I'm Your Man

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • The Four Seasons

    The Night

    • Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Ve.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 9.

  • Shaun Escoffery

    Love Shine Down

    • (CD Single).
    • Dome Records.

  • Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

    Sailing On The Seven Seas

    • OMD: The Singles.
    • Virgin.
    • 17.

  • OMI

    Cheerleader

    • (CD Single).
    • Ultra Records.
    • 001.

  • Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

    D.I.Y.

    • What Have We Become.
    • Virgin EMI.
    • 001.

  • Chic

    Le Freak

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Rhino.

  • R. Kelly

    Ignition (Remix)

    • (CD Single).
    • Jive.

  • Weezer

    Buddy Holly

    • Now 31 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • White Lies

    Take It Out On Me

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.

  • Four Tops

    Loco In Acapulco

    • Their Greatest Hits.
    • Telstar.

  • Whitney Houston

    I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)

    • Whitney Houston - Whitney.
    • Arista.

  • Johnny Cash

    Get Rhythm

    • The Legend Of Johnny Cash.
    • Island records.
    • 4.

  • Faith Hill

    This Kiss

    • New Hits 99 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Jack Savoretti

    When We Were Lovers

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.

  • Kelvin Jones

    Closer

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.

  • Billy Ocean

    Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)

    • Billy Ocean - Love Is For Ever (L.I.F.
    • Jive.

  • Wizzard

    See My Baby Jive

    • 25 Years Of Rock `n' Roll - 1973.
    • Connoisseur.

  • Rick Astley

    Dance

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.
    • 006.

  • David Bowie

    Sound And Vision

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • All Saints

    One Strike

    • (CD Single).
    • London Records.
    • 1.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Leslie Griffiths, Methodist Minister:听听听听听听听

听

My wife Margaret and I spent Bank Holiday Monday evening with an iced lolly and a glass of wine, feet up, watching the military tattoo on the telly, the culminating event of the Edinburgh Festival. It鈥檚 the sixty seventh sell-out season and all the expected glamour was on display 鈥� precision marching, colourful uniforms, swirling bagpipes, a lovely children鈥檚 choir 鈥� all framed in one of the most spectacular settings imaginable. It was comfort television. We鈥檇 seen it all before. Or so we thought.听 Suddenly the show moved into a different gear with a tribute to David Bowie. A stringed orchestra played Life on Mars. It was accompanied by a sky full of bursting fireworks and huge images of the singer projected onto the castle walls. It was eye-popping stuff, all the more so when, just minutes later it was followed by another tribute, this time to the Queen in honour of her ninetieth birthday. I was struck by the way this most traditional of ceremonial occasions could absorb and honour elements from popular culture. Just as David Bowie kept his message alive by constantly re-inventing himself, so too does the programme of this annual event and it鈥檚 my guess that the secret of its continuing attractiveness lies precisely in that fact.

听

Religion, especially the Christian religion, might do well to learn from all this. Too often we religious people pickle our tradition in aspic; we encase it in unyielding concrete; we don鈥檛 let it breathe. Yet Christians, of all people, should surely remember their belief in a God who embraced and honoured humanity by entering it and sharing its conditions. Such a God wouldn鈥檛, I suspect, think too well of his followers who are too often hidebound by the past and resistant to the culture of our own day.

听

So it wasn鈥檛 comfort telly in the end. It made me think about comfort spirituality 鈥� a faith that keeps itself to itself, more concerned about nice feelings with fellow-believers than getting stuck into the more invigorating business of facing the world with all its pain and pleasures.

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