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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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Tue 11 Aug 2015 06:30
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Music Played

  • Andy Williams

    It's So Easy

    • The Very Best Of Andy Williams.
    • Pickwick.

  • Beck

    Dreams

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.
    • 1.

  • Tina Turner

    Goldeneye

    • Tina Turner - Wildest Dreams.
    • Parlophone.

  • Robbie Williams

    Rock DJ

    • (CD Single).
    • Chrysalis.

  • Sparks

    This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us

    • Fantastic 70's (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • The Banana Splits

    The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)

    • Television's Greatest Hits Vol. 5: In Living Color (Various Artists).
    • TVT Records.

  • Stevie Wonder

    Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours

    • You've Got Mail (Film S/Track).
    • Warner Sunset/Atlantic.

  • Thea Gilmore

    Live Out Loud

    • (CD Single).
    • Fullfill.
    • 001.

  • The Jacksons

    ABC

    • The Best Michael Jackson & Jackson Fi.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 1.

  • Olly Murs

    Wrapped Up (feat. Travie McCoy)

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
    • 1.

  • Shirley Bassey

    Big Spender

    • Shirley Bassey - The Singles.
    • EMI.

  • Shirley Bassey

    Goldfinger

    • Heartbeat - The 60's Gold Collection.
    • Global Television.

  • Matt Monro & The John Barry Orchestra

    Born Free

    • The Best Of John Barry: Themeology.
    • Columbia.

  • Led Zeppelin

    Houses Of The Holy

    • Led Zeppelin - Latter Days.
    • Atlantic.

  • Lianne La Havas

    What You Don't Do

  • Dean Martin & Helen O’Connell

    How D'Ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning?

    • Cool Couples (Various Artists).
    • Sanctuary.

  • Ed Sheeran & Rudimental

    Bloodstream

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 002.

  • The Beatles

    Tomorrow Never Knows

    • Revolver.
    • Parlophone.
    • 14.

  • The Beatles

    Penny Lane

    • The Beatles - 1.
    • Apple.
    • 017.

  • George Ezra

    Barcelona

    • Wanted On Voyage.
    • Sony BMG.

  • Leo Sayer

    Thunder In My Heart

    • Leo Sayer -The Definitive Hits Collec.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 8.

  • Buzzcocks

    Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)

    • Greatest Hits Of The 70's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • The Honeycombs

    Have I The Right?

    • 20 Golden Number Ones.
    • MFP.

  • The Dave Clark Five

    Bits and Pieces

    • Glad All Over Again.
    • EMI.

  • The Tornados

    Telstar

    • Rediscover The 60's - Sealed With A K.
    • Old Gold.

  • The Shires

    All Over Again

    • Brave.
    • Decca.
    • 006.

  • Elvis Presley

    Blue Suede Shoes

    • Presley - The All Time Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.

  • Mud

    Tiger Feet

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1974 (Various).
    • Premier.

  • Madcon & Ray Dalton

    Don't Worry

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • The Beatles

    Free As A Bird

    • The Beatles Anthology 1.
    • EMI.

  • MIKA

    Grace Kelly

    • (CD Single).
    • Casablanca.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

A law was recently passed in California that allows people to delete permanently the embarrassing texts and photos made public on social media before they were 18; that way, prospective employers or universities won’t see those mistakes. Thank God no records exist of the time I went blonde; I would only have been eligible for one profession – and I’m not talking priesthood here. 

Possibly my worst mistake as a priest was when I forgot a funeral I was supposed to be conducting!! It was terrible – I’d been at a meeting earlier in the afternoon when a man was taken ill and what with calling 999 and getting him into the recovery position and the general panic, it wasn’t til everyone had gone that I noticed my cassock hanging on the door……I shall never forget the mad dash to the Crem but I was too late and a colleague had stood in for me. The memory haunts me and I’ve never missed a funeral since!

But of course, I make other mistakes every day; arriving late at a conference last year I went through the wrong door and found myself on stage with the Archbishop of Central Africa and some people singing!  And my daughter regularly reminds me of the time I put the boys carefully in the car then drove away – leaving her, age 7, standing in the car park!

But, on the other hand, a professor at King’s College in London has said that we should not be encouraged to delete our mistakes; he wants to ban all those smelly rubber erasers we loved so much so that our errors still show – then, he says, we can learn from them.

What to do with mistakes?  We might delete them or rub them out - but we know they were there. As a Christian, I believe that it’s important to confront our mistakes realistically, to try to see why we went wrong, see if we can put it right, then move on and resolve to make better mistakes next time; and I reckon just doing that is enough to make God and the angels whoop with joy!  

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  • Tue 11 Aug 2015 06:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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

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