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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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Wed 4 Feb 2015 06:30
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Music Played

  • Tom Robinson Band

    2-4-6-8 Motorway

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1977 (Various).
    • Premier.

  • Ellie Goulding

    Love Me Like You Do

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Eric Clapton

    Lay Down Sally

    • The Cream Of Eric Clapton.
    • Polydor.

  • Coldplay

    Paradise

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
    • 1.

  • Michael Jackson

    Rockin' Robin

    • The Best Michael Jackson & Jackson Fi.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 8.

  • Ian Dury & the Blockheads

    Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick

    • Fantastic 70's (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Thelma Houston

    Don't Leave Me This Way

    • Any Way You Like It (Expanded Edition).
    • SoulMusic Records.

  • Simple Minds

    Don't You (Forget About Me)

    • Glittering Prize - Best Of Simple Min.
    • Virgin.

  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    Ballad Of The Mighty I

    • (CD Single).
    • Sour Mash Records.

  • Althea & Donna

    Uptown Top Ranking

  • Maroon 5

    This Love

    • (CD Single).
    • J.

  • Perry Como

    Catch A Falling Star

    • Housewives Choice (Various Artists).
    • Music & Memories.

  • George Ezra

    Cassy O'

    • Wanted On Voyage.
    • Columbia.

  • Chaka Demus & Pliers

    Tease Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Mango.

  • Will Smith

    Miami

  • Ian Dury & the Blockheads

    Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick

    • Fantastic 70's (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Glenn Frey

    The Heat Is On

    • Above The Clouds: The Very Best Of.
    • Universal.

  • Mark Ronson

    Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars)

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

  • Elvis Presley

    Burning Love

    • Presley - The All Time Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.

  • Pet Shop Boys

    West End Girls

    • Now That's What I Call Music '86.
    • Now.

  • Wham!

    Club Tropicana

    • The Best Summer Ever (Various Artist.
    • Virgin.

  • Van Morrison

    Days Like This

    • Van Morrison - Days Like This.
    • Exil.

  • Si Cranstoun

    Never Gonna Let You Go

    • (CD Single).
    • EastWest.
    • 001.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Mr. Blue Sky

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Frontiers Records.
    • T1.

  • Vic Reeves & The Wonder Stuff

    Dizzy

    • Mad For The 90's (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Gretchen Peters

    When All You Got Is A Hammer

    • (CD Single).
    • Proper Records.
    • 1.

  • Ashworth Hope

    Blue Peter

    Performer: Mike Oldfield.
    • Mike Oldfield - The Platinum Collection.
    • Virgin.
    • 7.

  • The Coral

    In The Morning

    • (CD Single).
    • Deltasonic.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Leslie Griffiths, Methodist Minister:

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Selma, a much heralded film, goes on public release this Friday and I can’t wait to see it. The film coincides with the fiftieth anniversary of the last great Civil Rights march in the United States, the culmination of the campaign for voting rights for African Americans. The film has been nominated for Oscars but, sadly, David Oleyawo (who plays Martin Luther King) hasn’t. Selma was a very big moment in recent American history.

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Ten years ago, I visited Selma with a group of American Senators and Congressmen. It was the fortieth anniversary. We advanced solemnly towards the Edmund Pettus Bridge. From the hump of the bridge we saw the lie of the land, empty now, but in 1965 filled with mounted police carrying tear gas or clubs, and fierce dogs waiting to do their savage work. I was arm in arm with Fred Shuttlesworth and John Lewis who’d led the original march. John Lewis’s skull was cracked with a vicious blow to the head yet here he was, still alive, still passionate for his cause. Fred Shuttlesworth and his family had braved attacks on their lives by the Ku Klux Klan and others and been thrown into jail endless times. The carnage of that day was seen on television by tens of millions of people; it led President Johnson to bring forward the voting legislation being asked for. It was an awesome moment. Thousands of people, black and white, Christians and Jews, knelt to pray before advancing quietly and peacefully over that bridge. They were met by hate-filled and violent opponents. Good won its battle with evil; love prevailed over hatred; justice flowed down like a river. And that’s my deepest prayer for this film – that as well as telling its story, touching our hearts, it might have the power to challenge our instinctual readiness to solve our problems through the use of force.

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