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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 12 Aug 2015 06:30
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Music Played

  • AC/DC

    Highway To Hell

    • AC/DC - Highway To Hell.
    • Albert.

  • Jess Glynne

    Don't Be So Hard On Yourself

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 001.

  • Procol Harum

    A Whiter Shade Of Pale

    • Procol Harum.
    • Esoteric Recordings.
    • 011.

  • Sheryl Crow

    If It Makes You Happy

    • Now 35 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Squeeze

    Up The Junction

    • Big Squeeze: The Very Best Of Squeeze.
    • Universal/A&M.

  • Madness

    Our House

    • Now 1983 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • Rachel Platten

    Fight Song

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Prince

    1999

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Paolo Nutini

    Scream (Funk My Life Up)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • The Animals

    House Of The Rising Sun

    • The Hits Of 1964 (Various Artists).
    • MFP.

  • Lemar

    The Letter

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.
    • 001.

  • Jules Buckley & Heritage Orchestra

    Right Here, Right Now (Radio 1's Ibiza Prom 2015)

  • EMF

    Unbelievable

  • Adam Ant

    Goody Two Shoes

    • Wave Party (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.
    • 15.

  • Pulp

    Common People

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 5.

  • Ward Thomas

    Guest List

    • (CD Single).
    • WTW Music.
    • 001.

  • Lionel Richie

    Dancing on the Ceiling

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

  • Jamie Cullum

    Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (feat. Gregory Porter)

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • The Smiths

    How Soon Is Now?

    • Drive Time 2 (Various Artists).
    • Dino.

  • The Bangles

    Walk Like An Egyptian

    • Take A Break (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • The Who

    Magic Bus

    • The Who - Who's Better, Who's Best.
    • Polydor.

  • Rod Stewart

    Love Is

    • Another Country.
    • Capitol Records.

  • The Cure

    Boys Don't Cry

    • Staring At The Sea: The Singles.
    • Fiction.

  • Blur

    Girls & Boys

    • Now 28 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Kacey Musgraves

    This Town

    • Pageant Material.
    • Mercury Nashville.
    • 001.

  • Coldplay

    Clocks

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • America

    Ventura Highway

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

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Well I did it Chris, remember a few weeks ago just before I ventured off on my holidays you challenged me to two weeks free of social media, text and email? Well I smashed it and not just me but my kids too. Now it’s one thing for this middle aged vicar to go cold turkey on technology it’s an entirely different thing for my teenager and nearly teenager to abstain from wifi for 14 days, but they did, I’m so proud!

They did get a small technology fix watching the best Greek satellite telly had to offer. I heard them one morning as they flicked through the channels screaming with laughter. ‘Look Mum! Magic shoes!’ it was one of those adverts selling products you never knew you needed. We couldn’t understand all the details but there seemed to be a mature man in a lab coat offering a pair of cheap looking trainers that promised not only to make you taller but also 3 stone lighter, all yours for thirty euros. Over the course of the week the kids became fans of not only the magic shoe adverts but also the magic comb (stops you going bald), magic hairbands (instant facelift) and magic pants (say goodbye to that muffin top). They could see the ads were ridiculous and not once were they taken in by these products that offered to help you paper over the cracks and pretend to be something you most definitely are not.

It seems we are often better at doing just that and pretending to be something we are not rather than saying what we are. Identity is so important, we first of course, have to find out who we are, and work on improving our flaws but it’s important I think to be ourselves, the good, the bad and he ugly. All any of us want from anyone else, regardless of whether it’s our politicians, our postman or our priest, is authenticity. To be real, to be genuine, to be honest and open. In John’s gospel Jesus uses 7 sayings starting with the words ‘I am..’ and going on to describe who he is, what he’s like, his identity. As the saying goes ‘Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.’ Authenticity is unmistakeable.

We also popped into the shops while we were away, the latest headphones, designer shoes and expensive labels on display I asked the kids if they were interested, the teenager took a close look at a pair of swanky baseball boots, ‘Nah you’re alright mum, they’re fake and I’d rather have the real thing.’ Wise child that one.

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  • Wed 12 Aug 2015 06:30
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