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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.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 14 Apr 2017 06:30
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Music Played

  • Five

    Keep On Movin'

    • Hits 2000 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.

  • Imelda May

    Should've Been You

    • (CD Single).
    • Decca.

  • The Cure

    The Love Cats

    • The Cure - Staring At The Sea.
    • Fiction.

  • Sam Sparro

    Black & Gold

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 10.

  • Mary Mary

    Shackles (Praise You)

    • Huge Hits 2000 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • James

    Laid

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 26 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Curtis Mayfield

    Move On Up

    • The Old Skool Reunion (Various Artis.
    • Global Television.

  • Steps

    Scared Of The Dark

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

  • Whitney Houston

    It's Not Right But It's Okay

    • New Hits 99 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.

  • The Feeling

    Never Be Lonely

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • 厂鈥椭虫辫谤别蝉蝉

    Theme From S-Express

    • Now 12 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Free

    Wishing Well

    • The Boys Are Back In Town (Various).
    • Columbia.
    • 10.

  • Harry Styles

    Sign Of The Times

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Elvis Presley & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Burning Love

    • If I Can Dream.
    • RCA.
    • 001.

  • Danny Wilson

    Mary's Prayer

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 12 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Duran Duran

    The Reflex

    • Now 1984 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 6.

  • David Guetta

    When Love Takes Over (feat. Kelly Rowland)

    • (CD Single).
    • Positiva.

  • Jane Wiedlin

    Rush Hour

    • Rock Of America (Various Artists).
    • Trax Label.

  • T. Rex

    Children of the Revolution

    • Tanx + Zinc Alloy.
    • Edsel.
    • 006.

  • Weezer

    Buddy Holly

    • Now 31 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Eddie Cochran

    C'Mon Everybody

    • That's Rock'n'Roll (Various Artists).
    • EMI.
    • 3.

  • Original Dodger

    Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta) (feat. Craig David)

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 44 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Clean Bandit

    Symphony (feat. Zara Larsson)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Prince

    Cream

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Gloria Jones

    Tainted Love

    • The Best Northern Soul All-Nighter (V.
    • Virgin.

  • Usher

    OMG (feat. will.i.am)

    • Raymond V Raymond.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.

  • Wham!

    Everything She Wants

    • Wham! - Make It Big.
    • Epic.

  • ABBA

    Waterloo

    • Abba Gold (40th Anniversary Edition).
    • Polar.
    • 019.

  • Shakira

    Hips Don't Lie (feat. Wyclef Jean)

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony BMG.

  • Green Day

    Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)

    • Green Day - Nimrod.
    • Reprise.

  • The Smiths

    There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

  • The Stone Roses

    Fools Gold

    • Precious - Various Artists.
    • Dino.

  • Sting

    50,000

    • (CD Single).
    • A&M.
    • 001.

  • Chuck Berry

    Big Boys

    • (CD Single).
    • Dualtone Music Group.

  • Queen

    We Will Rock You

    • News Of The World.
    • Island.
    • 1.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Comedian & writer Paul Kerensa

It鈥檚 Good Friday, a confusing day 鈥� like a Bank Holiday Monday but on a Friday, that jumps around the diary each year. If you want to know how the date鈥檚 worked out: Easter鈥檚 always the weekend after the first full moon after the vernal equinox 鈥� a decision I think you can tell was made by a council. But then, Easter has a history of troublesome collective decisions by groups of people.

Just under 2000 years ago, at the original Good Friday, one of Jesus鈥� twelve disciples betrayed him and had him arrested. An even closer disciple, Simon Peter, denied three times that he knew Jesus 鈥� although he didn鈥檛 say Simon Says, so maybe it didn鈥檛 count.

Later that day, another group weighed in, this time priests and governors passed the buck, not wanting to find Jesus guilty. It was the people who rushed to request: 鈥淐rucify him!鈥� Around late morning, he was. We鈥檙e told the skies turned black, the ground quaked鈥� but that on the third day, he returned.

Easter plays have told this story ever since 鈥� at first in Latin, then a thousand years ago in local languages, after realising that no one spoke Latin. So the people reclaimed the story 鈥� finally hearing it in their own words, seeing it acted out in their own towns and cities, with a cast of hundreds. As the performances became bawdier, the church slowly withdrew from the plays 鈥� the local people took full ownership.

The Easter Passion Plays are back today in towns around the country, though not quite so bawdy. Later this morning, tens of thousands will witness vast street performances in Chester, Tavistock, Crewe, Preston and Trafalgar Square. Once again, the Easter story belongs to the people.

History tells us that sometimes people power gets it right, sometimes wrong. We betray, pass the buck, rush to crucify, or deny what we believe, to save face. We have good days and bad 鈥� dark Good Fridays and hope-filled Easter Sundays, when the past is behind us and the slate clean.

And so it remains the people鈥檚 story, retold if we want, in our language, in our towns, in our own way 鈥� even if that鈥檚 by a low-rent comedian, with a dodgy joke about Simon Says, trying to work out what the vernal equinox is.

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