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

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Thu 15 Jan 2015 06:30
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Music Played

  • Blondie

    Call Me

    • Atomic: The Very Best Of Blondie.
    • EMI.

  • Simple Minds

    Let The Day Begin

    • (CD Single).
    • Caroline.
    • 001.

  • Kenny Loggins

    Danger Zone

    • Top Gun O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • CBS.

  • Stevie Wonder

    For Once In My Life

    • Stevie Wonder Greatest Hits Vol.2.
    • Motown.

  • Paloma Faith

    Stone Cold Sober

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
    • 1.

  • OMC

    How Bizarre

    • Now 34 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Andy Williams

    It's So Easy

    • The Very Best Of Andy Williams.
    • Pickwick.

  • Meghan Trainor

    Lips Are Movin

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
    • 001.

  • Ramones

    Sheena Is A Punk Rocker (1979 Live Version)

    • The Ramones - All The Stuff And More.
    • Sire.

  • Steppenwolf

    Born To Be Wild

    • Rock Anthems Volume 2 (Various).
    • Dino.

  • Jackie Wilson

    (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher

    • Midnight Soul (Various Artists).
    • Music Club.

  • Carrie Underwood

    Something in the Water

    • Greatest Hits: Decade #1.
    • Sony BMG.

  • Free

    All Right Now

    • Back To The 70's (CD1) (Various).
    • EMI.
    • 15.

  • Kate Bush

    Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)

    • Remastered Part I.
    • Fish People.

  • Elton John

    Tiny Dancer

    • Diamonds.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Mark Ronson

    Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • The Shires

    Nashville Grey Skies

    • (CD Single).
    • Decca.
    • 001.

  • Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers

    Why Do Fools Fall In Love

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

  • Ocean Colour Scene

    Hundred Mile High City

    • The Best Of Ocean Colour Scene.
    • Island.

  • Supergrass

    Alright

    • The Best Pub Jukebox In The World (V).
    • Virgin.

  • Bay City Rollers

    Bye Bye Baby (Baby, Goodbye)

  • Alle Farben

    She Moves (feat. Graham Candy)

    • (CD Single).
    • Martha's Music.
    • 001.

  • Idina Menzel

    Let It Go

    • Frozen O.S.T..
    • Walt Disney Records.
    • 005.

  • Matt Bianco

    Get Out of Your Lazy Bed

    • Whose Side Are You On (Deluxe Edition).
    • Cherry Pop.
    • 006.

  • Curiosity Killed the Cat

    Misfit

    • Now 10, Part 2.
    • Now.
    • 1.

  • Texas

    Start A Family

    • 25.
    • PIAS.

  • Geoff Love

    The Great Escape March

    • Geoff Love & Orchestra - Big War Them.
    • EMI.

  • Kansas

    Carry On Wayward Son

    • American Dreams II (Various Artists).
    • Solitaire Collection.
    • 3.

Pause for Thought

From Rev Ruth Scott, Anglican Vicar in Richmond:

Ìý

Perhaps fittingly for the beginning of a new year ‘time’ is in my mind, if not on my hands. I’ve just taken time out on a wonderful four day retreat, immersed in Shakespeare’s play, The Winter’s Tale which raises all kinds of questions about the fluidity or fixedness of time. I’ve also seen the film, The Theory of Everything in which Eddie Redmayne gives an extraordinary performance as Professor Stephen Hawking, the physicist and cosmologist who wrote, A Brief History of Time. His work suggests there’s far more to time than most of us realise, although I guess we capture something of that in our language.ÌýWe talk about ‘marking’ time or of it ‘dragging’, ‘racing’, ‘running out’ or ‘overtaking us’.Ìý

My 18 year old son never has time to tidy his bedroom, but always ‘finds’ time to socialise with his friends. I guess he takes after me: I rarely have a moment to do housework but can always ‘make’ time for new adventures. The ancient Greeks distinguished between quantity of time and the quality of it. I think eternity is much more about quality than quantity, which means we can experience eternal moments in the here and now. It’s the instant my baby daughter first smiled at me, or when I become totally absorbed in writing and lose track of time, or the point when someone I’ve been working with rediscovers hope.Ìý

Living quality time doesn’t depend upon us having everything we want. Despite being almost totally physically incapacitated by Motor Neurone Disease, Stephen Hawking, for example, has lived an extraordinary life. Despite limitations that’s what lots of people do. They’ve discovered the truth of some words I read on the wall of a convent I visited the other day: ‘Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but the number of moments life has taken our breath away.’

Broadcast

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