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Jools Holland on the 50th series of ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Two's Later...with Jools Holland. Plus Peter Kay on his new ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ One series Car Share. Plus, there's Moira's Golden Oldie and thirty minutes of top tunes in the Half-Wower!

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Tue 11 Apr 2017 06:30
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Music Played

  • Madonna

    Holiday

    • Finally Enough Love (Deluxe Edition).
    • Rhino.
    • 34.

  • Jack Savoretti

    We Are Bound

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Go Your Own Way

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 006.

  • Paolo Nutini

    New Shoes

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • The Kooks

    Always Where I Need To Be

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • The Boo Radleys

    Wake Up Boo!

    • Various Artists - Untitled.
    • Global Records & Tapes.

  • Gavin James

    I Don't Know Why

    • (CD Single).
    • GS Believe.

  • Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue

    Kids

    • Kylie Minogue - Ultimate Kylie.
    • Parlophone.

  • Joan Baez

    The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

    • Rediscover The 60's - With A Little H.
    • Old Gold.

  • Harry Styles

    Sign Of The Times

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Bardo

    One Step Further

    • Ultimate Eurovision Party!.
    • Virgin.
    • 11.

  • Michael Jackson

    Love Never Felt So Good (feat. Justin Timberlake) (feat. Justin Timberlake)

    • Xscape.
    • Sony Music.

  • Earth, Wind & Fire

    Boogie Wonderland (feat. The Emotions)

    • The Best Seventies Album In The World.. Ever!.
    • Virgin.
    • 2.

  • Basement Jaxx

    Red Alert

  • Talking Heads

    Once In A Lifetime

    • Talking Heads - Remain In Light.
    • Sire.

  • The Verve

    Lucky Man

    • Now 39 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Sugarhill Gang

    Rapper's Delight

    • The Seventies: A Very Special Collect.
    • Pickwick.

  • Jennifer Hudson

    Remember Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.

  • Hifi Sean

    Testify (feat. Crystal Waters)

    • Ft..
    • Plastique Recordings.
    • 001.

  • R.E.M.

    Losing My Religion

    • R.E.M. - Out Of Time.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Jools Holland, Ruby Turner & Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra

    Jumpin' In The Morning

    • Golden Age Of Song.
    • Rhino.
    • 001.

  • Lorde

    Green Light

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI.

  • Thin Lizzy

    Rosalie / Cowgirl's Song (Live)

    • Dedication: The Very Best Of Thin Lizzy.
    • Vertigo.
    • 8.

  • Paloma Faith

    Only Love Can Hurt Like This

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.
    • 004.

  • Sheryl Crow

    Halfway There

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 001.

  • Janet Jackson

    Together Again

    • Now 39 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Pretenders

    Brass In Pocket

    • The Female Touch 2 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Leslie Griffiths, Methodist Minister:ΜύΜύΜύΜύΜύΜύΜύ

Christians are in the middle of the most important week in their calendar. We’re following the sequence of events that marked the end of Jesus’s earthly life. No problems there. He rode into Jerusalem on a donkey, he had a final meal with his friends, he then stood accused in two courts of law before being sentenced to death. And then came the grim end-game – they stripped him, laughed at him, spat at him, hung him up. And the life drained away from him until at last he gave up the ghost. β€œIt’s finished,” he’s reported as saying, β€œinto your hands I commend my spirit.” And, with that, he was gone.

The best minds and the finest artists have been trying to tease out the deep meaning of this sequence of events ever since. I’ve had a fair few goes at it too, one of the oddest being when I was asked, way back in the 70s, to speak about all this in, of all things, an Odeon cinema. The owner, J. Arthur Rank, was a devout Christian. He’d been roundly criticised for opening his cinemas on Good Friday. His response was to get Methodist ministers like me to take the stage between showings and explain the meaning of the death of Christ to all unsuspecting souls who’d come for a nice evening out at the flicks. I was as nervous as a kitten. The film being shown was a blood-curdling murder mystery with a grim ending. When it finished, the lights went up and I was thrust onto the stage by the manager. β€œOK,” he growled, β€œdo your stuff.” I was blinded by the bright lights but still managed to note that the cinema was virtually empty – just a few canoodling couples on or near the back row.

So I spoke very simply but very directly to those startled young people. β€œLove always wins,” I announced; β€œnothing, neither the taunting nor the wickedness of those gawping at him, neither the pain nor the suffering they inflicted on him, diminished the pure and unconditional love that flowed from him.” I might have added, and I’m sure J. Arthur Rank would have nodded in agreement, that even death lost out in that battle.

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