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Chris returns after his Easter break and celebrates Spike Milligan's 100th birthday with Spike's daughter Jane, who shares some special memories of her father.

On the 100th anniversary of Spike Milligan's birth, Chris speaks to Spike's daughter Jane about her memories of her father and his bedtime stories. After announcing that Mrs Evans is expecting twins over the holiday, Chris speaks to pregnancy expert Henrietta Norton about whether eating for three is for real and what else he can expect. Plus Mike Williams has the sport with former England Netball international Tamsin Greenway reflecting on the astonishing Commonwealth Gold, we compile a Top Tenuous on furry feline friends and Pause For Thought comes from Father Brian D'Arcy, live from Crossgar, Co. Down.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Mon 16 Apr 2018 06:30
大象传媒 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • ABBA

    Lay All Your Love On Me

    • Abba Gold (40th Anniversary Edition).
    • Polar.
    • 005.

  • Craig David

    Magic

    • The Time Is Now.
    • Insanity Records.

  • Thin Lizzy

    The Boys Are Back In Town

    • (Single).
    • Vertigo.
    • 10.

  • Elton John

    Island Girl

    • Diamonds.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • The Isley Brothers

    Harvest For The World

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1976 (Various).
    • Premier.

  • Maroon 5

    Moves Like Jagger (feat. Christina Aguilera)

    • (CD Single).
    • A&M.
    • 1.

  • The Shires

    Guilty

    • Accidentally On Purpose.
    • Decca.

  • Gabrielle

    Rise

    • Gabrielle - Rise.
    • Go Beat.

  • David Cassidy

    Daydreamer

    • 70's Number Ones Vol 2.
    • Old Gold.

  • John Newman

    Fire In Me

    • Revolve.
    • Island.

  • Madonna

    Papa Don't Preach

    • Madonna - The Immaculate Collection.
    • Sire.
    • 4.

  • The Farm

    All Together Now

    • Smash Hits Massive! (Various Artists).
    • Dover Records.

  • Lukas Graham

    7 Years

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Perry Como

    Papa Loves Mambo

    • The Best Of Cult Fiction (Various).
    • Virgin.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Stop Me From Falling

    • Golden.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston

    It Takes Two

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

  • Paloma Faith

    Guilty

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Status Quo

    Down Down

    • Whatever You Want - V.Best Of Status.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Albert Hammond

    Free Electric Band

    • The Very Best Of Albert Hammond.
    • CBS.
    • 10.

  • Black Box

    Ride On Time

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

  • Alice Merton

    No Roots

    • (CD Single).
    • Paper Plane Records International.

  • John Mellencamp

    Jack And Diane

    • John Cougar - American Fool.
    • Mercury.

  • The Beach Boys

    God Only Knows

    • The Best Of The Beach Boys (CD 1).
    • EMI.
    • 4.

  • Blossoms

    I Can't Stand It

  • Squeeze

    Cool For Cats

    • Fantastic 70's (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Toto

    Rosanna

    • Walk On - Hits From The Last 2 Decade.
    • Columbia.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

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

For forty years, I helped organise a mission of hope for the people I ministered with even though I was the one in dire need of hope.

Hope is based on the belief that it is possible to change. It is seeing the light in spite of being surrounded by darkness. Hope is not pretending that troubles don鈥檛 exist; rather it鈥檚 realising that troubles won鈥檛 last forever.

Father Anthony De Mello was an inspirational guide who used novel stories to make his point stick. At one time in his life he was so over-worked that he almost had a breakdown.

His friends tried to convince him to change his work patterns. Later he told us -: 鈥淚 resented them and I agreed with them.聽 I wanted to change but simply couldn鈥檛, no matter how hard I tried.鈥�

What hurt him most was that his best friend insisted he needed to change. He became angry and even more confused.

Then one day the friend said to him-: 鈥淒on鈥檛 change if you don鈥檛 want to. I love you as you are.鈥� He relaxed immediately and suddenly he changed.

Reflecting on what happened, De Mello realised he couldn鈥檛 really change until he found someone who loved him whether he changed or not.

Hope has to be practical to be helpful. Hope inspires us to push ahead when it would be more practical to quit. You know you have hope when you can take setbacks in your stride.

Recently I used a reflection on hope in a talk. It struck the right chord for them and I think it might help us this morning.

If you can look at the sunset and smile, if you can find beauty in the colour of small flowers, if you appreciate the miracle of a butterfly, if the smile of a child can still warm your heart, if you can see the good in other people, if the patter of rain breaking on a rooftop can lull you to sleep and if the sight of a rainbow makes you stop and stare in wonder, then you still have hope.

So be grateful.

听听

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