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Dermot's Day of Dance

Chris chats to Dermot O'Leary during Dermot's Day of Dance for Red Nose Day. Plus visits from the Kaiser Chiefs, Caroline Flack, James Nesbitt and Rafe Spall.

Chris chats to Dermot O'Leary while he is shimmying, shaking and side stepping his way through the pain of dancing non-stop for 24 hours for Red Nose Day. You can follow his fancy footwork live on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2 and the Red Button. Plus, Chris is joined by Kaiser Chiefs, Caroline Flack, Jimmy Nesbitt and Rafe Spall.

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Fri 13 Mar 2015 06:30
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    Mirror Man

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  • Berlin

    Take My Breath Away

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.

  • Donna Summer

    Hot Stuff

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
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  • Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

    D.I.Y.

    • What Have We Become.
    • Virgin EMI.
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  • Sara Bareilles

    Love Song

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
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  • Modern Romance

    Best Years Of Our Lives

    • The Platinum Collection.
    • Rhino.

  • Brian Wilson, David Marks & Al Jardine

    The Right Time

    • No Pier Pressure.
    • Capitol Records.
    • 006.

  • Rod Stewart

    Maggie May

    • The Best Of Rod Stewart.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Bobby Darin

    Lazy River

    • The Bobby Darin Story.
    • Atco.

  • Ed Sheeran & Rudimental

    Bloodstream

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  • Frank Wilson

    Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)

    • The Best Northern Soul All-Nighter (V.
    • Virgin.

  • Sara Bareilles

    Love Song

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    • Columbia.
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  • Morecambe & Wise

    Bring Me Sunshine

    • Summer Holiday (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music.

  • Pratt & McClain

    Happy Days

    • Television's Greatest Hits Volume 3 70s & 80s.
    • Silva Screen Records Ltd.

  • James Bay

    Hold Back The River

    • Hold Back The River EP.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

    Dancing In The Street

    • Dancing In The Street (Various Artis.
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • Van Morrison & Michael Bublé

    Real Real Gone

    • Duets: Re-Working The Catalogue.
    • RCA.
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  • Kaiser Chiefs

    Falling Awake (Live Session)

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Rev’d Richard Coles, cleric and broadcaster:

It was the Feast of St Sophronius on Wednesday, Bishop of Jerusalem when it fell to the Muslim armies of Caliph Umar I in 637 AD. How would the Christian community, in the city where Jesus died and rose from the dead, survive under Muslim rule?

 I thought of this on Tuesday when I went to talk to the interfaith group at the Lewisham Islamic Centre in South East London. The group began after 9/11 when representatives of the three faiths decided to get together in an act of resistance to the encroaching border of fear and dislike and intolerance that followed that ghastly episode. It has flourished, and there’s now an interfaith cricket match rather evenly poised thanks to Christian missionary activity in the West Indies and the Muslim equivalent in Pakistan (the catering’s kosher).

If you just read the headlines you might think that encounters between Jews and Christians and Muslims are either ‘shouty’ confrontations of irreconcilable zealots, or a liberal fantasy of everyone playing nicely, but you would be quite wrong. What I found on Tuesday was a deeper, richer story of coexistence and cooperation, not one that elides our differences, but reaches beyond them thanks to simple, shared beliefs about how we might live; the kinds of beliefs that underlie Comic Relief and Live Aid and volunteering at the Day Centre. And the only threat I experienced on Tuesday evening was from a biscuit forced upon me, imperiling my Lenten fast.

This story of cooperation is not new. The Christian faith did not die in in Jerusalem in the 7th C; when the city fell Sophronius duly handed over the keys of his church to Umar, who, with thoughtful and astute generosity, gave them to one of his followers and charged him to open the doors in the morning and lock them up at night, so that Christians could continue to worship.

The descendants of that 7th C Muslim still do the same today.

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