19/02/2015
Chris Evans presents a fully interactive show for all the family, featuring music, special guests and listeners on the phone.
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Music Played
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Madonna
Material Girl
- Finally Enough Love (Deluxe Edition).
- Rhino.
- 2.
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Madonna
Papa Don't Preach
- Madonna - The Immaculate Collection.
- Sire.
- 4.
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Madonna
Into The Groove
- Celebration.
- Warner Bros.
- 8.
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Madonna
Vogue
- Finally Enough Love (Deluxe Edition).
- Rhino.
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The Beatles
Twist and Shout
- Please Please Me.
- Parlophone.
- 14.
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George Ezra
Cassy O'
- Wanted On Voyage.
- Columbia.
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Tanita Tikaram
Good Tradition
- The Best Of Tanita Tikaram.
- East West Records.
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Van Halen
Jump
- The All Time Greatest Rock Songs ....
- Columbia.
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Black Star Riders
The Killer Instinct
- The Killer Instinct.
- Universal.
- 001.
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Kajagoogoo
Too Shy
- Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artis.
- Columbia.
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Kajagoogoo
Ooh To Be Ah
- Greatest Hits Of The 80's (Various).
- Disky.
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Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott
D.I.Y.
- What Have We Become.
- Virgin EMI.
- 001.
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The Shires
Friday Night
- (CD Single).
- Decca.
- 001.
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The Mavericks
Dance the Night Away
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Hockey
Song Away
- (CD Single).
- Virgin.
- 1.
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The Who
Won't Get Fooled Again
- The Who - Who's Better, Who's Best.
- Polydor.
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Si Cranstoun
Never Gonna Let You Go
- (CD Single).
- EastWest.
- 001.
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Prince
Alphabet St.
- 4Ever.
- Paisley Park.
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Dion
The Wanderer
- The Wanderers (Original S/Track).
- Sequel Records.
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The Verve
Bitter Sweet Symphony
- Now That's What I Call Music! 37 (Various Artists).
- Now.
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The Goo Goo Dolls
Iris
- (CD Single).
- Hollywood Records.
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Kirsty MacColl
There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis
- Kirsty Maccoll - Galore.
- Virgin.
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Shaun Escoffery
Nobody Knows
- In The Red Room.
- Dome Records.
- 3.
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Foo Fighters
Everlong
- Capitol.
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The Cure
Boys Don't Cry
- Staring At The Sea: The Singles.
- Fiction.
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The Alarm
68 Guns
- Celtic Rock (Various Artists).
- Crimson.
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Ella Henderson
Mirror Man
- (CD Single).
- Sony Music.
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The Lancashire Hotpots
Chippy Tea
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Dave Edmunds
Queen Of Hearts
- The Best Of Dave Edmunds.
- Swansong.
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.
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