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Sara Cox sits in for Chris Evans with a fully interactive show for all the family, featuring music, special guests and listeners on the phone.

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Tue 12 Jul 2016 06:30
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Music Played

  • Huey Lewis and the News

    Hip To Be Square

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

  • Gregory Porter

    Consequence Of Love

    • Take Me To The Alley.
    • Decca.
    • 005.

  • Cream

    Strange BrewÌý

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

  • DNCE

    Cake By The Ocean

    • (CD Single).
    • Republic.
    • 1.

  • Justin Timberlake

    Can't Stop The Feeling!

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Roxette

    The Look

    • Now 15 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Grace

    Hell Of A Girl

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Shania Twain

    That Don't Impress Me Much

    • Now 44 (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Coldplay

    Adventure Of A Lifetime

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Neil Diamond

    Hello Again

    • Neil Diamond - The Ultimate Collectio.
    • Columbia/Mca.

  • Travis

    Animals

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

  • Barry White

    What Am I Gonna Do with You

    • Barry White - The Collection.
    • Mercury.

  • Paul Williams

    Bad Guys

  • Green Day

    Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)

    • Green Day - Nimrod.
    • Reprise.

  • Prince

    1999

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.

  • The Trammps

    Disco Inferno

    • NOW Boogie Nights - Disco Classics (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Basement Jaxx

    Red Alert

  • Alanis Morissette

    You Oughta Know

  • Jackie Wilson

    (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher

    • Midnight Soul (Various Artists).
    • Music Club.

  • Jodie Abacus

    She's In Love With The Weekend

    • (CD Single).
    • Household.
    • 001.

  • Frank Sinatra

    Bad Bad Leroy Brown

    • My Way - The Best Of Frank Sinatra.
    • Reprise.

  • Lianne La Havas

    What You Don't Do

  • Chris Farlowe

    Out Of Time

    • 99p Guarantees You 73 Minutes 22 Seconds Of Great Music!!! (Various Artists).
    • See For Miles.
    • 2.

  • Bright Light Bright Light

    All In The Name (feat. Elton John)

    • (CD Single).
    • Self Raising Records.

  • 10cc

    Art For Art's Sake

    • The Very Best Of 10cc.
    • Mercury.

  • Elbow

    One Day Like This

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

  • Rod Stewart

    Can We Stay Â鶹ԼÅÄ Tonight?

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol Records.
    • 001.

  • Randy Newman

    You've Got A Friend In Me

    • Toy Story O.S.T..
    • Walt Disney Records.

  • Journey

    Don't Stop Believin'

    • Rock Of America (Various Artists).
    • Trax Label.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Leslie Griffiths, Methodist Minister:ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý

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An old pal of mine has just died. Like me, Ken was a Methodist minister. We had a lot in common. I lived my early life in a brickyard. He lived his as a bricklayer. He left school at 15 and worked on building sites. And that’s where, in all likelihood, he’d have stayed if it hadn’t been for something that happened to him while he was doing his mum’s shopping. He had to cross a public square where a preacher was standing on a soap box telling the Saturday morning crowd all about the love of Jesus. This attracted Ken’s attention; he was hooked and that started a process that led eventually to his becoming a preacher too.Ìý

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Most people don’t really have a clue about vicars and the like. They wear their collars the wrong way round and you see them at baptisms, weddings, and funerals. They’re the hatch, match and despatch brigade. Derek Nimmo, Dawn French and Rowan Atkinson have had us in stitches with stories about their fictional escapades. But there’s more to it than that. As my dear old friend Ken made clear. One day he read in the paper that the residents of a nearby street were refusing to leave their pre-war terraced homes to allow bathrooms to be built onto them. They just dug their heels in. Ken had an idea. He went to the Council and offered to build those bathrooms without requiring occupants to get out. And that’s just what Ken the brickie did. It wasÌý a win win situation with smiles all round.

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What Ken did was show that the duties and responsibilities of your job don’t have to stop you being yourself. He was a fine minister but never a holy joe. He remained a bricklayer at heart, practical and down-to-earth,-Ìý a bricklayer who chose to follow the teaching of a carpenter. I treasure his memory and thank God for him. May he rest in peace.

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