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Richard Allinson sits in

Richard Allinson sits in for Chris Evans with a fully interactive show for all the family, featuring music, special guests and listeners on the phone.

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Boxing Day 2014 06:30
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Music Played

  • 10cc

    Good Morning Judge

    • The Very Best Of 10cc.
    • Mercury.

  • ABC

    The Look Of Love

    • And Then She Kissed Me Vol.1 (Various.
    • Debutante.

  • Mary J. Blige

    This Christmas

    • A Mary Christmas.
    • Decca.

  • The Clash

    Rock The Casbah

    • The Singles.
    • Epic.

  • Del Amitri

    Always The Last To Know

    • Now 1992 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Divine Comedy

    Something For The Weekend

    • Fresh Hits 96 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.

  • George Ezra

    Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! (Radio 2 Session, 15 Dec 2014)

  • Paloma Faith

    Leave While I'm Not Looking

    • A Perfect Contradiction.
    • RCA.

  • Bryan Ferry

    The 'In' Crowd

    • Nick Rhodes & John Taylor Present: Only After Dark.
    • EMI.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Oh Diane

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 004.

  • Macy Gray

    Winter Wonderland

    • A Very Ally Christmas (Various).
    • Epic.

  • Bill Haley and His Comets

    Rock Around The Clock

    • That's Rock'n'Roll (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • The Jam

    Going Underground

    • Polydor.

  • Quincy Jones

    Get A Bloomin' Move On (The Self Preservation Society)

    • The Italian Job (Original Soundtrack).
    • MCA Records Ltd.
    • 12.

  • Kool & the Gang

    Jungle Boogie

    • The Best Of Cult Fiction (Various).
    • Virgin.

  • John Mellencamp

    Jack And Diane

    • John Cougar - American Fool.
    • Mercury.

  • George Michael

    Amazing

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony.

  • Nico & Vinz

    In Your Arms

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

  • Katy Perry

    Roar

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.
    • 1.

  • The Police

    Spirits In The Material World

    • The Police - Message In A Box (Cd 3).
    • A&M.

  • Queen

    Let Me In Your Heart Again

    • Queen Forever.
    • EMI.
    • 001.

  • Redbone

    The Witch Queen Of New Orleans

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1971 (Various).
    • Premier.

  • Rumer

    Reach Out

    • Into Colour.
    • Atlantic.
    • 003.

  • The Script

    Hall Of Fame (feat. will.i.am)

    • #3 (Deluxe Edition).
    • Sony.

  • Sia

    You’re Never Fully Dressed Without A Smile

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.
    • 1.

  • Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band

    Born To Run

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Hungry Heart

    • Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits.
    • Columbia.

  • Texas

    Halo

    • Texas - The Greatest Hits.
    • Mercury.

  • Train

    Drive By

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 12.

  • The Waitresses

    Christmas Wrapping

    • NOW That's What I Call Christmas (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • War

    Low Rider

    • Blaxploitation: The Sequel Vol.2.
    • Global Television.

  • Paul Weller

    You Do Something To Me

    • Polygram TV.

  • Wizzard

    I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday

    • That's Christmas (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Rev Ruth Scott, Anglican Vicar in Richmond:


This time last week I was working with a group of women in reclaimed desert between Cairo and Alexandria in Egypt. Think dates palms, orange groves, bougainvillea, cool waterways, and desert sand getting into everything. Imagine tree frogs and wild dogs competing to be the loudest through black, star-spangled nights lit only by candles. Add to this days filled with the laughter, creativity and deep sharing of amazing Egyptian women learning to stand tall together often despite great personal pain. They belong to the Coptic Orthodox Church so they won’t be celebrating Christmas until January 7th when all our Christmas decorations will have come down. While many of us will have had a lovely Christmas Day, others will be relieved to put it behind us because for all kinds of reasons comfort and joy couldn’t be ours. It may be the first Christmas after the loss of a loved one, or an acute annual reminder that longed-for children have not been part of our life, or the accentuation of on-going loneliness that stands out stark against the seasonal get-togethers of others, or that life now is tough for other reasons. Today I am thinking particularly of you if recognise something of your own story in what I’ve just said. Behind the commercialisation and sometimes over-the-top celebrations of this time  I think another reality reaches out to be recognised: the image of the baby born in a stable to an inconsequential woman struggling to survive under foreign dictatorship reminds us that when people for whom life is a struggle, against the odds bring love to birth among the messiness and pain of human experience, light breaks out in human darkness, and the barriers between rich and poor, neighbour and stranger, in-crowd and outcast are broken down. Bringing about this kind of change is not the task of an annual day, but the challenge for each of us, every day. Most particularly, it includes all of us who may feel excluded from the usual trappings of Christmas. 

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