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Fearne Cotton sits in

Wake up and embrace the day with Fearne Cotton and the team. Fearne chats to Sir Michael Palin about his tour.

Wake up and embrace the day with Fearne Cotton! Monty Python's Sir Michael Palin tells Fearne about his summer tour dates.

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

There's also weather with Carol Kirkwood, a daily Pause For Thought and listeners on the line, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Thu 30 May 2019 06:30
成人快手 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Irene Cara

    Fame

    • NOW Yearbook '82 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    Black Star Dancing

    • Black Star Dancing EP.
    • Sour Mash Records.
    • 1.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Mr. Blue Sky

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Frontiers Records.
    • T1.

  • Mark Ronson

    Nothing Breaks Like A Heart (feat. Miley Cyrus)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Lady Gaga

    Bad Romance

    • Now That's What I Call Music 75 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 1.

  • Four Tops

    Loco In Acapulco

    • Their Greatest Hits.
    • Telstar.

  • Will Young

    My Love

    • Lexicon.
    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • Spice Girls

    Stop

    • Spice Girls - Spiceworld.
    • Virgin.

  • Ava Max

    So Am I

    • Heaven & Hell.
    • Atlantic.

  • Gloria Gaynor

    I Will Survive

    • Disco Fever (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Bastille

    Joy

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin Records.

  • Aswad

    Shine

    • Now 1994 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • David Guetta

    Stay (Don't Go Away) (feat. RAYE)

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • George Michael

    Faith

    • George Michael - Ladies & Gentlemen.
    • Epic.

  • Stevie Wonder

    Sir Duke

    • Stevie Wonder - Song Review.
    • Motown.

  • Madonna

    Medellin (feat. Maluma)

    • Madame X.
    • Interscope.

  • Camila Cabello

    Havana (feat. Young Thug)

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco Music.

  • Lewis Capaldi

    Someone You Loved

    • Breach.
    • Vertigo.
    • 3.

  • Billy Joel

    Uptown Girl

    • An Innocent Man.
    • CBS.

  • Maren Morris

    The Bones

    • GIRL.
    • Columbia Nashville.
    • 12.

  • The Lightning Seeds

    Borderline (Radio 2 Session, 10 MAY 2019)

  • Amy Grant

    Baby Baby

    • Now 1991 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.

  • Westlife

    Hello My Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI.

  • Bon Jovi

    Livin' On A Prayer

    • Music Of The Millennium (Various).
    • Universal Music Tv.
    • 1.

  • Rainbow

    Since You Been Gone

    • And The Road Goes On Forever Vol 1.
    • Debutante.

  • Florence + The Machine

    Dog Days Are Over

    • CD SINGLE.
    • MOSHI MOSHI RECORDS.
    • 1.

  • The Waterboys

    The Whole of the Moon

    • Now 1991 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.

  • Dido

    Take You 成人快手

    • Still On My Mind.
    • BMG.

  • Womack & Womack

    Love Wars

    • Soul Years: 1984 (Various Artists).
    • Knight Records.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
From Dave Tomlinson, writer and vicar at large:聽
In one of his comic strips, Charlie Brown gloomily remarks, 鈥楽omeday we will all die, Snoopy鈥�. To which the irrepressible beagle replies: 鈥楾rue. But on all the other days we will not!鈥� I鈥檝e been thinking about how easy it is to be overwhelmed by what hasn鈥檛 yet happened 鈥� and how that stops us enjoying what is happening. Like when our recent trip to Australia to visit our son and his family was drawing to a close and I found myself anticipating the 鈥榞oodbye鈥� days before it happened. I had to tell myself again and again to concentrate on the present, to enjoy the time we still had together.聽
Yes, on Wednesday we would be going home, but on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday we would not! There is no denying that life includes unpleasant times as well as happy. And I reckon it would be slightly weird if we welcomed them all equally. I definitely didn鈥檛 welcome going to the dentist for root canal work last week! When he greeted me with 鈥楬ow are you doing?鈥� I told him I鈥檇 definitely rather be somewhere else. The dentist smiled, promising me there would be no pain. He was right. But I was still glad to get the heck out of there! Actually, I believe pain in some form is inevitable; it鈥檚 part of being alive 鈥� we have to deal with dentists and doctors; we cannot escape saying goodbyes; and yes, someday we will shuffle off this mortal coil.聽
But speaking personally, I know I sometimes add to my suffering by allowing the thought of such things to overwhelm me long before they鈥檝e happened. I think faith and anxiety are flip sides of the same thing: they are both functions of the imagination. When I鈥檓 anxious, I allow my imagination to fear the worst or I put myself in a situation I鈥檓 not yet facing; then anxiety overwhelms me. But when I exercise faith, I imagine myself coping with what life will bring: good or ill. And this enables me to live more calmly, effectively and happily in the present. The real suffering, I find, is wishing life was different instead of living each day as fully, truthfully and gratefully as I can 鈥� being more a Snoopy than a Charlie Brown鈥�

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  • Thu 30 May 2019 06:30
    成人快手 Radio 2