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Fearne Cotton sits in, with Dame Kelly Holmes

Fearne Cotton sits in and chats to Olympic Gold Medalist Dame Kelly Holmes about her new podcast. Plus we spin the Wheel of Four-Tunes for another Friends Round Friday Flashback.

Fearne Cotton sits in and chats to double Olympic gold medalist Dame Kelly Holmes about her new podcast What Do I Do? Mental Health and Me.

Plus we spin the Wheel of Four-Tunes for another Friends Round Friday Flashback, and revisit Clean Bandit's cover of ABBA's Dancing Queen.

Along with Tina Daheley on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Mike Williams on sport, Fearne and the team have the best start to your morning. With celeb guests, quizzes, headlines, tunes chosen by listeners and more music than you can shake a glitterball at!

There's also weather with Carol Kirkwood, we speak to six-time Olympic gold medalist Jason Kenny about British Cycling's road safety initiative, and a Pause For Thought from Father Brian D'Arcy as Fearne entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Mon 25 Mar 2019 06:30
成人快手 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Prince & The Revolution

    Take Me With U

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Zedd & Katy Perry

    365

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • The Lightning Seeds

    Change

  • Sigrid

    Don't Feel Like Crying

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Blur

    Parklife

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Freddie Mercury

    I Was Born To Love You

    • Never Boring.
    • Virgin EMI Records.
    • 4.

  • Johnny Hates Jazz

    Shattered Dreams

    • Now 1987 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • Cheat Codes & Little Mix

    Only You

    • (CD Single).
    • SYCO.

  • The Beach Boys

    I Get Around

    • The Best Of The Beach Boys (CD 1).
    • EMI.

  • Robert Palmer

    Mercy Mercy Me/I Want You

    • Now 19 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Calvin Harris & Rag鈥檔鈥橞one Man

    Giant

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Kylie Minogue

    In Your Eyes

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • The Beatles

    Lady Madonna

    • The Beatles - 1.
    • Apple.
    • 020.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    A Design For Life

    • Everything Must Go - 20th Anniversary Edition.
    • Columbia.
    • 16.

  • P!nk

    Walk Me 成人快手

    • Hurts 2B Human.
    • RCA.

  • Elbow Bones & The Racketeers

    A Night In New York

    • More Greatest Hits Of 80's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • Clean Bandit

    Symphony (Radio 2 Session, 15 Mar 2019)

  • Thomas Dolby

    She Blinded Me With Science

    • Thomas Dolby - Hyperactive.
    • EMI.
    • 11.

  • Mark Ronson

    Nothing Breaks Like A Heart (feat. Miley Cyrus)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Robin Schulz

    Sugar (feat. Francesco Yates)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Pharrell Williams

    Happy

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Estelle

    American Boy (feat. Ye)

    • Now That's What I Call Music 70 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 6.

  • Gnarls Barkley

    Crazy

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Matt Simons

    Open Up

    • After The Landslide.
    • PIAS.

  • Natalie Imbruglia

    Torn

    • 1999 Grammy Nominees (Various Artist.
    • Elektra.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
From Father Brian D鈥橝rcy, a Catholic Passionist priest:聽
The American novelist, Nigel Hawthorne once wrote: 鈥淗appiness is like a butterfly, which, when pursued, is just beyond your grasp, but which, if you sit quietly will alight upon you.鈥� Like all helpful insights, it takes time and reflection to uncover its wisdom. In my work as a priest I often meet heroism and holiness where I least expect it.聽
I鈥檓 thinking of a young man I knew who, recently married and in the prime of life, was told he was suffering from a terminal illness. At the time, he and his wife were blissfully happy, looking forward to starting their family I dreaded going to see them when they asked me to chat through funeral arrangements. It wasn鈥檛 that long since I鈥檇 helped plan their wedding service. On the long drive through Ireland for my first visit, I prayed a lot and rehearsed words of comfort over and over in my head. To my surprise the young man and his wife were by now much further along the road to emotional healing than I was.聽
When I stumbled my way through half-baked expressions of sorrow, the husband though spent and weak, clasped his wife鈥檚 hand and said: 鈥淏rian you know there are worse things then dying.鈥� When I asked what could be worse than dying, he replied: 鈥淭o live to old age and never know the love we have.鈥� When it came to his funeral service I told that story to the mourners. Afterwards it was all anyone there remembered 鈥� and it was all they needed to remember. We never know what we鈥檙e capable of until we鈥檙e tested. Michelangelo could sculpt a beautiful, delicate, warm, protective angel out of a hard, cold slab of marble. He was asked to explain his technique for that particular work of art.聽
His answer was brilliant: 鈥淚 looked at the marble block and saw an angel there. I worked diligently until I set the angel free.鈥� That gives me endless hope. If I look long enough into my own cold heart, I鈥檒l discover the angel of happiness there waiting to be set free. And so will you. It鈥檚 hope not despair which should shape the future.

Broadcast

  • Mon 25 Mar 2019 06:30
    成人快手 Radio 2