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Spice Up Your Life!

Chris chats to Geri Halliwell live on the phone about the possibility of a Spice Girls reunion tour, we have a Fiji frenzy in the Top Tenuous, Canon Ann Easter Pauses for Thought and we have the Top 10 countdown of how to be good (or bad) at a variety of things!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Thu 1 Oct 2015 06:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Kenny Loggins

    Footloose

    • Footloose (Original S/Track).
    • CBS.

  • Will Young

    Joy

    • 85% Proof (Deluxe Edition).
    • Island.
    • 7.

  • Jerry Lee Lewis

    Great Balls of Fire

    • The Essential One & Only Jerry Lee Le.
    • Trax Records.

  • Fats Domino

    Ain't That A Shame

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

  • Dodgy

    Good Enough

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 34 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Never Going Back Again

    • Fleetwood Mac - Rumours.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 10.

  • Madness

    Baggy Trousers

    • More Greatest Hits Of 80's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • Spice Girls

    Wannabe

    • Bad Girls (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.

  • Spin Doctors

    Two Princes

    • Driving Rock (Various Artists).
    • Global Records & Tapes.

  • Paul Anka

    Diana

    • Paul Anka - The Greatest Hits Collect.
    • Telstar.

  • Jamie Lawson

    Wasn't Expecting That

    • Jamie Lawson.
    • Gingerbread Man Records.
    • 001.

  • Take That

    Shine

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Pretenders

    Brass In Pocket

    • The Female Touch 2 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Gary Numan

    Are Friends Electric?

    Performer: Tubeway Army.
    • Polygram TV.

  • Florence + The Machine

    Queen Of Peace

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

  • Destiny’s Child

    Survivor

    • Now 49 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • R.E.M.

    The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite

    • R.E.M. - Automatic For The People.
    • Warner Bros.

  • EMF

    Unbelievable

  • Westworld

    Sonic Boom Boy

    • Alternative Eighties (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.

  • Imelda May

    Johnny Got A Boom Boom

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Classics & Jazz.
    • 1.

  • Shirley Bassey

    Kiss Me, Honey Honey, Kiss Me

    • (Single).
    • Philips.

  • Jack Savoretti

    Back Where I Belong

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG Chrysalis.

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Dancing In The Dark

    • Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits.
    • Columbia.

  • Bon Jovi

    Livin' On A Prayer

    • Music Of The Millennium (Various).
    • Universal Music Tv.
    • 1.

  • Meghan Trainor

    Like I'm Gonna Lose You (feat. John Legend)

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony.

  • Desmond Dekker

    You Can Get It If You Really Want

    • Young Gifted & Black (Various).
    • Trojan.

  • Noah and the Whale

    Tonight's The Kind Of Night

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.
    • 1.

Chris' Pause For Thought: Ann Easter

Chris' Pause For Thought: Ann Easter

From Canon Ann Easter, Chaplain to the Queen:

Last week I got a new electric toothbrush – see, my pearly whites! – and when I got home, I went online to extend its warranty; I filled in all the details of where and when I got the brush but then I was asked for my date of birth! What?? How could that have any bearing at all on my use of an electric toothbrush? And the programme refused to complete without it, so no warranty.

I will not be defined by the number of years I’ve been on this planet no – me and the other Baby Boomers have seen that one off! And, at a stage of life where our grandparents were donning black bombazine and finding comfort in pipe and slippers, we’re embracing the next stage of our lives, open to new challenges, constantly curious about the world. My sister-in-law has spent the past nine years training to be a psychotherapist and now she will enter her Third Age with that to add to the wit and the wisdom she’s already accumulated to help and support the many people who need it.

Freed from some of the worries of the past – you know, I don’t care if my bum looks big in this - we can discover new passions and give them a whirl without worrying too much about the possibility of failing. So I’m glad that, on this, the International Day of Older People, the theme is ‘A New Power for Development’ as we rightly celebrate the contribution made by those of riper years.

Traditionally, God has been portrayed as an old man – in the days when being old meant being respected big time; nowadays, certainly in the Western world, we seem to venerate youth. But I believe God’s beyond age and so understands and values each and every one of us, whatever stage of life we’re at.

But God’s good like that.

A day like today reminds us that everyone has something special to bring to the party of this life and must be included, no-one left behind – unless, that is, they’re busy finding new uses for electric toothbrushes.

Broadcast

  • Thu 1 Oct 2015 06:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ 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.

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