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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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Thu 27 Nov 2014 06:30
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Music Played

  • 10cc

    Life Is a Minestrone

    • The Singles.
    • Mercury.

  • AC/DC

    Play Ball

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Bryan Adams

    Run To You

    • Bryan Adams - The Best Of Me.
    • Mercury.

  • Bryan Adams

    Run To You

    • Bryan Adams - The Best Of Me.
    • Mercury.

  • Bryan Adams

    Run To You

    • Bryan Adams - The Best Of Me.
    • Mercury.

  • America

    Ventura Highway

    • Country Roads (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Aztec Camera

    Walk Out to Winter

    • The Best Of Aztec Camera.
    • Warner E.S.P..

  • Shirley Bassey

    Goldfinger

    • Heartbeat - The 60's Gold Collection.
    • Global Television.

  • Blondie

    One Way Or Another

    • Blondie - Parallel Lines.
    • Chrysalis.
    • 2.

  • The Boomtown Rats

    Rat Trap

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

  • Jamie Cullum

    Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (feat. Gregory Porter)

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • Guns N’ Roses

    Sweet Child O' Mine

    • Greatest Hits.
    • Geffen.

  • George Harrison

    My Sweet Lord

    • All Things Must Pass.
    • EMI.
    • 4.

  • James

    Sit Down

    • True Brit (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Lenny Kravitz

    New York City

    • (CD Single).
    • Roxie Records.

  • Paul McCartney

    Hope For The Future

    • Pure McCartney.
    • Virgin EMI Records.
    • 1.

  • Mental as Anything

    Live It Up

    • Drive Time (Various Artists).
    • Dino.

  • New Order

    World In Motion

    • Snap It Up! (Various Artists).
    • CBS.

  • Nico & Vinz

    In Your Arms

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 001.

  • Tom Odell

    Real Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Dolly Parton

    Blue Smoke

    • Blue Smoke - The Best Of Dolly.
    • Sony Music.
    • 1.

  • Red Hot Chili Peppers

    Universally Speaking

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Soft Cell

    Tainted Love

    • vertigo.

  • Steely Dan

    Rikki Don't Lose That Number

    • A Decade Of Steely Dan.
    • MCA.

  • T. Rex

    Hot Love

    • Electric Warrior (Deluxe Edition).
    • A&M.
    • 13.

  • Frankie Vaughan

    Tower of Strength

    • Rediscover The 50's - Here Comes Summ.
    • Old Gold.

  • The Who

    I Can't Explain

    • The Who Hits 50! (Deluxe Edition).
    • Polydor.
    • 002.

  • Stevie Wonder

    Isn't She Lovely

    • Songs In The Key Of Life Vol.2.
    • Hitsville.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Rabbi Pete Tobias of the Liberal Synagogue, Elstree:

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I follow God on Twitter. I have to be honest – I don’t think it’s really God. The account doesn’t have the badge to show it’s authentic. And some of the language is a bit ungodly. Nevertheless some of the comments on the TweetOfGod account are thought provoking, which, I suppose, is what contemplating God is meant to make us do.


One of this bogus God’s recent tweets on prayer showed a picture of some American Football players kneeling in a circle and praying, presumably asking God for victory. The text accompanying the image says ‘Not listening. Don’t care. Shut up shut up shut up.’


If both teams in a contest and their respective supporters implore God to favour them, what’s God supposed to do? It reminds me of my first lesson about asking God to do impossible things. It came not from a rabbi but from an Enid Blyton book – I forget which one. It had a nice family and a not-so-nice family. The daughter of the nice family tried to teach her not-so-nice counterpart about prayer. A few days later, after a school test, not-so-nice girl protested that prayer didn’t work. ‘The test asked what was the capital of France,’ she explained. ‘I put Berlin. When I realised it was wrong, I prayed to God to make Berlin France’s capital but he didn’t. So praying doesn’t work.’

Asking God to make a sports team win or change a European capital is ridiculous and unfair. If we’re going to pray to God to ask for things, we have to give God a chance to make them happen. But prayer isn’t just about asking for things, however reasonable our demands might be. Another key element of prayer is gratitude and appreciation.


13th century Christian philosopher Meister Eckhart said ‘If the only prayer you said was thank you,that would be enough.’ Sometimes it’s hard to be appreciative, but here’s a Yiddish proverb that indicates the importance of gratitude even in adversity: ‘If a Jew breaks a leg, he thanks God that he didn’t break both legs; if he breaks both, he thanks God he didn’t break his neck.’ I believe there is always something in our lives for which to be grateful and to acknowledge with thanks.

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