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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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Tue 26 May 2015 06:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Phil Collins

    Sussudio

    • Singles.
    • Rhino.

  • Take That

    Higher Than Higher

    • III.
    • Polydor.
    • 6.

  • Joss Stone

    The Answer

  • The Beatles

    Here Comes The Sun

    • 1967-1970.
    • Apple.
    • 7.

  • Jerry Lee Lewis

    Great Balls of Fire

    • The Essential One & Only Jerry Lee Le.
    • Trax Records.

  • The Police

    Spirits In The Material World

    • The Police - Message In A Box (Cd 3).
    • A&M.

  • Simply Red

    Shine On

    • (CD Single).
    • East West.
    • 002.

  • Stevie Wonder

    I Wish

    • Motown Party (Various Artists).
    • Motown.

  • Carole King

    The Locomotion

    • Pearls/Time Goes By.
    • Connoisseur.

  • P!nk

    Get The Party Started

    • The Very Best Of All Woman 2003 (Var).
    • BMG.

  • Nirvana

    Smells Like Teen Spirit

  • MIKA

    Talk About You

    • (CD Single).
    • Casablanca.
    • 001.

  • Elton John

    Crocodile Rock

    • Diamonds.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Daniel Merriweather

    Red

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Madonna

    Into The Groove

    • Celebration.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 8.

  • Maroon 5

    Moves Like Jagger (feat. Christina Aguilera)

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

  • Santana

    Smooth (feat. Rob Thomas)

    • (CD Single).
    • Arista.

  • George Michael

    Faith

    • George Michael - Ladies & Gentlemen.
    • Epic.

  • Rose Royce

    Car Wash

    • Now 12 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Verve

    Bitter Sweet Symphony

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 37 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Johnny Cash

    I Walk The Line

    • Now 100 Hits Country (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton

    Islands In The Stream

    • The Greatest Love (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • The Whispers

    And The Beat Goes On

    • Time For Love (Various Artists).
    • Truetrax.

  • Florence + The Machine

    Ship To Wreck

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

  • The Isley Brothers

    Harvest For The World

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1976 (Various).
    • Premier.

  • Belinda Carlisle

    Heaven Is A Place On Earth

    • A Place On Earth - Greatest Hits.
    • Virgin.

  • Elbow

    What Time Do You Call This?

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

  • The Hollies

    On A Carousel

    • The Hollies.
    • EMI.
    • 19.

  • Nickelback

    Satellite

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

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Leslie Griffiths, Methodist Minister:       

Christians are celebrating the festival called Pentecost. It centres on an extraordinary scene in longago Jerusalem. People had come from all over the place; they spoke different languages; they were all visitors to the city. A man named Peter got up in front of them; he spoke out to them in all their diversity yet, somehow, everyone seemed to understand what he was saying. Each heard as if he’d been speaking their own language. No one has ever fully explained this but Christians put it down to the work of the Spirit of God who brought people the gift of understanding. And that’s what we celebrate.

I’ve stood on a rickety stand at Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park and tried to say something cheerful, hopeful, challenging to the people gathered there. It’s always a lively experience. Some people come to heckle for the fun of it, others hate religion and want you to know it; it’s always been a tourist attraction and there were often people from all over the world. It was quite an art to keep their attention let alone say something they could warm to, be inspired by.

It was there that I discovered a language beyond words, a language that knows nothing about grammar; it’s the language of the heart. Everyone has a deep longing for love, there’s a universal desire to be free from worry and fear and to enjoy life. And it’s possible to communicate with people at the level of their loves and longings, their hopes and their troubles, even when there is no common language. A love of people, respect for them wherever they come from, whatever their circumstances, somehow speaks directly to people’s deepest psyche.

I believe that that’s what happened all those years ago in Jerusalem. It was the miracle of understanding, a miracle desperately needed in our own day and in our own lives.

Broadcast

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