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Thu 21 Aug 2014 06:30
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Music Played

  • ABBA

    Dancing Queen

    • Abba Gold (40th Anniversary Edition).
    • Polar.
    • 001.

  • The Beatles

    Back In The U.S.S.R.

  • Bee Gees

    Tragedy

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.

  • Bee Gees

    Stayin' Alive

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.

  • Bee Gees

    Jive Talkin'

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.

  • Bee Gees

    Night Fever

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.

  • Bon Jovi

    Lay Your Hands On Me

    • Blue Smoke - The Best Of.
    • Sony Music.

  • Joe Cocker

    Fire It Up

    • Fire It Up.
    • Sony Music.

  • Coldplay

    True Love

    • Ghost Stories.
    • Parlophone.
    • 001.

  • Deacon Blue

    A New House

    • (CD Single).
    • Medium Wave.
    • 1.

  • The Doobie Brothers

    What A Fool Believes

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.

  • Eddie & the Hot Rods

    Do Anything You Wanna Do

    • Beautiful Game (Various Artists).
    • Universal.

  • Cass Elliot

    It's Getting Better

    • The Singles+.
    • BR Music.

  • Faces

    Stay with Me

    • Glam Crazee - Various Artists.
    • Virgin.

  • The Foundations

    Build Me Up Buttercup

    • Million Sellers Vol.12 - The Sixties.
    • Disky.

  • Foxes

    Glorious

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.
    • 001.

  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience

    Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)

    • Alternative 60s - From Woodstock To Vietnam (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Amy Macdonald

    Mr. Rock & Roll

    • (CD Single).
    • Vertigo.

  • The Mavericks

    Dance the Night Away

  • Paul McCartney & Wings

    Jet

    • The 7" Singles Box.
    • MPL.
    • 2.

  • The Monkees

    I'm A Believer

    • Rediscover The 60's-With A Little Hel.
    • Old Gold.
    • 7.

  • Dolly Parton

    9 to 5

    • Dolly Parton: The Ultimate Collection.
    • BMG/RCA.

  • Pinky & Perky

    Dancing Queen

  • Iggy Pop

    Real Wild Child (Wild One)

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1987, Pt.2 (Var).
    • Telstar.

  • Pretenders

    Talk Of The Town

    • The Pretenders - The Singles.
    • WEA.

  • Queen

    Seven Seas Of Rhye

    • Queen - Greatest Hits.
    • Parlophone.
    • 11.

  • The Rolling Stones

    Tumbling Dice

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.
    • 1.

  • Saint Motel

    My Type

    • My Type E.P..
    • Parlophone.
    • 001.

  • Simon & Garfunkel

    I Am A Rock

    • The Definitive Simon & Garfunkel.
    • Columbia.

  • U2

    Sweetest Thing

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Rev Ruth Scott, Anglican Vicar in Richmond

Μύ

Μύ

On Sunday I was taking the service and preaching in the Lutheran cathedral, the Frauenkirche, in Dresden. Dresden was destroyed by allied bombing in 1945. After the war a link between the Frauenkirche and Coventry cathedral was forged. In the aftermath of the blitzing of Coventry in 1940, when the cathedral was all but destroyed, the then Provost, Richard Howard, wrote the words, β€˜Father forgive’ in chalk on the sanctuary wall. In that dark time he vowed that when the war ended the cathedral would work with its enemies to build a kinder world. From that darkness came something profoundly good. That’s an interesting observation because many of us equate darkness solely with bad things. We want light to overcome the dark, but I think reality is more complicated than that. The twentieth century playwright and author Tennessee Williams once said, β€œIf I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.” He recognised the relationship between his creativity and the potentially destructive aspects of who he was.Μύ When I reflect on my own experience I can see that some of the key lessons I’ve learnt came about in the most difficult times of my life, and those who helped me through have always been people whose wisdom was forged through their own β€˜dark nights of the soul’. To be in such a space is scary, precisely because who knows what is lurking in our personal darkness and whether we have the ability to transform it into something healing. The risk of madness or despair hovers, but those who sit attentively though the dark times can make a friend of that which feels like an enemy and, like a miner working in the deep seams of the earth, uncover priceless nuggets of wisdom that otherwise would never have seen the light of day.

Broadcast

  • Thu 21 Aug 2014 06:30
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Farewell Chris Evans: The best bits from his last shows at Radio 2

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