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Amol Rajan sits in

Wake up and embrace the day with Amol Rajan! Chitwetel Ejifor is on the show to talk about his new project 'The Old Guard' and we hear from an agricultural show goat judge Agnes!

Wake up and embrace the day with Amol Rajan and the team! Chiwetel Ejiofor calls in to discuss his new project 'The Old Guard' where he stars alongside Charlize Theron, he also talks about the legacy of '12 Years A Slave' and the importance of that film in the current cultural climate.

Plus we find out how local newspaper the Dundee Courier has set up the Scottish Agricultural Show online! One of the their goat judges Agnes talks us through how one goes about being the Simon Cowell of the goat world.

With the usual team of Tina Daheley and Richie Anderson, the team have the best start to your morning. With celeb guests, quizzes, headlines, tunes chosen by listeners, and more music that you can shake a glitterball at!

There's also a daily Pause For Thought from Nick Baines and listeners stories, as we entertain the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Tue 30 Jun 2020 06:30
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Blur

    Girls & Boys

    • Now 28 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Jessie Ware

    Save A Kiss

    • What's Your Pleasure?.
    • Virgin.

  • Belinda Carlisle

    Summer Rain

    • Belinda Carlisle.
    • Virgin.

  • The Four Seasons

    The Night

    • Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Ve.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 9.

  • Tracey Ullman

    Breakaway

    • Greatest Hits Of The 80's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • Rod Stewart

    Baby Jane

    • The Best Of Rod Stewart.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Daft Punk

    Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Harry Styles

    Watermelon Sugar

    • Fine Line.
    • Columbia.

  • James Blunt

    1973

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Ava Max

    Kings & Queens

    • Heaven & Hell.
    • Atlantic.

  • Londonbeat

    I've Been Thinking About You

  • Destiny’s Child

    Independent Women, Part I

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

  • Cher

    Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves

  • Topic

    Breaking Me (feat. A7S)

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • Keane

    This Is The Last Time

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Island.

  • The Pointer Sisters

    I'm So Excited

    • Greatest Hits.
    • BBR.
    • 020.

  • The Beach Boys

    Sloop John B

    • The Best Of The Beach Boys (CD 1).
    • EMI.

  • M People

    Moving On Up

    • The Best Of M People.
    • BMG.

  • The Weeknd

    In Your Eyes

    • After Hours.
    • XO.

  • The Cranberries

    Linger

    • Emerald Rock (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Sheryl Crow

    Soak Up The Sun

    • (CD Single).
    • A&M.

  • The Cure

    Boys Don't Cry

    • Staring At The Sea: The Singles.
    • Fiction.

  • ABBA

    Waterloo

    • Abba Gold (40th Anniversary Edition).
    • Polar.
    • 019.

  • Bonnie Tyler

    Total Eclipse Of The Heart

    • Moments In Love (Various Artists).
    • Music Club.

  • The Weather Girls

    It's Raining Men

    • Success.
    • Cherry Pop.
    • 13.

  • Kate Rusby

    Manic Monday

    • Hand Me Down.
    • Pure Records.

  • Marc Almond

    The Days Of Pearly Spencer

    • Now 22 (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
From Nick Baines, the Bishop of Leeds:Μύ
I know this isn’t the place for confession, but I do have to admit to a weird fascination with knowing what has happened on any particular day in history. And today’s epic is this: on 30 June 1859 the French acrobat Charles Blondin became the first person to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope. He followed this up by doing it on stilts, a bike, and in a sack. He even once carried a stove and cooked an omelette. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing. I can’t even look at videos of people looking down from high buildings without feeling sick. But, Blondin didn’t leave it there.Μύ
On one occasion he pushed a wheelbarrow over ... while blindfolded. Naturally, there was an audience and he asked them if they believed he could carry someone across in the wheelbarrow. They all shouted β€œyes!”. So, he asked who would like to get in ... and no one volunteered. Now, that rings bells for me. You’ll see what I really believe by what you see me doing and how you see me living it out - putting my body where my mouth is, so to speak. It’s easy to believe something when it demands no follow-up that might cost me. There’s a bit in the gospels where Jesus and his friends go to a place called Caesarea Philippi and he asks them who people say he is.Μύ
They come up with a few suggestions - a reincarnated prophet, for example - but he then looks them in the eye and says: β€œBut, who do you say that I am?” And that’s where the problems started. These friends of Jesus found out that being his friend was going to change their life and might lead them to the same fate as he was going to suffer. In other words, faith means action, and action comes with consequences. So, I look at Charles Blondin and his wheelbarrow and I think he was mad. But, his question to the audience put them on the spot. Belief needs action. It’s not enough to trust without exercising it. I can’t just sit there and claim to believe. Still not sure I'd have got into the wheelbarrow, though.

Broadcast

  • Tue 30 Jun 2020 06:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2