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Andreya Triana and the Salvation Army

On this Christmas Eve, Chris adds a sprinkle of the Salvation Army and dazzling dash of Andreya Triana to show the show. They play festive favourites live!

On this Christmas Eve, Chris adds a sprinkle of The Salvation Army and dazzling dash of Andreya Triana to the show. They play your festive favourites live including Winter Wonderland and Silent Night.

Chris continues to celebrate more of the countries courageous Christmas heroes with nation's excellent emergency service men and women.

And, adding the finishing touches to the seasonal show is Canon Ann Easter with a festive Pause for Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Christmas Eve 2015 06:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Queen

    Thank God It's Christmas

    • It's Christmas Time (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Coldplay

    Adventure Of A Lifetime

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Andy Burrows

    Light The Night

    • (CD Single).
    • Play It Again Sam UK.
    • 1.

  • Shania Twain

    Man! I Feel Like A Woman!

  • Freiheit

    Keeping The Dream Alive

    • The Best Christmas... Ever! (Various).
    • Virgin.

  • The Beach Boys

    Little Saint Nick

    • That's Christmas (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Bryan Adams

    You Belong To Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • Showaddywaddy

    Hey Mr Christmas

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Crimson.

  • Wizzard

    I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday

    • That's Christmas (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Bing Crosby

    White Christmas

    • That's Christmas (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • The Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir

    A Bridge Over You

    • White.

  • The Pogues

    Fairytale Of New York (feat. Kirsty MacColl)

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Music UK.

  • The Jacksons

    Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town

    • The Best Christmas Album In The World.
    • Virgin.
    • 17.

  • Andy Williams

    It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year

    • Christmas Love Songs (Various Artist.
    • Arcade Records.

  • Gregory Porter

    A Cradle In Bethlehem (Radio 2 Session, 12 Dec 2014)

    • The Christmas Song.

  • Chris Rea

    Driving Â鶹ԼÅÄ For Christmas

    • NOW That's What I Call Christmas (Various Artists).
    • NOW.
    • 1.

  • Carpenters

    Merry Christmas Darling

    • The Carpenters - Christmas Portrait.
    • A&M.

  • Mariah Carey

    All I Want For Christmas Is You

    • Mariah Carey - Merry Christmas.
    • Columbia.

  • Saint Etienne

    I Was Born On Christmas Day

    • (CD Single).
    • Heavenly.
    • 17.

  • Roy Orbison

    You Got It

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • Jan & Dean

    Frosty The Snowman

    • Best Christmas 100 (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • The Cadillacs

    Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer

    • Doo Wop Christmas (Various Artists).
    • Rhino.
    • 9.

  • Scouting for Girls

    Christmas In The Air (Tonight)

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Music.

  • U2

    Christmas (Baby Please Come Â鶹ԼÅÄ)

    • A Very Special Christmas (Various).
    • A&M.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Canon Ann Easter, Chaplain to the Queen:

Tonight’s a very special night and I’ll be at Midnight Mass with loads of people, some our usual congregation and some who don’t come to church at any other time but somehow feel drawn to come on Christmas Eve when we celebrate the birth of Jesus.

I think I can sympathise a bit with Mary, Jesus’s mother, because I was expecting my first baby at Christmas time and I was excited and apprehensive all at once. As I would later say to women many, many times when I was Chaplain to the maternity hospital, becoming a mother changes you for ever; you see the world in a different light.

As the time drew near, I felt a change of pace somehow, as if my body were squaring up for the massive task ahead – they don’t call it labour for nothing! I made two jellies and peeled tons of potatoes, then washed the kitchen floor, and, with that, we were away! And one thing’s for sure, once labour gets going, you’re stuck there til the job is done!

Katy Mary Louise weighed just 4 pounds with pale ginger hair and big blue eyes. We made it to my Nan’s for Christmas Day and you can imagine the debate as all my aunts marvelled at her tininess and tried to decide who she looked like.

I think that every baby born, whether in Sandringham or Syria, is a miracle but Christians believe that, that first Christmas night, Heaven and Earth came very close as God became human in Jesus; the angels sang and nothing was ever quite the same again. Somehow, tonight makes sense of the laughter and tears, and the hopes and fears, the worry and the wondering, they don’t seem to matter quite so much because God has truly shared in our lives and knows what it’s like.

And tonight, we’ll sing the old familiar carols at the tops of our voices and wish each other Merry Christmas all the way home but, somewhere in amongst the hullabaloo, there will be a moment of quiet and, if you keep very still, you might hear the angels singing, and they’ll sing, Glory to God in the Highest and Peace be on all the Earth.

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