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Sara Cox sits in for Chris Evans with 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 9 Apr 2015 06:30
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Music Played

  • ABC

    Poison Arrow

    • Abc - The Lexicon Of Love.
    • Mercury.

  • Kodaline

    The One

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.
    • 001.

  • Lisa Lougheed

    Run With Us

  • Hot Chocolate

    Every 1's a Winner

    • Hot Chocolate - Their Greatest Hits.
    • EMI.

  • Little Richard

    Good Golly Miss Molly

    • Little Richard - British Hit Singles.
    • Ace.

  • 补鈥恏补

    Take On Me

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Meghan Trainor

    Dear Future Husband

    • Title.
    • Sony Music.
    • 001.

  • The La鈥檚

    There She Goes

    • Love - 38 All Time Love Classics.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • First Aid Kit

    Waterloo Sunset (Radio 2 Session, 28 Nov 2014)

  • Carly Rae Jepsen

    Call Me Maybe

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.

  • Kenny Loggins

    Footloose

    • Footloose (Original S/Track).
    • CBS.

  • AC/DC

    Rock The Blues Away

    • Rock Or Bust.
    • Columbia.
    • 003.

  • Tears for Fears

    Sowing The Seeds Of Love

    • The Best Of Drive Time (Various Artists).
    • Polygram TV.
    • 7.

  • David Bowie

    Heroes

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • James Blunt

    Wisemen

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • The Waterboys

    The Whole of the Moon

    • Now 1991 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.

  • Jack Savoretti

    The Other Side Of Love

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG Chrysalis.
    • 001.

  • George Thorogood & the Destroyers

    Bad To The Bone

    • 100% Blues & Soul (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.
    • 4.

  • Sly & the Family Stone

    Family Affair

    • Shades Of Soul (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Isaac Hayes

    Theme From Shaft

    • Shades Of Soul (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Ryan Paris

    Dolce Vita

    • The Holiday CD - Various Artists.
    • CBS.

  • Blur

    Lonesome Street

    • The Magic Whip.
    • Parlophone.

  • The Mamas & the Papas

    California Dreamin'

    • The Best Of.
    • MCA.
    • 2.

  • New Kids on the Block

    Hangin' Tough

    • Greatest Hits.
    • Columbia.

  • Bruno Mars

    When I Was Your Man

    • Unorthodox Jukebox.
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • Shayne Ward

    My Heart Would Take You Back

    • (CD Single).
    • MPG.
    • 001.

  • 叠别测辞苍肠茅

    Love On Top

    • 4.
    • RCA.
    • 1.

  • Free

    My Brother Jake

    • Music Of The Year 1971.
    • Spectrum.
    • 9.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Rabbi Pete Tobias of the Liberal Synagogue, Elstree:

In the wake of recent attacks and incidents, I鈥檝e been asked lately if I ever personally experienced anti-Semitism. I said that I didn鈥檛 think I had. I remembered some school playground incidents, however. The first was when my National Health spectacles had led to me being called four eyes and another, a few years later, came when I was on a French exchange. I can鈥檛 recall how it started, but I suddenly found myself, aged about fifteen, in the middle of a circle of around forty French teenagers, all chanting 鈥榣a France, la France!鈥� It started off quite light-hearted but it did feel rather menacing. It was 1973, and we鈥檇 just joined the European Union. So with a smile, I simply said 鈥榤arch茅 commun鈥� and joined the circle to a round of applause and pats on the back.

I think those two childhood incidents taught me something about human nature. I think there鈥檚 something inherent in human nature that prompts us to look for whatever is different in others, to regard that difference as some kind of weakness and then use it as a way of asserting a need to feel superior. We鈥檙e really not very good at dealing with people who are other, who are different from what we are taught is 鈥榥ormal鈥�. That鈥檚 school playground behaviour, but it鈥檚 part of the wider world as well. In order to define who we are, it seems, we need something or someone to which or whom we can be opposed, to be 鈥榓nti鈥�.

Of course I know that many Jews today whose attachment to their religious heritage is more openly visible than mine, and millions down the ages, have experienced anti-Semitism. It鈥檚 one of humanity鈥檚 more enduring prejudices and sometimes, in more fearful moments, I wonder whether it will ever disappear. But other minority groups have experienced racism; women have experienced sexism and so on. The challenge, it seems to me, is not so much about introducing legislation to outlaw these different expressions of hostility to other groups of human beings based on religion, race, ideology or gender but rather to become more tolerant of human diversity. Let鈥檚 leave our apparent need to be anti-whatever in the school playground, and learn to celebrate our differences and rejoice in our shared humanity.

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