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Sara Cox sits in for Chris Evans and chats to Suzi Perry about her Easter Monday show.

Sara Cox sits in for Chris, and is joined by Suzi Perry who's zoomed around the world with bikes, cars and gadgets, but revs into Radio 2 towers to tell us about her star-studded show on Easter Monday. Sara plays some top Friday-feeling tunes in the Half Wower, and Nick Baines provides the Pause For Thought this Good Friday.

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Fri 25 Mar 2016 06:30
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Music Played

  • Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakey

    Together In Electric Dreams

    • Our Friends Electric (Various Artists.
    • Telstar.

  • Squeeze

    Nirvana

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • The Everly Brothers

    Cathy's Clown

    • Acuff-Rose Opryland Music: 50th Anniv.
    • Acuff-Rose Opryland.

  • Blondie

    The Tide Is High

    • Atomic: The Very Best Of Blondie.
    • EMI.

  • Shania Twain

    Man! I Feel Like A Woman!

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.

  • Bellowhead

    Roll The Woodpile Down

    • Broadside.
    • Navigator Records.
    • 003.

  • Deacon Blue

    Fergus Sings The Blues

    • Deacon Blue- Our Town (Greatest Hits).
    • Columbia.

  • David Bowie

    I Can't Give Everything Away

    • Blackstar.
    • RCA.

  • Shola Ama

    You Might Need Somebody

    • Love Songs - 39 All Time Love Classic.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • ²Ήβ€h²Ή

    Take On Me (Radio 2 In Concert, 24 Mar 2016)

  • Stealers Wheel

    Stuck In The Middle With You

    • (Single).
    • A&M.

  • Talking Heads

    Once In A Lifetime

    • Talking Heads - Remain In Light.
    • Sire.

  • Pet Shop Boys

    The Pop Kids

  • Sam Smith

    Like I Can

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.
    • 007.

  • Prince

    Rock & Roll Love Affair

  • Kim Wilde

    Kids In America

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

  • The Jacksons

    Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)

    • Rhythm Divine 2 (Various Artists).
    • Dino.

  • Elvis Presley vs Junkie XL

    A Little Less Conversation

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG/RCA.

  • The Rolling Stones

    (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

    • The Rolling Stones - Remastered.
    • Abkco.

  • Gnarls Barkley

    Crazy

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

    Dancing In The Street

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

  • Del Amitri

    Roll To Me

    • Twisted.
    • A&M.
    • 007.

  • Reef

    How I Got Over

    • (CD Single).
    • REEFBAND.
    • 1.

  • Daryl Hall & John Oates

    You Make My Dreams

    • Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.
    • 5.

  • Lauryn Hill

    Ex-Factor

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • James Morrison

    I Need You Tonight

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 001.

  • Tom Jones

    What's New Pussycat?

    • Magic Moments: The Definitive Burt Bacharach Collection.
    • Rhino.

  • Toploader

    Dancing In The Moonlight

    • Onka's Big Moka - Toploader.
    • Sony Soho Square.

  • Roachford

    The Way I Feel

    • Love (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Was (Not Was)

    Walk The Dinosaur

    • (Single).
    • Fontana.

  • Stereophonics

    White Lies

    • (CD Single).
    • Stylus Records.

  • Mayer Hawthorne

    The Stars Are Ours

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 001.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Nick Baines, the Bishop of Leeds:


It's probably a good thing that I am sitting here in my office in Leeds this time because I am about to admit a shameful secret. I have never watched a complete Formula One race. I am sorry, and I am very embarrassed to confess this in front of people who love the sport.

Maybe I'm a bit thick or just a bit slow. But, the speed of it all makes it difficult to work out what is going on. I think I need a good guide and I promise to watch Suzi's new programme.

Perhaps Good Friday is a good day to bury such a poor confession. Whereas the cars aim at speeding everything up, Good Friday slows everything down ... to a stop, in fact.

Do you remember the story? The baby of Bethlehem has grown into the annoying rabbi Jesus of Nazareth, and the powers that be decide to sort him out once and for all. So, after a betrayal and a mock trial, they nail him and watch him die. And there, in the dirt of a rubbish tip outside Jerusalem, all the hopes of Christmas lie bleeding into despair.

Now, we know that the story doesn't end here. After the sheer emptiness of Saturday, when the loss and bereavement press in and refuse to be ignored, Sunday comes with an empty tomb and a resurrected Jesus, taking some frightened people by surprise and whispering that death, violence and destruction do not have the final word in this world, after all.

The trick is not to jump to Sunday until we have learned to live with Friday and Saturday. Slow down. Stop. Wait. Live with the loss and make darkness your friend for a while.

All this is powerfully real to me as I spent last week in Northern Iraq listening to the experiences of ordinary people whose lives, families and communities have been destroyed in the most unimaginably brutal ways by ISIS. For them Sunday is a very long way away. Yet, even for some of them, the darkness brings them closer to the light - as one songwriter put it.

So, let's not run away from Friday - and be surprised by the defiance of SundayΒ  Happy Easter, but not just yet.

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