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Richard Madeley sits in

Richard Madeley sits in for Chris.

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Thu 12 Apr 2012 06:30
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Music Played

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Hungry Heart

    • Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits.
    • Columbia.

  • Natalie Imbruglia

    Torn

    • 1999 Grammy Nominees (Various Artist.
    • Elektra.

  • Olly Murs

    Oh My Goodness

    • In Case You Didn't Know.
    • Epic.
    • 1.

  • New York City

    I'm Doing Fine Now

  • Leona Lewis

    Bleeding Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony BMG.

  • Owl City

    Fireflies

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

  • The Byrds

    All I Really Want to Do

    • Ready Steady Go! (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Dire Straits

    Twisting By The Pool

    • Sultans Of Swing - Best Of Dire Straits.
    • Vertigo.

  • Carrie Underwood

    Good Girl

    • Blown Away.
    • Sony Music.
    • 1.

  • Alphabeat

    Fascination

    • (CD Single).
    • Copenhagen.

  • Chris Isaak

    My Baby Left Me

    • Beyond The Sun.
    • Rhino.
    • 1.

  • Lighthouse Family

    Lifted

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Chic

    I Want Your Love

    • Shades Of Soul (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Phil Collins

    Two Hearts

    • Singles.
    • Rhino.

  • Paul Weller

    That Dangerous Age

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • The Pierces

    Kissing You Goodbye

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 1.

  • Robin Thicke

    Love After War

    • (CD Single).
    • Star Track.
    • 1.

  • Amy Winehouse

    Rehab

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • The Tams

    Be Young Be Foolish Be Happy

    • (Single).
    • Stateside.

  • Huey Lewis and the News

    The Power Of Love

    • Huey Lewis & The News - Fore!.
    • Chrysalis.

  • Marlon Roudette

    New Age

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal.
    • 1.

  • Hot Chocolate

    You Sexy Thing

    • Hot Chocolate.
    • EMI.
    • 16.

  • Maverick Sabre

    I Used To Have It All

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.
    • 1.

  • Yello

    The Race

    • Now 13, Part 2 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Rebecca Ferguson

    Glitter & Gold

    • Heaven.
    • Sony.

  • The Animals

    We Gotta Get Out Of This Place

  • Michael Ball

    Love Changes Everything 

    • The Very Best Of Andrew Lloyd Webber.
    • Polydor.

  • The Proclaimers

    Spinning Around In The Air

    • Spinning Around In The Air.
    • Cooking Vinyl.
    • 1.

  • Jackie Wilson

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

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

  • Stevie Wonder

    Sir Duke

    • Stevie Wonder - Song Review.
    • Motown.

  • Sandy Denny

    London

    • (CD Single).
    • Mighty Village.
    • 1.

  • Carly Simon

    Nobody Does It Better

    • The Very Best Of Carly Simon.
    • Global Television.

  • Paul McCartney

    No More Lonely Nights

    • Paul McCartney - All The Best!.
    • Parlophone.

  • Paolo Nutini

    Pencil Full Of Lead

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

Pause For Thought

Religious connections aside, what links my medieval prayer stone and home-baked bread? The answer is touch. Sometime during the Middle Ages someone carved the Madonna and child into this small stick-shaped stone. Think of all the people over the centuries that will have held and smoothed its surface with their fingers as they’ve prayed. And just recently I was interviewed for a programme exploring the therapeutic impact of bread-making on, among others, the victims of torture. For people whose senses have been violently assaulted the positive sensual experience of kneading dough and feeling the soft smooth, elastic texture of it in their hands can be profoundly healing. 
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Perhaps of all the senses, touch is the one we most take for granted. Only when it’s lost do we realise how much our well-being depends upon it - and that includes the experience of pain that sometimes comes with it. Violence inflicted on one person by another is wholly unacceptable, but not all pain is bad. How many of us are alive because pain let us know something was wrong and we saw a doctor? People I’ve met who suffer from leprosy became disfigured because they can’t feel pain. Without that sensation they don’t notice the nail they’ve accidentally stood on in bare feet, or their hands being burnt by pans to hot to handle. Pain, physical or psychological is there to protect us from harm – if we take note of it. C.S.Lewis wrote, ‘God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.’ Whether or not you believe in God, it’s worth remembering that pain requires attention and action, and no one should suffer when suffering can be alleviated.

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  • Thu 12 Apr 2012 06:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

Farewell Chris Evans: The best bits from his last shows at Radio 2

After eight years of hosting the Breakfast Show, Chris Evans leaves Radio 2.

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