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Sara Cox sits in for Chris Evans and gets that Friday feeling going with Elmo, Noddy Holder and Rae Morris, who plays live in the studio.

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Fri 10 Apr 2015 06:30
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Music Played

  • The Human League

    Don't You Want Me

    • Dare!.
    • Virgin.

  • Stacey Solomon

    Shy

    • (CD Single).
    • Conehead.
    • 001.

  • The Musketeers

    The Flashing Blade Theme ('Fight')

  • The Beatles

    Here Comes The Sun

    • 1967-1970.
    • Apple.
    • 7.

  • The Jacksons

    The Love You Save

    • The Best Michael Jackson & Jackson Fi.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 11.

  • Manfred Mann

    Do Wah Diddy Diddy

    • Ages Of Mann.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Huey Lewis and the News

    The Power Of Love

    • Huey Lewis & The News - Fore!.
    • Chrysalis.

  • Madonna

    Ghost Town

    • Rebel Heart.
    • Interscope.

  • The Kinks

    Come Dancing

    • The Kinks - The Definitive Collection.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • The Hues Corporation

    Rock The Boat

    • Million Sellers Vol.14 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Elvis Presley vs Junkie XL

    A Little Less Conversation

    • (CD Single).
    • Rca/Bmg.

  • Stevie Wonder

    Superstition

    • Motown Chartbusters Volume 8 (Various Artists).
    • Spectrum Music.

  • Josh Groban

    What I Did For Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Spiller

    Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) (feat. Sophie Ellis鈥怋extor)

    • (CD Single).
    • Positiva.

  • Stretch

    Why Did You Do It

    • Stretch - The Story Of Elmer Gantry.
    • Repertoire.

  • Ramones

    Baby, I Love You

    • The Ramones - End Of The Century.
    • Sire.

  • Chris Isaak

    Live It Up

    • Beyond The Sun.
    • Rhino.
    • 1.

  • Pharrell Williams

    Happy

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Jess Glynne

    Hold My Hand

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Bee Gees

    More Than A Woman

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.

  • Aztec Camera

    Somewhere in My Heart

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Lulu

    Faith In You

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

  • The Cure

    Friday I'm In Love

    • True Brit (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • FM

    Shape I'm In

    • Heroes and Villians.
    • Frontiers Records.
    • 1.

  • Maroon 5

    Moves Like Jagger (feat. Christina Aguilera)

    • (CD Single).
    • A&M.
    • 1.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Abdul-Rehman Malik, journalist and broadcaster

Sara, I have to admit the week after the Easter Bank Holiday is the hardest one to recover from. I woke up this morning thinking it was Thursday. Thank God for my wife and three alarms!

Without a doubt, the sunshine over the last week has been nudging me out of that long-than-usual winter funk. Clearly, I still have a way to go. 鈥嶮y son, on the other, is never in a funk.

Every time we pass trees blossoming or flowerbeds blooming he grooves with excitement. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 spring Abba!鈥� he declares. It鈥檚 a chance, I think to myself, to start again.

But starting again isn鈥檛 easy. It鈥檚 like coming back to life after winter hibernation 鈥� our muscles ache and our bones creak. Renewal often means closing a book and opening another.

45 years ago my father was a student here in London during a winter that wouldn鈥檛 end, living in a flat that never warmed. He recalls the 10th of April 1970 being unseasonably cold, wet and windy. It was also the day that Paul McCartney left The Beatles.

My father was never much of a Beatles devotee, but he felt that this was a moment too important to miss. He schlepped across town to Abbey Road Studios to find fans languishing in mourning 鈥� plaintively singing, faces tear stained trying to hold on to the hope the Fab Four might hold it together. The soundtrack of their young lives was ending 鈥� and they couldn鈥檛 do anything about it.聽聽

But it wasn鈥檛 the end of the world. Just a few short years later those same kids were feeling the 鈥渘oize鈥� with Noddy鈥檚 band Slade. Time 鈥� and music thankfully 鈥� moves on.聽

Remarking on the coming of spring, the Persian mystic Hafiz joyously proclaimed, 鈥淟earn the Way of Truth from the clarity of water. Learn freedom from the spreading grass.鈥�

Just as I鈥檒l watch Christine rediscover 鈥淲ild Ireland鈥� this week, I too hope that this spring will be a time to experience the world and my place in it anew. In the breakup of bands, the changing of seasons and in journeys taken again, God, I鈥檓 convinced, wants us to find inspiration and purpose.

After all, the Way of Truth is really nothing more than to be the best version of ourselves.

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