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Sara Cox sits in for Chris Evans. She kick-starts the Easter Bank Holiday weekend with a Whole Wower, featuring tracks from Groove Armada, MC Hammer and Frantique.

Sara sits in for Chris. We speak to three Early Achievers who tell us what they've been doing since the crack of dawn; Alison's feeding peanuts to peacocks and Merlin on his 12 mile run. Plus there's a whole wower of tunes to kick-start this Easter weekend with tracks from Groove Armada, MC Hammer and Frantique. Karthi Gnanasegaram gives us the latest news from this weekend's sports line-up and today's Pause For Thought comes from comedian and writer Paul Kerensa.

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Fri 30 Mar 2018 06:30
麻豆社 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Deniece Williams

    Let's Hear It For The Boy

    • History Of Dance Music Vol.2 (Variou.
    • Connoisseur Collection.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    Distant Colours

    • Resistance Is Futile (Deluxe Edition).
    • Columbia.

  • Simply Red

    Money's Too Tight (To Mention)

    • Now 1985 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The La鈥檚

    There She Goes

    • Love - 38 All Time Love Classics.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    AKA... What A Life!

  • Saint Motel

    My Type

    • My Type E.P..
    • Parlophone.
    • 001.

  • Shalamar

    I Can Make You Feel Good

    • Friends - Deluxe Edition.
    • Big Break Records.
    • 4.

  • Tom Grennan

    Sober

    • (CD Single).
    • Insanity Records.

  • C茅line Dion

    Because You Loved Me

    • This Year's Love (Various Artists) C.
    • Global Television.

  • Jess Glynne

    Hold My Hand

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • The Divine Comedy

    National Express

    • New Hits 99 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.

  • Lynn Anderson

    Rose Garden

    PAUSE FOR THOUGHT

    • Million Sellers Vol.15 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Kelsea Ballerini

    I Hate Love Songs

    • (CD Single).
    • Black River Entertainment.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    The Chain

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 010.

  • Womack & Womack

    Teardrops

    • And They Danced All Night.
    • Debutante.

  • Frantique

    Strut Your Funky Stuff

    • The Greatest Hits Of Philadelphia.
    • Music Club.

  • Groove Armada

    I See You Baby (Fatboy Slim Remix) (feat. Gram鈥檓a Funk)

    • Fatboy Slim - The Greatest Hits (Why Try Harder).
    • Skint.

  • Eurythmics & Aretha Franklin

    Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves

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

  • Jet

    Are You Gonna Be My Girl

    • Hits 60 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.

  • MC Hammer

    U Can't Touch This

    • Fast Forward (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • Charlie Puth

    Done For Me (feat. Kehlani)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Madison Avenue

    Don't Call Me Baby (Motez Vicious21 Remix)

    Remix Artist: Motez.
    • Holiday Hits: Non Stop Euro Pop (Var).
    • Virgin.

  • Blackstreet

    No Diggity (feat. Dr. Dre & Queen Pen)

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.

  • Corona

    The Rhythm Of The Night

    • Now 29 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Darkness

    I Believe In A Thing Called Love

    • The Darkness - Permission To Land.
    • Atlantic.

  • Moloko

    Sing It Back

    • Club MTV (Various Artists).
    • Universal Music On Demand.

  • Colonel Abrams

    Trapped

    • Now 1985 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.

  • Simple Minds

    Sense Of Discovery

    • Walk Between Worlds (Deluxe Edition).
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • The Smiths

    This Charming Man

    • The Smiths - The Very Best Of.
    • WEA.
    • 2.

  • The Christians

    Harvest For The World

    • The Best Of The Christians.
    • Island.

  • Toni Braxton

    Long As I Live

    • (CD Single).
    • Def Jam.

  • Toploader

    Dancing In The Moonlight

    • Onka's Big Moka - Toploader.
    • Sony Soho Square.

  • Fiction Factory

    (Feels Like) Heaven

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

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

聽From comedian & writer Paul Kerensa:

As a jobbing stand-up, I鈥檝e been putting the miles in recently, surveying the wondrous cross-section of our nation鈥檚 roads and town centres. And in a lot of places, it鈥檚 looking tough out there. More need, more struggle, more people on the streets. But from Newcastle to Swindon, Cardiff to Billericay, I鈥檝e seen people doing stuff about it.

This week after a show at a church, they put me up in a house they鈥檇 bought, with doors open to those in need 鈥� whether rough-sleeper or passing comedian. At another gig, there was an ill teenager who takes time to befriend other ill teens. At a third, a woman whose charity supports families at their lowest ebb. All on long roads, but helping hands along the way.

Here on Good Friday, that day of Jesus鈥� long walk to crucifixion, it reminds me of Simon of Cyrene, the man who offered to ease Jesus鈥� burden, of his cross, for a little while.

Because whenever we see that cross 鈥� on a crucifix around a neck, on a church roof, even the icing of a hot cross bun, the Swiss flag or the sign on a pharmacy 鈥� its origins are in the self-sacrifice of Good Friday.

Easter Sunday鈥檚 empty tomb might need that leap of faith 鈥� but I think we can mostly agree on Good Friday, that a benevolent teacher called Jesus, who dedicated himself to the dispossessed, ignored and forgotten, rattled the institutions and laid down his life. His thirsty cry of 鈥淢y God, why have you forsaken me?鈥� is starkly human.

After days away, I came home to my family. At bedtime, my 7 year-old son wanted to pray for those who鈥檇 hurt themselves in the playground. 鈥楧ear God, Help Ben鈥檚 cheek, make Phoebe鈥檚 knee better 鈥� please turn our wounds into bruises,鈥� he said. An accidental poet, that鈥檚 my boy. But it reminded me, that the road to healing is long, and that when we fall, it鈥檚 nice when others look out for us along the way.

I鈥檝e been seeing this in others, but I need to do less seeing and more seizing, those chances to ease burdens, to go the extra mile, to simply be human.

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