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Louise Minchin and Gregory Porter Call-Back

Louise Minchin talks about some of the kitchen disasters in the Celebrity MasterChef semi-final, and Chris calls back a lucky listener for the Gregory Porter concert at Maida Vale.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Music Played

  • Van Halen

    Jump

    • The All Time Greatest Rock Songs ....
    • Columbia.
  • Bryan Adams

    Don't Even Try

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

    (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher

    • Midnight Soul (Various Artists).
    • Music Club.
  • Beverley Knight

    Come as You Are

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
  • Peter Gabriel

    Steam

    • Now 24 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • Toploader

    Dancing In The Moonlight

    • Onka's Big Moka - Toploader.
    • Sony Soho Square.
  • New Order

    People On The High Line

    • (CD Single).
    • Mute.
    • 1.
  • The Police

    So Lonely

    • The Police - Message In A Box (Cd 1).
    • A&M.
  • One Direction

    Drag Me Down

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco Music.
  • Herman’s Hermits

    My Sentimental Friend

    • The Best Of The EMI Years - Vol.2.
    • EMI.
  • Bastille

    Good Grief

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Music.
  • Yazoo

    Don't Go

    • Electronic 80's (Various Artists).
    • EMM.
  • The Zutons

    Valerie

    • (CD Single).
    • Deltasonic.
  • WALK THE MOON

    Shut Up And Dance

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.
  • The Rolling Stones

    Sympathy For The Devil

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.
  • Travis

    Animals

    • (CD Single).
    • Red Telephone Box.
    • 001.
  • Gregory Porter

    The In Crowd

    • Liquid Spirit.
    • Decca.
  • Will Young

    Love Revolution

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

    Wonderwall

  • U2

    Even Better Than The Real Thing (Perfecto Mix)

    Remix Artist: Perfecto.
    • Wicked!! (Various Artists).
    • EMI.
  • Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Stir It Up

    • Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend.
    • Island.
  • The Specials

    Too Much Too Young

    • The Connoisseur Collection: 30 Years Of Number Ones Vol.9.
    • Connoisseur.
    • 6.
  • Paul Carrack

    Sweet Soul Legacy

    • Soul Shadows.
    • Carrack-UK.
    • 003.
  • Mel & Kim

    Respectable

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

    Hands Up (Give Me Your Heart)

    • Super XXL Megamix Vol.1.
    • Pyramid.
  • Grace

    You Don't Own Me (Live Version)

    • Dermot O'Leary Presents The Saturday Sessions 2016.
    • Sony Music.
  • The Wonder Stuff

    Size Of A Cow

    • EMI.
  • Tom Odell

    Magnetised

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

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Father Christopher Jamison, Benedictine Monk:

Ìý

We’re well into the festival season - Latitude and Geckgo Fest were last weekend, Bestival and Reading are yet to come. But which is the biggest? The answer, of course, is Glastonbury. 175,000 people attend each year, making it the world’s biggest pop festival. Well, I’m off to an even bigger festival that starts on Monday in Poland. This coming weekend 600,000 young people will head to Krakow and by the following weekend there’ll be over a million.

This is World Youth Day, the world’s biggest youth festival, when the Pope invites young people to join him in a celebration of faith, hope and love. Now of course this isn’t a rock festival, it’s a pilgrimage but the streets are filled with music and performances so that Krakow will definitely rock next week. Pilgrims and festivalgoers have this in common: they step out of their comfort zone to embrace new experiences, mud and all.

Yesterday Pope Francis sent a special message to all those on their way to Poland inviting them to new experiences of mercy. He told them ‘I truly wish to meet with you to give the world a new signÌýof harmony,ÌýaÌýmosaic ofÌýdifferentÌýfaces,Ìýso manyÌýraces, languages, peoples, and cultures, but unitedÌýin the name of Jesus, who is the FaceÌýofÌýMercy.’ To create harmony among a million people from every continent needs people to trust strangers, to welcome foreigners and to forgive wrongdoers. Trust, welcome, forgive: the three steps of mercy.

ÌýIn a time when disharmony is all too evident in the world, next week a million people in Poland will be a sign of harmony. Trust, welcome, forgive. I’m looking forward to living that intensely for a week but the challenge is to bring mercy home with me and live it out.Ìý

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