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Chris Evans presents a fully interactive show for all the family, featuring music, special guests and listeners on the phone.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Wed 30 Nov 2016 06:30

Music Played

  • Led Zeppelin

    Rock And Roll

  • Rag’n’Bone Man

    Human

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 001.
  • Bill Nighy

    Make Someone Happy

    • Arthur Christmas: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
    • 18.
  • Maroon 5

    Don't Wanna Know (feat. Kendrick Lamar)

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.
  • The White Stripes

    Seven Nation Army

    • (CD Single).
    • Xls.
  • The Whispers

    It's A Love Thing

    • The Greatest 80's Soul W/Ender (Va).
    • Warner Strategic Market.
  • Jamie Cullum

    Show Me The Magic

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 1.
  • The Stone Roses

    Fools Gold

    • Precious - Various Artists.
    • Dino.
  • Foreigner

    Cold As Ice

    • 40.
    • Rhino Atlantic.
    • 3.
  • Al Jolson

    When The Red Red Robin Comes Bob Bob Bobbin Along

    • The Very Best Of Al Jolson.
    • 2.
  • Tom Chaplin

    Hardened Heart

    • The Wave.
    • Island.
  • Carly Simon

    Why

    • The Very Best Of Carly Simon.
    • Global Television.
  • U2

    Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
  • Little Mix

    Shout Out To My Ex

    • (CD Single).
    • SYCO.
  • The Troggs

    Wild Thing

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1966.
    • Premier.
  • The Fratellis

    Chelsea Dagger

    • Now 65 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • Louis Armstrong

    What A Wonderful World

    • This Is My Song - Love Songs Of The 6.
    • Old Gold.
  • Ultravox

    Vienna

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.
    • 3.
  • Joy Division

    Love Will Tear Us Apart

    • Glorious (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.
  • Michael Bublé

    I Believe In You

    • Nobody But Me.
    • Reprise.
  • Bryan Adams

    You Belong To Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 001.
  • Johnny Mathis

    When A Child Is Born

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

    Warm This Winter

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal.
    • 1.
  • Robbie Williams

    Love My Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
  • Queen

    I Want To Break Free

    • The Works.
    • EMI.
  • The Kooks

    She Moves In Her Own Way

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

Art Historian, Dr Jim Harris

Ìý

On Monday, I went to a memorial service for a former colleague.Ìý These things are often a duty or an obligation, and it’s true that they're seldom an unalloyed pleasure.Ìý But this time I really wanted to be there, to honour the person we were remembering.

At first, my colleague and I weren't exactly friends.Ìý In fact, we'd started off as antagonists. I was doing one of those glamorous jobs that involve setting out a lot of chairs for meetings and she told me I was setting them out wrong.

Now, as a man then in his early forties with not-inconsiderable experience in setting out chairs, I didn't take too kindly to this, so I told her and we had a bit of a standoff about the seating.

From there, things occasionally got worse before they got better.Ìý But they did get better, as I saw her more often and understood her better. What I'd read as pickiness, I began to see was real pride in her work.Ìý What I'd read as patronising, I saw was genuine warmth and affection.

And then, in what others of our friends and colleagues said at her memorial, I saw still more sides to her character.Ìý Her sense of humour. Her commitment to social justice.Ìý Her talent as an artist.Ìý None of which tallied at all with my first impression of her in the great chair dispute of 2006.

Jesus warned his friends about first impressions.Ìý He said that although people might come in sheep’s clothing, yet they can be like ferocious wolves.Ìý The only way to judge them, he taught, is by the fruit of their lives - what happens over the longer term.

Over the longer term working together, and then again during the service on Monday, I saw and heard what the real fruit of my colleague’s life was, in the friendships she made, in the work she did and the family she loved.

They say that first impressions are the ones that count, but I’m pretty sure that’s not true. With her, the first impression was all wrong and I reckon that Jesus was right: if you want to know someone, see what fruit their life produces.Ìý To do that takes time, and a little effort.Ìý But one of the things I learned from my colleague Cynthia is that it’s definitely worth it.

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