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Sara Cox sits in for Chris Evans. She has some top tunes in her Whole Wower, featuring tracks from Fat Boy Slim, The Bee Gees and The Shamen.

Sara sits in for Chris. We speak to three Early Achievers who tell us what they've been up to in the early hours of the morning; Emma's completed a 30 minute cycle and Steve was up bright and early at 2am to milk the cows. Plus there's a Whole Wower of tunes to get you moving on this rainy Easter Monday with tracks from Fat Boy Slim, The Bee Gees and The Shamen. Karthi Gnanasegaram gives us a round up from the weekend's sports and today's Pause For Thought comes from Priest and Quaker Ruth Scott Anglican.

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Mon 2 Apr 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • Mark Ronson

    Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars)

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

  • Bebe Rexha

    Meant To Be (feat. Florida Georgia Line)

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Amii Stewart

    Knock On Wood

    • Soul Years 1979 (Various Artists).
    • Knight Records.
    • 2.

  • New Radicals

    Get What You Give

    • (CD Single).
    • MCA.

  • Londonbeat

    I've Been Thinking About You

    • (CD Single).
    • Anxious Records.

  • P!nk

    Get The Party Started

    • The Very Best Of All Woman 2003 (Var).
    • BMG.

  • Barry White

    You See The Trouble With Me

    • Barry White - The Collection.
    • Mercury.
    • 2.

  • Sting & Shaggy

    Don't Make Me Wait

    • 44/876.
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • Christina Aguilera

    Genie In A Bottle

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • John Newman

    Come And Get It

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 001.

  • New Order

    Regret

    • Glorious (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Danny & the Juniors

    At The Hop

    • That's Rock'n'Roll (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Albin Lee Meldau

    The Weight Is Gone

    • (CD Single).
    • Caroline.

  • Baz Luhrmann

    Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.

  • Osibisa

    Sunshine Day

    • 25 Years Of Rock'n'Roll 1976.
    • Connoisseur.

  • Destiny’s Child

    Survivor

    • Now 49 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Bee Gees

    You Should Be Dancing

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.

  • Cameo

    Word Up

    • Platinum - The Definitive R&B Collection (Various Artists).
    • Universal Music TV.

  • Will Smith

    Gettin' Jiggy Wit It

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Kenny Loggins

    Danger Zone

    • Top Gun O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • CBS.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Stop Me From Falling

    • Golden.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Fatboy Slim

    Praise You

    • Now 1999 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.

  • Golden Earring

    Radar Love

    • Hot Love - Sounds Of The 70's, Part 1.
    • Old Gold.

  • James

    Sit Down

    • True Brit (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • The Source

    You Got The Love (feat. Candi Staton)

    • Monster Hits Of Dance - 36 Monster Hits From The 80's & 90's (Various Artists).
    • Castle Communications.

  • The Foundations

    Build Me Up Buttercup

    • Million Sellers Vol.12 - The Sixties.
    • Disky.

  • The Shamen

    Move Any Mountain

    • Awesome 2 - Various Artists.
    • EMI.

  • Sigala

    Lullaby (feat. Paloma Faith)

    • (CD Single).
    • Ministry Of Sound.

  • The Jam

    Going Underground

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

  • Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

    American Girl

    • Greatest Hits.
    • MCA.

  • Kelsea Ballerini

    I Hate Love Songs

    • (CD Single).
    • Black River Entertainment.

  • Paul Simon

    Graceland

    • The Paul Simon Anthology (Disc 2).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 1.

  • Roxy Music

    Virginia Plain

    • Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music - Street Life.
    • Eg.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

Ruth Scott, Anglican Priest and Quaker:

Last week I was giving the Holy Week addresses in Coventry Cathedral. For Christians, Holy Week is a sombre, reflective time when we focus on the last days and crucifixion of Jesus. You can imagine, then, my sense of disorientation when, coming out of the cathedral, I was confronted by a German Christmas market in full swing and a brightly lit Christmas tree towering over the square!

It turned out to be the film set for Nativity 4. In a way this clash of festivals is quite appropriate: Without the Easter experience, there would be no Christmas story. In fact the latter doesn’t appear in the earliest Christian writings. It developed a little later. For most people, however, it is Christmas that takes precedence, with its celebration of new birth, gift-giving and general over-indulgence in food, drink and family. We prefer parties to party-poopers, and Holy Week with its focus on betrayal, torture and death is not a barrel of laughs.

But for me, the story of Holy Week and Easter is utterly central to my life. In fact, this time last year, when I thought I might not live to see another Easter - because of a life-threatening, aggressive cancer - its message was my guiding light. The story of the death and resurrection of Jesus constantly reminds me that out of death-dealing circumstances, new life may come. It is possible to be a positive force for good in the world, even if that’s simply by choosing to live with courage, grace and serenity through times of suffering. These things make a difference.

Few, if any of us will never have times of pain and anguish. When deathly things happen to us I think the question to ask is not, β€œWhy me?” but, β€œWhat can I do to bring something life-giving to birth out of this terrible situation?” I don’t know if I’ll live to see any or many more Easters, but each day I have now is a gift that gives me the opportunity to celebrate life afresh, and rejoice in all those people I meet who are trying to do the same. It seems, after all, that Easter is as much, or even more, a time for celebration as Christmas. Β Β Β Β Β 

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