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Fearne Cotton sits in

Fearne Cotton sits in for Chris. She has some massive tunes in her Whole Wower, featuring tracks from Led Zeppelin, Little Mix and Fat Boy Slim.

Fearne Cotton sits in for Chris. We speak to three Early Achievers who tell us what they've been up to in the early hours of the morning; midwife Lucy delivered a baby boy, Chris cleaned his fish tank and Sally was out in Cambridgeshire riding her baby pony, Missy. Plus there's a Whole Wower of tunes to accompany your sunny bank holiday Monday with tracks from Led Zeppelin, Little Mix and Fat Boy Slim. Sonali Shah gives us a round up from the weekend's sports and today's Pause For Thought comes from Dr Jim Harris.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Mon 7 May 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • Edwyn Collins

    A Girl Like You

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.

  • Paloma Faith

    Make Your Own Kind Of Music

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • The Lotus Eaters

    First Picture Of You

    • New Frontiers (Various Artists).
    • Temple Records.

  • David Gray

    Babylon

    • (CD Single).
    • Iht Records.

  • Carly Rae Jepsen

    Call Me Maybe

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.

  • Marc Almond

    The Days Of Pearly Spencer

    • Now 22 (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Shalamar

    I Can Make You Feel Good

    • Friends - Deluxe Edition.
    • Big Break Records.
    • 4.

  • Reef

    My Sweet Love (Radio 2 Session, 04 May 2018)

  • Lana Del Rey

    Video Games

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 1.

  • Foxes

    Amazing

    • (CD Single).
    • Sign Of The Times.

  • The Pointer Sisters

    Jump (For My Love)

    • The Best Of The Pointer Sisters.
    • RCA.

  • Dodgy

    Staying Out For The Summer

    • The No.1 Summer Album (Various).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Etta James

    At Last

    • Etta James- The Genuine Article.
    • Mca/Chess.

  • Ariana Grande

    no tears left to cry

    • (CD Single).
    • Republic Records.

  • ZZ Top

    Gimme All Your Lovin'

    • Top Gear 2 - Various Artists.
    • Columbia.

  • Robbie Williams

    Supreme

    • (CD Single).
    • Chrysalis.

  • Fatboy Slim

    Praise You

    • Now 1999 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.

  • Led Zeppelin

    Whole Lotta Love

    • Early Days.
    • Atlantic.
    • 13.

  • DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince

    Summertime

    • (CD Single).
    • Jive.

  • Cam

    Diane

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony.

  • M|A|R|R|S

    Pump Up The Volume

    • Now 10, Part 1 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 4.

  • Dario G

    Sunchyme

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

  • 顿别别别鈥怢颈迟别

    Groove Is In The Heart

    • The Best Of 100% Dance (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • Little Mix

    Black Magic

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco Music.

  • Lou Bega

    Mambo No. 5

    • Now 44 (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Oasis

    Roll With It

    • (CD Single).
    • Creation Records.

  • Zara Larsson

    Lush Life

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

  • Happy Mondays

    Step On

    • Now 17, Part 1 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Matt Cardle

    Desire

    • Time To Be Alive.
    • Sony Music.
    • 3.

  • Freddie & the Dreamers

    You Were Made For Me

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1963.
    • Premier.

  • Meat Loaf

    Dead Ringer for Love

    • Rock Of America (Various Artists).
    • Trax Label.

  • Anne-Marie

    2002

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Spandau Ballet

    Gold

    • The Gold Album (Various Artists).
    • The Hit Label Ltd.

  • The Tymes

    Ms Grace

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

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Jim Harris, Art Historian:

听

One Christmas, many years ago, I was given a pair of slippers.听 They were black leather with suede soles and they were the most butter-soft, comfortable things I have ever worn.

So I wore them a lot, every day, until they were full of holes and beyond repair.听 But I couldn鈥檛 bear to part with them, so I tucked them away in the wardrobe.

听

Years later, I had a pair of jeans I loved with almost the same passion. I am wearing them now.听 As is the way with jeans, they wore out faster than the slippers and a little while ago they needed patching - and they needed patching in the places most regularly in contact with my bicycle saddle.

听

Now the thing about this was that the repair required something tough enough to survive life on a bike and yet gentle enough to be kind in, well, a sensitive spot.听 So my thoughts turned to my beautiful slippers.听 I removed the soles and the lining, cut patches from the soft leather uppers and got to work with the sewing machine.听 The result has brought both comfort and sturdiness to my daily rides and has enabled both my beloved jeans and my beloved slippers to continue to serve.

听

Of course, not everything we love is as trivial as jeans or as easily mended.听 Our hearts are broken by carelessness and folly.听 Our families are worn and stretched by overuse and overfamiliarity, pressed and burdened by grief.

听

I鈥檓 less good at fixing those.听 But sometimes I鈥檝e been fixed, and often surprisingly, by a tiny, unexpected kindness, a wise word out of a shared experience.听

听

In the Bible, God 鈥榟eals the broken-hearted, and binds up their wounds鈥�.听 Speaking through the prophet Ezekiel he says that, 鈥業 will be the shepherd of my sheep鈥 will seek the lost, and bring back the strayed, I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak鈥�.

听

To be like that, as tender as a healer and as tough and faithful as a shepherd, is hard.听 But I reckon that when we know hearts that need fixing it鈥檚 worth the effort to try, however slight our resources might appear; because love, any love, softened by years of wear, can be as strong and as gentle as a pair of old slippers.听 And just as unexpectedly useful.

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