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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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Mon 4 May 2015 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Dexys Midnight Runners

    Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When you Smile

    • Very Best Of Dexy's Midnight Runners.
    • Mercury.

  • Brandon Flowers

    Can't Deny My Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI.

  • Scouting for Girls

    She's So Lovely

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony BMG.

  • Barry Manilow

    Copacabana

    • (Single).
    • Arista.

  • New Order

    True Faith '94

    • (CD Single).
    • London.

  • The Crickets

    That'll Be The Day

    • B.Holly & The Crickets -20 Golden Gre.
    • MCA.

  • The Bangles

    Walk Like An Egyptian

    • Take A Break (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Rae Morris

    Love Again

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Blur

    Coffee & TV

    • Now 43 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Elvis Presley

    Viva Las Vegas

    • Elvis Presley - The 50 Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.

  • Nico & Vinz

    Am I Wrong

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 1.

  • Kurt Elling

    You Make Me Feel So Young (Cheltenham Jazz Festival version)

  • Toploader

    Dancing In The Moonlight

    • Onka's Big Moka - Toploader.
    • Sony Soho Square.

  • Will Young

    Love Revolution

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 001.

  • The Police

    Message In A Bottle

    • The Very Best Of Sting & The Police.
    • A&M.

  • Katrina and the Waves

    Walking On Sunshine

    • The Best Summer Ever (Various Artist.
    • Virgin.

  • LunchMoney Lewis

    Bills

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • All Saints

    Never Ever

    • Love (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Little Lies

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 007.

  • Robert Parker

    Barefootin'

    • Telstar.

  • Kool & the Gang

    Ladies' Night

    • And They Danced The Night Away.
    • Debutante.

  • Funkadelic

    One Nation Under A Groove

    • Soul Weekender (Various Artists).
    • Crimson.

  • Randy Edelman

    Concrete & Clay

    • Single - 20th Century BTC 2261.

  • Florence + The Machine

    Ship To Wreck

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 001.

  • Jamie Cullum

    Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (feat. Gregory Porter)

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • Peter Gabriel

    Sledgehammer

    • Now 1986 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    Riverman

    • Chasing Yesterday.
    • Sour Mash Records.

  • McFadden & Whitehead

    Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now

    • Million Sellers Vol.19 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • X鈥怭ress 2

    Lazy (feat. David Byrne)

    • (CD Single).
    • Skint.

  • Donovan

    Mellow Yellow

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1967 (Various).
    • EMI.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Art Historian, Dr Jim Harris

聽I was going to talk about holidays today: about the magnificent John Lubbock, who, in 1871, introduced the Bank Holidays Act to fix national holidays in the working calendar and about how the Sabbath, one day鈥檚 rest in seven, shows that even God recognises we all need a break sometimes.

聽Instead, my producer reminded me that a certain royal baby had been born 鈥� you might have heard - suggesting I might like to say something about that instead.聽 鈥榃hat鈥檚 your advice,鈥� he asked, 鈥榯o new parents of girls?鈥�

聽I emailed back.聽 鈥楽tart worrying.聽 Never stop鈥�.聽 I was nearly joking.

聽I have two daughters.聽 They are magnificent.聽 My first, Miriam, is at University.聽 She鈥檚 the most stylish person I know and is smarter than me. My second, Esther, turns eighteen on Thursday and will vote for the first time.聽聽 She鈥檚 also smart and stylish. But I remember smart, magnificent Esther slipping on the steps of a slide and me cycling her to hospital bleeding from a cut beside her eye.聽 I remember smart, magnificent Miriam getting her hand caught between two flip-up seats at Lord鈥檚 and me taking her sprained wrist to hospital for an x-ray.

聽I remember ear infections, split eyebrows, and broken teeth.聽 I remember rolled eyes, slammed doors and 鈥業 hate yous鈥�.聽 And that鈥檚 before any of the more traditional concerns of parents with girls.

聽What we long for, for sons as well as daughters, is not to worry and instead to be able to give them everything they need so that those events will be memories, and eventually funny memories, and won鈥檛 define them, or our relationships with them.

聽In the Bible, St James writes that, 鈥楨very good and perfect gift comes from the Father of Lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.鈥櫬� So my real advice, after 鈥橲tart worrying and never stop鈥�, would be to remember that the best gifts you can give a child, the good and perfect gifts, are not the ones you can buy, but the ones accessible to every parent, that come from being constant, not shifting like shadows.聽 Be there.聽 Be the static point and let your children find in your constancy the good and perfect gifts Christians believe we find in our heavenly Father of Lights: kindness, faithfulness, peace, forgiveness and above all, love.

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