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Sara Cox sits in for Chris Evans with a fully interactive show for all the family.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Thu 28 Dec 2017 06:30
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Music Played

  • Barry White

    Let The Music Play

    • Barry White - The Collection.
    • Mercury.

  • Bleachers

    Don't Take The Money

    • Gone Now.
    • RCA.
    • 001.

  • John Farnham

    You're The Voice

    • Life In The Fast Lane (Various).
    • Telstar.
    • 2.

  • Belinda Carlisle

    We Want The Same Thing

    • A Place On Earth - Greatest Hits.
    • Virgin.

  • The Beautiful South

    Don't Marry Her

    • (CD Single).
    • Go! Discs.

  • Robbie Williams

    Let Me Entertain You

    • Now 39 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Paloma Faith

    The Architect

    • The Architect.
    • RCA.

  • Lady Gaga

    Bad Romance

    • Now That's What I Call Music 75 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 1.

  • The Lightning Seeds

    Change

  • Blossoms

    Blown Rose

    • Blossoms.
    • Virgin EMI.
    • 007.

  • Neil Diamond

    America

    • Neil Diamond - The Jazz Singer.
    • Capitol.

  • Shed Seven

    People Will Talk

    • (CD Single).
    • Infectious Music.

  • Donny Osmond

    Puppy Love

    • The Very Best Of The Osmonds.
    • Polydor.
    • 1.

  • Basement Jaxx

    Do Your Thing

  • KT Tunstall

    Suddenly I See

    • (CD Single).
    • Relentless Records.

  • Jessie J

    Price Tag (feat. B.o.B)

    • (CD Single).
    • Lava Records.
    • 1.

  • Mark Ronson

    Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Prince & The Revolution

    Kiss

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.

  • X‐Press 2

    Lazy (feat. David Byrne)

    • (CD Single).
    • Skint.

  • Jimmy Nail

    Ain't No Doubt

    • Now That's What I Call Music Vol.22.
    • Now.

  • Clean Bandit

    Symphony (feat. Zara Larsson)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Sigrid

    Strangers

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • New Radicals

    Get What You Give

    • (CD Single).
    • MCA.

  • Status Quo

    Caroline

    • Whatever You Want - V.Best Of Status.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • C.W. McCall

    Convoy

    • Super Hits Of The '70s: Have A Nice Day Volume 14.
    • Rhino.

  • Portugal. The Man

    Feel It Still

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Incognito

    Always There (feat. Jocelyn Brown)

    • (CD Single).
    • Talkin' Loud.

  • Madness

    One Step Beyond

    • Greatest Hits Of The 70's (Various).
    • EMI.
    • 5.

  • The Script

    For The First Time

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony.
    • 1.

  • Was (Not Was)

    Shake Your Head (single version) (feat. Ozzy Osbourne & Kim Basinger)

    • (CD Single).
    • Fontana.

  • Santana

    The Game Of Love (feat. Michelle Branch)

    • (CD Single).
    • Arista.

  • 10cc

    The Things We Do for Love

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1976 (Various).
    • Premier.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Jim Harris, Art Historian

I was eating a piece of cheese the other night, late on in the kitchen, alone after clearing the Christmas decks.

Cheese is the thing that comes out when you know you've had enough but even so your eyes light up and before you know it you're half a pound of Stilton to the good and eyeing up a very runny Camembert.

My Christmas cheese was neither of those but an exceptionally unctuous and stinky Gorgonzola, on some seedy crackers. With butter. Of course, because what food is not enhanced by butter? No food. Because butter is perfect.

But if butter is the King of All Spreadable Dairy Products, then surely Gorgonzola is the opposite. It is mouldy and smelly. It looks like something you might scrape off something else to see if it could still be eaten. It is, frankly, off. And yet for all that it is rotten, it is miraculously rotten. It is excellent. It is irresistible and at Christmas it is inevitable.

Christmas draws us irresistibly and inevitably not only to cheese but to the same people every year. The same siblings, parents, grandparents and cousins, the same uncles and aunts, the same old friends. They shout and argue, they play the same games, make the same jokes, pursue the same pointless discussions. They are as familiar and predictable as Christmas dinner, and they can be as off-putting as the rankest piece of Gorgonzola.

Jesus’ friends, the people he chose to spend time with, travelled, talked, argued, ate and went to parties with, were much the same, an odd, ill-matched bunch of fishermen, tax collectors, relatives, politicians and religious radicals. They were loyal and brave, cowardly and obtuse. They were competitive and inconsiderate. They fell asleep on the job. They argued about who should sit where. But in spite of all, Jesus loved them.

So, as Christmas settles into the memory and the New Year looms, here's to our own ill-matched bunch, our families and friends, the colleagues we return to, the neighbours who are still there the day after. Here's to all of them in their glorious, annoying, stinky, delicious imperfection.

Sometimes we think we've had enough of them and sometimes we imagine we don't need them at all, but we love them anyway and somehow, amazingly, like cheese, there's always room for just a little more.

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