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Sara catches up with Scott Mills after Hull's I Feel Love concert at the weekend. We speak to our early morning achievers and Vassos chats Formula 1 with ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ 5Live's Jennie Gow.

Sara catches up with Scott Mills after Hull's I Feel Love concert at the weekend. We speak to our early morning achievers who have already been baking, cycling and en route to holidays in convoy. After Sara set her sat-nav to Ludlow instead of Lulworth, we hear your journey mishaps and destination muddles. Vassos chats Formula 1 with ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ 5Live's Jennie Gow and Methodist Minster Leslie Griffiths provides the daily Pause for Thought. Plus top tunes with Diva O'Clock and a Half Wower to kick-start your Monday morning!

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Mon 31 Jul 2017 06:30
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Music Played

  • Talking Heads

    Once In A Lifetime

    • Talking Heads - Remain In Light.
    • Sire.

  • TLC

    It's Sunny

    • (CD Single).
    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • Earth, Wind & Fire

    Got to Get You Into My Life

    • The Very Best Of Earth Wind & Fire.
    • Telstar.

  • 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.

  • Otis Redding

    Hard to Handle

    • Dock Of The Bay (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • T. Rex

    Children of the Revolution

    • Tanx + Zinc Alloy.
    • Edsel.
    • 006.

  • Arcade Fire

    Everything Now

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Aretha Franklin

    Think

    • Aretha Franklin - Queen Of Soul.
    • Atlantic.

  • Madness

    Driving In My Car

    • Madness - Divine Madness.
    • Virgin.

  • The Feeling

    Love It When You Call

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal.

  • Jigsaw

    That's What It's All About

    • Broken Hearted.
    • BASF.
    • 1.

  • Calvin Harris

    Feels (feat. Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry & Big Sean)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Urban Cookie Collective

    The Key: The Secret

    • (CD Single).
    • Peermusic.

  • Grace Jones

    Pull Up To The Bumper

    • The Divas Of Dance (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • The Coral

    Pass It On

    • (CD Single).
    • Deltasonic.

  • Έι³ά²Τ‐D.²Ρ.°δ. & Aerosmith

    Walk This Way

    • Now 8 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • R. Kelly

    She's Got That Vibe

    • Now 29 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Ashford & Simpson

    Solid

    • The 80's Love Album (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.
    • 2.

  • The Killers

    The Man

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Jean Knight

    Mr Big Stuff

    • Stax Greatest Hits (Various Artists).
    • Stax.

  • S Club

    Don't Stop Movin'

    • (CD Album Sampler).
    • Polydor.

  • Luis Fonsi

    Despacito (Remix) (feat. Daddy Yankee & Justin Bieber)

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • DB Boulevard

    Point Of View

    • (CD Single).
    • Illustrious.

  • The Foundations

    Baby Now That I've Found You

    • Fifty Number Ones Of The 60's (Variou.
    • Global Television.

  • I Feel Love House Band & Bright Light Bright Light

    Into The Night (I Feel Love, 29 Jul 2017)

  • Shania Twain

    Life's About To Get Good

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury Nashville.

  • Naughty Boy

    Should've Been Me (feat. Kyla & Popcaan)

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Elvis Costello

    A Good Year For The Roses

    • Ultimate Country (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • Japan

    Quiet Life

    • The Very Best Of.
    • EMI.
    • 3.

  • Rag’n’Bone Man

    As You Are

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 002.

  • The Lightning Seeds

    Pure

    • Lightning Seeds - Cloudcuckooland.
    • Ghetto.

  • Survivor

    Eye Of The Tiger

    • The No.1 Movies Album (Various Artist.
    • Polygram Tv.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Leslie Griffiths, Methodist Minister:Β Β Β Β Β Β Β 

I remember seeing the first series of Doctor Who way back in the 60s. I’m by no means a fan but I just love bumping into it from time to time when I switch on the television. It brings back such lovely memories. So the fuss and kerfuffle that followed the news that the title role is soon to be occupied by a woman has got me thinking. It seems obvious to me that a character who can cross from one continent to another, from one period of time to another, should have no difficulty crossing from one gender to another. Goes with the turf, that’s my feeling.

Much of the debate has focused on the question of identity – a big question these days. Who are we? How do we define and respect differences between people? How do we live with each other in a genuinely diverse society? A friend of mine wrote a book about race relations which he called β€œNobodies into Somebodies.”  He was concerned to find a way to bring members of black and Asian groups out of the shadows where our class system and institutional racism had driven them and into the limelight where they could play their full part in our daily affairs. Like going into a Tardis in fact, leaving one world with its prejudices and constrictions and finding yourself in another where all these have been removed. The Bible takes us down a similar path – God chooses those who are weak to confound the strong and people thought foolish to shame the wise. It all revolves around the possibility of replacing our stereotypical ways of imagining each other with something altogether more nuanced and open to difference.

The gender of the person playing Dr Who seems a small matter compared with all these grand questions. And yet it centres on the very same issues. A woman following twelve men seems to be a problem for some people. Dr Why? They ask. As for me, it’s a matter of Dr Why-not? Go for it Jodie Whittaker.

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