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Chris Evans presents a fully interactive show for all the family, featuring music, special guests and listeners on the phone.

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Music Played

  • Bryan Adams

    She Knows Me

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

  • American Authors

    Best Day Of My Life

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

  • Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

    Anything Goes

    • Cheek To Cheek.
    • Interscope.

  • Blondie

    One Way Or Another (Radio 2 Live In Hyde Park)

  • The Boomtown Rats

    Rat Trap

    • Greatest Hits Of 1978 (Various Artis.
    • Premier.

  • Kate Bush

    The Man With The Child In His Eyes

    • Remastered Part I.
    • Fish People.

  • Sam Cooke

    Twistin' the Night Away

    • Sam Cooke - The Man & His Music.
    • RCA.

  • Elvis Costello

    Everyday I Write The Book

    • Elvis Costello & Attractions- The Man.
    • Imp Records.
    • 4.

  • The Doors

    Light My Fire

    • (CD Single).
    • Elektra.

  • George Ezra

    Blame It On Me

    • Wanted On Voyage.
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston

    It Takes Two

    • Duets - 36 Of The World's Greatest Ev.
    • Telstar.

  • Macy Gray

    I Try

    • The 2000 Brit Awards (Various Artist.
    • Columbia.

  • Tom Jones

    Delilah

    • Delilah - Jukebox 60's Hits.
    • Old Gold.

  • Julie Andrews & The Cast Of My Fair Lady

    The Rain In Spain

  • Manfred Mann

    Do Wah Diddy Diddy

    • Ages Of Mann.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Malcolm McLaren

    Double Dutch

    • (Single).
    • Charisma.

  • Steve Miller Band

    Abracadabra

    • The Very Best Of The Steve Miller Ban.
    • Arcade Records.

  • Van Morrison

    Wild Night

    • The Very Best Of Van Morrison.
    • Polydor.

  • Pink Floyd

    Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2

    • Pink Floyd.
    • Harvest.

  • Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters

    Rainbow

    • Lullaby and...The Ceaseless Roar.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 001.

  • The Ray Ellington Quartet

    The Three Bears

    • Rex.

  • Rednex

    Cotton Eye Joe

  • La Roux

    Kiss And Not Tell

    • Trouble In Paradise.
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band

    Born To Run

  • Stereophonics

    Maybe Tomorrow

    • (CD Single).
    • V2.

  • Barbra Streisand & Michael Bublé

    It Had To Be You

    • Partners.
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Tina Turner

    The Best

    • Tina Turner - Simply The Best.
    • Capitol.

  • U2

    The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)

    • Songs Of Innocence.
    • Island.

  • Dick Van Dyke, Julie Andrews, Matthew Garber & Karen Dotrice

    Chim Chim Cher-Ee

    • The Very Best Of Disney 2.
    • Pickwick.

  • Yes

    Owner Of A Lonely Heart

    • Top Gear 2 - Various Artists.
    • Columbia.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Rabbi Pete Tobias of the Liberal Synagogue, Elstree:

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Today’s the birthday of Formula One drivers Stirling Moss and Damon Hill. I’ve discovered that they both went to school in Hertfordshire – well, I knew Damon did, because he was at the same school as me, though he’s a few years younger. Of course in those days it was his Dad, Graham, who drew the attention, though I don’t recall seeing any racing car antics by him in the tree-lined drives of my schooldays…

I don’t suppose Damon will have any memory of me. But I guess we all have some kind of affinity with famous people who went to our school.


The school that Damon and I attended placed great emphasis on academic and sporting achievement. I muddled through my ‘O’ and ‘A’ levels, and once captained my House cricket team to an ignoble defeat. I remember sitting in the assembly on my final day there when the headmaster announced the names of several of my contemporaries who had gained places at Oxford and Cambridge (obviously I wasn’t one of them) and declared ‘this is what constitutes real success.’

From there I went to a House assembly, where the Housemaster listed several boys who had excelled in sporting activities (not cricket, obviously), and he, perhaps deliberately parodying the headmaster, said that this was what really constituted success.

In our 21st century, perhaps, success has become defined by wealth or celebrity status, which seems even more wrong than what I was told forty years ago. In the end, I think success can be measured by whether or not people have been encouraged to discover their potential and been given the confidence to fulfil it. It doesn’t matter whether that potential is academic or sporting, whether one becomes a Formula One racing driver, a Liberal rabbi or takes up any other occupation. The important thing surely is to be a worthy member of society, making a valuable contribution to it and being confident and happy in oneself. As the rabbis of my tradition – who were themselves teachers – said: ‘Who is wise? Someone who learns from everyone. And who is happy? Someone who is content with what they have achieved’.

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