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Chris is back from Glastonbury! With a fully interactive show for all the family.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Tue 1 Jul 2014 06:30

Music Played

  • The B‐52s

    Love Shack

    • Now 1990 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.
    • 3.
  • The Banana Splits

    The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)

    • Television's Greatest Hits Vol. 5: In Living Color (Various Artists).
    • TVT Records.
  • Michael Bublé

    It's A Beautiful Day

    • (CD Single).
    • Reprise.
    • 1.
  • Jake Bugg

    Lightning Bolt (Live At Glastonbury 2014)

  • Tracy Chapman

    Talkin' Bout A Revolution

    • Tracy Chapman.
    • Elektra.
  • Coldplay

    A Sky Full Of Stars

    • 鶹Լ Music Awards (Various Artists).
    • UMOD.
  • The Cure

    Close To Me

    • The Cure - Staring At The Sea.
    • Fiction.
  • Duran Duran

    Is There Something I Should Know?

    • Duran Duran - Decade.
    • EMI.
    • 1.
  • Eurythmics

    Thorn In My Side

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

    Radar Love

    • Hot Love - Sounds Of The 70's, Part 1.
    • Old Gold.
  • Heaven 17

    Temptation

    • A Kick Up The Eighties Vol. 5 (Various Artists).
    • Old Gold.
  • Herman’s Hermits

    Sunshine Girl

    • The Best Of The EMI Years - Vol.2.
    • EMI.
  • Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey

    Some Kind Of Hero

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal.
    • 001.
  • Kula Shaker

    Hush

    • Kula Shaker - Kollected: The Best Of.
    • Columbia.
  • Dean Martin & Helen O’Connell

    How D'Ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning?

    • Cool Couples (Various Artists).
    • Sanctuary.
  • MKTO

    Classic

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.
  • Monty Python

    Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
  • Prince

    Little Red Corvette

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.
  • Python Lee Jackson

    In A Broken Dream

    • Hot Love - Sounds Of The 70's, Part 1.
    • Old Gold.
  • Queen

    Bicycle Race

    • Jazz.
    • Island.
    • 4.
  • Eddie Rabbitt

    I Love A Rainy Night

    • Country Roads (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers

    Californication

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.
  • Rose Royce

    Wishing On A Star

    • In Full Bloom.
    • BBR.
    • 011.
  • T. Rex

    Get It On

    • Million Sellers Vol.19 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.
  • Tears for Fears

    Mad World

    • Tears For Fears - Tears Roll Down.
    • Fontana.
  • Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

    Forgotten Man

  • Midge Ure

    Become

    • (CD Single).
    • Hypertension-Music.
    • 001.
  • Ben Watt

    Forget

    • (CD Single).
    • Caroline International.
    • 1.
  • Yes

    Owner Of A Lonely Heart

    • Top Gear 2 - Various Artists.
    • Columbia.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth:

Ever since Naftali Frenkel, Gilad Shaar and Eyal Yifrach, three Israeli teenagers, were kidnapped 18 days ago, some remarkable things have happened.

A tidal wave of sympathy and prayer swept across the globe. Men, women and children showed deep solidarity with the call to “bring our boys back.” Here in the UK thousands poured out their hearts, identifying with the three innocent teenagers, their families, teachers and friends.

Soon after news emerged of the abduction, I called for an impromptu service of prayer. Just over two weeks’ ago, on a Sunday evening, within less than five hours, more than one thousand people joined together in London to recite psalms and to sing emotionally-charged supplications.

Similar prayer rallies throughout the world, and most particularly, of course, in Israel, brought together religious and secular Jews in an extraordinary show of unity and they werejoinedby people of other faiths in spirit, as we hoped against hope that the boys would return home alive and well to their dear ones.

This momentum reached its crescendo two nights’ ago, when amassive solidarity rally of tens of thousands of people was held in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square. Who could not have been deeply inspired to hear the three boys’ mothers’ eloquent, heart rendering and dignified speeches?

Turning to the crowd, Rachel Frenkel, mother of Naftali. said, "This is an assembly of love and of unity."Gilad's mother, Bat Galim Shaer, addressed her son: "People have come together to pray for your return and when you come back you will find that our family has expanded greatly - you have brothers and sisters all over Israel and the world."

Iris, Eyal Yifrach's mother, spoke to her son from the stage: "We want you back already,” she said, “We are waiting to embrace you with warmth." Tragically, that will now not happen. But the warmth and glow of immense love, friendship and solidarity will continue to be with us.

As we now try to absorb the horrific reality of the brutal murder of the boys, our challenge is to transform hatred into love and to show that only unity and harmony amongst different peoples on both sides of the conflict can take us forward in a meaningful and constructive way.

In the midst of deep grief may God guide us along the route of hope, to the stability and security which will underpin the right of innocent men, women and children, to live their lives in peace.

Broadcast

  • Tue 1 Jul 2014 06:30

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