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Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Tony Hadley and James

Zoe Ball sits in for Chris Evans and is joined by actors Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum. Plus, there's live music from 80s icon Tony Hadley and James.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 23 May 2014 06:30
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Music Played

  • Supertramp

    Dreamer

    • The Very Best Of Supertramp.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Van Halen

    Jump

    • The All Time Greatest Rock Songs ....
    • Columbia.

  • Huey Lewis and the News

    The Power Of Love

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

  • The Pierces

    Kings

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • John Legend

    All Of Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • The Four Seasons

    December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night)

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 11.

  • The Maisonettes

    Heartache Avenue

    • History Of The 80's (Various Artists).
    • Br Music.

  • M People

    Moving On Up

    • The Best Of M People.
    • BMG.

  • Guns N鈥� Roses

    Sweet Child O' Mine

    • The Hits Album 10 (Various Artists).
    • Hits Album.

  • David Bowie

    The Man Who Sold The World

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • The Rolling Stones

    The Last Time听

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.

  • Howlin鈥� Wolf

    Smokestack Lightning

    • 100% Blues And Soul.
    • Telstar.
    • 6.

  • The Who

    Disguises

  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience

    Purple Haze

  • The Seekers

    Morningtown Ride

    • The Seekers.
    • EMI.
    • 2.

  • Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

    D.I.Y.

    • What Have We Become.
    • Virgin EMI.
    • 001.

  • Everything but the Girl

    Missing (Todd Terry Remix)

    Remix Artist: Todd Terry.
    • Passion (Various Artists).
    • Universal.

  • Toto

    Rosanna

    • Walk On - Hits From The Last 2 Decade.
    • Columbia.

  • Joss Stone

    Fell In Love With A Boy

    • (CD Single).
    • Relentless Records.

  • Spandau Ballet

    Gold

    • The Gold Album (Various Artists).
    • The Hit Label Ltd.

  • Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston

    It Takes Two

  • Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (feat. The Police)

  • Michael Jackson

    Love Never Felt So Good (feat. Justin Timberlake) (feat. Justin Timberlake)

    • Xscape.
    • Sony Music.

  • Pharrell Williams

    Marilyn Monroe

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.
    • 001.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Nick Baines, the Bishop-elect of Leeds for the Diocese of West Yorkshire & the Dales:

听

I came across a great photo on twitter yesterday that showed a building with a sign on it that said in big black capitals: POLLING STATION. Above it there was a warning notice that read: Please do not sit on the fence. Brilliant.

But, it's also problematic. Sometimes I wish people would sit on the fence for a bit longer and not feel pushed to jump one way or the other. OK, there are some matters on which I am clear about where I stand; but there are others where the issues are so complex that simply coming down on one side of the argument cannot be done without cost. But, the pressure we sometimes come under to choose makes you feel they're out to get you. "Just say something," they cry, but what do you do if all you can say is, "God only knows!"?

And, maybe born of frustration, we choose too quickly and later regret the decision we have made. Everybody knows that experience.

I remember the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, wrestling with a difficult ethical conundrum and complaining that people wanted him to decide without recognising that the matter was simply not simple - and that the negative consequences of either choice needed to be reflected on and recognised before choosing. And it wasn't about sex...

So, I am quite happy to be decisive and to make choices. But, sometimes I want to sit on the fence while I think it through. I realise that the fence is uncomfortable, but in a world in which we are pressed to do everything instantly, it is ever more important to sit down, reflect and take time to think.

This is one good reason I have often said that the world needs more poets than lawyers. It is the poets and musicians who hit our imagination sideways and create the headspace in which we learn to reflect before choosing. And it is poets like the Psalmists of the Old Testament who tell the truth, who never give up on love, and who resist the pressure to move on too quickly, always holding on to tomorrow.

Let's hear it for the fence!

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