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with Mark Goodier

Kian Egan and Nicky Bryne chat to Mark about Westlife鈥檚 20th anniversary comeback and 'The Twenty Tour', plus we have a world exclusive play of their new single 'Hello My Love'.

Kian Egan and Nicky Bryne chat to Mark about Westlife鈥檚 20th anniversary comeback and 'The Twenty Tour', plus we have a world exclusive play of their brand new single 'Hello My Love'. Listeners join the 鈥榥ot quite awake yet鈥� club with their sleepy morning stories. In sport, Rob Schofield chats to broadcaster Russell Fuller live from Melbourne about the latest tennis news. Prince, The Pussycat Dolls and Bryan Adams feature in our Half Wower, and Dr Jim Harris supplies today鈥檚 Pause for Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Thu 10 Jan 2019 06:30
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Music Played

  • Blondie

    Atomic

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

  • Kygo

    Happy Now (feat. Sandro Cavazza)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Londonbeat

    I've Been Thinking About You

    • (CD Single).
    • Anxious Records.

  • David Guetta

    Titanium (feat. Sia)

    • (CD Single).
    • Positiva.

  • Billy Joel

    Tell Her About It

    • Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Vol.2.
    • CBS.

  • OMI

    Cheerleader

    • (CD Single).
    • Ultra Records.
    • 001.

  • Average White Band

    Let's Go Round Again

    • The Best Of.
    • Rhino.

  • Backstreet Boys

    Chances

    • DNA.
    • RCA.

  • Shania Twain

    Man! I Feel Like A Woman!

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.

  • Justin Bieber

    Sorry

    • Purpose.
    • Def Jam Recordings.
    • 4.

  • Asia

    Heat Of The Moment

    • Various Artists - New Frontiers.
    • Temple Records.

  • John Lennon

    Imagine

    • GIMME SOME TRUTH. (Deluxe).
    • Calderstone.

  • Albin Lee Meldau

    Bounce

    • About You.
    • Astralwerks.

  • Living in a Box

    Living In A Box

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Depeche Mode

    Just Can't Get Enough

    • Me Without You O.S.T. - Various.
    • Columbia.

  • The Pointer Sisters

    I'm So Excited

    • Greatest Hits.
    • BBR.
    • 020.

  • Tiggs da Author

    Run (feat. Lady Leshurr)

    • Bridget Jones's Baby O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • Supertramp

    Breakfast In America

    • The Very Best Of Supertramp.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Spiller

    Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) (feat. Sophie Ellis鈥怋extor)

    • (CD Single).
    • Positiva.

  • Prince

    When Doves Cry

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.

  • The Pussycat Dolls

    Don't Cha (feat. Busta Rhymes)

    • (CD Single).
    • A&M.

  • The Weeknd

    Can't Feel My Face

    • Beauty Behind The Madness.
    • Republic.
    • 7.

  • Mark Ronson

    Nothing Breaks Like A Heart (feat. Miley Cyrus)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • The Players Association

    Turn The Music Up!

    • Let's Go Disco! (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Emeli Sand茅

    Hurts

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin Records.

  • Young Disciples & Carleen Anderson

    Apparently Nothin'

    • Young Disciples - Road To Freedom.
    • Talkin' Loud.

  • Boyzone

    Normal Boy

    • Thank You & Goodnight.
    • Rhino.

  • Beats International

    Dub Be Good To Me

    • Dancing On Sunshine - 22 Reggae Hits.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Dan Hartman

    Instant Replay

    • Freak Out! (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Faces

    Stay with Me

    • Glam Crazee - Various Artists.
    • Virgin.

  • Paul Simon

    You Can Call Me Al

    • The Paul Simon Anthology (Disc 2).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 4.

  • Nina Nesbitt

    Colder

    • The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change.
    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • Bryan Adams

    Summer Of '69

    • Bryan Adams - The Best Of Me.
    • Mercury.

  • The Style Council

    My Ever Changing Moods

    • The Style Council - Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.
    • 1.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Dr Jim Harris, Art Historian:

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Like many of us, I imagine, I鈥檝e chosen to season any residual Christmas jollity still hanging around in the New Year with a healthy dose of relentless misery.听 I鈥檓 speaking, of course of, Andrew Davies鈥� brilliant adaptation of Victor Hugo鈥檚 crushingly grim Les Mis茅rables.

So far it鈥檚 been a grindingly joyless miracle of latent and actual unhappiness.听 Children are separated from their parents, the honest are swindled, the good made to suffer and the evil to prosper.

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And yet, in all of it, one shining moment of kindness has blazed through the gloom: the scene where Derek Jacobi鈥檚 saintly Bishop offers Dominic West鈥檚 brutal and brutalised Jean Valjean a shot at redemption: instead of denouncing him to the police for stealing, he gives him two silver candlesticks to add to his hoard and sends him on his way, a potentially wealthy man.听

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Now, to be frank, few of us have ever been on the run like Jean Valjean.听 But I think that there have been moments in most of our lives where things have seemed to be slipping away from us; where we have done what we know to be wrong, been judged and found wanting; where we have made a mistake and been left scrabbling to set things right.

The Bible is full of stories of catastrophic failure. King David, guilty of arranging a murder; St Peter, guilty of abandoning his friend; St Paul, guilty of hate crimes.

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But in each case, failure isn鈥檛 the end of the affair.听 Christians believe in a God who is all about second chances and all those stories come with the promise of a fresh start, not because it is deserved but because it is a gift.听 Christians call this 鈥榞race鈥�.听 Wrongdoing is balanced by the offer of forgiveness; betrayal is met with trust; despair is turned to hope and instead of being destroyed, lives are transformed.

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Which is precisely why Jean Valjean鈥檚 story is so universally appealing 鈥� because having been given an undeserved second chance he strives to be better: having experienced compassion he becomes compassionate.听 And compassion in the darkness isn鈥檛 just what makes Les Mis茅rables so compelling.听 It鈥檚 what makes life worth living.

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Broadcast

  • Thu 10 Jan 2019 06:30
    麻豆约拍 Radio 2