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Fearne Cotton sits in

Fearne Cotton sits in and is joined by head teacher Mr Drybrugh, who stars in Channel 4's Class of Mum and Dad. Plus there's thirty minutes of uplifting music in the Half Wower.

Fearne Cotton sits in for Chris and is joined by Mr Drybrugh, head teacher in Channel 4's Class of Mum and Dad, who tells us it doesn't matter what age you are, even adults are like children at primary school. Plus there's thirty minutes of uplifting music in the Half Wower with Tuesday tunes from the likes of *NSYNC, Gloria Estefan and the Spice Girls. Karthi Gnanasegaram is joined in the Sports Locker by retired American sprinting legend Michael Johnson and we have an academic-themed Pause For Thought from newcomer Reverend Matt Woodcock.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Tue 10 Apr 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • Laura Branigan

    Gloria

    • Disco Queens: The '80s (Various Artists).
    • Rhino.

  • Albin Lee Meldau

    The Weight Is Gone

    • (CD Single).
    • Caroline.

  • Luther Vandross & Janet Jackson

    The Best Things In Life Are Free

    • (CD Single).
    • DEF JAM.

  • Adele

    Set Fire To The Rain

    • 21.
    • XL.
    • 5.

  • Toni Braxton

    Un-Break My Heart

    • Toni Braxton - Secrets.
    • Laface.

  • Boz Scaggs

    Lido Shuffle

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1977 (Various).
    • Premier.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    Distant Colours

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

  • Heart

    Alone

    • Missing You (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Paloma Faith

    Make Your Own Kind Of Music

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Zac Brown Band

    Jump Right In

    • (CD Single).
    • Southern Ground.
    • 1.

  • The Beatles

    Eight Days A Week

  • Zac Efron & Zendaya

    Rewrite The Stars

    • The Greatest Showman O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Atlantic.

  • Suede

    She's In Fashion

    • (CD Single).
    • Nude Records.

  • Busted

    Year 3000

    • Top Of The Pops Spring 2003 (Various).
    • Universal.

  • The Coral

    In The Morning

    • (CD Single).
    • Deltasonic.

  • ZZ Top

    Legs

    • Rancho Texicano: The Very Best Of ZZ Top.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Spice Girls

    Wannabe

    • Bad Girls (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.

  • *NSYNC

    Bye Bye Bye

    • (CD Single).
    • Jive.

  • The Rolling Stones

    Gimme Shelter

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.

  • Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine

    Get On Your Feet

    • Gloria Estefan - Cuts Both Ways.
    • Epic.

  • Roger Daltrey

    As Long As I Have You

  • Spandau Ballet

    Lifeline

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

  • Clean Bandit

    Symphony (feat. Zara Larsson)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Portugal. The Man

    Feel It Still

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Years & Years

    Sanctify

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Aswad

    Don't Turn Around

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

  • Chuck Berry

    You Never Can Tell (C'est La Vie)

    • The Best Of Chuck Berry.
    • MCA.

  • The Temptations

    Treat Her Like A Lady

    • From Motown With Love (Various Artists).
    • K-Tel.
    • 6.

  • Lisa Stansfield

    Billionaire

    • Deeper.
    • earMUSIC.

  • Karen Ramirez

    Looking For Love

  • X鈥怭ress 2

    Lazy (feat. David Byrne)

    • (CD Single).
    • Skint.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

Matt Woodcock, Church of England Pioneer Minister and Mission Supporter in the Diocese of York:

Delivering sermons week after week, you learn to cope with a lot.

The screaming toddlers. The loud snorers. And sometimes, at midnight mass usually, - the sozzled hecklers. I鈥檝e learnt to plough on, though. Stay unruffled. That was until the other Sunday during a guest preach at a local church.聽 I spotted a face I hadn鈥檛 seen for 32 years. Mrs Crosby. My old primary school maths teacher. The Mrs Crosby whose lessons I often ruined with bad behaviour.聽 It ruffled me.

She hadn鈥檛 changed. Same poise. Same hair. Same eyes that still seemed to demand an answer to unfathomable fractions. 聽 Call it a move of the Spirit or a leave of my senses, but I stopped the sermon and walked nervously over to her pew.聽 Kneeling down and taking her hand, I poured out an apology of Biblical proportions.聽 For all my tantrums, disruptions and rubber fights. For the rude noises I made under my armpit. For the love notes I smuggled to Gaynor Pickles when I should have been subtracting. The list went on.聽聽

鈥淲ill you forgive me Mrs Crosby?鈥� I asked finally. She smiled. Told me to stop being silly and get on with my work. Just like she used to actually.聽 I now see how much I learnt from her. Not much maths, admittedly - despite her best efforts. But lessons in kindness, warmth and saintly patience.聽聽

I鈥檓 discovering that we鈥檙e all teachers to some degree. That we鈥檙e constantly learning from each other in the course of our daily interactions.聽 My faith inspires me to learn from the one who called himself 鈥楾eacher鈥�. To strive to follow Christ鈥檚 example. Or 鈥楧o as I have done for you鈥�, as he put it to his pupils at the Last Supper. Not just speaking words of love, mercy and service - but putting them into action.聽 Before she left, Mrs Crosby took out a carefully preserved envelope that she鈥檇 brought to show me. It was the 鈥榯hank you鈥� card I presented to her on my last day at school.聽 I鈥檇 written: 鈥楾hank you for being really neat Mrs Crosby!鈥櫬� Perhaps it didn鈥檛 quite atone for my multitude of classroom sins. But it did bring joy to a wonderful teacher.聽 And has taught her former pupil that our little gestures of appreciation can often go a very long way.

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