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CarFest and Physio

Chris releases the last batch of CarFest tickets for Â鶹ԼÅÄ Children In Need and ahead of the London Marathon top physio Paul Hobrough shares his tips to stay injury free.

Chris releases the last batch of CarFest tickets for Â鶹ԼÅÄ Children In Need and plays a plethora of tunes from the artists coming to play the stage from Rick Astley to Clean Bandit. Ahead of the London Marathon top physio Paul Hobrough shares his tips to stay injury free and on the hottest April day in 70 years, Carol Kirkwood has the weather. Joining Vassos in the sports locker is Ironman world record holder Tim Don, Rev Dave Tomlinson has a Pause For Thought and we dedicate the Top Tenuous to Dale Winton.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Music Played

  • The KLF

    Justified & Ancient (Stand by The JAMs) (feat. Tammy Wynette)

    • (CD Single).
    • K.L.F. Communications.
  • Kacey Musgraves

    High Horse

    • Golden Hour.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakey

    Together In Electric Dreams

    • Our Friends Electric (Various Artists.
    • Telstar.
  • Meghan Trainor

    Lips Are Movin

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
    • 001.
  • 10cc

    Good Morning Judge

    • The Very Best Of 10cc.
    • Mercury.
  • Baz Luhrmann

    Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.
  • Sting & Shaggy

    Don't Make Me Wait

    • 44/876.
    • Polydor.
    • 001.
  • Lady Gaga

    Just Dance (feat. Colby O’Donis)

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.
    • 2.
  • The Overlanders

    Michelle

    • This Is My Song - Love Songs Of The 6.
    • Old Gold.
  • Zac Efron & Zendaya

    Rewrite The Stars

    • The Greatest Showman O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Atlantic.
  • Whitney Houston

    How Will I Know

    • The Best Of.
    • Arista.
  • KC and the Sunshine Band

    Give It Up

    • The Best Summer Ever (Various Artist.
    • Virgin.
  • The Verve

    Bitter Sweet Symphony

    • Urban Hymns.
    • 1.
  • Rick Astley

    Dance

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.
    • 006.
  • Texas

    Summer Son

    • Texas - The Greatest Hits.
    • Mercury.
  • Clean Bandit

    Rather Be (feat. Jess Glynne)

    • Now That's What I Call Music 88 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 4.
  • Madness

    House Of Fun

    • Madness - Divine Madness.
    • Virgin.
  • The Feeling

    Love It When You Call

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal.
  • Paloma Faith

    Stone Cold Sober

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
    • 1.
  • The Spencer Davis Group

    Keep On Running

    • Fifty Number Ones Of The 60's (Variou.
    • Global Television.
    • 1.
  • Roger Daltrey

    As Long As I Have You

  • Rick Astley

    Never Gonna Give You Up

    • Rick Astley - Whenever You Need Someb.
    • RCA.
  • Stereophonics

    Dakota

    • (CD Single).
    • V2.
  • Nikhil

    Silver And Gold

    • (CD Single).
    • East West.
    • 001.
  • Kodaline

    Follow Your Fire

    • (CD Single).
    • B-Unique.
    • 1.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Dave Tomlinson,Ìýwriter and Vicar of St Luke’s Holloway in London:

Ìý

Last week at a routine eye test, I was pleased that my optician was the same Muslim woman who’s checked my eyes for several years. She knows I am a vicar and we have enjoyed numerous conversations about life and faith.

Ìý

She told me about her recent visit to Syria to offer her professional services to people living with the appalling consequences of terror and conflict. In one village which for safety reasons she had to leave before nightfall, she noticed some children who desperately needed her attention. It was already time to leave but she asked her guard if he could get her back safely if she stayed longer. ‘There will be risk’, he replied.

‘But can you get me back?’

‘I’ll get you back’, he said.

Ìý

In one of those unexpected moments, my eyes filled up, right there in the optician’s chair. ÌýAppropriate in a way.Ìý Whether it was down to her courage and compassion or the reminder of human suffering in the world, I was moved and felt an affinity with a beautiful woman of a different faith, and with children who are pawns in circumstances beyond their comprehension or control.

Ìý

Sudden eruptions of emotion – whether of sorrow or joy – can be inconvenient or embarrassing. But actually, I reckon they are signs that we are alive on the inside. Whether goosebumps, tears or raucous laughter, the experience of being moved is what makes us human. I believe it’s also a universal shortcut to a sense of divine presence.

Ìý

Sitting in the warm sunshine in my garden yesterday a woodpecker went back and forth from the feeder, taking food to its infant sat on the fence. I stopped writing my sermon, and just sat, feeling the sun’s smile, the reassurance of birdsong, and the sense that I am part of a living community on earth. ÌýI never want to forget the wonder at seeing our first child born – of holding all our children in my arms – of going to my first football match or waking up to a street covered in snow. Feeling ecstasy or indeed sadness tells me I am alive.

Ìý

However, I think the important thing is to use that emotion to make the world better – for someone. And that’s what my optician teaches me.

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