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Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz

Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz chat to Chris Evans about their new movie. Plus Andy McNab on all things 'Invictus'.

Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz chat to Chris about their new movie, plus Andy McNab talks about all things 'Invictus'.

Our Mystery Guest adds some fruity flavour in to the show as she is the Patron of The Guild of Jam and Preserve Makers, Pam 'the Jam' Corbin...

And our Top Tenuous takes in your desperate claims to the fame of the Muppets!

Today's show is dedicated to all the people in Cardiff and Newport currently suffering from the Obama Jam...
And today's show is entitled: in order to have a true friend, it's good to be one in the first place.

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Thu 4 Sep 2014 06:30
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Music Played

  • ABBA

    The Name Of The Game

    • Abba Gold.
    • Polydor.

  • Augustines

    Weary Eyes

    • (CD Single).
    • Caroline.

  • Philip Bailey & Phil Collins

    Easy Lover

    • Singles.
    • Rhino.

  • Chuck Berry

    You Never Can Tell (C'est La Vie)

    • The Best Of Chuck Berry.
    • MCA.

  • Billy Bragg

    A New England

    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • Jake Bugg

    Country Song

    • Jake Bugg.
    • MERCURY RECORDS.

  • Coldplay

    True Love

    • Ghost Stories.
    • Parlophone.
    • 001.

  • George Ezra

    Blame It On Me

    • Wanted On Voyage.
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Don't Stop

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 009.

  • Green Day

    Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)

    • Green Day - Nimrod.
    • Reprise.

  • Jason Segel & Walter

    Man Or Muppet

  • The Kinks

    You Really Got Me

    • The Journey - Part 1.
    • BMG.
    • 7.

  • Led Zeppelin

    Black Dog

  • Manic Street Preachers

    Futurology

    • Futurology.
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Miki & Griff

    A Little Bitty Tear

    • The Best of Miki And Griff.
    • 1.

  • Monaco

    What Do You Want From Me?

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Noah and the Whale

    5 Years Time

  • Oasis

    Little By Little

    • (CD Single).
    • Big Brother Records.

  • Gerry Rafferty

    Get It Right Next Time

    • The Very Best Of Gerry Rafferty.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • The Rolling Stones

    Brown Sugar

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.

  • The Shires

    Tonight

    • (CD Single).
    • Decca.

  • Sam Smith

    I'm Not The Only One

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.
    • 5.

  • Supertramp

    Dreamer

    • The Very Best Of Supertramp.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Technotronic

    Pump Up The Jam (feat. Felly)

    • Holiday Hits: Non Stop Euro Pop (Var).
    • Virgin.

  • Texas

    Halo

    • Texas - The Greatest Hits.
    • Mercury.

  • Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

    Learning To Fly

    • (CD Single).
    • MCA.

Pause for Thought

From Rev Ruth Scott, Anglican Vicar in Richmond:

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The raising of the UK terror threat level from ‘substantial’ to ‘severe’ made me wonder if having that information is helpful or simply fuels fear. After all there’s not a lot most of us can do about it. Of course fear isn’t necessarily bad. It can alert us to real threats, triggering reactions in our bodies that set up the fight or flight responses we may need for survival. On the other hand fear can be paralysing, or cut us off from others who could be friends, if we but knew it. Sometimes it’s a reaction that has more to do with misperceptions or painful past experiences than present reality. It tends to make us generalise and to see things in black and white terms: I’m right – you’re wrong. They’re bad – we’re good. Everything’s going wrong – nothing can change this. Aaah! Courage is not about being fearless but about finding ways to carry on our lives despite being afraid.

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The first step is to face the fear - with the help of others if it’s likely we’ll be overwhelmed on our own. Sometimes when we confront what we fear, we find our fear is groundless, or the threat less than we imagined, or that things are not as black and white as we thought. But, if our fear is justified, then knowing what the reality actually is gives us the chance to decide how to deal with it. Recently I had the privilege of filming a conversation with Lord Joel Joffe. He was on the defence team at the Rivonia Trial in South Africa in 1963/4 which ended in Nelson Mandela, among others, being sentenced to life imprisonment. The defendants could have received the death penalty, but Joel told me how they faced that possibility head on and decided to turn their trial into a trial of the apartheid government in the court of world opinion. They weren’t cowed by their fear but empowered by the way they chose to respond to it. They show that to take fear seriously is not to be ruled by it but to take control of it and to use it for a greater purpose.

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  • Thu 4 Sep 2014 06:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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After eight years of hosting the Breakfast Show, Chris Evans leaves Radio 2.

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