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Sara gets that Friday feeling going with Moira's Golden Oldie and 60 minutes of top tunes in the Whole Wower, including: Beyonce, Take That and Wham! Plus, star of the forthcoming Strictly Come Dancing series, Reverend Richard Coles, provides us with a Pause For Thought.

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Fri 1 Sep 2017 06:30
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Music Played

  • Coldplay

    Adventure Of A Lifetime

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • CNCO & Little Mix

    ReggaetΓ³n Lento (Remix)

    • (CD Single).
    • SYCO.

  • DB Boulevard

    Point Of View

    • (CD Single).
    • Illustrious.

  • Dolly Parton

    9 to 5

    • Dolly Parton: The Ultimate Collection.
    • BMG/RCA.

  • 4 Non Blondes

    What's Up?

  • Earth, Wind & Fire

    Boogie Wonderland (feat. The Emotions)

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

  • P!nk

    What About Us

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine

    Can't Stay Away From You

    • Gloria Estefan - Greatest Hits.
    • Epic.

  • Shawn Mendes

    Treat You Better

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

  • Bay City Rollers

    Summerlove Sensation

    • Rollermania: The Anthology.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
    • 19.

  • Callum Beattie

    Man Behind The Sun

    • (CD Single).
    • 3Beat.

  • The B‐52s

    Love Shack

    • Now 1990 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.
    • 3.

  • The Look

    I Am The Beat

    • Now 100 Hits Even More Forgotten 80s (Various Artists).
    • NOW.

  • EMF

    Unbelievable

  • Take That

    Could It Be Magic

    • Take That - Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.

  • Wham!

    Freedom

    • Make It Big.
    • Columbia.

  • ΅ώ±π²β΄Η²Τ³¦Γ©

    Love On Top

    • 4.
    • RCA.
    • 1.

  • Suede

    Beautiful Ones

    • Now 35 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The O’Jays

    Love Train

    • Shades Of Soul (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Martine McCutcheon

    Any Sign Of Life

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.

  • David Bowie & Mick Jagger

    Dancing In The Street

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Girls Aloud

    Sound Of The Underground

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Warren G & Nate Dogg

    Regulate

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
    • 4.

  • Aretha Franklin

    Respect

    • Aretha Franklin - Queen Of Soul.
    • Atlantic.

  • Sia

    Cheap Thrills (feat. Sean Paul)

    • This Is Acting.
    • RCA.
    • 6.

  • The Wandering Hearts

    Devil

    • (CD Single).
    • Decca.

  • T. Rex

    Children of the Revolution

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

  • Anna Kendrick

    Cups

  • Duran Duran

    Union Of The Snake

    • Duran Duran - Decade.
    • EMI.
    • 6.

  • Elbow

    Open Arms

    • (CD Single).
    • Fiction.
    • 1.

  • Jamie Lawson

    Can't See Straight

    • (CD Single).
    • Gingerbread Man Records.

  • Rihanna

    Diamonds

    • (CD Single).
    • Def Jam.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From the Reverend Richard Coles:

I was fifty-five this year, neither young nor old, somewhere between knowing what’s number one and your first hip replacement. In my area, the NHS, gawd bless her, chooses to celebrate this milestone by offering Bowel Cancer Screening. A camera mounted on a thin flexible tube illuminates the place where the sun don't shine, looking for abnormalities that can indicate a problem. Left untreated, there can be awful consequences. It kills around 15,000 people a year in the UK, although I'm happy to say that number has reduced by more than 40% since the seventies, thanks in large part to early detection

Β It’s a no-brainer - of course we should get tested - so I accepted the offer, called to arrange an appointment, and put it to the back of mind. A week before I was due to attend a packet arrived in the post, which I thought at first was a new mobile but, slightly disappointingly, discovered to be a home enema kit. I did the necessary and presented myself at the endoscopy unit at my local hospital, filled in a form, got in a gown, was talked through the procedure. Then I was asked if I wished to take part in the trial of a new piece of equipment, which looked like something Q would give 007, but in fact preceded the camera into the rear to open things up that it get a better view. Of course, I said yes, and in no time I was watching on a monitor its progress through my intestines,Β  a slightly uncomfortable procedure enlivened for me by a medic giving a rousing rendition of the theme tune from Strictly. I'm happy to report all was as it should be and five minutes later I was having a cup of tea and discussing Aston Merrygold’s pliΓ©.Β 

Β I'm sure some of you will be wincing at the thought of this, but some of you will also have those abnormalities and a test could save your life, and those who love you much grief. In the book of Deuteronomy, Moses sets before the people of Israel God’s offer of a choice between life and death. Choose life, he said, choose life.

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