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Chris Evans presents 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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Wed 29 Jul 2015 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Deacon Blue

    Real Gone Kid

    • The All Time Greatest Rock Songs ....
    • Columbia.

  • 补鈥恏补

    Under The Makeup

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal.

  • The Cult

    She Sells Sanctuary

    • The Cult - Pure Cult: The Singles.
    • Beggars Banquet.

  • War

    Low Rider

    • Blaxploitation: The Sequel Vol.2.
    • Global Television.

  • The Drifters

    Kissin' In The Back Row Of The Movies

    • Jukebox 70's Hits -I Got The Music In Me.
    • Old Gold.

  • Bananarama

    Venus

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

  • Rod Stewart

    Love Is

    • Another Country.
    • Capitol Records.

  • Cream

    Strange Brew听

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

  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience

    Foxy Lady

    • Are You Experienced?.
    • Polydor.
    • 13.

  • Mark Wynter

    Venus In Blue Jeans

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1962.
    • Premier.

  • Nerina Pallot

    Rousseau

  • Alice Cooper

    School's Out

    • Sounds Of The 70's (Various Artists).
    • Warner E.S.P..

  • Years & Years

    Shine

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Status Quo

    Pictures Of Matchstick Men (Aquostic Studio Version)

    • Whatever You Want - V.Best Of Status.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Lenny Kravitz

    California

    • Lenny Kravitz - Baptism.
    • Parlophone.

  • Kim Wilde

    Kids In America

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Kim Wilde

    You Came

    • Kim Wilde - Singles Collection 81-93.
    • MCA.

  • Kim Wilde

    Chequered Love

    • Kim Wilde - Singles Collection 81-93.
    • MCA.

  • Kim Wilde

    If I Can't Have You

  • Kim Wilde

    You Keep Me Hangin' On

    • Now 8 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 1.

  • The Proclaimers

    Letter From America

    • Greatest Hits Of The 80's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey

    Going Back 麻豆约拍

    • Going Back 麻豆约拍.
    • Universal Music.
    • 001.

  • Passenger

    Let Her Go

    • (CD Single).
    • Nettwerk.
    • 1.

  • Pet Shop Boys

    Always On My Mind

    • Pet Shop Boys - Discography.
    • Parlophone.

  • Sheena Easton

    9 To 5 (Morning Train)

    • The World Of Sheena Easton.
    • EMI.

  • Eagles

    Life In The Fast Lane

    • The Best Of Eagles.
    • Asylum.

  • Charlie Puth

    Marvin Gaye (feat. Meghan Trainor)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Cass Elliot

    Dream A Little Dream Of Me

    • Delilah - Jukebox 60's Hits.
    • Old Gold.

  • Prince & The Revolution

    Purple Rain

    • The Love Songs Album (Various).
    • Universal.

  • Lionel Richie

    My Destiny

  • The Shires

    All Over Again

    • Brave.
    • Decca.
    • 006.

  • Oasis

    Wonderwall

  • The Trammps

    Hold Back The Night

    • (Single).
    • Buddah Records.
    • 14.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Today is the 90th birthday of Mikis Theodorakis 鈥� a man widely recognised as the very embodiment of the spirit of Greece. On a world stage, he鈥檚 spent his life campaigning against war and fighting for freedom and human rights. At home, in Greece, he鈥檚 been a determined opponent of tyranny and has even suffered imprisonment and exile for his pains. Five years ago, already 85 years old, he organised a protest movement against accepting the crippling conditions of a loan from the IMF. He鈥檚 a musician of rare ability but best known, I suppose, for the music he wrote for the film, Zorba the Greek, and the hilarious traditional dance by Anthony Quinn and Alan Bates with which the film ends. The Greek nation has had such a battering in recent times. If ever it needed a champion it鈥檚 now. And who better than Mikis Theodorakis.听

Where would Europe be without Greece? The worlds of philosophy and political theory owe a huge amount to its thinkers. So too does Christianity. Saint Paul found some awkward customers in Corinth but he still managed to spell out his core message of faith, hope and (supremely) love; he debated seriously with a range of philosophers in Athens and got them talking about the resurrection. At Philippi, he described a God who didn鈥檛 impose himself on people but who chose to reveal his power through a ministry of service and at Thessalonika he found great souls ready to work for the betterment of their contemporaries.

Greece is in a mess, we all know that; but Europe without Greece would be a travesty and most of us know that too. Mikis Theodorakis, a man who鈥檚 spent his entire life trying to lift the spirits of his fellow Greeks and inspire them to build a more humane world, is 90 today. We can only wish him and his people well.

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Farewell Chris Evans: The best bits from his last shows at Radio 2

After eight years of hosting the Breakfast Show, Chris Evans leaves Radio 2.

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麻豆约拍 Radio 2's story-writing competition for kids.