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Sara sits in for Chris. She has some top tunes to kick start your weekend in her Whole Wower, featuring tracks from Whitney Houston, Gina G and Urban Cookie Collective.

Sara sits in for Chris. We speak to three Early Achievers who tell us what they've been up to in the early hours of the morning; Karen's made a curry, Sue's set up the church hall for the first weigh in after Easter and Rachel's done the laundry, walked the dog after taking her partner to his rugby tour! Plus there's a Whole Wower of tunes to get you in the mood for the weekend with tracks from Whitney Houston, Gina G and Urban Cookie Collective. Vassos gives us the highlights for the weekend and today's Pause For Thought comes from Art Historian, Dr Jim Harris.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 6 Apr 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • Katrina and the Waves

    Walking On Sunshine

    • The Best Summer Ever (Various Artist.
    • Virgin.

  • Sigala

    Lullaby (feat. Paloma Faith)

    • (CD Single).
    • Ministry Of Sound.

  • Peter Gabriel

    Solsbury Hill

  • The Four Seasons

    Who Loves You

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 1.

  • The Cure

    Friday I'm In Love

    • True Brit (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Billy Joel

    Uptown Girl

    • An Innocent Man.
    • CBS.

  • Bebe Rexha

    Meant To Be (feat. Florida Georgia Line)

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Madonna

    Vogue

    • Finally Enough Love (Deluxe Edition).
    • Rhino.

  • Rag’n’Bone Man

    As You Are

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 002.

  • All Saints

    Rocksteady

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Helen Shapiro

    Walkin' Back To Happiness

    • The Ivor Novello Winners.
    • EMI.

  • Lisa Stansfield

    Billionaire

    • Deeper.
    • earMUSIC.

  • Elvis Presley

    Hound Dog

    • Presley - The All Time Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.

  • Bronski Beat

    Smalltown Boy

    • Pop & Wave Vol. 1 - The Hits Of The 80's (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.
    • 2.

  • George Michael

    Faith

    • George Michael - Ladies & Gentlemen.
    • Epic.

  • Village People

    YMCA

    • Night Moves (Various Artists).
    • Double Gold.

  • Europe

    The Final Countdown

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

  • Blue Boy

    Remember Me

    • Huge Hits 1997 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Fine Young Cannibals

    Good Thing

    • The Raw & The Cooked.
    • London.

  • Gipsy Kings

    Bamboleo

    • Mundo Latino (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Yello

    The Race

    • Now 13, Part 2 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Whitney Houston

    I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)

  • Gina G

    Ooh Aah... Just A Little Bit

    • Now 34 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Incognito

    Always There (feat. Jocelyn Brown)

    • (CD Single).
    • Talkin' Loud.

  • Blur

    Girls & Boys

    • Now 28 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Clash

    Rock The Casbah

    • The Singles.
    • Epic.

  • Gwen Stefani

    What You Waiting For?

  • Urban Cookie Collective

    The Key: The Secret

    • (CD Single).
    • Peermusic.

  • Alice Merton

    No Roots

    • (CD Single).
    • Paper Plane Records International.

  • Spice Girls

    Who Do You Think You Are

    • Now 37 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Louise

    Arms Around The World

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.

  • Simple Minds

    Sense Of Discovery

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

  • TLC

    Waterfalls

    • (CD Single).
    • Laface.

  • Sister Sledge

    We Are Family

    • Disco Fever (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Jim Harris, Art Historian:

Ìý

I was cutting my hair last week. ÌýIt helps that I have almost no hair to cut because having nothing to cut alleviates the problem of having zero expertise.

However, I’ve been doing it for many years, with electric clippers, much as I imagine I might shear a sheep and I’ve become fairly adept at the all-over, no.1 crop which is what we, the bald, laughingly call a hairstyle.

Ìý

My clippers have always been reliable but last week, as I was about three quarters of the way through my haircut, the motor seemed to skip a beat, like a car misfiring, and they felt hotter than usual.

Ìý

Not only that, but they started to smell.Ìý And not only that, but as I looked in the mirror I saw that smoke was now emerging from the clippers which were in the process of catching fire in my hand.

Ìý

Weirdly, though, my first thought was not, ‘Wow, the clippers are on fire, I’d better stop cutting my hair’.Ìý It was, ‘Oh no, the clippers are on fire and I only have three-quarters of a haircut.

Ìý

Nonetheless, I did stop and felt the back of my head to determine how bad it all was before going downstairs to get a second opinion.Ìý ‘Bad’ was the answer, as my partner Susie got to work with a pair of low-tech scissors.

Ìý

There are a number of things to observe here.Ìý First, that when your hair clippers catch fire, its time to stop cutting your hair.Ìý Second, that, despite this, when faced with the shame of a botched crop my instinct was to keep going.Ìý And third, that the most reliable thing in the story was not the machinery I’d relied on for years but Susie, who did her level best to level things out on my rather hot head.

Ìý

Now the bible is very clear about who and what is reliable.Ìý Time and again we read the words, ’Trust in the Lord’.Ìý Trust him because he knows you.Ìý Trust him because he loves you.Ìý And, more to the point, trust him because he is trustworthy.

We rely on all sorts of things every day- the bus, the computer, the fridge – and sooner or later they all fail.Ìý But someone who knows us? Someone who loves us?Ìý Someone who is trustworthy?Ìý That’s what real reliability is.

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