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Chris Evans presents a fully interactive show for all the family, featuring music, special guests and listeners on the phone.

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Tue 29 Sep 2015 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Level 42

    Lessons In Love

    • Now That's What I Call Music '86.
    • Now.

  • Bob Dylan

    I Want You

    • Bob Dylan - Greatest Hits.
    • Columbia.

  • Sara Bareilles

    Brave

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

  • 顿别别别鈥怢颈迟别

    Groove Is In The Heart

    • The Best Of 100% Dance (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Cyndi Lauper

    Girls Just Want To Have Fun

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

  • Scouting for Girls

    Life's Too Short

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Music.

  • The Police

    Message In A Bottle

    • The Very Best Of Sting & The Police.
    • A&M.

  • Inspiral Carpets

    This Is How It Feels

    • Now 17, Part 1 (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Link Wray

    Rumble

  • Jack Savoretti

    Back Where I Belong

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG Chrysalis.

  • Bruno Mars

    Locked Out Of Heaven

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

  • Bruno Mars

    When I Was Your Man

    • Unorthodox Jukebox.
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • Pulp

    Common People

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

  • Dean Martin & Helen O鈥機onnell

    How D'Ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning?

    • Cool Couples (Various Artists).
    • Sanctuary.

  • John Newman & Charlie Wilson

    Tiring Game

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 001.

  • Florence + The Machine

    Queen Of Peace

    • How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful.
    • Island.
    • 004.

  • Fiction Factory

    (Feels Like) Heaven

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

  • Bee Gees

    You Should Be Dancing

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.

  • Buggles

    Video Killed The Radio Star

    • Our Friends Electric (Various Artist.
    • Telstar.

  • Frank Sinatra

    Come Fly With Me

    • The Capitol Years.
    • Capitol Records.
    • 28.

  • Adele

    Rumour Has It

    • 21.
    • XL.
    • 1.

  • Python Lee Jackson

    In A Broken Dream

    • Hot Love - Sounds Of The 70's, Part 1.
    • Old Gold.

  • Python Lee Jackson

    In A Broken Dream

    • Hot Love - Sounds Of The 70's, Part 1.
    • Old Gold.

  • UB40

    (I Can't Help) Falling In Love With You

    • The Love Album (CD 1) (Various Artist.
    • Virgin.

  • The Score

    Oh My Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal.
    • 001.

  • Petula Clark

    Downtown

    • The Ivor Novello Winners.
    • EMI.

  • Soul II Soul

    Back to Life (However Do You Want Me) (feat. Caron Wheeler)

    • NOW 100 Hits 80s No.1s (Various Artists).
    • NOW.

Chris' Pause For Thought: Julia Neuberger

Chris' Pause For Thought: Julia Neuberger

From Julia Neuberger, Senior Rabbi at the west London Synagogue:

It was the first day of Sukkot yesterday, we call it the Festival of Tabernacles, it鈥檚 the harvest festival. We build these temporary shelters in our gardens and synagogues, and we live in them for a week. It鈥檚 a combination of harvest festival, with a reminder that things in life are only temporary. My family doesn鈥檛 actually live outside for a week - but my grandmother used to. Now she used to like her creature comforts, she was that sort of woman, so she decided to plug an old fashioned electric heater in and then she鈥檇 run the extension lead out to her sukkah, her temporary shelter, to keep everybody warm over supper. One night it began to rain. One rule for sukkah building is that it has to be open to the sky, so of course the rain came pouring down into the soup. And, of course, also on to the electric heater. So it immediately sparked and then fused. On one occasion, because my grandmother did this more than once, she managed to wipe out her street鈥檚 electricity supply for 24 hours! She wasn't very popular.

Most of us wouldn鈥檛 do that, and, in any case, safe outdoor heaters are now the norm. But as we sit in the sukkah, this temporary shelter, and admire its beauty, that feeling, of life being short, and human existence being temporary, is ever present. We rejoice in the riches of the harvest, and give most away. We celebrate the autumn, the season of mellow fruitfulness, but we remember that we鈥檙e heading into winter, when homeless people will be cold and asylum seekers from warmer climes distinctly chilly. We revel in the joy of our harvest festival and put our energies, after decorating the sukkah, into making sure our winter night shelter, along with our local churches, has enough volunteers, and our asylum seeker drop in has enough food to distribute. Sukkot is a double-edged festival - it celebrates plenty, but reminds us of need. It is a happy time certainly, but you can鈥檛 forget those in trouble. I love that dual nature - after all, life is rarely wholly happy, or even wholly sad. So it teaches us to enjoy the positive, but never forget those who can鈥檛 share it with us. Just like real life really!

Broadcast

  • Tue 29 Sep 2015 06:30
    麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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.

500 Words

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