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The Last Show Before Christmas with Jake Bugg and the Salvation Army!

Chris and his Breakfast Team elves bring that festive feeling to your mornings, with The Salvation Army Staff Band and Jake Bugg here to perform some festive classics, be prepared for a sing-along!
! It's going to be a ho-ho-ho-down!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 20 Dec 2013 06:30
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Music Played

  • Chuck Berry

    Run Rudolph Run

    • Chuck Berry - The Chess Years (Cd 2).
    • Chess.

  • Boney M.

    Rasputin

    • The Magic Of Boney M.
    • Sony BMG.
    • 13.

  • Nell Bryden

    All You Had

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

  • Michael BublΓ©

    You Make Me Feel So Young

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 001.

  • Sammy Davis Jr.

    The Candy Man

    • Hits Of 1971 & 1972 (Various Artists).
    • Polydor.

  • Eagles

    Please Come Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ For Christmas

    • Cold Christmas (Various Artists).
    • WEA.

  • East 17

    Stay Another Day

    • East 17 - Steam.
    • London.

  • David Essex

    A Winter's Tale

    • That's Christmas (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Haircut One Hundred

    Fantastic Day

    • Pelican West - Deluxe Edition.
    • Cherry Pop.
    • 007.

  • Elton John

    Step Into Christmas

    • Caribou.
    • Mercury.

  • Bert Kaempfert

    Jingo Jango

    • Christmas Wonderland.
    • POLYDOR.

  • Katrina and the Waves

    Walking On Sunshine

    • The Best Summer Ever (Various Artist.
    • Virgin.

  • Brenda Lee

    Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree

    • Brenda Lee - The EP Collection.
    • See For Miles.

  • Madonna

    Santa Baby

    • A Very Special Christmas (Various).
    • A&M.

  • Ewan McGregor & Alessandro Safina

    Your Song

    • Moulin Rouge.
    • Polydor Group.
    • 6.

  • Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield

    What Have I Done To Deserve This?

    • Goin' Back - Best Of Dusty Springfiel.
    • Philips.

  • Peter, Paul and Mary

    Leaving On A Jet Plane

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Rhino.

  • Queen

    Bohemian Rhapsody

    • Greatest Hits I II & III (The Platinum Collection).
    • Parlophone.
    • 11.

  • The Waitresses

    Christmas Wrapping

    • NOW That's What I Call Christmas (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Kim Wilde

    Hey Mister Snowman

    • Wilde Winter Snowman.
    • Wildeflower Records.
    • 001.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From: Nick Baines, Bishop of Bradford

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There are some miserable people around, aren't there?

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Somebody told me that Christmas will be an anticlimax because the Strictly final comes before it. If you've been swept away by the hype around ballroom dancing, this may be true; but, for me and you the truth is we haven't yet seen it all.

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I don't go along with the miseries who complain that some people only ever come to church at Christmas where we can ooh and aah about the baby in the manger without letting him grow into the man on the cross. I think it's brilliant that people come to hear the story afresh - to taste it in words and drama and music and touch the mystery of it all. Although we complicate it a million times, the Christmas story is as simple as this: God coming among us as one of us and showing defying all the hatred and violence that always seems to win in the world. A Christmas carol is a song about love - the uncomplicated love of God offered to us messed up kids who know we need it.

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So, bring on the tinsel and stick the angel on your tree. Hang out the banners and raise a glass to love. Light a fire of forgiveness and be surprised that all the predictability can be broken by a lightning bolt of joy - seeing in the face of the baby in Bethlehem both your own face and the face of the God who loves you.

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Now, if that sounds a bit preachy, er ... well, I guess it is. After all, when angels sang on the hillsides they didn't apologise for intruding into people's routines. At carol services throughout December people have been unashamedly belting out glorias in excelsis Deo and found some place of holy contemplation amid the madness.

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If nothing else, seeing the Jesus of the nativity might just provoke us to turn our attention to those who find no home, no inn, no welcome this Christmas. And the man he grew into might also ask us why people have no home, no company, no welcome this Christmas.

Note to self: be loved, then love it out.

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