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Sara Cox sits in for Chris Evans and chats to Dara O Briain about the 大象传媒's micro:bit campaign to send over a million pocket sized codeable computers to British school kids, plus the 'Half-Wower', Moira's Golden Oldie and Father Brian D'Arcy has a Pause For Thought about appreciating yourself.

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Mon 21 Mar 2016 06:30
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  • Adam Ant

    Goody Two Shoes

    • Wave Party (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.
    • 15.

  • Zara Larsson

    Lush Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.
    • 001.

  • KC and the Sunshine Band

    (Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty

    • Very Best Of KC & The Sunshine Band.
    • Chrysalis.

  • Florence + The Machine

    Queen Of Peace

    • How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful.
    • Island.
    • 004.

  • Moloko

    The Time Is Now

    • (CD Single).
    • Echo.

  • Go West

    Call Me

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

  • Squeeze

    Nirvana

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • Elle King

    Ex's And Oh's

    • Love Stuff.
    • RCA.
    • 2.

  • James

    Sit Down:Radio 2 Session - 18th March 2016

  • The Hollies

    Carrie Anne

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1967 (Various).
    • EMI.
    • 21.

  • Pet Shop Boys

    The Pop Kids

  • The Police

    De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da

    • The Very Best Of Sting & The Police.
    • A&M.

  • Snow Patrol

    Spitting Games

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • The Coral

    In The Morning

    • (CD Single).
    • Deltasonic.

  • Eurythmics & Aretha Franklin

    Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves

    • Duets - 36 Of The World's Greatest Ev.
    • Telstar.

  • Taylor Swift

    Shake It Off

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

  • Chic

    Le Freak

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Rhino.

  • Slade

    Mama Weer All Crazee Now

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1972 (Various).
    • Premier.

  • Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers

    Got To Get You Into My Life

    • The Hits Of 1966 (Various Artists).
    • MFP.

  • Gwen Stefani

    Make Me Like You

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.
    • 1.

  • U2 & B.B. King

    When Love Comes To Town

    • Q The Blues (Various Artists).
    • Hit Label.

  • Bonnie Raitt

    Nick Of Time

  • Thomas Dolby

    She Blinded Me With Science

    • Thomas Dolby - Hyperactive.
    • EMI.
    • 11.

  • Rick Astley

    Keep Singing

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.
    • 001.

  • Erasure

    Sometimes

    • Erasure - Pop!.
    • Mute Records.

  • Spandau Ballet

    Chant No. 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)

    • Greatest Hits Of The 80's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • James Morrison

    I Need You Tonight

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

  • Ellie Goulding

    Love Me Like You Do

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Betty Everett

    It's In His Kiss (The Shoop Shoop Song)

    • Unchained Melodies II (Various Artis.
    • Telstar.

Pause For Thought

From Father Brian D鈥橝rcy, a Catholic Passionist priest:

In the Jesuit Hostel in Leeson Street, Dublin, a painting hung above the mantelpiece in the dining room. It depicted the arrest of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. When they were decorating the room somebody with a keen eye suggested that it looked a special painting and should be properly valued. After many experts were consulted, it turned out the painting was a rare work by the great Italian artist, Caravaggio. The Taking of Christ was restored and it now hangs in the National Gallery of Ireland and is one of their greatest treasures.

For all those years when it hung in the dining room it was always a treasure, but nobody knew it. It went unrecognised. It hung there waiting to be discovered. Now everyone wonders how such a work of art was ignored for so long.

There鈥檚 a helpful passage in St Paul鈥檚 Letter to the Ephesians which says: 鈥榃e are God鈥檚 work of art created in Christ to live the good life鈥� (Eph 2鈥�10).

I don鈥檛 know about you but I don鈥檛 normally think of myself as a work of art. I鈥檓 still hanging around waiting to be 鈥減roperly valued.鈥�

It is encouraging that God regards each of us a work of art. He told us through the prophet Isaiah: 鈥榊ou are precious in my sight and I love you.鈥�

There are a few people I know whom I regard as works of art and I treasure them for it. Others like myself are works in progress.聽 St Paul says that鈥檚 okay too: 鈥榊ou are a work of art, not for anything you have done but simply because God made us in God鈥檚 own image.鈥� I am a genuine work of art whether I know it or not. And so are you.

As we learn in this Holy Week, we鈥檙e so precious that Jesus died to save us.聽 Today go to a mirror, look at yourself, wink and say: 鈥榊ou really are a beautiful work of art.鈥� If you do it often enough you might one day believe it.

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