Main content
Sorry, this episode is not currently available

A fully interactive show for all the family, featuring music, special guests and listeners on the phone.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Thu 30 Jan 2014 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

More episodes

Previous

Toad in the Hole

Next

Wilman, Toseland, Melua and Frost

See all episodes from The Chris Evans Breakfast Show

Music Played

  • Ace

    How Long

    • No Greater Love (Various Artists).
    • Global Records & Tapes.

  • Louis Armstrong

    What A Wonderful World

    • This Is My Song - Love Songs Of The 6.
    • Old Gold.

  • Katy B

    Crying For No Reason

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Gary Barlow

    Face To Face (feat. Elton John)

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • Bee Gees

    Jive Talkin'

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.

  • The Bluetones

    Slight Return

  • James Blunt

    Heart to Heart

    • Moon Landing.
    • Atlantic.
    • 004.

  • Sophie Ellis鈥怋extor

    Young Blood

    • (CD Single).
    • EBGB's.
    • 001.

  • Macy Gray

    I Try

    • The 2000 Brit Awards (Various Artist.
    • Columbia.

  • The Jam

    The Eton Rifles

    • The Jam: The Singles 1977-1979.
    • Polydor.

  • Jack Johnson

    Better Together

    • (CD Single).
    • Brushfire Records.

  • Keane

    Silenced By The Night

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

  • Pilot

    Magic

    • 25 Years Of Rock'n'Roll Vol.2 (1974).
    • Connoisseur Collection.

  • Gregory Porter

    Liquid Spirit

    • Liquid Spirit.
    • Blue Note.
    • 001.

  • Queen

    Another One Bites The Dust

    • The Game.
    • Island.
    • 3.

  • R.E.M.

    Stand

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Todd Rundgren

    I Saw The Light

    • My Girl (Original 1992 Film S/Track).
    • Epic.

  • Seal

    Crazy

    • The Hit Pack (Various Artists).
    • CBS.
    • 4.

  • Pete Seeger

    Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season)

  • The Shadows

    Apache

    • The Shadows - First 20 Years At The T.
    • EMI.

  • Status Quo

    Down Down

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

  • The Sugarhill Gang

    Rapper's Delight

    • The Seventies: A Very Special Collect.
    • Pickwick.

  • Survivor

    Eye Of The Tiger

    • The No.1 Movies Album (Various Artist.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • The The

    This is the day

    • (Single).
    • Some Bizarre.

  • The Vapors

    Turning Japanese

    • Young at Heart (Various Artists).
    • Reader's Digest.

  • Pharrell Williams

    Happy

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • John Paul Young

    Love Is In The Air

    • 20 Songs Of Love From The 70's (Vario.
    • MFP.

Pause for Thought: Pete Tobias

Pause for Thought: Pete Tobias

From Rabbi Pete Tobias of the Liberal Synagogue, Elstree:

听

Along with many other people, I鈥檝e been thinking about singer/songwriter Pete Seeger who died on Monday. His song, 鈥榃here Have All the Flowers Gone?鈥� was one of the first I learned to play on the guitar 鈥� because it has just four chords, which is about all I can play. I used to teach it to classes of primary schoolchildren before I changed jobs and became a rabbi.


The song of Pete Seeger鈥檚 that most intrigues me as a rabbi is 鈥楾urn, Turn, Turn鈥�. Its lyrics, with lines such as 鈥榓 time to be born, a time to die, a time to weep and a time to refrain from weeping鈥� are taken directly from the biblical book of Ecclesiastes. Ecclesiastes was in many ways the grumpy old man of the bible, complaining that everything is meaningless, and telling us that there is nothing new under the sun. He even went as far as to say that 鈥榯he day of death is better than the day of birth.鈥�


That particular observation upset many of the rabbis living two thousand years ago, because it seemed very negative. But a wise man explained Ecclesiastes鈥� seemingly peculiar statement as follows:


Imagine if you will a ship that is about to embark on an epic voyage. When it departs, there are few to wave it off, for it has not achieved anything. But when it returns, after its journey, having visited countless places and enjoyed adventure and success, many will gather on the quayside to welcome it home. So it is with a person鈥檚 life. When it begins, we do not know what will be achieved. But at the end of a life well-lived, there is much to be acknowledged and celebrated.


A time to be born and a time to die. May the words of Pete Seeger, and the hopes for a better world that they embody and proclaim, be a testament to his life and an inspiration to all who now bid him farewell at the end of his 94 year voyage.

听

Broadcast

  • Thu 30 Jan 2014 06:30
    麻豆约拍 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.

500 Words

麻豆约拍 Radio 2's story-writing competition for kids.