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Sara Cox sits in for Chris Evans with a fully interactive show for all the family.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 18 Aug 2017 06:30
大象传媒 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Whitney Houston

    How Will I Know

    • The Best Of.
    • Arista.

  • JP Cooper

    She's On My Mind

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Donna Summer

    Bad Girls

    • Donna Summer - Summer Collection.
    • Mercury.

  • Scissor Sisters

    Take Your Mama

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Gregory Porter

    Liquid Spirit

    • Liquid Spirit.
    • Blue Note.
    • 001.

  • Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

    D.I.Y.

    • What Have We Become.
    • Virgin EMI.
    • 001.

  • Spiller

    Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) (feat. Sophie Ellis鈥怋extor)

    • (CD Single).
    • Positiva.

  • Calvin Harris

    Feels (feat. Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry & Big Sean)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Christina Aguilera, Lil鈥� Kim, 惭媒补 & P!nk

    Lady Marmalade

  • Bros

    When Will I Be Famous?

    • Push.
    • Cherry Pop.
    • 014.

  • Cliff Richard

    We Don't Talk Anymore

    • Cliff Richard - Private Collection.
    • EMI.

  • Rag鈥檔鈥橞one Man

    As You Are

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 002.

  • Wham!

    Everything She Wants

    • Wham! - Make It Big.
    • Epic.

  • Stacy Lattisaw

    Jump To The Beat

    • Let Me Be Your Angel.
    • BBR.
    • 009.

  • Luis Fonsi

    Despacito (Remix) (feat. Daddy Yankee & Justin Bieber)

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • The Jacksons

    Blame It On The Boogie

    • Disco Fever (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Four Tops

    I Can't Help Myself

    • The Singles Collection.
    • Polygram TV.

  • Armand van Helden

    You Don't Know Me (feat. Duane Harden)

    • (CD Single).
    • FFRR.

  • Belinda Carlisle

    Leave A Light On

    • A Place On Earth - Greatest Hits.
    • Virgin.

  • Enrique Iglesias

    S煤beme La Radio (feat. Sean Paul & Matt Terry)

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music Latin.

  • Arctic Monkeys

    I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor

    • Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not.
    • Domino.

  • The Bangles

    Walk Like An Egyptian

    • Take A Break (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Rihanna

    We Found Love (feat. Calvin Harris)

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 80 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Gap Band

    Oops Up Side Your Head

    • Soul Years 1980 (Various Artists).
    • Knight Records.

  • No Doubt

    Don't Speak

    • Huge Hits 1997 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • The Script

    Rain

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music Entertainment.

  • 窜辞毛

    Sunshine On A Rainy Day

    • Awesome 2 - Various Artists.
    • Columbia.

  • Clean Bandit

    Symphony (feat. Zara Larsson)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • The Rolling Stones

    Honky Tonk Women

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.

  • Coldplay

    Viva La Vida

    • Viva La Vida Or Death & All His Friends.
    • Parlophone.
    • 1.

  • Nikhil

    Beautiful Mind

    • (CD Single).
    • East West.

  • The Proclaimers

    I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)

    • Now 13, Part 2 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • LEN

    Steal My Sunshine

    • Beautiful Game (Various Artists).
    • Universal.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From the Reverend Richard Coles:

Earlier this week I was on the Isle of Whithorn in Scotland, walking the dog along the cliffs on a bracingly beautiful day, when I met a man coming the other way. Sunburnt, with a wilted bleached mohican, and carrying a rucksack that looked bigger than him, I thought, 鈥榶ou鈥檙e not local鈥�. He wasn鈥檛, and he was carrying that rucksack, packed with all his worldly goods, on a 7,000 mile tour round the coastline of Britain. His name is Sam Doyle, and he鈥檚 former military, a veteran of Afghanistan where he experienced a horror so intense he came home with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.聽聽Like many service personnel wounded in that way, once home his life began fall apart; but on the very brink of losing everything he stopped and resolved to go another way. A hard and austere way, sleeping out, foraging and fishing for food, on a two year trek to raise awareness and funding for people like him, veterans with PTSD.

What he鈥檚 discovered so far is, first, the extraordinary generosity and compassion of people he's met on his way, including those at the pub where I was staying, who threw him a party which ended in the least sober version of I Would Walk Five Hundred Miles in the history of Scottish emigration. Second, that PTSD is a dark and relentless enemy, and in the silence of the night, horrors can come again. Maybe look out for him if you live in one of the 280 seaside towns he will pass through on his way.

As a priest I have talked to too many veterans of conflict to buy into Hollywood heroics; the chest beating melodramas of guys in combats who've never seen combat, and for whom the expression of insecurity or vulnerability would be as catastrophically shaming as being caught out in a sarong.聽聽

In my experience courage is not the absence of fear; it is not being defeated by fear, and finding within yourself the strength and detachment to haul yourself out of a hole and into the light. The Christian story is full of that transition, from darkness to light. I don't know if Sam would describe himself as a believer or not - it makes no difference to my prayer that he be blessed in his endeavour. Abundant blessings on you, Sam Doyle, as you journey on.聽

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