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Sara reveals the line-up for Â鶹ԼÅÄ Children in Need Rocks the 80s, a special concert taking place at Wembley on Thursday 19th October and speaks to Keren Woodward from Bananarama.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Music Played

  • Michael Jackson

    Thriller

    • Diana-Michael-Gladys-Stevie (Compilat.
    • Priority.
  • Calvin Harris

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

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
  • Depeche Mode

    Enjoy The Silence (Reinterpreted)

    • (CD Single).
    • Mute Records.
  • Travis

    Magnificent Time

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

    Charlemagne

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI.
  • The Smiths

    This Charming Man

    • The Smiths - The Very Best Of.
    • WEA.
    • 2.
  • Rag’n’Bone Man

    As You Are

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

    I'm Every Woman

    • NOW Boogie Nights - Disco Classics (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • Room 5

    Make Luv (feat. Oliver Cheatham)

    • New Woman 2003 (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.
  • The Everly Brothers

    Cathy's Clown

    • Acuff-Rose Opryland Music: 50th Anniv.
    • Acuff-Rose Opryland.
  • The Script

    Rain

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music Entertainment.
  • Miley Cyrus

    Malibu

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.
  • Ace of Base

    All That She Wants

    • 100% Pure Love (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.
  • Squeeze

    Hourglass

    • Big Squeeze: The Very Best Of Squeeze.
    • Universal/A&M.
  • Bruno Mars

    24K Magic

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • Culture Club

    Karma Chameleon

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.
  • Erasure

    Stop!

    • Erasure - Pop!.
    • Mute Records.
  • Europe

    The Final Countdown

    • The Very Best Of Power Ballads (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.
  • Katrina and the Waves

    Walking On Sunshine

    • The Best Summer Ever (Various Artist.
    • Virgin.
  • Jason Donovan

    Too Many Broken Hearts

    • School Reunion The Party (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.
  • Imagination

    Just An Illusion

    • Heart Full Of Soul 2 (Various Artist.
    • Global Television.
  • Enrique Iglesias

    Súbeme La Radio (feat. Sean Paul & Matt Terry)

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music Latin.
  • LeAnn Rimes

    LovE is LovE is LovE

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.
  • Bananarama

    Venus

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.
  • Beth Ditto

    In & Out

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI.
  • Keith Urban

    The Fighter (feat. Carrie Underwood)

    • Ripcord.
    • Capitol Nashville.
    • 001.
  • The Beatles

    She Loves You

    • The Beatles - 1.
    • Apple.
    • 003.
  • Electric Light Orchestra

    All Over The World

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.
  • Rudimental

    Sun Comes Up (feat. James Arthur)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • U2

    Pride (In The Name Of Love)

    • U2 - The Best Of 1980-1990.
    • Island.
    • 1.
  • Rita Ora

    Your Song

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

Art Historian, Dr Jim Harris:

 I went to a rodeo the other week, at Cheyenne, Wyoming, where the cowboys are the toughest and the cowgirls are the prettiest.  Or is it the other way around?

 The skill of the rodeo riders is astonishing but perhaps the most astonishing thing of all was the names of the cowboys. Ty Fast Taypotat.  Lane McGeehee.  Tyler Waguespack. Jammie Tinker. And, best of all, Bubba Buckaloo.  If they’d been anything but cowboys those names might seem unlikely, but as it was they were perfect.

 My own name is reassuringly ordinary but when I was in my mid-teens, my friends decided it would be hilarious to give me a new one and they started calling me ’Smurf’.  I grinned and bore it and died a little inside until I was rescued by my cross-country coach, the great Barry Goater, who told the rest of the team that he refused to have a Smurf running for him.

 I was lucky.  Name-calling is easy to start and much harder to stop.  No matter how often we say that names will never hurt us, they actually do.

Names are important and powerful and naming is a privilege. When we were trying to name my unborn second daughter, it took her Mum and me a four-hour lunch and (for me at least) a lot of wine to come to a consensus on Esther.  We care about names, even the informal ones. I’m happy to be Jim, but also somebody’s Sweetheart, someone’s Darling.

 Long before the birth of Jesus, the prophet Isaiah wrote of his coming and said that ‘he is named Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace’.  Those weren’t just titles, but names that spoke to Jesus’ role, his longevity, his care, his priorities and his character.

 And, remarkably, Christians believe that God names us.  We are ‘called by a new name that the mouth of the Lord will give’.  We are ‘The Redeemed of the Lord’.  We are called, ‘Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken’.  We are called ‘beloved’.  We are called ‘children of the Living God’.

 At a time when the news is full of whatever new and hateful names we devise for people not like ourselves, I reckon it’s worth remembering that that is what we all are, that is the privilege of our shared humanity.  We are all, every one of us, named ‘beloved child’.

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