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Donovan, Simon Pegg, Felicity Kendal and Wet Wet Wet

Chris gets that Friday feeling going with Donovan, Simon Pegg, Felicity Kendal and Wet Wet Wet, who play live in the studio.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Fri 15 May 2015 06:30

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Music Played

  • Phil Collins

    Two Hearts

    • Singles.
    • Rhino.
  • Longfellow

    Where I Belong

    • Remedy.
    • Fierce Panda Records.
  • Geoff Love

    The Dam Busters

    • Big War Themes.
    • EMI.
  • Warren Zevon

    Werewolves Of London

    • Drive Time (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • The Coral

    In The Morning

    • (CD Single).
    • Deltasonic.
  • The Rolling Stones

    It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It)

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.
  • Hozier

    Someone New

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
  • Blur

    Parklife

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
  • Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Iron Lion Zion

    • (CD Single).
    • Tuff Gong.
  • Fats Domino

    Blueberry Hill

    • The Best Of Fats Domino.
    • Liberty.
  • Paul Weller

    The Changingman - Radio 2 In Concert 14/05/15

  • U2 & B.B. King

    When Love Comes To Town

    • Q The Blues (Various Artists).
    • Hit Label.
  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    Riverman

    • Chasing Yesterday.
    • Sour Mash Records.
  • Danny Elfman

    The Simpsons theme

    • Television's Greatest Hits Volume 7: Cable Ready.
    • TeeVee Toons.
  • 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.
  • Elbow

    What Time Do You Call This?

    • Man Up O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Fiction.
  • Donovan

    One English Summer

  • Rae Morris

    Love Again

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • Donovan

    Catch The Wind

    • The EP Collection.
    • See For Miles.
  • Will Young

    Love Revolution

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 001.
  • The Divine Comedy

    National Express

    • New Hits 99 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Rev鈥檇 Richard Coles, cleric and broadcaster:

鈥淚 don鈥檛 like Muslims 鈥 I鈥檓 just like that鈥. That鈥檚 what someone sitting next to me on the train said to her friend. 听Courageously waiting until they were about to get off I asked, 鈥渨hen you say things like that how do you think it makes other people feel?鈥 She declined to answer the question, but in vivid language threatened me, a bit pathetically, with a slap.

No wonder we keep silent when someone upsets us with a thoughtless or unsympathetic word. What good does it do to challenge it?

I鈥檝e just come back from a three-day effort to find out an answer. The Church of England has been hosting a series of what we call Shared Conversations around the country, to debate the issue of human sexuality. With gay marriage now a civil reality it has become so divisive it threatens to split us, some demanding full equality for gay people, others unable to go anywhere near that; for some an unbearable matter of conscience; for others 鈥榮ee you in court鈥; no surprise, then, the debate has been so rancorous within the church鈥檚 official forums and on social media, conducted just as unsympathetically as what I heard on the train: so rancorous that it has become impossible to see a way through.

And we did not find one. What we did find, however, was that the rancour, the fearfulness, the polemic 鈥 freely offered and graciously endured 鈥 obscures common experience, not least a commitment to an institution we love even as it does our heads in.

But what kind of an institution? I don鈥檛 know what the CofE will look like on the far side of this debate, apart from still deeply committed to extending a choice of biscuits to EVERYONE; but I have discovered that our non-negotiables seem a little more negotiable when we explore them with one another, rather than set them as barricades to keep one another out; that in a faithful, committed and dysfunctional family there鈥檚 perhaps more room than we thought; that in a shared commitment to living in faith the hope of a reality beyond resentment, fear and mistrust, begins to break, like the dawn; and this might be good news not only for us, but for everyone.

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