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Sara Cox sits in for Chris Evans with music and chat.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Wed 22 Jul 2015 06:30
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Music Played

  • Prince

    Little Red Corvette

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Hurts

    Some Kind Of Heaven

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

  • Boyzone

    Picture of You

    • Hits Zone - The Best Of 97 (Various).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Jr. Walker & the All Stars

    How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)

    • Dancing In The Street (Various Artis.
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • Paul Simon

    Slip Slidin' Away

    • The Paul Simon Anthology (Disc 1).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 7.

  • Dolly Parton

    9 to 5

    • Dolly Parton: The Ultimate Collection.
    • BMG/RCA.

  • Charlie Puth

    Marvin Gaye (feat. Meghan Trainor)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Kaiser Chiefs

    Ruby

    • (CD Single).
    • B-Unique.

  • Jack Savoretti

    I Got a Woman (Radio 2 Session, 20th Feb 2015)

  • Mark Ronson

    Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars)

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

  • Johnny Duncan & His Bluegrass Boys

    Last Train To San Fernando

  • Keane

    Bend And Break

    • Hopes And Fears.
    • Island.

  • George Michael

    Fastlove

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.

  • CCS

    Whole Lotta Love

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1970 (Various).
    • Premier.

  • Johnny Cash

    A Thing Called Love

    • Country Moods (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Miami Sound Machine

    Dr. Beat

    • NOW 1984 (Various Artists).
    • NOW.

  • Take That

    Shine

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Freda Payne

    Band Of Gold

    • Heartbeat: Love Me Tender (Various).
    • Global Television.

  • Johnny Kidd and the Pirates

    Shakin' All Over

    • HMV.

  • Pulp

    Babies

    • Pulp - The Sisters E.P..
    • Island.

  • Madonna

    Ray Of Light

    • Celebration.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 10.

  • Lauren Housley

    Ghost Town Blues

    • (CD Single).
    • Big Bad Recordings.
    • 001.

  • Incredible Bongo Band

    Apache

    • Sampled (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Curtis Mayfield

    Move On Up

    • The Old Skool Reunion (Various Artis.
    • Global Television.

  • Harry Connick, Jr.

    Recipe For Love

    • Forever For Now.
    • Columbia.

  • Rod Stewart

    Love Is

    • Another Country.
    • Capitol Records.

  • The Cardigans

    Lovefool

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.

  • Tina Turner

    What's Love Got To Do With It

    • No Greater Love (Various Artists).
    • Global Records & Tapes.

  • The Stranglers

    Golden Brown

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • Coldplay

    Trouble

  • Leon Bridges

    Coming ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ

    • Coming ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ.
    • COLUMBIA/ Sony Music.
    • 2.

  • Otis Redding

    Hard to Handle

    • Dock Of The Bay (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

I got back to London yesterday after a short break in the town where I was born and grew up – a little place called Burry Port that’s lapped by the gentle waves of Carmarthen Bay. It’s over fifty years since I first left home to study in Cardiff and I shall never forget that first journey into the wider world. I’d never been away – no holidays, no sleepovers, nothing – and I was filled to the brim with emotion as I said goodbye to my mother. You’d have thought I was going to Pluto rather than Cardiff and that sense of nostalgia has never left me.

That was roughly when I first heard a song that became my personal anthem in the years that followed. β€œThat’s my home,” it was called; it had been made famous by Louis Armstrong who’d made no fewer than four recordings of it. But the interpretation that got my goose-pimples rising was done by Acker Bilk and his Paramount Jazz Band. β€œWhere the sun sets in the sky, and flowers never die, and friends don’t pass you by – that’s my home.”

ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ is where our stories begin – not always bright and beautiful but the place where the narrative that shapes our lives was set in motion. ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ remains a reference point, it gives us our moral compass, it pins us to fundamental truths about ourselves and remains hauntingly within us whatever happens subsequently. β€œListen to me, all who follow after the right, who seek the Lord: consider the rock from which you were hewn; remember your father and your mother who gave you birth.” Thus spake the prophet of old.

Life goes on of course. Stuff happens. But there’s one thing I’ve never doubted. β€œI’m always welcome back no matter where I roam; it’s just a little shack but to me it’s home sweet home.” 

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