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Get lively every morning with the breakfast show. Expect lots of great music, news headlines, a look at the papers, regular sports updates and a daily Pause for Thought.

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Thu 29 Nov 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • The Dandy Warhols

    Bohemian Like You

  • The Lemonheads

    Mrs Robinson

    • Simply The Best Movie Album (Various).
    • Warner Strategic Market.

  • Jon Bon Jovi

    Blaze Of Glory

    • (CD Single).
    • Vertigo.
    • 1.

  • Rick Astley

    She Makes Me

    • Beautiful Life.
    • BMG Rights Management.

  • Meghan Trainor

    No Excuses

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.

  • Michael McDonald

    Sweet Freedom

    • Michael McDonald - Sweet Freedom.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Take That

    Out Of Our Heads

    • Odyssey.
    • Polydor.

  • Joy Division

    Love Will Tear Us Apart

    • Glorious (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Ace

    How Long

    • No Greater Love (Various Artists).
    • Global Records & Tapes.

  • Jess Glynne

    Thursday

    • Always In Between.
    • Atlantic.

  • Ellie Goulding

    Love Me Like You Do

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • New Radicals

    Get What You Give

  • Kate Bush

    Cloudbusting

    • Remastered Part I.
    • Fish People.

  • Tom Odell

    Piano Man

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Chas & Dave

    Rabbit

    • All The Best From Chas & Dave.
    • K-Tel.

  • Marshmello & Bastille

    Happier

    • (CD Single).
    • Positiva.

  • Sugababes

    Push The Button

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Rihanna

    Umbrella (feat. JAY-Z)

    • (CD Single).
    • Def Jam.

  • Starsailor

    Silence is Easy

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.

  • Stevie Wonder

    Superstition

    • Motown Chartbusters Volume 8 (Various Artists).
    • Spectrum Music.

  • Eurythmics

    There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)

    • The Female Touch 2 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Music's Too Sad Without You (feat. Jack Savoretti)

    • Golden.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Meat Loaf

    Bat Out Of Hell

    • The All Time Greatest Rock Songs ....
    • Columbia.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Matt Woodcock, Church of England Pioneer Minister and Mission Supporter in the Diocese of York:

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In a few days time I鈥檒l light a candle, raise a glass and take a moment to remember my extraordinary friend, Susie.

I miss her. She was a social tsunami. 听A woman who sucked up negative vibes like a hoover and poured out sunshine.

From the moment she was wheeled into our church a few Christmases ago, the atmosphere changed.

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Hearts and attitudes soon followed.听 As Susie brought along her neighbours and friends from the nearby sheltered flats, church life became richer, multifarious and far less dull. Dancing became a thing during some of our more lively hymns.听 Susie would persuade me to twirl her around in front of the altar like Anton Du Beke after too many energy drinks.听听 She joined in and came to everything. 听Even the things she wasn鈥檛 supposed to. 听Like my men鈥檚 group in the local.

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Physically, life was a major struggle for Susie.听 Blind and born with a defective spine, she was three feet eight inches tall, weighed four stone and was confined to a wheelchair.听 But body aside, virtually everything else about her was gloriously big. Like her generous spirit, infectious joy, and hopeless addiction to Meat Loaf and menthol cigarettes.

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I would often seek Susie out for spiritual conversation.听 A regular coffee with her helped me reconnect to God far better than my theology books. Not that she ever ordered coffee. It was usually something pink with crushed ice and a cocktail brolly in it. Her example taught me to strive to live as a radical includer and open inviter. That the measure of a flourishing individual or community - Christian or otherwise - is one that learns from, cherishes and fully integrates everyone. And always puts the smallest, weakest and most vulnerable first.

Susie often told me Jesus was her friend because she believed he embodied this.Preached a message of love, comfort and relief to 鈥楢ll鈥� and 鈥楨veryone鈥� not just 鈥楽ome鈥� or a 鈥楩ew鈥�.

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Taking Susie鈥檚 funeral, there were many lumps to swallow down. 听We sang - and danced to - her favourite gospel song 鈥�I Saw The Light鈥�. 听The line 鈥楴o more darkness, no more night鈥� was her special prayer. The wake was very Susie.听 I still have nightmares about my karaoke. Paradise By The Dashboard Light. That鈥檚 all I鈥檓 saying, Chris. 听

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