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Fearne Cotton sits in, with Professor Brian Cox

Fearne Cotton sits in for Zoe and chats to Professor Brian Cox about his latest book and TV series on the planets.

Wake up and embrace the day with Fearne Cotton and the team. Fearne chats to Professor Brian Cox about his latest book and TV series called The Planets, plus his Universal Adventures in Space and Time World Tour.

Along with Jason K 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 Sarah Keith-Lucas, Alan Pardew previews the Europa League final from Baku, a Pause For Thought from Bishop Nick Baines and listeners on the line as Fearne entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Wed 29 May 2019 06:30
成人快手 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Black Eyed Peas

    I Gotta Feeling

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.
    • 4.

  • Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber

    I Don't Care

    • No.6 Collaborations Project.
    • Atlantic.

  • The Cardigans

    My Favourite Game

    • Q The Album (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Jack Savoretti

    What More Can I Do

    • Singing To Strangers.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd.

  • Ultra Nat茅

    Free

    • Huge Hits 1997 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Laura Branigan

    Gloria

    • Disco Queens: The '80s (Various Artists).
    • Rhino.

  • Taylor Swift

    ME! (feat. Brendon Urie)

    • (CD Single).
    • Republic Records.

  • James

    Sit Down

    • True Brit (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Marshmello

    Here With Me (feat. CHVRCHES)

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI.

  • Jackie Wilson

    Reet Petite (The Finest Girl You Ever Want To Meet)

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

  • R.E.M.

    Shiny Happy People

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1991 (Various).
    • Telstar.

  • Elton John & Taron Egerton

    (I'm Gonna) Love Me Again

    • Rocketman O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Virgin EMI.

  • The Champs

    Tequila

    • The Wanderers (Original S/Track).
    • Sequel Records.

  • All Saints

    Pure Shores

  • Shawn Mendes

    If I Can't Have You

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Blondie

    Denis

    • Atomic: The Very Best Of Blondie.
    • EMI.

  • The Doobie Brothers

    What A Fool Believes

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.

  • Tom Odell

    Summer Day

    • MoominsValley O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Jonas Brothers

    Sucker

    • (CD Single).
    • Republic Records.

  • Jessie J

    Price Tag (feat. B.o.B)

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

  • Pet Shop Boys

    Always On My Mind

    • Pet Shop Boys - Discography.
    • Parlophone.

  • Jess Glynne & Jax Jones

    One Touch

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 103 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Level 42

    Missing (Radio 2 Session, 24 May 2019)

  • Status Quo

    Caroline

    • Whatever You Want - V.Best Of Status.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Bobby Brown

    Two Can Play That Game

    • Now 30 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel

    Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)

    • 20 Number 1's Of The 70's (Various).
    • MFP.

  • Elvis Presley

    Burning Love

    • Presley - The All Time Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.

  • The Turtles

    Happy Together

    • Heartbeat - The 60's Gold Collection.
    • Global Television.

  • Keith Urban

    Drop Top (feat. Kassi Ashton)

    • Graffiti U.
    • Hit Red Records.

  • Glenn Frey

    The Heat Is On

    • Above The Clouds: The Very Best Of.
    • Universal.

  • Jonas Blue, Liam Payne & Lennon Stella

    Polaroid

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
From Nick Baines, the Bishop of Leeds:聽
You know what it鈥檚 like when you get a song running round the inside of your head and you can鈥檛 stop it? Well, I鈥檝e got one and it鈥檚 driving me a bit mad. It could be worse, I suppose - it could be something like an obscure national anthem - but this one is a hymn. It鈥檚 one everyone knows - it鈥檚 鈥楢mazing Grace鈥�. I think what鈥檚 happened is that I heard a writer talking about it on the radio and it triggered something.聽
I have known 鈥楢mazing Grace鈥� since I was a kid - a slave trader鈥檚 discovery that life could be different and that he didn鈥檛 have to be trapped in guilt for ever. Anyway, hearing it mentioned on the radio prompted me to go to the flicks and see the film of Aretha Franklin stirring hearts and souls (including a very young Mick Jagger) at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles in 1972. It is an intense experience and wonderful music.聽
Judging by the response of the cinema audience, grace is what you experience while watching. OK, you鈥檝e paid to get in, but what you get is a massive dose of freely offered generosity and joy. What Aretha Franklin does is open your heart to the possibility that, despite all the rubbish in life, we are loved to death and beyond. Grace is a word that, apart from being a popular girl鈥檚 name again, sounds religious.聽
That鈥檚 because it is. For Christians it speaks of forgiveness and freedom - offered by a God who has no illusions or fantasies about human messiness or failure, but crosses it all out with a love and mercy you can only call outrageously reckless. In a world in which everything seems calculated or quantified - even love and affection: what will I get out of it if I put this amount into it? - how do we account for the unpurchasable, unearnable, unmanipulable love of one who breaks the bonds of guilt and fear and shines the light of newness into the darkness of loss? The Beatles hit on a similar idea when they sang 鈥淐an鈥檛 buy me love鈥�. Amazing Grace. 鈥楽lightly interesting grace鈥� wouldn鈥檛 have worked, would it?

Broadcast

  • Wed 29 May 2019 06:30
    成人快手 Radio 2