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Sara sits in for Chris and catches up with Anton on all the action from the fifth fabulous week of Strictly. Plus there's the Half Wower!

Sara sits in for Chris and catches up with Strictly Come Dancing's Anton Du Beke on all the behind the scenes goss from the ballroom and he gives his verdict on guest judge Alfonso Ribeiro. We hear from three early morning achievers including Stella who had already made 12 vanilla cupcakes by 7 am listening to Radio 2! Plus we get your Monday started with a Half Wower filled with Europe, The Soup Dragons and Ariana Grande! Mike Williams is joined in the Sports Locker by Formula 1 commentator Jack Nicholls and Monday's Pause For Thought comes from Father Brian D'Arcy.

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Mon 22 Oct 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • Kaiser Chiefs

    Ruby

    • (CD Single).
    • B-Unique.

  • Michael Bubl茅

    Love You Anymore

    • Love (Deluxe Edition).
    • Reprise.

  • Laura Branigan

    Self Control

    • Now 1984 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Ed Sheeran

    Shape Of You

    • 梅 Divide.
    • Atlantic.

  • Pet Shop Boys

    Left To My Own Devices

    • Introspective / Further Listening 1988-1989.
    • EMI.

  • Michael Jackson

    Beat It

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.

  • Hozier

    Nina Cried Power (feat. Mavis Staples)

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Debbie Harry

    I Want That Man

    • The Best Millennium Party Ever (Var).
    • Virgin.

  • Maroon 5

    Girls Like You

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope Records.

  • Patsy Cline

    Crazy

    • Acuff-Rose Opryland Music: 50th Anniv.
    • Acuff-Rose Opryland.

  • Shawn Mendes & Zedd

    Lost In Japan (Remix)

    • Shawn Mendes: The Album.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • ABBA

    Dancing Queen

    • Abba Gold (40th Anniversary Edition).
    • Polar.
    • 001.

  • Janet Jackson

    Whoops Now

    • Now 30 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Prefab Sprout

    The King of Rock 'N' Roll

    • Hits Album 8, Part 2 (Various Artist.
    • Hits Album.

  • Mel & Kim

    Respectable

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • Christina Aguilera, Lil鈥� Kim, 惭媒补 & P!nk

    Lady Marmalade

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope Records.

  • Phats & Small

    Turn Around

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 43 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Europe

    The Final Countdown

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

  • Montell Jordan

    This Is How We Do It

    • (CD Single).
    • Rush Associated Labels.

  • The Soup Dragons

    I'm Free (feat. Junior Reid)

    • Weekender - Various Artists.
    • Columbia.

  • Ariana Grande

    breathin

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Livin' Thing

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.

  • Marshmello & Anne-Marie

    Friends

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • James Hype

    More Than Friends (feat. 碍别濒濒颈鈥怢别颈驳丑)

  • Barbra Streisand

    Don't Lie To Me

    • Walls.
    • Columbia.

  • T. Rex

    Metal Guru

    • Can The Glam! (Various Artists).
    • Cherry Red Records.

  • Gary Numan

    Are Friends Electric?

    Performer: Tubeway Army.
    • Our Friends Electric (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • Foo Fighters

    Learn To Fly

    • Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.

  • Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper

    Shallow

    • A Star Is Born O.S.T..
    • Interscope.

  • Forrest

    Rock The Boat

    • Sealed With A Kiss (Various Artists).
    • BMG.

  • Miami Sound Machine & Gloria Estefan

    Rhythm Is Gonna Get You

    • Gloria Estefan - Greatest Hits.
    • Epic.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Father Brian D鈥橝rcy, a Catholic Passionist priest:

Faith in the World Week is always an important event on Radio 2.听 Throughout the week we鈥檒l be thinking of peace, and people who make it happen. Anything war can do, peace can do better, is an apt way of putting it.

The First World War was supposed to end all wars but, as we鈥檙e only too aware, we鈥檝e had 100 years of armed strife and wasteful tragedies instead.

Yet in the midst of war, there are always ordinary heroes who save us from the worst of ourselves.

This was powerfully brought home to me in recent years by a member of my own family.

I never knew any of my grand-parents; they were dead before I was born. My father鈥檚 father was different though. He died when my dad was just a child. The result was none of us knew anything about Grandfather D鈥橝rcy, except that he died in the First World War.

Two years ago a local history group researched Fermanagh people who died in the Great War. That was when I discovered the sad details of John D鈥橝rcy.

He was 35 years old and the father of 5 young children, when he answered the call as an Irishman to join the British army. It was a troubled time in Irish history and one prominent Irish politician (John Redmond) told Nationalists that Ireland would be granted Home Rule if they signed up for the war effort.

And so my grandfather, in middle-age, went off to train as a soldier. Shortly afterwards he was part of the regiment of soldiers sent to the front at the start of the offensive.

He, and hundreds of his companions, was killed on his very first day in battle, the 15th August 1914.

His wife wasn鈥檛 told of his death until 13 months later when the news that he鈥檇 died in battle and that his body would never be found, was relayed to her and her small children. There鈥檚 a brick with his name on it, in a memorial wall in Turkey.

That鈥檚 why none of us knew much about grandad because he was one of the thousands of quiet, peace heroes we should never forget this week or any week.

听

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