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Sara Cox sits in. Expect lots of great music, with a special bank holiday Full Wower.

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Boxing Day 2017 06:30
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Music Played

  • The Jacksons

    Can You Feel It

    • Fantastic 80's Go For It! - Various.
    • Parlophone.

  • Fuse ODG

    Boa Me (feat. Ed Sheeran & Mugeez)

    • (CD Single).
    • Off Da Ground.

  • The Emotions

    Best Of My Love

    • Mellow Madness (Various Artists).
    • Epic.

  • Kylie Minogue

    I Believe In You

    • I Believe In You.
    • Parlophone.

  • The J. Geils Band

    Centrefold

    • And The Road Goes On Forever Vol 1.
    • Debutante.

  • Gnarls Barkley

    Crazy

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • The Police

    Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic

    • Ones On 1 (Radio 1 21st Birthday Albu.
    • Â鶹ԼÅÄ.

  • Sigrid

    Strangers

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Gwen Guthrie

    Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But The Rent

    • Now 1986 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Black Eyed Peas

    Where Is The Love?

    • Now 56 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Jo Jo Gunne

    Run Run Run

    • The Sound Of The Seventies (Various Artists).
    • Warner Music TV.

  • OMI

    Cheerleader

    • (CD Single).
    • Ultra Records.
    • 001.

  • Nik Kershaw

    Wouldn't It Be Good

    • Now 1984 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • Wet Wet Wet

    Sweet Little Mystery

    • Wet Wet Wet - Greatest Hits & More.
    • Precious Organisation.

  • Coldplay

    Talk

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • The Killers

    Mr Brightside

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Taylor Swift

    Gorgeous

    • reputation.
    • Big Machine.

  • Quincy Jones

    Ai No Corrida (feat. Dune)

    • Hits Of 1981 & 1982 (Various Artists.
    • Polydor.

  • Depeche Mode

    Just Can't Get Enough

    • Me Without You O.S.T. - Various.
    • Columbia.

  • Whitney Houston

    I'm Your Baby Tonight

    • Whitney Houston-I'm Your Baby Tonight.
    • Arista.

  • The Temptations

    Get Ready

    • Dancing In The Street (Various Artis.
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • Wham!

    Freedom

    • Make It Big.
    • Columbia.

  • Kaiser Chiefs

    Ruby

    • (CD Single).
    • B-Unique.

  • Womack & Womack

    Teardrops

    • And They Danced All Night.
    • Debutante.

  • David Guetta

    When Love Takes Over (feat. Kelly Rowland)

    • (CD Single).
    • Positiva.

  • Craig David

    I Know You (feat. Bastille)

    • (CD Single).
    • Insanity Records.

  • De La Soul

    The Magic Number

    • 3 Feet High & Rising.
    • Chrysalis Records.

  • ZZ Top

    Legs

    • Rancho Texicano: The Very Best Of ZZ Top.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Portugal. The Man

    Feel It Still

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Semisonic

    Chemistry

    • (CD Single).
    • MCA.

  • Texas

    Summer Son

    • Texas - The Greatest Hits.
    • Mercury.

  • Kajagoogoo

    Too Shy

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

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

Unsurprisingly, my favourite Christmas event was the madness which is the Nativity Play. This year, Mary and Joseph were played by Lottie and Jasper (aged 5). The best bit was when Joseph motioned to the innkeeper and said ‘She’s about to have a baby’, to which Mary feistily responded ‘I can speak for myself thank you Joseph….I’m about to have a baby.’ (I don’t think Lottie was prepared for the enthusiastic response of the audience!)

Sadly, ‘no room at the inn’, isn’t just a hackneyed line from a Nativity Play; it’s the hideous reality of growing numbers of homeless people in our towns and cities.

At one of our Christmas services I played the video of Ralph McTell singing his 50-year-old song ‘Streets of London’ with a choir comprised entirely of homeless people. I asked the children what they thought about the people in the choir. ‘You’d never think they were homeless’, one said, ‘they look like us.’

To me, Christmas isn’t just about a birth 2000 years ago, but about recognising Christ in people today – in homeless people and others who are lonely, sick, bereaved or troubled. Jesus said, ‘when you are kind to those in need, you are really being kind to me.’

Sometimes homeless people sleep in our church porch. Neighbours don’t always like it. Yet once we talk to homeless people we discover that they really are like the rest of us, but just happen to be victims of sad or adverse circumstances.

My wife politely asked one homeless man in the porch if he could let people past for the carol service. Talking with him, she discovered he’d recently been released from prison and had nowhere to go. She told him about our winter night-shelter project and gave him leaflets about places he could go for help.

Two months later, the man stood on our doorstep with a child in a pushchair. ‘I just want to thank you for your kindness’, he said. ‘It really helped. And now I am on my feet, back with my family, and feel there is hope for the future.’

A spot of goodwill won’t solve all the world’s problems….but it’s not a bad place to begin! And it may just make all the difference to someone.

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