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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.

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New Year's Day 2015 06:30
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Music Played

  • ABBA

    Happy New Year

    • Super Trouper.
    • Polydor.

  • Bryan Adams

    Cloud Number Nine

    • (CD Single).
    • A&M.

  • Pat Benatar

    Love Is A Battlefield

    • The 80's Collection: 1984 (Various).
    • Chrysalis.

  • Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

    It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)

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

  • Chuck Berry

    Johnny B. Goode

    • That's Rock'n'Roll (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Blondie

    Dreaming

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

  • Michael Bubl茅

    Hollywood

    • (CD Single).
    • Reprise.
    • 1.

  • Eagle鈥怑ye Cherry

    Save Tonight

    • 1999 Grammy Nominees (Various Artists.
    • Elektra.

  • Eddie Cochran

    C'Mon Everybody

    • That's Rock'n'Roll (Various Artists).
    • EMI.
    • 3.

  • The Everly Brothers

    Wake Up Little Susie

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

  • The Everly Brothers

    Bye Bye Love

  • Paloma Faith

    Leave While I'm Not Looking

    • A Perfect Contradiction.
    • RCA.

  • Bryan Ferry

    Don't Stop The Dance

    • The Platinum Collection.
    • Virgin.
    • 2.

  • Billy Fury

    Halfway to Paradise

    • The Billy Fury Hit Parade.
    • London.
    • 2.

  • Bill Haley and His Comets

    Rock Around The Clock

    • That's Rock'n'Roll (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Daryl Hall & John Oates

    Kiss On My List

    • Looking Back - The Best Of Hall & Oat.
    • BMG.

  • Buddy Holly

    Rave On

    • That's Rock'n'Roll (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Olivia Newton鈥怞ohn & Electric Light Orchestra

    Xanadu

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

  • Tom Odell

    Grow Old With Me

    • Long Way Down.
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Jennifer Paige

    Crush

    • Woman (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv/Sony Tv.

  • The Pointer Sisters

    Jump (For My Love)

    • The Best Of The Pointer Sisters.
    • RCA.

  • Elvis Presley

    Blue Suede Shoes

    • Presley - The All Time Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.

  • Elvis Presley

    (Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame

    • Presley - The All Time Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.

  • Queen

    Let Me In Your Heart Again

    • Queen Forever.
    • EMI.
    • 001.

  • The S.O.S. Band

    Just Be Good To Me

    • The History Of Dance Vol. 2 (Various Artists).
    • Connoisseur Collection.

  • Ed Sheeran

    Thinking Out Loud - Radio 2 Session - 20/06/2014

  • Sia

    You鈥檙e Never Fully Dressed Without A Smile

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.
    • 1.

  • Snow Patrol

    Spitting Games

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Taylor Swift

    Blank Space

    • (CD Single).
    • Big Machine Records.
    • 1.

  • Swing Out Sister

    Breakout

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

  • Take That

    Rule The World

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Take That

    Greatest Day (Radio 2 In Concert, 18 Dec 2014)

  • Meghan Trainor

    Lips Are Movin

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
    • 001.

  • Amy Winehouse

    Tears Dry On Their Own

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Rev Ruth Scott, Anglican Vicar in Richmond:

My nephew, Stephen, tells me that before a glass of champagne goes flat 2,000,000 bubbles in it will pop. I鈥檓 incredulous that anyone would leave a flute of fizz undrunk or feel the need to work out this statistic, but I can鈥檛 really cast aspersions over the peculiarity of others when I鈥檝e more than enough of my own eccentricities! On this New Year鈥檚 Day I suspect 2,000,000, will be but a fraction of the number of resolutions made across the nation that, like champagne bubbles, will disappear without trace within a short space of time. It seems we make them knowing we鈥檒l break them. A pointless game鈥nd yet, as the New Year rings in across a world marred by acts of profound inhumanity, by escalating conflict, treatable but untreated disease and poverty ignored by those with the power to eradicate it, there is no better time to commit ourselves, at the very least, to trying to be the half decent human beings needed to address the issues which ultimately threaten the peace of us all. Last year, working with men and women here and abroad I was struck so often by how grateful people were simply to be heard, because the norm for them was for their stories to fall on deaf and indifferent ears. The inability to listen profoundly is not a new phenomenon. In my own tradition of Christianity the gospel words, 鈥楲et those who have ears to hear, hear!鈥� echo down the centuries, and Church history shows how frequently we failed to do that. As the old year is laid to rest and 2015 begins, I want to commit myself to living out some wisdom from a rather unexpected source. It was the disgraced American President, Richard Nixon, who said, 鈥淲e cannot learn from each other until we stop shouting at one another 鈥� until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.鈥� This is surely something that all of us, no matter how imperfect, can practice as we welcome each new day. Happy New Year, and good luck counting the champagne bubbles!

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