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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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Wed 24 Jun 2015 06:30
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Music Played

  • Michael Jackson

    Black Or White

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.

  • Leona Lewis

    Fire Under My Feet

    • I Am.
    • Island.

  • Starship

    Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    The Death Of You And Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Sour Mash Records.
    • 7.

  • Faith No More

    Easy

    • Now 24 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Richard Hawley

    Tonight The Streets Are Ours

    • (CD Single).
    • Mute.

  • James Bay

    Let It Go

    • Chaos And The Calm.
    • Republic Records.
    • 3.

  • 叠别测辞苍肠茅

    Crazy in Love (feat. JAY-Z)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • The Honeycombs

    Have I The Right?

    • 20 Golden Number Ones.
    • MFP.

  • The Searchers

    Needles and Pins

    • (Single).
    • Pye.

  • Alesha Dixon

    The Way We Are

    • (CD Single).
    • Precious Stone Records.

  • Fine Young Cannibals

    Good Thing

    • The Raw & The Cooked.
    • London.

  • De La Soul

    The Magic Number

    • 3 Feet High & Rising.
    • Chrysalis Records.

  • Chic

    I'll Be There (feat. Nile Rodgers)

    • It's About Time.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Pilot

    Magic

    • 25 Years Of Rock'n'Roll Vol.2 (1974).
    • Connoisseur Collection.

  • Blur

    Ong Ong

    • The Magic Whip.
    • Parlophone.
    • 011.

  • Guns N鈥� Roses

    November Rain

    • Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I.
    • Geffen.

  • Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

    The Lady Is A Tramp

    • Duets II.
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Nu Shooz

    I Can't Wait

    • Club Classics From The 80's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • Alexander O鈥橬eal

    Criticize

    • Hits Album 7 (Various Artists).
    • Hits.
    • 9.

  • M氓ns Zelmerl枚w

    Heroes

    • (CD Single).
    • WEA.
    • 018.

  • Pulp

    Common People

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 5.

  • The Human League

    Don't You Want Me

    • Dare!.
    • Virgin.

  • Gaz Coombes

    The Girl Who Fell To Earth

    • (CD Single).
    • Hot Fruit Recordings.

  • The Moody Blues

    Nights In White Satin (Long Ending)

  • Coldplay

    Life In Technicolor II

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
    • 1.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Art Historian, Dr Jim Harris

Later on this evening, I鈥檓 going to be meeting up with some people I went to school with.聽 There will be some very familiar faces, some I know less well, and more who鈥檒l barely remember me, but the reason I鈥檓 going is for the handful I really love. 聽These are my oldest friends, who have known me most of my life, who I still see fairly often and who, frankly, know me a little too well.

When we were at school together, they were taller than me, cooler than me and funnier than me. 聽These days, they鈥檙e taller than me, cooler than me and funnier than me. Nothing has changed.聽 Except, of course, now I鈥檓 balder than them, which is just great.

So this is how it will go: we鈥檒l hug, we鈥檒l swap news and family greetings - and then we鈥檒l fall to teasing each other and I will find myself feeling like I did when I was fifteen and they used to call me Smurf.聽 Seriously. Smurf.聽 That鈥檚 a lawsuit for mental cruelty right there.

If all this sounds like the worst kind of school reunion torture, then let me reassure you, there is an upside.聽 Because these friends know me, really know me, there鈥檚 no need for pretence between us.聽 And because they really know me there鈥檚 no need for judgement either.聽 The combination of honesty and acceptance is what makes these sorts of friendships so precious.

It鈥檚 not always easy to be a friend, though.聽

The Bible tells us a lot about the difficulty of friendship, about betrayal, criticism and terrible advice; but if it teaches us that friendship is a hard thing to get right, it also offers something to aspire to.聽 When Moses was leading the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt, we learn that God 鈥榳ould speak to him face to face, as a man speaks to his friend鈥�.

That鈥檚 an astonishing picture, but Christians believe that Jesus has made it possible for everyone to have that kind of relationship with God; face to face, as a person speaks to their friend.聽 And if I know that I can be as intimate as that with God, who knows me better than any of my human friends, then it makes it easier for me to be a proper, real friend to them.聽 So I鈥檒l try to be.聽 Even if they do call me Smurf.

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