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Smooth soulster Trevor Nelson tells Sara about his Christmas Day, and party planner Debbie Marks gives Sara advice on organising a last-minute celebration.

Radio 2's very own smooth soulster, Mr Trevor Nelson tells Sara about his Christmas day, and did he arrive on time with the puddings? Sara finds out if it's too late to plan a New Year's Eve celebration with advice from party planner Debbie Marks. Plus Reverend Sharon Grenham-Thompson provides the Pause For Thought and we put another one of your rhythmic song suggestions to Tom's toe tapping test.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Wed 30 Dec 2015 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • The Killers

    Mr. Brightside

    • LIZARD KING.

  • TLC

    No Scrubs

    • (CD Single).
    • Laface.

  • Lemar

    Higher Love

    • The Letter.
    • BMG.

  • Carly Rae Jepsen

    Call Me Maybe

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.

  • Duran Duran

    Girls On Film

    • Duran Duran - Decade.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • Paul Weller

    The Changingman

    • True Brit (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Kym Sims

    Too Blind To See It

    • The Divas Of Dance (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • Jeff Lynne's ELO

    One Step At A Time

    • Alone In The Universe.
    • Columbia.

  • Take That

    Shine

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • The Whispers

    And The Beat Goes On

    • Time For Love (Various Artists).
    • Truetrax.

  • Def Leppard

    Pour Some Sugar On Me

    • More Monkey Business From Catalogue Marketing (Various Artists).
    • Universal.

  • Olly Murs

    Stevie Knows

    • Never Been Better.
    • Sony Music.

  • Lesley Gore

    It's My Party

    • Rediscover The 50's - Here Comes Summ.
    • Old Gold.

  • P!nk

    Get The Party Started

    • The Very Best Of All Woman 2003 (Var).
    • BMG.

  • Calvin Harris

    Acceptable In The 80s

    • Now 66 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Corona

    The Rhythm Of The Night

    • Now 29 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Labelle

    Lady Marmalade

    • Soul Chartbusters (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Supergrass

    Alright

    • The Best Pub Jukebox In The World (V).
    • Virgin.

  • Pharrell Williams

    Happy

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • The Who

    I Can't Explain

    • Polydor.

  • Bryan Adams

    You Belong To Me

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

  • Otis Redding

    I Can't Turn You Loose

    • The Definitive Otis Redding Vol.2.
    • Rhino.

  • Grace

    You Don't Own Me (feat. 骋鈥怑补锄测)

    • Memo E.P..
    • Columbia.

  • The Brand New Heavies

    Dream On Dreamer

    • FFRR.

  • Texas

    Dry Your Eyes

    • The Conversation.
    • Pias Recordings.
    • 001.

  • Tammy Wynette

    Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad

    • Best Of.
    • Epic.
    • 10.

  • Ian Dury & The Blockheads

    Sweet Gene Vincent

    • The Best Album Tracks ...Ever! (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Eagles

    Take It Easy

    • The Best Of Eagles.
    • Asylum.

  • Seal

    Every Time I'm With You

    • 7.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 001.

  • The Stranglers

    Golden Brown

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • Eternal

    I Wanna Be The Only One (feat. BeBe Winans)

    • Eternal - Greatest Hits.
    • EMI.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Reverend Sharon Grenham-Thompson, Anglican Priest and Prison Chaplain:

I think today is a funny kind of day. It' s not quite the last day of the year. Tomorrow gets all the kudos of New Year's Eve, the day after all the freshness of a new year starting. Last week and the weekend had all the magic and sparkle of Christmas. Today is just....Wednesday the not quite end of December. Now of course I know it'll also be someone's birthday or an important anniversary somewhere. But in the general scheme of things today's a nothing kind of day. A not quite day, perfectly respectable but a didn't quite make it to glory day.

The way our minds work we tend to look back and remember the flagship moments don't we, the highlights (and sometimes the lowlights too). The poor folks in Cumbria and elsewhere will never forget Christmas 2015...

But landmark days only make up a tiny proportion of our lives, and it's how we live the ' nothing' days that really sets the tone and determines how we ourselves are remembered.

Our ordinary days might be filled with chores or childcare; perhaps they're days of hard work, or looking for work; days of waiting maybe, or missing someone terribly. I know in the past I've seen days like these as wasted time, and I've been glad when they've come to an end. But these supposedly unimportant days are still the precious days of our life, and they'll never come again. I think the real waste is when we live our every day lives in a 'not quite' kind of way. Psalm 90 says "teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom."

However difficult or dull our day may be, it's still a chance to set the tone of our life. On such a day, like today, will I be caring, or brave, generous or compassionate? How I live my ordinary, and very finite, days will be how others remember me when my days are done. I hope no-one will think of me and say 'not quite'.

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