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Richard Allinson sits in

Richard Allinson sits in for Chris Evans with a fully interactive show for all the family, featuring music, special guests and listeners on the phone.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Wed 31 Dec 2014 06:30
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Music Played

  • 10cc

    The Things We Do for Love

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1976 (Various).
    • Premier.

  • Baccara

    Yes Sir, I Can Boogie

    • Million Sellers Vol.14 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • David Bowie

    Rebel Rebel

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Kate Bush

    Hounds Of Love

    • Remastered Part I.
    • Fish People.

  • David Cassidy

    Daydreamer

    • 70's Number Ones Vol 2.
    • Old Gold.

  • The Clash

    London Calling

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

  • Paula Cole

    Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Del Amitri

    Roll To Me

    • Twisted.
    • A&M.
    • 007.

  • Echosmith

    Cool Kids

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 001.

  • Focus

    Sylvia

    • The Best Of Focus.
    • Chrysalis.

  • Erma Franklin

    (Take A Little) Piece Of My Heart

    • Shades Of Soul (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Marvin Gaye

    Got To Give It Up

    • Marvin Gaye - The Love Songs.
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • Isaac Hayes

    Theme From Shaft

    • Shades Of Soul (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

    Real Hope

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI Records.
    • 001.

  • Faith Hill

    This Kiss

    • New Hits 99 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Michael Jackson

    The Way You Make Me Feel

    • The Essential.
    • Epic.
    • 14.

  • Elton John

    Island Girl

    • Diamonds.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Lorde

    Royals

    • Pure Heroine.
    • Republic.

  • Olly Murs

    Up (feat. Demi Lovato)

    • Never Been Better.
    • Epic.
    • 004.

  • New Radicals

    Get What You Give

  • The O鈥橨ays

    Back Stabbers

    • The Ultimate Sound Of Philadelphia.
    • Columbia.

  • The Pierces

    Glorious

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 1.

  • Gregory Porter & Julie London

    Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.
    • 1.

  • Otis Redding

    Cigarettes and Coffee

    • The Otis Redding Story.
    • Demon.

  • The Rolling Stones

    (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

    • The Rolling Stones - Remastered.
    • Abkco.

  • Mark Ronson

    Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Stealers Wheel

    Stuck In The Middle With You

    • (Single).
    • A&M.

  • T. Rex

    Metal Guru

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

  • Talking Heads

    Once In A Lifetime

    • Talking Heads - Remain In Light.
    • Sire.

  • Texas

    I Don't Want A Lover

    • Texas - The Greatest Hits.
    • Mercury.

  • U2

    Every Breaking Wave

    • Songs Of Innocence.
    • Universal.
    • 2.

  • Wild Cherry

    Play That Funky Music

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

  • Stevie Wonder

    Superstition

    • Motown Chartbusters Volume 8 (Various Artists).
    • Spectrum Music.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Reverend Sharon Grenham-Toze, Anglican Priest and Prison Chaplain:

One of the things I enjoy doing at New Year is indulging in all the 鈥榬eview of the year鈥� programmes and articles that spring up. I usually find I鈥檝e forgotten most things that happened more than a couple of months ago, so a reminder here and there is quite handy!

Looking back, of course, is what most of us do at the turning of the year, before taking a deep breath and being glad for the chance to start again with a clean slate. I haven鈥檛 quite mustered up the courage to give up all the things that are bad for me during January, but I know plenty of people who are giving it a try鈥�

Wanting a fresh start seems such a universal sentiment, and yet so many of us are still carrying burdens that have been with us for years. There鈥檚 a scene from one of my favourite films - 鈥楾he Mission鈥� - where a slave-trader, who鈥檚 also killed a friend, carries a huge net full of heavy armour as a self-imposed symbol of the weight of guilt he carries. The priest he鈥檚 travelling with eventually cuts the net loose, so it falls a long way down a huge waterfall, setting the man free. But the man turns around and goes back for the burden, picks it up again and struggles on, dragging it behind himself once more. He wasn鈥檛 yet ready to accept his fresh start, because he didn鈥檛 feel he deserved it.

Repeating old patterns, dragging heavy burdens around with us, feeling guilty - oops. That feels a bit uncomfortably familiar. Our New Year鈥檚 resolutions won鈥檛 stick very long if we鈥檙e doing them out of a sense of 鈥榮houlds and oughts鈥�, or a deep down feeling of not being good enough.

But if you think back only a few days ago, even I can鈥檛 forget we were celebrating hope and redemption and love, as demonstrated in a tiny baby lying in a manger. If ever we needed a message that we鈥檙e loveable, and 鈥榞ood enough鈥�, whatever kind of heavy weight we feel we鈥檙e dragging around, then I believe it鈥檚 to be found in that gift of God come among us - and it鈥檚 a gift for the New Year, in fact for life, not just for Christmas.

Broadcast

  • Wed 31 Dec 2014 06:30
    大象传媒 Radio 2

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