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Sara is joined by food writer and cook Diana Henry who shares top tips for stress-free dining from her new book How To Eat A Peach. Plus we have a tune-tastic Half Wower.

Sara is joined live in the studio by food writer and cook Diana Henry who shares top tips for stress-free dining and recipes from her new book How To Eat A Peach. Plus there's thirty minutes of musical bangers in the Half Wower with tunes from the likes of Donna Summer, Indeep and Vic Reeves & The Wonder Stuff. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by former competitive swimmer Rebecca Adlington ahead of the Commonwealth Games and there's a mid-week Pause For Thought from Rabbi Dr Harvey Belovski.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Wed 4 Apr 2018 06:30

Music Played

  • Coldplay

    Viva La Vida

    • Viva La Vida Or Death & All His Friends.
    • Parlophone.
    • 1.
  • Bebe Rexha

    Meant To Be (feat. Florida Georgia Line)

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.
  • Duran Duran

    A View To A Kill

    • The Best Of James Bond 30th Anniversa.
    • EMI.
  • Chris Rea

    Let's Dance

    • Auberge EP.
    • East West Records.
  • Del Amitri

    Nothing Ever Happens

    • Waking Hours.
    • Universal.
    • 010.
  • Edwyn Collins

    A Girl Like You

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.
  • Sigala

    Lullaby (feat. Paloma Faith)

    • (CD Single).
    • Ministry Of Sound.
  • Janet Jackson

    Someone To Call My Lover

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
  • David Guetta

    What I Did For Love (feat. Emeli Sand茅) (feat. Emeli Sand茅)

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 90 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 001.
  • Argent

    Hold Your Head Up

    • (Single).
    • Epic.
    • 2.
  • Kelsea Ballerini

    I Hate Love Songs

    • (CD Single).
    • Black River Entertainment.
  • Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band

    Born To Run

    • Born To Run.
    • CBS.
  • U2

    Pride (In The Name Of Love)

    • U2 - The Best Of 1980-1990.
    • Island.
    • 1.
  • The Kids From Fame

    Hi-Fidelity

    • (Single).
    • RCA.
  • Donna Summer

    Hot Stuff

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.
  • The Gap Band

    Oops Up Side Your Head

    • Soul Years 1980 (Various Artists).
    • Knight Records.
  • 搁耻苍鈥怐.惭.颁. vs Jason Nevins

    It's Like That

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
  • Mel & Kim

    Respectable

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.
  • Rihanna

    We Found Love (feat. Calvin Harris)

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 80 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • Vic Reeves & The Wonder Stuff

    Dizzy

    • Mad For The 90's (Various Artists).
    • EMI.
  • Indeep

    Last Night A DJ Saved My Life

    • Soul Weekender (Various Artists).
    • Crimson.
  • Alice Merton

    No Roots

    • (CD Single).
    • Paper Plane Records International.
  • DeBarge

    Rhythm Of The Night

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

    Lush Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.
    • 001.
  • Dean Martin

    That's Amore

    • Best Of The Capitol Years - Dean Mart.
    • Capitol.
  • Albin Lee Meldau

    The Weight Is Gone

    • (CD Single).
    • Caroline.
  • CNCO & Little Mix

    Reggaet贸n Lento (Remix)

    • (CD Single).
    • SYCO.
  • Fleetwood Mac

    Everywhere

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 008.
  • Genesis

    Invisible Touch

    • Genesis - Turn It On Again.
    • Virgin.
  • Kylie Minogue

    Stop Me From Falling

    • Golden.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).
  • Nerina Pallot

    Another Suitcase in Another Hall (Andrew Lloyd Webber Variations, Apr 2018)

  • The Verve

    Bitter Sweet Symphony

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 37 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

Harvey Belovski, rabbi at Golders Green United Synagogue:

We are in the middle of Passover, the great festival of liberation.听 We had exhausting but wonderful celebrations last weekend and now a few quiet days with family.听 The children are off school and we鈥檝e been on some lovely outings.

Tomorrow night, it all kicks off again with the final festival days of Passover.听 Every holiday has a theme 鈥 and this one is all about love and connection.听 On Friday, in synagogues around the world, the account will be read of how God brought the Israelites through the Red Sea just a few days after their Exodus from Egypt.

One day, little Gemma鈥檚 mum asked what she鈥檇 learned at Bible class.听 She replied that the teacher told us how God sent Moses behind enemy lines on a rescue mission to lead the Israelite people out of Egypt.听 When he got to the Red Sea, he had his army build a bridge and all the people walked across safely. Then, he radioed for reinforcements, so they sent bombers to blow up the bridge and all the Israelites were saved.听 Gemma鈥檚 mum was astonished and asked, 鈥榠s that really what your teacher taught you?鈥櫶 Gemma replied, 鈥榳ell, not exactly, but if I told it the way the teacher did, you'd never believe it!鈥

The real story is one like no other 鈥 but at root it鈥檚 about the love and connection between God and the Israelites, who were willing to step foot in the sea, confident that everything would work out for the best.

But the strongest expression of divine love appears in a short and remarkable biblical book 鈥 the Song of Songs.听 It鈥檚 a passionate and powerful love poem, which we will read this Saturday, the final day of the festival.听 The Song expresses the love between a young man and woman and the changes in their relationship.听 One of my favourite lines appears near the end of the book: 鈥楳any waters cannot quench love, rivers cannot drown it鈥.听 The song鈥檚 author imagines that love as a raging fire, one that even a flood will never extinguish.

The Song of Songs is really a parable for the power of a higher love 鈥 the unending passion between Man and God that is the greatest story of human history.听 As Passover ends, I can think of nothing better.

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