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Sara has a Whole Wower, that's sixty minutes of upbeat tunes to get that Friday feeling flowing. Plus we speak to three Early Achievers who are up and at 'em this morning.

Sara has a Whole Wower, that's sixty minutes of upbeat tunes to get that Friday feeling flowing. Plus we speak to three Early Achievers who are up and at 'em this morning including Dawn who's been up since 5am making a red Thai chicken curry. We have the very first play on Radio 2 of Manic Street Preachers' new single Distant Colours. Sara asks the listeners for their thoughts on her choice of adding salad cream to her egg mayonnaise sandwiches. Karthi has all the highlights from the Winter Olympics and Reverend Richard Coles is Pausing For Thought.

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Fri 16 Feb 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • KC and the Sunshine Band

    That's the Way (I Like It)

    • Disco Fever (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Dancing

    • Golden.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • New Radicals

    Get What You Give

    • (CD Single).
    • MCA.

  • Sydney Youngblood

    If Only I Could

    • Club Classics From The 80's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • KT Tunstall

    Suddenly I See

    • (CD Single).
    • Relentless Records.

  • Just Jack

    Starz In Their Eyes

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.

  • Alexander O’Neal

    Criticize

    • Hits Album 7 (Various Artists).
    • Hits.
    • 9.

  • Toto

    Spanish Sea

    • 40 Trips Around The Sun.
    • Sony Legacy.

  • Donna Summer

    Last Dance

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Mercury.
    • 16.

  • Coldplay

    Adventure Of A Lifetime

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Them

    Gloria

    • The Very Best Of Van Morrison.
    • Polydor.

  • Donovan

    Mellow Yellow

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1967 (Various).
    • EMI.

  • Paloma Faith

    Till I'm Done

    • The Architect.
    • RCA.

  • The Cure

    The Love Cats

    • The Cure - Staring At The Sea.
    • Fiction.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    Distant Colours

    • ColumbiaUK.

  • Saint Motel

    My Type

    • My Type E.P..
    • Parlophone.
    • 001.

  • The Weather Girls

    It's Raining Men

    • Success.
    • Cherry Pop.
    • 13.

  • Frankie Goes to Hollywood

    Two Tribes

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

  • Pete Tong & Heritage Orchestra

    Killer (feat. Seal)

    • Ibiza Classics.
    • UMC.

  • The Shamen

    Move Any Mountain

    • Awesome 2 - Various Artists.
    • EMI.

  • The Bangles

    Walk Like An Egyptian

    • Take A Break (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Blackstreet

    No Diggity (feat. Dr. Dre & Queen Pen)

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.

  • Gwen Stefani

    What You Waiting For?

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 60 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Frankie Valli

    Grease

    • Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Ve.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 18.

  • Falco

    Rock Me Amadeus

    • 25 Years Of No.1 Hits (Various).
    • Connoisseur Collection.

  • Jocelyn Brown

    Somebody Else's Guy

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

  • Montell Jordan

    This Is How We Do It

    • (CD Single).
    • Rush Associated Labels.

  • George Benson

    Never Give Up On A Good Thing

    • George Benson - The Very Best Of.
    • Warner E.S.P..
    • 3.

  • Justin Timberlake

    Say Something (feat. Chris Stapleton)

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • The Clash

    Train In Vain

    • The Essential Clash.
    • Sony Music Entertainment.

  • Levellers

    What a Beautiful Day

  • Tom Speight

    Waiting

    • (CD Single).
    • Kobalt.
    • 001.

  • Lauren Wood

    Fallen

    • Pretty Woman - Soundtrack.
    • EMI.

  • Izzy Bizu

    Talking To You

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.

Pause for Thought

From the Reverend Richard Coles:

Μύ

I was in Essex last week and came across The Peculiar People - I don’t mean the cast of Towie, but a Christian sect founded by James Banyard, a hard drinking ex con from Rochford, who converted to Christianity in the 1830s. The name was taken from a passage in the New Testament which refers to the early followers of Jesus as β€œa peculiar people”, peculiar, in this context, meaning distinctive. But Banyard’s followers were quite peculiar too in the everyday sense. They believed in the literal truth of the King James bible, and practised faith healing with such rigour they declined medical treatment; at least until Banyard’s own son became seriously ill, and a theoretical problem became a personal anguish. He called for the doctor, which cost him the leadership of the church he founded.

I’ve been thinking of their example as we enter Lent, the season of self-denial, which for some can be very extreme indeed, a season of hair shirts, gruel, and guilt (Peculiar People indeed). But for more and more in the wider world, the idea of going without when we need not makes little sense.

But it is not for nothing. Lent isn’t punishment, it’s training; not a torture chamber but a gym, where we, like Banyard, may learn to bend as well as stretch; for Christ wants us for delight, not anguish.

Mind you, my programme this year is tough: I’ve not only given up meat and whisky, but Social Media too, which for me is very real sacrifice indeed. Over the years I have become such an indefatigable user I can’t make toast without live tweeting it, and I nearly wavered yesterday, waiting in the long queue at a supermarket till, while my fingers strayed towards the Twitter icon on my phone: but I stopped myself and spent that couple of minutes judging people by what they had the shopping trolley instead. Μύ

Bad habits indeed, but we can leave them behind, with a little discipline, and train ourselves to look forwards, to the joy which is to come, unexpected, unimaginable, unlike anything else, and dead ahead.


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