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Chris Evans presents 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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Mon 18 May 2015 06:30
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Music Played

  • New Order

    Blue Monday

    • (CD Single).
    • Factory Records.

  • Shaun Escoffery

    Perfect Love Affair

  • AC/DC

    It's A Long Way To The Top

  • War

    Low Rider

    • Blaxploitation: The Sequel Vol.2.
    • Global Television.

  • Billy Joel

    It's Still Rock and Roll To Me

    • Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Vol.2.
    • CBS.

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Hungry Heart

    • Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits.
    • Columbia.

  • Will Young

    Love Revolution

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 001.

  • The Ting Tings

    That's Not My Name

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Starland Vocal Band

    Afternoon Delight

    • Have A Nice Day Vol.18.
    • Rhino.

  • Louis Armstrong

    What A Wonderful World

    • This Is My Song - Love Songs Of The 6.
    • Old Gold.

  • LunchMoney Lewis

    Bills

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

  • OMI

    Cheerleader

    • (CD Single).
    • Ultra Records.
    • 001.

  • Electro Velvet

    Still In Love With You

    • (CD Single).
    • Right Track Records.

  • Electro Velvet

    Still In Love With You

    • (CD Single).
    • Right Track Records.

  • R.E.M.

    The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite

    • R.E.M. - Automatic For The People.
    • Warner Bros.

  • The Bees

    A Minha Menina

    • Crash! Indie Anthems 1982-2004 (Var).
    • BMG.

  • Elbow

    What Time Do You Call This?

    • Man Up O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Fiction.

  • The Move

    Flowers In The Rain

  • Fine Young Cannibals

    She Drives Me Crazy

    • And Then She Kissed Me Vol.1 (Various.
    • Debutante.

  • George Ezra

    Blame It On Me

    • Wanted On Voyage.
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • The Foundations

    Build Me Up Buttercup

    • Million Sellers Vol.12 - The Sixties.
    • Disky.

  • Creedence Clearwater Revival

    Bad Moon Rising

    • Green River.
    • Fantasy.
    • 1.

  • Bow Wow Wow

    Go Wild In The Country

    • Into The Eighties - Various Artists.
    • Global Television.

  • Longfellow

    Where I Belong

    • Remedy.
    • Fierce Panda Records.

  • Chic

    Le Freak

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Rhino.

  • Yazz & The Plastic Population

    The Only Way Is Up

    • Wanted (Deluxe Edition).
    • Cherry Pop.
    • 010.

  • Soul II Soul

    Back to Life (However Do You Want Me) (feat. Caron Wheeler)

    • NOW 100 Hits 80s No.1s (Various Artists).
    • NOW.

  • Van Morrison & Clare Teal

    Carrying A Torch

    • Duets.
    • RCA.
    • 001.

  • The Who

    Pictures Of Lily

    • The Who Hits 50! (Deluxe Edition).
    • Polydor.
    • 010.

  • Fat and Frantic

    Last Night My Wife Hoovered My Head

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

Art Historian, Dr Jim Harris

So, last night, I鈥檓 at home, cooking macaroni cheese. 听Now, my macaroni cheese is good. 听It is rich, it is golden, it is unctuous and gorgeous. 听It is an artery-hardening, full-fat delight. 听There is much cheese, of many varieties.


And that鈥檚 the problem.


There are three boys in my house, Sam, Silas and Linus, and they all like different things. 听Silas hates fish. 听Sam hates every kind of bean. 听And Linus hates most things. 听Especially cheese. 听Except in mac cheese - but then it has to be the right cheese. 听Food negotiations are complex and delicate.


This is not unusual. 听These are regular boys. 听They play endless computer games. They kick a football around the kitchen and up and down the hall, again - endlessly. And there鈥檚 the other problem. 听It drives me nuts. 听I hate it.

听
I know they鈥檙e just honing their skills, and the results will keep me in Aston Martins and Burgundy in my old age - but it means I end up walking a tense tightrope between keeping everyone happy and expressing my otherwise barely-suppressed rage at having to keep everyone happy.


But as I was cooking last night I suddenly remembered being at my mate Jim Donohoe鈥檚 house when I was about 12 and being offered lasagne for tea. 听I blanched. 听I鈥檇 never had lasagne, so I was convinced I wouldn't like it. 听So Mrs Donohoe said we鈥檇 have spaghetti instead. 听I鈥檇 never had that either and was convinced I鈥檇 hate it too, but I couldn't possibly say so, so I ate it.


And it occurred to me as I cooked that I was a very very fussy child. I have a friend, Jack, who still thinks I only eat yellow food.


And yet, from Mrs Donohoe and, more importantly, my own Mum, I encountered nothing but kindness and understanding throughout my childhood.


In the Bible, the Psalms are full of regret for things done in the past, and wonder at God鈥檚 forgiving nature. Psalm 25 pleads, 鈥楻emember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to your mercy remember me for your goodness' sake, O LORD鈥�.
So when I lose it at the boys for the endless kitchen football, or grit my teeth as one of them looks at their dinner in horror, I shall try to remember Mrs Donohoe, and my Mum who forgave me much more than refusing green vegetables. 听And I shall thank God that the sins of my youth are not remembered - and try not to stress about macaroni cheese.

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