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The Jacksons, Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard & Franz Ferdinand

Chris chats to super singer Gloria Estefan. Plus James Bay performs live in the studio on the day his album Electric Light is released, the follow up to his number 1 2015 debut Chaos and the Calm.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 25 May 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • New Order

    True Faith '94

    • (CD Single).
    • London.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Mr. Blue Sky

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Frontiers Records.
    • T1.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Mr. Blue Sky

    • ELO - Out Of The Blue.
    • Jet.

  • Fine Young Cannibals

    She Drives Me Crazy

    • And Then She Kissed Me Vol.1 (Various.
    • Debutante.

  • Blondie

    (I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear

    • Atomic: The Very Best Of Blondie.
    • EMI.

  • David Bowie

    Let's Dance

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Gabrielle

    Show Me

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Dire Straits

    Money For Nothing

    • Sultans Of Swing - Best Of Dire Straits.
    • Vertigo.

  • Middle of the Road

    Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep

    • Jukebox 70's Hits -I Got The Music In.
    • Old Gold.

  • Queen

    We Will Rock You

    • News Of The World.
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • Rainbow

    All Night Long

    • Rainbow - The Very Best Of Rainbow.
    • Parlophone.

  • The Who

    My Generation

    • The Who Hits 50! (Deluxe Edition).
    • Polydor.
    • 004.

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Born In The USA

    • Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA.
    • CBS.

  • The Clash

    London Calling

    • Billy Elliot O.S.T. - Various Artists.
    • Polydor.

  • Gilbert O鈥橲ullivan

    Where Did You Go To

    • (CD Single).
    • Union Square Music.

  • Pratt & McClain

    Happy Days

    • Television's Greatest Hits Volume 3 70s & 80s.
    • Silva Screen Records Ltd.

  • Pharrell Williams

    Happy

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • U2

    Desire

    • U2 - The Best Of 1980-1990.
    • Island.

  • The Jacksons

    I Want You Back

    • The Best Michael Jackson & Jackson Five.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 1.

  • Franz Ferdinand

    Take Me Out (Radio 2 Session, 25th May 2018)

  • Ariana Grande

    no tears left to cry

    • (CD Single).
    • Republic Records.

  • Franz Ferdinand

    Don't You Know (Radio 2 Session, 25th May 2018)

  • Beck

    Colors

    • Colors.
    • Virgin EMI.

  • Franz Ferdinand

    Glimpse of Love (Radio 2 Session, 25th May 2018)

  • Franz Ferdinand

    My Girl (Radio 2 Session, 25th May 2018)

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From the Reverend Richard Coles:

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Someone told me of a lady in her nineties who was devastated by the loss of her dog. After church she said to the vicar, 鈥淲ill I see Milly in heaven?鈥�, and the vicar said, 鈥淩uth, dogs don鈥檛 go to heaven鈥�, to which she replied, 鈥渢hen Ruths don鈥檛 go to church,鈥� and never came again.

A delicate matter, which Noel may have encountered.听 When I am asked what heaven is like, I try to tailor my answer to the person asking the question, which can mean anything from 鈥渂etter than the bestest thing in the whole wide world鈥�, to 鈥渟eeing the unmediated divine essence face to face 鈥� But what I actually see, in my mind鈥檚 eye, is Pongo, my sausage dog, scampering towards me through a field, lush with buttercups, to the sound of Joe Smooth singing Promised Land. 听听

And that鈥檚 a tricky one for a Christian priest, for our doctrine maintains that the gates of pearl open only for the saved, and that to be saved we require a soul, and that dogs have no souls, and therefore no place in heaven.

The animals entered Noah鈥檚 ark two by two, the lions, giraffes and the sausage dogs. Rescued from the flood which devastated all the earth, surely that indicates that they too are saved; not only saved but, like us, saved for eternity?

Arguments rage, and as a dog lover I know which side I tend to; but I feel for that Vicar. Trying to give good news - a place in heaven awaits you - inadvertently bad news is given - but not one for your dog - an absence so outrageous to the lady it makes heaven itself seem uninhabitable.

Or unimaginable. Picturing heaven defeats us; even the great Renaissance painter Botticelli gave up, resorting in the end to geometry. And the imagery that we use, of green fields, and bright lights, and Great Aunt Betty leaping over the clover, is no more accurate a representation of heaven than my Sat Nav鈥檚 version of the M6/M1 interchange. 听

Our grasp of what lies beyond will always be uncertain; but of this I am certain. Nothing good is ever lost; and the love of dog, which surpasses understanding, will be fully returned in the place beyond loss and fear and grief.

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