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Sara chats to the professor of all things purple Dr Muir Gray who tells us the benefits of purple vegetables. Plus there's 30 minutes of standout hits in the Half Wower.

Sara chats to the professor of all things purple Dr Muir Gray who tells us the health benefits of purple sprouts, spuds and sweetcorn and how they can dramatically improve our diet. Plus there's 30 minutes of standout hits in the Half Wower and Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by the founder of Park Run, Tom Williams. The mid-week Pause For Thought comes from vicar Dave Tomlinson.

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Wed 4 Jan 2017 06:30
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  • Janet Jackson

    When I Think Of You

    • Janet Jackson - Design Of A Decade.
    • A&M.
    • 7.

  • Rebecca Ferguson

    Superwoman

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • The Staple Singers

    I'll Take You There

    • Afrodisiac (Various Artists).
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • Ronan Keating

    Life Is A Rollercoaster

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Monaco

    What Do You Want From Me?

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • ABC

    When Smokey Sings

    • Now 1987 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • Emeli Sandé

    Breathing Underwater

    • Long Live The Angels.
    • Virgin.

  • Clean Bandit

    Rather Be (feat. Jess Glynne)

    • Now That's What I Call Music 88 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 4.

  • KT Tunstall

    Writing To Reach You (Radio 2 Session, 09 SEP 2016)

  • The Doors

    Roadhouse Blues

    • Morrison Hotel.
    • Elektra.

  • Robin Schulz & David Guetta

    Shed A Light (feat. Cheat Codes)

    • (CD Single).
    • 35079 - Tonspiel.

  • Massive Attack

    Unfinished Sympathy

    • Now That's What I Call Music 19.
    • Now.

  • Robbie Nevil

    C'est La Vie

    • Various Artists - New Frontiers.
    • Temple Records.

  • One Direction

    History

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco Music.
    • 13.

  • The Jacksons

    I Want You Back

    • The Best Michael Jackson & Jackson Five.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 1.

  • Whitney Houston

    So Emotional

    • Whitney Houston - Whitney.
    • Arista.

  • The Source

    You Got The Love (feat. Candi Staton)

    • Monster Hits Of Dance - 36 Monster Hits From The 80's & 90's (Various Artists).
    • Castle Communications.

  • Wheatus

    Teenage Dirtbag

    • Now 49 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Hifi Sean

    Testify (feat. Crystal Waters)

    • Ft..
    • Plastique Recordings.
    • 001.

  • Edwin Starr

    25 Miles

    • The Best Northern Soul All-Nighter (V.
    • Virgin.

  • The Lumineers

    Ho Hey

    • The Lumineers.
    • Dualtone.

  • Bellowhead

    Roll The Woodpile Down

    • Broadside.
    • Navigator Records.
    • 003.

  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience

    Purple Haze

  • Rag’n’Bone Man

    Human

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

  • The Housemartins

    Happy Hour

    • Now That's What I Call Quite Good.
    • Go! Discs.

  • Michael Bublé

    Nobody But Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Reprise.

  • Prince & The Revolution

    Raspberry Beret

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Hozier

    Someone New

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Olly Murs

    Years & Years

    • 24 Hrs.
    • RCA.

  • Ward Thomas

    Carry You Â鶹ԼÅÄ

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.

  • Culture Club

    I'll Tumble 4 Ya

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

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Dave Tomlinson, writer and Vicar of St Luke’s Holloway in London:

Mostly I try to skip the January sales – or wait until almost the end when the crowds have disappeared – along with the best bargains! But a couple of years ago I was in town for a clergy conference, so on the way home I popped into a large store and picked up a couple of things.

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Waiting to pay, I was fidgeting on my phone when a security man ominously asked if he could have a word. I stepped aside. Then awkwardly, he said, ‘Excuse me Father.’ (Oops – I was still wearing my dog collar.) ‘I’m sorry, I know you out shopping, but I’ve wanted to talk to a priest for a while…and saw you standing there. I’m not very religious, but…I wonder if you’d mind.’

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For the next 15 minutes Frank told me about something he’d done several years before which had seriously hurt another person, and left him with a mountain of guilt. It was a peculiar confessional – surrounded by a bustling crowd of shoppers. But there, in the middle of the store, I took Frank’s hand, looked him in the eye and said, ‘Frank, God forgives you. Forgive yourself.’ He was a big guy. But he cried. Tears of relief, he said.

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Frank had messed up. He knew that. But by not dealing with the situation he allowed guilt to become an accusing voice in his head, which told him he was a bad person. He wasn’t a bad person. He had done something wrong which he needed to address, but that didn’t make him a bad person.

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The writer Philip Pullman says that after nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world. But the really important story is the one in our head – the things we tell ourselves about ourselves.

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Going into 2017, most of us have things we’d like to leave behind, things we’d like to change – I know I do. The good news is, I believe we can, but first we need to dump guilt – one of the least useful emotions – and start telling our self a different story, then acting it out.

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I was the one out shopping that day, but ironically I reckon the security man gave himself the best bargain!

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  • Wed 4 Jan 2017 06:30
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