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Strictly Come Dancing and Pop-up Ice Rinks

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 4 Dec 2017 06:30
大象传媒 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Mariah Carey

    All I Want For Christmas Is You

    • Mariah Carey - Merry Christmas.
    • Columbia.

  • U2

    Get Out Of Your Own Way

    • Songs Of Experience.
    • Island.

  • Vaughn Monroe

    Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

  • Santana

    Smooth (feat. Rob Thomas)

    • (CD Single).
    • Arista.

  • George Michael

    Faith

    • George Michael - Ladies & Gentlemen.
    • Epic.

  • Coldplay

    Viva La Vida

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

  • Paloma Faith

    Guilty

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Britney Spears

    Oops!... I Did It Again

    • Now That's What I Call No.1's (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Level 42

    Something About You

    • The Complete Polydor Years: Volume 2 (1985-1989).
    • Cherry Red Records.

  • Johnny Mathis

    When A Child Is Born

    • 70's Number Ones Vol 3.
    • Old Gold.

  • Pete Tong & Heritage Orchestra

    Sing It Back (feat. Becky Hill)

  • CeeLo Green

    Cry Baby

    • The Lady Killer.
    • WEA.
    • 1.

  • George Ezra

    Cassy O'

    • Wanted On Voyage.
    • Columbia.

  • Harry Belafonte

    Jump In The Line

    • The Best Of.
    • Camden.
    • 16.

  • Sia

    Santa's Coming For Us

    • Everyday Is Christmas.
    • Atlantic.

  • The Saturdays

    Up

    • Now That's What I Call Music 71 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 11.

  • The Spencer Davis Group

    Gimme Some Lovin'

    • Eight Gigs A Week - The Steve Winwood Years.
    • Island.
    • 3.

  • The Rolling Stones

    (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

    • The Rolling Stones - Remastered.
    • Abkco.

  • Vanilla Ice

    Ice Ice Baby

    • Vanilla Ice - To The Extreme.
    • Sbk.

  • P!nk

    Beautiful Trauma

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Jona Lewie

    Stop The Cavalry

    • The Ivor Novello Winners.
    • EMI.

  • The Pogues

    Fairytale Of New York (feat. Kirsty MacColl)

    • (CD Single).
    • Rhino.

  • Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie

    Lay Down For Free

    • (CD Single).
    • EastWest.

  • Louis Armstrong

    We Have All The Time In The World

    • The Best Of James Bond 30th Anniversa.
    • EMI.

  • Gloria Gaynor

    I Will Survive

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

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

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

A man who compiled many best-selling dictionaries, Dr Wilfrid Funk, was asked to list what he considered to be the most expressive words in the English language.

He listed the cruellest word as 鈥渞evenge鈥�; the most beautiful is 鈥渓ove鈥�; the most tender is 鈥渕other鈥�. He added that the most hopeful is 鈥渃onfidence鈥�.

Mark Twain put a humorous twist on it when he suggested that all you need to succeed in life is ignorance and confidence.

In sport confidence is infectious, while a lack of confidence will destroy you just as quickly. If you can get your head right your body will follow. Ability is your greatest gift but confidence is your best friend.

When I begin something new I鈥檓 usually very fearful. At first I have to convince myself that I think I can do it. I keep persuading myself that I think I can do it until I reach the point where I say over and over again, I know I can do it. Only then am I ready to do it.

Something really magical happens when we move from 鈥渉oping鈥� to 鈥渒nowing鈥�. Wasn鈥檛 that what President Obama did with his 鈥淵es we can鈥� catchphrase. Believe you can and you will; believe you can鈥檛 and you won鈥檛.

No one can make you feel inferior unless you allow them to; you are the only one who can use your abilities.

Confidence is not hoping 鈥榯hey will like me鈥�; Rather it is realising that I will be fine whether they like me or not. A flower doesn鈥檛 try to compete with the flower next to it - it just blooms.

The run up to Christmas is an opportune time to build up confidence in my own goodness and in God鈥檚 care for all people. The parties and the shopping help me see the marvellous generosity of friends and to accept their goodness for what it is - genuine love.

At Christmas I remind myself that if God was happy to become a vulnerable human being, then I too should be happy being one.

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