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Sara Cox is in for Chris today and chats to the cruciverbalist king Tim Moorey who compiles crosswords for a living. Plus, there's the return of Strictly Mum Dancing and thirty minutes of back-to-back hits from 8am with the Half-Wower.

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Mon 24 Aug 2015 06:30
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Music Played

  • Daryl Hall & John Oates

    You Make My Dreams

    • Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.
    • 5.

  • Thea Gilmore

    Live Out Loud

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

  • Olly Murs

    Dance With Me Tonight

    • In Case You Didn't Know.
    • Epic.
    • 24.

  • Sam & Dave

    Soul Man

    • Shades Of Soul (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Peter Gabriel

    Solsbury Hill

  • Tracy Chapman

    Talkin' Bout A Revolution

    • Tracy Chapman.
    • Elektra.

  • Tom Jones

    It's Not Unusual

    • Fifty Number Ones Of The 60's (Variou.
    • Global Television.

  • Lemar

    The Letter

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

  • 补鈥恏补

    The Sun Always Shines On TV

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

  • Mark Ronson

    Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars)

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

  • Bobby Darin

    If I Were a Carpenter

    • (Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Rachel Platten

    Fight Song

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Status Quo

    Down Down

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

  • Annie Lennox

    Walking On Broken Glass

    • Now 1992 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 2.

  • Billy Joel

    Don't Ask Me Why

    • Billy Joel - Glass Houses.
    • CBS.

  • Stevie Wonder

    Superstition

    • Motown Chartbusters Volume 8 (Various Artists).
    • Spectrum Music.

  • Wham!

    Young Guns (Go For It)

    • Wham - The Best Of Wham!.
    • Epic.

  • Justin Timberlake

    Rock Your Body

    • (CD Single).
    • Jive.

  • The Jacksons

    Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)

    • Rhythm Divine 2 (Various Artists).
    • Dino.

  • The Kinks

    Till The End Of The Day

    • The Journey - Part 2: Anthology.
    • BMG.
    • 6.

  • Destiny鈥檚 Child

    Independent Women, Part I

    • Destiny's Child #1's.
    • Columbia.

  • Jess Glynne

    Don't Be So Hard On Yourself

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

  • U2 & B.B. King

    When Love Comes To Town

    • Q The Blues (Various Artists).
    • Hit Label.

  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience

    All Along The Watchtower

    • The Jimi Hendrix Collection.
    • Universal.

  • Cameo

    Word Up

    • Platinum - The Definitive R&B Collection (Various Artists).
    • Universal Music TV.

  • David Gilmour

    Rattle That Lock

    • Rattle That Lock.
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

    Ain't No Mountain High Enough

    • Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell: Greatest Hits.
    • Tamla Motown.

  • Tears for Fears

    Head Over Heels

    • Rule The World: The Greatest Hits.
    • Virgin EMI Records.
    • 5.

  • Kaiser Chiefs

    Ruby

    • (CD Single).
    • B-Unique.

  • Hunter Hayes

    21

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • Tom Petty

    Free Fallin'

    • Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever.
    • MCA.

  • Diana Ross

    I'm Coming Out

    • Diana Ross & The Supremes - 40 Motown.
    • Polygram Tv.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Our friends, Emma and John, have just moved into their new home. It鈥檚 an eccentric 17th century Alice-in-Wonderland of a house. One of the bathrooms is big enough for a party but the fact that my head touched its ceiling made me feel like a giant. Conversely, I was dwarfed by the enormous walk-in fire-place in the kitchen. Down in the cellar a narrow winding stone tunnel that should end in a dungeon, leads instead into a coal-hole size underground pub, complete with bar and beer pumps, beams and horse brasses. At the foot of the cellar stairs ornaments left by the previous owner decorate an ancient oak lid over an outcrop of the wall. John had no idea what was beneath it. When we cleared the knick-knacks and lifted the lid we found a well with an underground stream gurgling along three feet below us. I love the image of uncovering a life-giving resource where it isn鈥檛 expected. 聽I often meet people who feel completely useless despite having survived terrible experiences. Their capacity to carry on against the odds feels to them more like struggling through the desert without water, than the result of drawing on an internal well of survival skills. They see themselves as broken and battered, rather than strong and resilient, not realising these things often go hand-in-hand.聽 We expect human strengths to look and feel as good as clear, fresh water but often, without realising it, we mostly develop and tap into these personal resources when life is tough and it鈥檚 hard to distinguish them from the murk of experience we鈥檙e living through. 聽Those of us who feel useless are actually amazing since we鈥檝e got this far despite disasters that could have destroyed us. Like John and his unexpected well, we need to be prepared to be surprised by the life-giving strengths at work deep in the heart of each one of us.聽聽

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