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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 19 Feb 2015 06:30
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Music Played

  • Madonna

    Material Girl

    • Finally Enough Love (Deluxe Edition).
    • Rhino.
    • 2.

  • Madonna

    Papa Don't Preach

    • Madonna - The Immaculate Collection.
    • Sire.
    • 4.

  • Madonna

    Into The Groove

    • Celebration.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 8.

  • Madonna

    Vogue

    • Finally Enough Love (Deluxe Edition).
    • Rhino.

  • The Beatles

    Twist and Shout

    • Please Please Me.
    • Parlophone.
    • 14.

  • George Ezra

    Cassy O'

    • Wanted On Voyage.
    • Columbia.

  • Tanita Tikaram

    Good Tradition

    • The Best Of Tanita Tikaram.
    • East West Records.

  • Van Halen

    Jump

    • The All Time Greatest Rock Songs ....
    • Columbia.

  • Black Star Riders

    The Killer Instinct

    • The Killer Instinct.
    • Universal.
    • 001.

  • Kajagoogoo

    Too Shy

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • Kajagoogoo

    Ooh To Be Ah

    • Greatest Hits Of The 80's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

    D.I.Y.

    • What Have We Become.
    • Virgin EMI.
    • 001.

  • The Shires

    Friday Night

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

  • The Mavericks

    Dance the Night Away

    • Ultimate Country (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • Hockey

    Song Away

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
    • 1.

  • The Who

    Won't Get Fooled Again

    • The Who - Who's Better, Who's Best.
    • Polydor.

  • Si Cranstoun

    Never Gonna Let You Go

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

  • Prince

    Alphabet St.

    • 4Ever.
    • Paisley Park.

  • Dion

    The Wanderer

    • The Wanderers (Original S/Track).
    • Sequel Records.

  • The Verve

    Bitter Sweet Symphony

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 37 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Goo Goo Dolls

    Iris

    • (CD Single).
    • Hollywood Records.

  • Kirsty MacColl

    There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis

    • Kirsty Maccoll - Galore.
    • Virgin.

  • Shaun Escoffery

    Nobody Knows

    • In The Red Room.
    • Dome Records.
    • 3.

  • Foo Fighters

    Everlong

    • Capitol.

  • The Cure

    Boys Don't Cry

    • Staring At The Sea: The Singles.
    • Fiction.

  • The Alarm

    68 Guns

    • Celtic Rock (Various Artists).
    • Crimson.

  • Ella Henderson

    Mirror Man

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.

  • The Lancashire Hotpots

    Chippy Tea

  • Dave Edmunds

    Queen Of Hearts

    • The Best Of Dave Edmunds.
    • Swansong.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Father Christopher Jamison, Benedictine Monk:

So why are the book and TV series about Thomas Cromwell called Wolf Hall? Well, firstly, it's the name of the Wiltshire home of the Seymour family, Jane Seymour being, spoiler alert!, the third wife of Henry VIII. But as well as referring to the Seymour home, Wolf Hall may also be a reference to the ancient Latin saying "homo homini lupus" that translates as "Man is a wolf to man." In other words, people tear each other to pieces, and in the original novel of Wolf Hall, Thomas Cromwell quotes this saying when he watches courtiers hound to death his employer, Cardinal Wolsey. Throughout Thomas' life, everybody seems to be a wolf towards everybody else. So is being a wolf the only way to survive? I say no because what makes humans special is our ability to go against the killer instinct by forgiving others and even putting other people's welfare above our own.

The cruelty of the Tudor era is seen in modern times under the Nazi regime but even in those cruel times people were capable of selfless heroism. For example, in the concentration camp at Auschwitz, as punishment for an attempted escape from the camp, the commandant chose 10 prisoners to be executed. One of those chosen was a married man who begged for mercy because he had a wife. At which point, another prisoner, a Catholic priest called Fr Maximilian Kolbe, volunteered to take the place of the married man and died in his place. That man and his wife lived to see Maximilian declared a saint. Maximilian shows us that "Man is a saint to man." Wolf Hall is great fiction but there are other, true stories which remind us that a person can choose to be a saint rather than a wolf.

Broadcast

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