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National Jeff Day! Jeff Lynne, Jeff Beck, Aaron Paul and Christina Perri

Chris gets that Friday feeling going with ELO legend Jeff Lynne, Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul and guitar legend Jeff Beck. Plus, Christina Perri performs live in the studio.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Fri 7 Mar 2014 06:30

Music Played

  • American Authors

    Best Day Of My Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Def Jam.
    • 001.
  • The Beatles

    Free As A Bird

    • The Beatles Anthology 1.
    • EMI.
  • Jon Bon Jovi

    Blaze Of Glory

    • (CD Single).
    • Vertigo.
    • 1.
  • The Dave Clark Five

    Bits and Pieces

    • Glad All Over Again.
    • EMI.
  • Sammy Davis Jr.

    Talk To The Animals

    • Sammy Davis Greatest Hits.
    • Curb.
    • 1.
  • ¶Ù±ð±ð±ðâ€L¾±³Ù±ð

    Groove Is In The Heart

    • The Best Of 100% Dance (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.
  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Livin' Thing

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.
  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Sweet Talkin' Woman

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.
  • Tommy James & the Shondells

    Crystal Blue Persuasion

  • Lynyrd Skynyrd

    Sweet Â鶹ԼÅÄ Alabama

    • The All Time Greatest Rock Songs ....
    • Columbia.
  • Oasis

    Half The World Away

    • Definitely Maybe - B-Sides & Extra Tracks.
    • Big Brother Records.
    • 016.
  • Mike Oldfield

    Sailing

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.
    • 001.
  • Brad Paisley

    The Mona Lisa

    • Wheelhouse.
    • Arista.
    • 001.
  • Pratt & McClain

    Happy Days

    • Television's Greatest Hits Volume 3 70s & 80s.
    • Silva Screen Records Ltd.
  • Kenny Rogers & The First Edition

    Just Dropped In

    • Capitol Records.
  • Rod Stewart

    Maggie May

    • The Best Of Rod Stewart.
    • Warner Bros.
  • Thunderclap Newman

    Something In The Air

    • Fifty Number Ones Of The 60's (Variou.
    • X-Phonics Records.
  • Traveling Wilburys

    Handle With Care

    • (CD Single).
    • Wilbury.
  • U2

    Invisible

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 001.
  • Stevie Wonder

    Superstition

    • Motown Chartbusters Volume 8 (Various Artists).
    • Spectrum Music.
  • The Yardbirds

    Heart Full Of Soul

    • Million Sellers Vol.11 - The Sixties.
    • Disky.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Julia Neuberger, Senior Rabbi at the west London Synagogue:

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It’s International Women’s Day tomorrow, and we’re just back from India, where, as well as experiencing extraordinary spirituality in Hindu temples, I met some remarkable women. I’m a trustee of a foundation, which works with young children between 0 and 8. One project is working with people providing mother tongue education to children from the hill tribes of Orissa in eastern India. There are many such tribes, and we met people speaking at least 19 different languages! Before this started, children often ran away from school- they frequently board from the age of 5- because they didn’t understand a word that was said to them. They became distressed and allergic to education. Any prospect of a proper career went out of the window. By training young women from their own communities to teach the children, both in nursery school locally, and in primary schools often hundreds of miles away, in their own birth language, you can see the children displaying huge enthusiasm and an infectious desire for learning. And you can see the children begin to understand religious rituals, and singing their songs of praise with real gusto. The real heroines are the young teachers, mostly women, and those who teach them. They have to learn several languages- one woman we met was on language number 8 and was trying for a further 4! And they are doing it because of their profound belief in the value of every child, and the right of every child to receive an education that makes sense to them, and can allow them to grow and prosper. These women often work in very tough circumstances, in very remote villages, but their dedication and commitment shines out of them, and they are just the sorts of women we need to be celebrating- inspired, and inspirational- for International Women’s Day. We should celebrate them for themselves, of course, but also for valuing all the children, for the sake of their future, just as all of us should be doing.

Broadcast

  • Fri 7 Mar 2014 06:30

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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