Sara Cox sits in
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.
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The Killers
Mr. Brightside
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TLC
No Scrubs
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Lemar
Higher Love
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Carly Rae Jepsen
Call Me Maybe
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Duran Duran
Girls On Film
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Paul Weller
The Changingman
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Kym Sims
Too Blind To See It
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Jeff Lynne's ELO
One Step At A Time
- Alone In The Universe.
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Take That
Shine
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The Whispers
And The Beat Goes On
- Time For Love (Various Artists).
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Def Leppard
Pour Some Sugar On Me
- More Monkey Business From Catalogue Marketing (Various Artists).
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Olly Murs
Stevie Knows
- Never Been Better.
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Lesley Gore
It's My Party
- Rediscover The 50's - Here Comes Summ.
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P!nk
Get The Party Started
- The Very Best Of All Woman 2003 (Var).
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Calvin Harris
Acceptable In The 80s
- Now 66 (Various Artists).
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Corona
The Rhythm Of The Night
- Now 29 (Various Artists).
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Labelle
Lady Marmalade
- Soul Chartbusters (Various Artists).
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Supergrass
Alright
- The Best Pub Jukebox In The World (V).
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Pharrell Williams
Happy
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The Who
I Can't Explain
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Bryan Adams
You Belong To Me
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Otis Redding
I Can't Turn You Loose
- The Definitive Otis Redding Vol.2.
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Grace
You Don't Own Me (feat. ³Òâ€E²¹³ú²â)
- Memo E.P..
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The Brand New Heavies
Dream On Dreamer
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Texas
Dry Your Eyes
- The Conversation.
- Pias Recordings.
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Tammy Wynette
Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad
- Best Of.
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Ian Dury & The Blockheads
Sweet Gene Vincent
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Eagles
Take It Easy
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Seal
Every Time I'm With You
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The Stranglers
Golden Brown
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Eternal
I Wanna Be The Only One (feat. BeBe Winans)
- Eternal - Greatest Hits.
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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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