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Sara spins a music-packed Half Wower at 8.a.m. and gives away a pair of Sam Smith tickets to a very happy listener. And you can hear the concert live tonight with Jo Whiley from 8pm.

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Thu 3 Sep 2015 06:30
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Music Played

  • Lionel Richie

    Dancing on the Ceiling

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

  • Simply Red

    The Ghost Of Love

    • (CD Single).
    • SimplyRed.com.
    • 001.

  • Chuck Berry

    No Particular Place To Go

    • The Best Of Chuck Berry.
    • Music Club.

  • Nik Kershaw

    I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.
    • 4.

  • Olly Murs

    Troublemaker (feat. Flo Rida)

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

  • Bon Jovi

    You Give Love A Bad Name

    • Slippery When Wet.
    • Mercury.
    • 2.

  • Ward Thomas

    Guest List

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

  • TLC

    Waterfalls

    • (CD Single).
    • Laface.

  • Status Quo

    Rockin' All Over The World

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

  • Lord Rockingham's XI

    Hoots Mon

    • That's Rock'n'Roll (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Thea Gilmore

    Live Out Loud

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

  • Shania Twain

    Man! I Feel Like A Woman!

  • Eddy Grant

    I Don't Wanna Dance

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • Paolo Nutini

    Candy

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

  • Level 42

    Running In The Family

    • The Complete Polydor Years: Volume 2 (1985-1989).
    • Cherry Red Records.

  • The Kinks

    All Day And All Of The Night

    • The Journey - Part 1.
    • BMG.
    • 23.

  • Pulp

    Disco 2000

    • Hits.
    • Island.
    • 6.

  • LunchMoney Lewis

    Bills

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

  • Billy Joel

    Tell Her About It

    • Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Vol.2.
    • CBS.

  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    Lock All The Doors

    • (CD Single).
    • Sour Mash Records.

  • Glen Campbell

    Rhinestone Cowboy

    • Ultimate Country (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • Zac Brown Band

    Jump Right In

    • (CD Single).
    • Southern Ground.
    • 1.

  • Sam Smith

    Like I Can

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.
    • 007.

  • Kerri Watt

    Long Way Â鶹ԼÅÄ

    • (CD Single).
    • 25 Hour Convenience Store.
    • 001.

  • Pink Floyd

    Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2

    • Pink Floyd.
    • Harvest.

  • Gregory Porter

    Liquid Spirit

    • Liquid Spirit.
    • Blue Note.
    • 001.

  • Paul McCartney & Wings

    Band On The Run

    • (Single).
    • Apple.
    • 3.

  • Toyah

    It's A Mystery

    • Toyah - The Safari Records Singles Collection Part 1: 1979-1981.
    • Cherry Red Records.

  • Tony Momrelle

    Pick Me Up

    • (CD Single).
    • Reel People.
    • 001.

  • Queen

    Crazy Little Thing Called Love

    • The Game.
    • Island.
    • 5.

  • Squeeze

    Happy Days

    • Cradle To The Grave.
    • Virgin EMI.
    • 001.

Chris' Pause For Thought: Christopher Jamison

Chris' Pause For Thought: Christopher Jamison

From Father Christopher Jamison, Benedictine Monk:

One day a man was walking through a slave market in Rome and saw some young men who didn’t have the sun tanned complexion of Mediterranean people. He asked where they were from and was told they were Angles from the land of the Anglo Saxons, to which he replied: ‘They’re not Angles, they’re angels; they should share the life of the angels.’ The man was Pope Gregory I whose feast day is today. He was so inspired by his own play on words that he set about converting the Anglo Saxons to Christianity. Legend has it that he set out personally to bring the Gospel to these fair skinned people but after four days a locust landed on his bible; the Latin for locust is locusta which he interpreted as meaning stay where you are (locus sta.) So he turned back and dispatched a mission to Kent led by the monk Augustine. In 597 Augustine arrived in Canterbury and converted Aethelbert, King of the Angles. The rest is history, our English history, a history profoundly shaped by Christian faith. We can see signs of Pope Gregory’s mission all around us. In a way every church in the land is a testimony his desire to make the Angles into angels but there are some more specific signs of Gregory’s work to be found here. For example, he is the man after whom Gregorian chant is named, that’s the chant sung by Catholic monks to this day. Not sure what this sounds like? I’ll sing a little for you. Gloria in Excelsis Deo.

Whether believers or not, on the day when we remember the man known as Gregory the Great, the people of England can still enjoy so many aspects of his legacy from awesome church buildings and beautiful church music to the good news of the Gospel that nobody is beyond redemption, not even the sun starved English. 

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