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Sheryl Crow, Ricky Wilson and Dr Jack Lewis

Sheryl Crow calls Chris with the first play of her new single. Ricky Wilson on his unofficial World Cup song and Dr Jack Lewis on the neuroscience behind a digital detox.

Sheryl Crow calls Chris from New York with the world exclusive first play of her new single, Wouldn't Wanna Be Like You and news of a 2019 album collaborating with Keith Richards, Stevie Nicks and James Taylor. We chat World Cup with Kaiser Chief Ricky Wilson and neuroscientist Dr Jack Lewis tells us what's going on inside our brains before and during a digital detox. Vassos chats to Paralympic gold medallist Hannah Cockroft in the Sports Locker and Ruth Scott Anglican Priest and Quaker provides the daily Pause For Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Tue 12 Jun 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • The Jacksons

    Can You Feel It

    • Fantastic 80's Go For It! - Various.
    • Parlophone.

  • Calum Scott

    What I Miss Most

    • Only Human.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Queen

    A Kind Of Magic

    • Queen - Greatest Hits II.
    • Parlophone.

  • Destiny’s Child

    Independent Women, Part I

    • Destiny's Child #1's.
    • Columbia.

  • Blossoms

    Charlemagne

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI.

  • The Banana Splits

    The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)

    • Television's Greatest Hits Vol. 5: In Living Color (Various Artists).
    • TVT Records.

  • Supergrass

    Alright

    • The Best Pub Jukebox In The World (V).
    • Virgin.

  • Rahim Redcar

    Girlfriend (feat. ¶Ùâ³¾-¹ó³Ü²Ô°ì)

    • (CD Single).
    • Because Music.

  • Coldplay

    Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.
    • 5.

  • Johnny Kidd and the Pirates

    Hungry For Love

    • The Hits Of 1963 (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Sheryl Crow

    All I Wanna Do

    • The No.1 Acoustic Rock Album (Variou.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Sheryl Crow

    Wouldn't Want To Be Like You (feat. St. Vincent)

    • Threads.
    • The Valory Music Co..

  • The Beatles

    Eight Days A Week

  • Boz Scaggs

    Lido Shuffle

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1977 (Various).
    • Premier.

  • Years & Years

    If You're Over Me

    • Palo Santo.
    • Polydor.

  • The Stars House Band

    Rasputin Rebooted (feat. Ricky Wilson & Freddie Flintoff)

  • Rudimental

    These Days (feat. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • The Bluetones

    Slight Return

  • Don Henley

    The Boys Of Summer

    • The Very Best Of.
    • MCA.

  • The J. Geils Band

    Centrefold

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

  • Sheryl Crow

    A Change Would Do You Good

    • Woman (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv/Sony Tv.

  • Blondie

    Denis

    • Atomic: The Very Best Of Blondie.
    • EMI.

  • Kate Bush

    Wuthering Heights

    • Remastered Part I.
    • Fish People.

  • Johnny Marr

    Hi Hello

    • Call The Comet.
    • Warner Bros.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

Ruth Scott, Anglican Priest and Quaker:

It’s taken me a while but I think I can now say that I am a much more peaceful presence than I once was. Early on in my adult life as a nurse I learnt to be calm in a crisis. I continued that pattern as a priest and while working in places of conflict. But it’s not the whole picture. In the past I found it less easy to keep my cool when challenges came closer to home. I used to feel that those advising me not to worry just didn’t realise how serious the situation was.

As a Christian I found no help at all in the biblical imperative not to worry. The example the gospels gave of lilies of the field growing and being ‘clothed in glory’ without resort to anxiety, seemed absurd. Flowers didn’t have kids to feed, bills to pay or problems to iron out. Yet over time I came to understand my worry as misdirected care and concern, which used up precious energy without changing anything. Something had to shift but I found my habit of worrying hard to decommission, and new patterns seemed impossible to establish. It helped me to imagine my brain being a little like the woods I played in as a child. I

t was easy to use the well-worn paths running through the trees, but if I wanted to go off the beaten track it took lots of effort to hack out a new way through the undergrowth. Like-wise, it was easy to trigger the well-used nerve pathways in my brain producing the symptoms of worry, but activating new, more constructive tracks demanded greater conscious effort. When worry hovered in my head I started asking myself if there was any action I could take to change the situation. If there was, I took it. If there wasn’t, I mentally told the anxieties to get lost, and deliberately focussed on more positive thoughts.

After decades of practice – I was a slow learner! - this discipline has now become my default position. It’s good to know that while we can’t always change the circumstances we’re in, we can, however slowly, change our reactions to them, and I like to think that’s a very human example of transcendence.  

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