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Sara Cox sits in for Chris and speaks to Jules Hudson about the Countryfile Spring Diaries. Sara also introduces a Half Wower with 30 minutes of feelgood music.

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Thu 19 May 2016 06:30
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Music Played

  • Culture Club

    Church Of The Poison Mind

    • More Greatest Hits Of 80's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • Richard Ashcroft

    Hold On

    • (CD Single).
    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • Sister Sledge

    Lost In Music

    • Disco Inferno (Various Artists).
    • East West.
    • 9.

  • Moloko

    Sing It Back

    • Club MTV (Various Artists).
    • Universal Music On Demand.

  • Faces

    Stay with Me

    • Glam Crazee - Various Artists.
    • Virgin.

  • Blondie

    Atomic

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

  • Gregory Porter

    Don't Lose Your Steam

    • Take Me To The Alley.
    • Decca.
    • 001.

  • Room 5 & Oliver Cheatham

    Make Luv

    • New Woman 2003 (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Level 42

    Lessons In Love

    • Now That's What I Call Music '86.
    • Now.

  • Elle King

    Ex's And Oh's

    • Love Stuff.
    • RCA.
    • 2.

  • The Swinging Blue Jeans

    The Hippy Hippy Shake

    • The Hits Of 1963 (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Tom Odell

    Magnetised

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Bruce Forsyth

    Chin Up

    • You Are Awful.. But We Like You!: Showbiz Comedy Titbits Of The '60s And '70s CD.
    • 7.

  • INXS

    New Sensation

    • INXS - Kick.
    • Mercury.

  • Texas

    I Don't Want A Lover

    • Texas - The Greatest Hits.
    • Mercury.

  • Razorlight

    In The Morning

    • (CD Single).
    • Vertigo.

  • Whitney Houston

    Love Will Save The Day

    • Whitney Houston - Whitney.
    • Arista.

  • Take That

    Could It Be Magic

    • Take That - Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.

  • R. Dean Taylor

    There's A Ghost In My House

    • And They Danced The Night Away.
    • Debutante.

  • Justin Timberlake

    Can't Stop The Feeling!

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Patrice Rushen

    Forget Me Nots

    • Best Disco Album In The World...Ever!.
    • Virgin.

  • Space

    Female Of The Species

    • Crush (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Eagles

    Heartache Tonight

    • The Best Of Eagles.
    • Asylum.

  • Zac Brown Band

    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔgrown

    • Jekyll & Hyde.
    • Zac Brown.
    • 001.

  • The Housemartins

    Me And The Farmer

    • The People Who Grinned Themselves....
    • Go! Discs.

  • Kygo

    Raging (feat. Kodaline)

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.
    • 001.

  • The Undertones

    Teenage Kicks

    • Beautiful Game (Various Artists).
    • Universal.

  • The Charlatans

    The Only One I Know

  • Echo & the Bunnymen

    The Cutter

    • Absolution (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • The Temper Trap

    Fall Together

    • (CD Single).
    • Infectious Music.

  • Bob Dylan

    Like A Rolling Stone

    • Bob Dylan - Greatest Hits.
    • Columbia.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Leslie Griffiths, Methodist Minister:ΜύΜύΜύΜύΜύΜύΜύ

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Fifty years ago this very week, at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, Bob Dylan went electric. Until then he’d been the acclaimed, almost enthroned, shining star in the Folk music firmament and his trusted acoustic guitar and harmonica (as well, of course, as his voice) were his trademark. This was one of those hinge moments when so much turns on a single event. Many in the audience that evening were shocked. Famously, one fan can be heard on the bootlegged recording of the concert shouting β€œJudas!” This move away from his folk roots was considered by some to be a total betrayal. But that shout only served to energise Dylan, the rest of the concert rose to unprecedented heights. The die was cast, electric it was, and pop music would never be the same again.

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A couple of years earlier my mother too went electric – not a guitar - an electric cooker, a Baby Belling, gifted by someone moving away from our home town.

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My dear old mam had only ever cooked on an open fire. Everything we ate was fried or boiled. Now she had an oven and surely, we thought mouthwateringly, her repertoire would be greatly enriched.Μύ She considered all such thoughts a betrayal. She never opened the oven door. Everything she cooked continued to come out of the fire and into the frying pan.

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When change comes, we must make our choice either to embrace it or be left behind. Change comes like a thief in the night; we must take it or leave it. We can end up flying like eagles or earthed like ostriches.

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Bob Dylan weathered the criticisms levelled against him and got electrified. My mother resisted change and held fast to her frying pan till her dying day. An old prayer jumps up in my mind, one we might all consider in times of change: β€œGod grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

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