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Sara is joined live in the studio by actor David Morrissey who tells us about his latest ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Two sci-fi drama The City & The City. Plus there's the Half Wower.

Sara is joined live in the studio by actor David Morrissey who tells us all about his latest role in ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Two's sci-fi drama The City & The City, based on the book by China MiΓ©ville. Plus there's thirty minutes of feel-good favourites in the Half Wower with tunes from The Jackson 5, Avril Lavigne and Neneh Cherry. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by former professional British No. 1 tennis player Annabel Croft and the Bishop of Leeds Nick Baines is Pausing For Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Thu 5 Apr 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • Belinda Carlisle

    Heaven Is A Place On Earth

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

  • The Shires

    Guilty

    • Accidentally On Purpose.
    • Decca.

  • Barry Manilow

    Copacabana

    • (Single).
    • Arista.

  • Santana

    The Game Of Love (feat. Michelle Branch)

    • (CD Single).
    • Arista.

  • Keane

    Somewhere Only We Know

    • (CD Single).
    • Transcopic Records.

  • Reef

    How I Got Over

    • (CD Single).
    • REEFBAND.
    • 1.

  • Charlie Puth

    Done For Me (feat. Kehlani)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Shakira

    Whenever, Wherever

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.

  • MAGIC!

    Rude

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.
    • 001.

  • Carole King

    I Feel The Earth Move

    • The Female Touch 2 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • The Casuals

    Jesamine

    • Heartbeat - Forever Yours.
    • Sony.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    Distant Colours

    • Resistance Is Futile (Deluxe Edition).
    • Columbia.

  • Louis Prima, Phil Harris & Bruce Reitherman

    I Wan'na Be Like You (The Monkey Song)

    • Disney's Greatest Hits.
    • BMG.

  • Semisonic

    Chemistry

    • (CD Single).
    • MCA.

  • The Tymes

    You Little Trust Maker

    • Million Sellers Vol.17 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • The Jacksons

    Blame It On The Boogie

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

  • Technotronic

    Pump Up The Jam (feat. Felly)

    • Holiday Hits: Non Stop Euro Pop (Var).
    • Virgin.

  • Avril Lavigne

    Sk8er Boi

    • (CD Single).
    • Arista.

  • ³§²Ή±τ³Ω‐N‐P±π±θ²Ή

    Push It

    • Now 12 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Justin Timberlake

    Like I Love You (feat. Clipse)

    • Glamour (Various Artists).
    • Warner Stategic Marketin.

  • Neneh Cherry

    Buffalo Stance

    • Now 1988 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.

  • Sting & Shaggy

    Don't Make Me Wait

    • 44/876.
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • Bachman–Turner Overdrive

    You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet

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

  • Britney Spears

    Baby One More Time

  • Snow Patrol

    Take Back The City

    • (CD Single).
    • Fiction.
    • 1.

  • Kacey Musgraves

    High Horse

    • Golden Hour.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Ocean Colour Scene

    Hundred Mile High City

    • The Best Of Ocean Colour Scene.
    • Island.

  • The Script

    The Man Who Can't Be Moved

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

  • Dan Owen

    Icarus

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Alison Moyet

    Love Resurrection

    • Alison Moyet Singles.
    • Columbia.

  • Soft Cell

    Tainted Love

    • Hits & Pieces - The Best of Marc Almond & Soft Cell.
    • UMC.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Nick Baines, the Bishop of Leeds:

50 years. I remember thinking that if you could look back ten years, you were already old. But, I now remember too much.

50 years today people in Britain were waking up to the news that Dr Martin Luther King had been shot in Memphis, having just delivered a speech that suggests in hindsight that he knew his end was coming. He got cheered to the rafters when he said: β€œI have been to the mountain top ... I have seen the Promised Land”. But, like Moses who three thousand years ago peered over into the land for which he had given his life, he died before he could enter it.

Listening again to this immensely moving speech from Memphis, what is powerful about Martin Luther King isn’t just the vision he had - a vision that denied the power of the reality he experienced every day - but his ability to fire the hearts and imaginations of people ... to get them to look beyond the limitations of their society and its injustices and have their imagination grasped by a vision and a hope that would not let them go.

It is the power of language and music. Dr King almost sang his evocation of liberation for black people in the United States. The Civil Rights movement was fired by the melodies and words of spirituals, the language of the Old Testament prophets whose poetry haunted their imagination, fired their courage and coloured their defiance of β€˜the way the world is’. God was awake to the suffering of his people, and freedom was coming - one day, even if not to-day.

β€œMine eyes have seen the coming of the glory of the Lord” were the last words spoken by Dr King to a crowd before his death at the age of 39. Here he dares to suggest that the glory of the Lord is not about some other-worldly realm of pious fantasy, but is to be glimpsed coming to us right in the heart of human suffering and confusion. Dr King had found his own heart and mind captured by a love that would not let him go - by a God who gets down and dirty in the muck and bullets of the real world we all recognise.

50 years. Yet, those words - and his delivery of them - still resonate, still sing out in defiant hope. The now is not the end.

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