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Sara Cox sits in for Chris Evans to launch Children In Need competition Radio Rendezvous, plus Carrie Underwood, Scott Mills and Jeremy Vine in the studio and Gabrielle Aplin live.

Sara Cox is joined by Carrie Underwood, Scott Mills and Jeremy Vine, as well as Gabrielle Aplin performing new music live in the studio!

Now, it's competition time and we've got something special in aid of this year's ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Children In Need.....welcome to Radio Rendezvous!

Throughout the day here on Radio 2, Sara Cox, Ken Bruce, Jeremy Vine, Steve Wright and Simon Mayo are offering you the chance to win one of five special prizes with some of your favourite Radio 2 presenters. Starting on Breakfast and running right up until the end of Drivetime, for one day only, you can win a different prize with a different Radio 2 presenter. Radio Rendezvous is a text-in competition with proceeds going to Children in Need. Don't miss what's on offer with Sara Cox.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 13 Nov 2015 06:30
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Music Played

  • Fine Young Cannibals

    She Drives Me Crazy

    • And Then She Kissed Me Vol.1 (Various.
    • Debutante.

  • ²Ήβ€h²Ή

    Forest Fire

    • Cast In Steel.
    • Universal.

  • Alexander Armstrong

    On Days Like These

    • A Year of Songs.
    • East West Records.
    • 001.

  • Justin Timberlake

    Rock Your Body

    • (CD Single).
    • Jive.

  • The Shires

    Friday Night

    • (CD Single).
    • Decca.
    • 001.

  • M

    Pop Muzik

    • Million Sellers Vol.16 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Take That

    Hey Boy

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Cher

    The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.

  • Cher

    The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.

  • Stereophonics

    Song For The Summer

    • Keep The Village Alive.
    • Stylus Records.
    • 005.

  • ABBA

    Ring Ring

    • Abba.
    • Polydor.

  • Carly Rae Jepsen

    Call Me Maybe

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.

  • Daryl Hall & John Oates

    You Make My Dreams

    • Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.
    • 5.

  • Hot Chocolate

    Every 1's a Winner

    • Hot Chocolate - Their Greatest Hits.
    • EMI.

  • Coldplay

    Adventure Of A Lifetime

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • One Direction

    Perfect

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco.

  • Carpenters

    Please Mr Postman

    • The Carpenters - Yesterday Once More.
    • A&M.

  • Little Mix

    Love Me Like You

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco.
    • 001.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Nick Baines, Bishop of Leeds for the Diocese of West Yorkshire & the Dales:

I am a rubbish dancer. There's no point pretending otherwise. A West Indian mate of mine, when we were younger, once asked me to dance. When I asked why, he said he needed a laugh. It didn't exactly encourage me.

Well, I guess some people can do it, Jeremy, and some people can't. Or can they? I think it depends on what we think dancing is for.

An ancient poet once spoke about how God turns our mourning into dancing, and I know what he meant. I'm just not sure it tells the whole story. For many people - and just ask some of those children in real need - it is their happiness that is turned into mourning when tragedy or failure invade their life and turn it dark. (This is what the Blues is for - to give voice and mood to the sadder side of life.)

Well, along with that ancient poet, we are making a mistake if we think that dancing is always jolly or happy. Strictly speaking, dancing involves the whole body giving expression to the whole of human experience - and that means we can dance our grief and our sadness and our failure as well as the Cha-Cha, the samba or the jive (and I don't know what any of those are).

I think this is one way of understanding what Children in Need is all about: shining a different light into the darkness and enabling - or inviting - children to dance. Not to pretend everything is OK or that life can be transformed instantly into something happy-clappy. In other words, dancing the slowie is as valid and important as dancing the quickstep.

In one sense, this is obvious. We shouldn't be too quick to shake off the heavy heart when it actually needs to be heavy. Like dancing, love has to face reality in all its guises: shallow love is no use to anybody. But, having said all that, you can't help but be cheered by the enthusiasm of those who thought they couldn't dance at all, only to find that the rhythm was in them somewhere.

So, hit the dance floor of life with the steps that tell the truth. And if you want to be loving to me, don't laugh at my dancing.

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