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Zoe sits in for Chris and is joined by British Squash Champion, Laura Massaro. There's more chat with champions as Zoe speaks to the Toe-tally amazing Toe-Wrestling winner, Lisa Shenton and the Pause For Thought comes to you courtesy of Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor.

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Wed 16 Apr 2014 06:30
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Music Played

  • Damon Albarn

    Heavy Seas Of Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
    • 001.

  • Archie Bell & the Drells

    Soul City Walk

    • Midnight Soul (Various Artists).
    • Music Club.

  • Gary Barlow

    Since I Saw You Last

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

  • Blondie

    Union City Blue

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

  • The Blow Monkeys

    Digging Your Scene

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Buggles

    Video Killed The Radio Star

    • Our Friends Electric (Various Artist.
    • Telstar.

  • Carpenters

    Please Mr Postman

    • The Carpenters - Yesterday Once More.
    • A&M.

  • Coldplay

    Magic

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Mr. Blue Sky

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Frontiers Records.
    • T1.

  • Embrace

    Follow You Â鶹ԼÅÄ

    • (CD Single).
    • Cooking Vinyl.
    • 001.

  • Guns N’ Roses

    November Rain

    • Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I.
    • Geffen.

  • Chrissie Hynde

    Dark Sunglasses

    • (CD Single).
    • Caroline.

  • The Jam

    A Town Called Malice

    • Jam Story.
    • Universal.

  • Billy Joel

    Tell Her About It

    • Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Vol.2.
    • CBS.

  • Elton John

    Island Girl

    • Diamonds.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Jerry Lee Lewis

    Great Balls of Fire

  • Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories

    Stay (I Missed You)

    • Woman (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv/Sony Tv.

  • Kenny Loggins

    Footloose

    • Footloose (Original S/Track).
    • CBS.

  • Madonna

    Material Girl

    • Finally Enough Love (Deluxe Edition).
    • Rhino.
    • 2.

  • George Michael

    Faith

    • George Michael - Ladies & Gentlemen.
    • Epic.

  • Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakey

    Together In Electric Dreams

    • Our Friends Electric (Various Artists.
    • Telstar.

  • Noah and the Whale

    5 Years Time

  • Dolly Parton

    Jolene

    • Million Sellers Vol.15 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • The Police

    Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic

    • Ones On 1 (Radio 1 21st Birthday Albu.
    • Â鶹ԼÅÄ.

  • Gregory Porter

    Hey Laura

    • Liquid Spirit.
    • Blue Note.
    • 001.

  • Pulp

    Common People

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 5.

  • R.E.M.

    Shiny Happy People

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

  • Carly Simon

    Why

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

  • Status Quo

    Caroline

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

  • U2

    With Or Without You

    • U2 - The Joshua Tree.
    • Island.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

With CardinalÌýCormac Murphy O'Connor

Ìý

There once lived a man called Primo Levi, an Italian Jew who was put in that terrible place, Auschwitz, a concentration camp.Ìý He recounts how one day he was going crazy with thirst and he saw a beautiful icicle.Ìý He reached out to grab it and suck it but he was stopped by the guard.Ìý So Primo Levi said, Why, why?ÌýÌý And the guard replied, Here there is no ‘why’.ÌýÌý Quite often during my life as a priest many people have said to me, Why,why has God allowed this suffering, this tragedy, this pain?ÌýÌý I am sure, in your own life, there have been times when you have suffered, maybe a bereavement, maybe the pain of separation from someone, difficulties with one of your children – it could be anything.ÌýÌý I have found in my life that often the way one suffers is precisely the way you would not want to, in a way you would not expect.ÌýÌý When people ask me why do we have to suffer, there is no easy answer.Ìý I remember sitting by the bedside of a very good and noble man who was dying.Ìý And he said to me, What’s going to happen to me when I die?ÌýÌý I said, I can’t give you a full answer because in some ways it is a mystery.Ìý But what I can say is this:Ìý The greatest act of every Christian is ultimately an act of faith, of trust in God who knows us, who loves us, who has a purpose for us - and an eternal destiny.Ìý

During the next few days of this week which is called Holy Week, whether you believe fully or not, Ìýespecially on Good Friday, you may think of the Cross on which Jesus died; think of the words that he said, not only, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? But also his words, In to your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit.ÌýÌý That act of trust in God is something we might imitate so that whatever sufferings we have to endure, we too might be able to say, I trust in you my God, in your goodness and in your love and in your purpose for me.Ìý Into your hands I commend my spirit.

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  • Wed 16 Apr 2014 06:30
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After eight years of hosting the Breakfast Show, Chris Evans leaves Radio 2.

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