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Janet Jackson joins Chris in the studio to talk about her first new single in three years, plus the usual great music, news headlines, a look at the papers, regular sports updates and a daily Pause for Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Thu 13 Sep 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • The Lightning Seeds

    Lucky You

    • Lightning Seeds - Jollification.
    • Epic.

  • Jess Glynne

    All I Am

    • Always In Between.
    • Atlantic.

  • Huey Lewis and the News

    The Power Of Love

    • Huey Lewis & The News - Fore!.
    • Chrysalis.

  • Five

    Keep On Movin'

    • Hits 2000 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.

  • Shalamar

    A Night To Remember

    • Friends - Deluxe Edition.
    • Big Break Records.
    • 5.

  • Janet Jackson

    What Have You Done For Me Lately

    • Janet Jackson - Design Of A Decade.
    • A&M.
    • 6.

  • Lenny Kravitz

    5 More Days Til Summer

    • Raise Vibration.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • One Direction

    What Makes You Beautiful

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco Music.

  • Johnny Johnson & Bandwagon

    Breakin' Down The Walls Of Heartache

    • The Best Northern Soul All-Nighter (V.
    • BMG.

  • Kylie Minogue

    A Lifetime To Repair

    • Golden.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Lionel Richie

    Dancing on the Ceiling

    • Dancing In The Street (Various Artis.
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    Everything Must Go (Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park 2018)

  • Tom Petty

    I Won't Back Down

    • Tom Petty - Anthology.
    • MCA.

  • Massive Attack

    Unfinished Sympathy

    • Now That's What I Call Music 19.
    • Now.

  • Calvin Harris & Sam Smith

    Promises (feat. Jessie Reyez)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Janet Jackson

    Made For Now (feat. Daddy Yankee)

  • Britney Spears

    Toxic

    • (CD Single).
    • Zomba.

  • Black Eyed Peas

    I Gotta Feeling

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.
    • 4.

  • °­â€µµ²¹²¹²Ô

    Wavin' Flag

    • (CD Single).
    • A&M.
    • 1.

  • Rick Astley

    Try

    • Beautiful Life.
    • BMG Rights Management.

  • Louis Armstrong

    We Have All The Time In The World

    • The Best Of James Bond 30th Anniversa.
    • EMI.

  • John Lennon

    Woman

    • GIMME SOME TRUTH. (Deluxe).
    • Calderstone.

  • Carrie Underwood

    Love Wins

    • Cry Pretty.
    • Capitol Nashville.

  • Iron Maiden

    Run To The Hills

    • Edward The Great - Iron Maiden's Greatest Hits.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From the Reverend Kate Bottley:

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It’s been 10 years since I graduated from vicar school, but there are some lessons you never forget, like how to hold the baby so you don’t drop it at the christening, how to fill in the marriage registers and just what to say when you’re offered a drink at a funeral visit.

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We were taught that whenever you’re visiting someone at such a difficult time it’s important to be sensitive, to put people at their ease in tricky circumstances and when the question comes ‘Would you like a drink vicar?’ the answer should always be ‘I’ll have whatever you’re having’ that way if they haven’t got the Fairtrade organic Columbian roast you usually drink at home no one needs to feel awkward and the visit isn’t anymore stressful than it already is.

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This strategy has only let me down once. A little while ago I went to see Maureen, whose lovely husband Trevor had just died. Our meeting was scheduled for just after lunch and when I arrived Maureen offered me a seat and a drink, remembering all I’d been taught, ‘I’ll have whatever your having’ came my reply. 5 minutes later Maureen walked back in with a tray and on it, 2 cherry Bakewells and 2 tumblers half full of single malt whiskey. Not quite what was expecting but it ended up being one of the best funeral visits I’ve ever had. We laughed and cried, remembered Trevor and put together a lovely service for him. As I left Maureen thanked me for my time and said she’d a surpisingly lovely afternoon. She wasn’t the only one, I had to get a taxi home.

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In the gospels there’s a bit where Jesus’s feet are anointed with a beautiful perfume as an act of generosity by one of his followers, and while the disciples mutter amongst themselves about the etiquette of such an encounter, Jesus lovingly receives the gift that’s offered, accepting the gift offered as a blessing and knowing that there’s more going on than meets the eye. That when something is graciously received it blesses not only the recipient but also the giver.

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Trevor had a lovely send off and at the party afterwards Maureen gave me a great big hug and then disappeared to the bar, she returned not two minutes later with a tray and I don’t think I need to tell you what there was on it, do I?

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