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Cher and Tears For Fears tickets

Chris calls multi-million-selling megastar Cher and wakes her up in a very unusual way! Plus we give away the best seats in the house for Tears For Fears' Radio 2 In Concert.

Chris calls global singing sensation Cher to wake her up with a few of her classic hits, tries to tease some info on Mamma Mia 2 and has an exclusive first play of her new track Walls. We go Tears For Fears-tastic with a top ticket giveaway for the Best Seats in the House at Radio 2 In Concert, plus there's an On This Day from Roland Orzabal. There's a debate about which delicious dessert is best, Chris reckons it's a Chocolate Bomb? We've got a Top Tenuous of missed opportunities and there's a mega mascara warning thanks to a call from 73 year old Val Dootson from Stockport. Vassos is in the Sports Locker looking ahead to the Wales Rally GB with managing director Ben Taylor and art historian Jim Harris provides the daily Pause For Thought.

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Thu 26 Oct 2017 06:30
麻豆社 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Journey

    Don't Stop Believin'

    • Rock Of America (Various Artists).
    • Trax Label.

  • Stereophonics

    Caught By The Wind

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • John Denver

    Take Me Home, Country Roads

    • A Song's Best Friend: Very Best Of.
    • RCA/BMG.

  • Soul II Soul

    Back to Life (However Do You Want Me) (feat. Caron Wheeler)

    • NOW 100 Hits 80s No.1s (Various Artists).
    • NOW.

  • Tom Petty

    I Won't Back Down

    • Tom Petty - Anthology.
    • MCA.

  • Aztec Camera

    Oblivious

    • The Best Of Aztec Camera.
    • Warner E.S.P..

  • Charlie Puth

    How Long

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • 顿别别别鈥怢颈迟别

    Groove Is In The Heart

    • The Best Of 100% Dance (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • Luis Fonsi

    Despacito (Remix) (feat. Daddy Yankee & Justin Bieber)

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Tommy James & The Shondells

    Mony Mony

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

  • Paloma Faith

    Guilty

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Fats Domino

    Jambalaya

    • The Best Of Fats Domino.
    • Liberty.

  • Fats Domino

    Ain't That A Shame

    • That's Rock'n'Roll (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Fats Domino

    Blueberry Hill

    • The Best Of Fats Domino.
    • Liberty.

  • 10cc

    Good Morning Judge

    • The Very Best Of 10cc.
    • Mercury.

  • ABBA

    The Day Before You Came

    • Abba - Love Stories.
    • Polydor.

  • Tom Chaplin

    Under A Million Lights

    • Twelve Tales Of Christmas.
    • Island.

  • Cher

    The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.

  • Sonny & Cher

    I Got You Babe

    • Duets - 36 Of The World's Greatest Ev.
    • Telstar.

  • Cher

    Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves

  • World Party

    Is It Like Today?

    • (CD Single).
    • Ensign.

  • Tears for Fears

    Advice For The Young At Heart

    • Rule The World: The Greatest Hits.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Tears for Fears

    Everybody Wants To Rule The World

    • Rule The World: The Greatest Hits.
    • Virgin EMI Records.
    • 4.

  • Tears for Fears

    Woman In Chains (feat. Oleta Adams)

    • (CD Single).
    • Fontana.

  • Steps

    Dancing With A Broken Heart

    • Tears On The Dancefloor: Crying At The Disco Deluxe Edition.
    • Steps Music.

  • Europe

    The Final Countdown

    • The Very Best Of Power Ballads (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Bon Jovi

    Livin' On A Prayer

    • Music Of The Millennium (Various).
    • Universal Music Tv.
    • 1.

  • Rita Ora

    Anywhere

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Queen

    I Want It All

    • Queen - Greatest Hits II.
    • Parlophone.

Pause for Thought: 'If you believe, anything is possible.'

From Jim Harris, Art Historian.

One of the big questions at this time of year, obviously, is are you a "Strictly house" or are you a "Factor house?" 聽We are a "Factor house," so I鈥檓 afraid last weekend I was moonlighting for the opposition.

This week is Faith in the World Week and it struck me as I watched, just how much more the X-Factor is about believing than it is about singing. People tell each other that they have to believe in themselves; and that if they only believe then anything is possible.

Maybe it is. The other day in Oxford I met a swimmer.聽 I asked what sort of swimming and she said 鈥榦pen water鈥�.聽 Now I love swimming in the sea more than almost anything, although I鈥檓 more walrus than porpoise these days, so I was happy to chat, but it turned out that this was Dr Victoria Cox, one of only seven people in history to complete the 鈥楾riple Crown鈥� of marathon open water swimming in a single season.

Now the self-belief needed to do that is positively superhuman. But as we talked I realised that this wasn鈥檛 just self-belief but other things too: training and preparation certainly, but also teamwork, a sense that other people believed in her.

In the Bible, the prophet Isaiah had the terrifying experience of coming face to face with God himself and he immediately lost all sense of self-belief, fearful of all the ways he鈥檇 failed to be a good man. 鈥榃oe to me,鈥� he cried, 鈥業 am ruined鈥�.

But God reassured Isaiah, and forgave him his failings such that when he asked for someone to speak for him, poor, woebegone Isaiah was first out of the blocks, yelling 鈥楬ere I am!聽 Send me!鈥�

Isaiah found that when he couldn鈥檛 believe in himself, God believed in him. Christians believe that too and, for any of us, I reckon that it鈥檚 when someone else says, 'I believe in you鈥� that we really start to live up to our potential.

And that鈥檚 why the X-Factor is so compelling.聽 It鈥檚 not just about self-belief but the shared belief of families, friends and whole communities that makes some people into great singers or international athletes, and all of us into braver, bolder, better people than we ever thought we could be.聽聽

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