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Sara keeps the seat warm for Chris and salutes all the Monday morning superheroes. Plus, there's thirty minutes of back-to-back hits from 8am with the Half-Wower and Canon Ann Easter provides us with the first Pause for Thought of the week.

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Mon 15 Feb 2016 06:30
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Music Played

  • Madonna

    Open Your Heart

    • Celebration.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 13.

  • Rod Stewart

    Hold The Line

    • Another Country.
    • Capitol Records.

  • Donovan

    Mellow Yellow

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1967 (Various).
    • EMI.

  • Elbow

    Open Arms

    • (CD Single).
    • Fiction.
    • 1.

  • MIKA

    Blue Eyes

    • Songs For Sorrow E.P..
    • Island.
    • 2.

  • Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakey

    Together In Electric Dreams

    • Our Friends Electric (Various Artists.
    • Telstar.

  • Travis

    3 Miles High

    • (CD Single).
    • Red Telephone Box.
    • 001.

  • Bee Gees

    You Should Be Dancing

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.

  • Suede

    So Young (6 Music Festival)

  • Dana

    All Kinds Of Everything

    • Hits Of ... 69 & 70 (Vol.3).
    • Polydor.

  • Coldplay

    Hymn For The Weekend (feat. µþ±ð²â´Ç²Ô³¦Ã©)

    • A Head Full Of Dreams.
    • Parlophone.

  • Lionel Richie

    All Night Long (All Night)

    • Dancing In The Street (Various Artis.
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • Lionel Richie

    All Night Long (All Night)

    • Dancing In The Street (Various Artis.
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • Lionel Richie

    All Night Long (All Night)

    • Dancing In The Street (Various Artis.
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • Sheryl Crow

    My Favorite Mistake

  • Bon Jovi

    You Give Love A Bad Name

    • Slippery When Wet.
    • Mercury.
    • 2.

  • Kaiser Chiefs

    Ruby

    • (CD Single).
    • B-Unique.

  • Sly & the Family Stone

    Dance To The Music

    • 100% Dance - Dancing Through The 70's (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Sly & the Family Stone

    Dance To The Music

    • 100% Dance - Dancing Through The 70's (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Sugar Ray

    Every Morning

    • (CD Single).
    • Lava/Atlantic.

  • Phil Collins

    Two Hearts

    • Singles.
    • Rhino.

  • Blur

    Parklife

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Jess Glynne

    Ain't Got Far To Go

    • I Cry When I Laugh.
    • Atlantic.
    • 005.

  • John Lee Hooker

    Boom Boom

    • Now 1992 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.

  • Shirley & Lee

    Let The Good Times Roll

    • Best Of The 50's (Various Artists).
    • Disky.

  • Elton John

    Blue Wonderful

    • Wonderful Crazy Night.
    • Mercury.

  • The Bangles

    Manic Monday

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Meghan Trainor

    Lips Are Movin

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
    • 001.

  • The Cure

    Close To Me

    • The Cure - Staring At The Sea.
    • Fiction.

  • David Essex

    Gonna Make You A Star

    • 70's Number Ones Vol 3.
    • Old Gold.

  • Dr. Feelgood

    Milk And Alcohol

    • Greatest Hits Of The 70's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • Adele

    When We Were Young

    • 25.
    • XL Recordings.

  • CeeLo Green

    Music To My Soul

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Lissie

    I Will Always Love You (Romance Police) (Radio 2 Session 12th February 2016)

Chris' Pause For Thought: Ann Easter

From Canon Ann Easter, Chaplain to the Queen:

It’s half term round our way and children and parents are having a bit of a lie-in while the rest of us enjoy the clearer roads and a seat on the bus or train! But my teacher friends are complaining because the holiday’s come too soon after Christmas and they’re already worrying about the long summer term that will inevitably follow this year’s very early Easter. One friend said that she couldn’t wait for someone to fix the date for Easter exactly halfway between Christmas and the end of July and then, she said, we’ll all know where we are – really?

I can see that the idea would be appealing to some but you know I rather like Easter to be a bit unpredictable because, in spite of our diaries, paper or electronic, and the most carefully laid plans, life has a way sometimes of laughing at our intentions and moving the ground under our feet and shaking the very foundations of our lives – like it did when I was in a certain Knightsbridge store and it was bombed – I was terrified and had nightmares for a long time after; and I recognised that unmistakeable sound again when we lived on the Isle of Dogs and a bomb blew off the vicarage front door and our neighbours lost all the glass in their block of flats.

But life can also surprise us in more positive ways…. the ground sort of metaphorically moved at our bishop’s garden party 30 years ago when a friend was taking photos with an old-fashioned camera and he said ‘I’ve only got one photo left – come on you two, bride and groom’ and the man standing next to me, to whom I’d been introduced minutes before, took my arm and everyone laughed. Somehow I knew that he was special – and, five years later, there we were, bride and groom!

Sometimes, it’s an unexpected offer or a pair of soft grey eyes – but sometimes it’s redundancy from work or illness that confounds our plans and we can feel disturbed and apprehensive but I believe that the sooner we get used to the idea that life isn’t certain, the sooner we can put ourselves in God’s hands and enjoy the ride wherever it takes us.Ìý

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