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Sara sits in for Chris. She has some top tunes to kick start your weekend in her Whole Wower, featuring tracks from Wham!, the Backstreet Boys and Kylie Minogue.

Sara sits in for Chris. We speak to three Early Achievers including Julie who's made two batches of cakes, and Jude who's mucked out two horses out on her pony Topic and we celebrate national fish and chip day. Plus there's a Whole Wower of top tunes to get you in the mood for the weekend with tracks from Wham!, the Backstreet Boys and Kylie Minogue. Karthi is joined in the Sports Locker by Frankie Dettori and today's Pause For Thought comes from comedian and writer Paul Kerensa.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 1 Jun 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • Pulp

    Disco 2000

    • Hits.
    • Island.
    • 6.

  • Sigrid

    High Five

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • The Shapeshifters

    Lola's Theme

    • (CD Single).
    • Positiva.

  • Pat Benatar

    Love Is A Battlefield

    • The 80's Collection: 1984 (Various).
    • Chrysalis.

  • Kirsty MacColl

    There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis

    • Kirsty Maccoll - Galore.
    • Virgin.

  • Barry White

    You See The Trouble With Me

    • Barry White - The Collection.
    • Mercury.
    • 2.

  • George Ezra

    Shotgun

    • Staying At Tamara's.
    • Columbia.

  • Incognito

    Always There (feat. Jocelyn Brown)

    • (CD Single).
    • Talkin' Loud.

  • Stereophonics

    C'est La Vie (The Biggest Weekend 2018)

  • Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer

    Who Takes Care of the Caretaker's Daughter

    • Two Of A Kind.
    • Atco.

  • Years & Years

    If You're Over Me

    • Palo Santo.
    • Polydor.

  • Spice Girls

    Wannabe

    • Bad Girls (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.

  • Simply Red

    Money's Too Tight (To Mention)

    • Now 1985 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Britney Spears

    Baby One More Time

  • Wham!

    Freedom

    • Make It Big.
    • Columbia.

  • Backstreet Boys

    Everybody (Backstreet's Back)

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

  • The Weather Girls

    It's Raining Men

    • Success.
    • Cherry Pop.
    • 13.

  • The Killers

    Mr Brightside

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • The Stone Roses

    Waterfall

    • (CD Single).
    • Silvertone.
    • 8.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    Hold Me Like A Heaven

    • Resistance Is Futile.
    • Columbia.
    • 008.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Better The Devil You Know

    • Kylie Minogue - Rhythm Of Love.
    • Pwl Records.

  • Ryan Paris

    Dolce Vita

    • The Holiday CD - Various Artists.
    • CBS.

  • MC Hammer

    U Can't Touch This

    • Fast Forward (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • The Teardrop Explodes

    Reward

    • The Teardrop Explodes - Greatest Hits.
    • Mercury.

  • 碍鈥怟濒补蝉蝉

    Rhythm Is A Mystery

    • Now 1991 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.

  • Status Quo

    Rockin' All Over The World

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

  • New Order

    World In Motion

    • Snap It Up! (Various Artists).
    • CBS.

  • Rahim Redcar

    Girlfriend (feat. 顿芒尘-贵耻苍办)

    • (CD Single).
    • Because Music.

  • Michael Jackson

    Bad

    • Michael Jackson - Bad.
    • Epic.

  • JLS

    Everybody In Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.
    • 1.

  • Gabrielle

    Show Me

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Elton John & Kiki Dee

    Don't Go Breaking My Heart

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

聽From comedian & writer Paul Kerensa:

Tomorrow for the first time, I鈥檒l be a best man. Well Jon the groom鈥檚 best, but I鈥檒l be best at embarrassing him in the speech. This isn鈥檛 the place for that 鈥� tales of Jon dancing on The Big Breakfast鈥� that kilt incident at his 18th鈥� they鈥檒l wait.

Jon marries Jenny with their five-month-old baby in tow. I say 鈥榠n tow鈥� 鈥� she鈥檒l be in the pram, rather than clinging to the bridal gown. They鈥檙e already a family 鈥� so perhaps tomorrow鈥檚 vows are just the icing on the wedding cake. But icing sticks.

I鈥檓 only nine years and two children into married life, but I know littluns can take your attention, your energy, and sometimes your eye off the marriage. Every day I seem to make these new vows, unspoken:

鈥淚 Daddy, take you Son, and Daughter. To have and to hold your hand and pull you back from traffic from this day forward. For richer but mostly poorer, due to the cost of birthday parties. In sickness down my back when I鈥檓 trying to wind you, and in health if you stop bringing bugs back from school. Till leaving-home do us part, if you ever leave home, due to the state of the property market. In the presence of God, and with the help of God because He knows I鈥檒l need it, I make this vow... without ever saying it.鈥�

There鈥檚 a theory that we can only maintain 1 or 2 very close relationships at a time; another 3 or 4 pretty close ones, another thirty in the next circle, then 100 occasionals seen at weddings, or 18th birthday parties with that kilt incident.

So when spouses, babies or simply new besties come along, others get bumped down. Jon and I were best mates at school, but we鈥檝e got new best mates now.

I guess marriage locks in place that closest relationship 鈥� the ring a daily reminder, of who my number one is. If children appear and plot a coup for our attention, we remember whom we promised to love and cherish first.

For those getting married this weekend, when you see gifts on that table, perhaps see the marriage itself as God鈥檚 gift: not to be put away in a drawer, but to be cared for daily, and though kids might prod at it a few times, to be kept unbroken.

So good luck Jon 鈥� because tomorrow, the kilt stories will reveal all.

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