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Chris Evans presents a fully interactive show for all the family, featuring music, special guests and listeners on the phone.

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Tue 28 Jul 2015 06:30
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Music Played

  • Sweet

    Ballroom Blitz

    • The Sweet - Originals.
    • RCA.

  • Katrina and the Waves

    Walking On Sunshine

    • The Best Summer Ever (Various Artist.
    • Virgin.

  • Andy Grammer

    Honey I'm Good

    • Magazines Or Novels.
    • S-Curve Records.
    • 001.

  • Louis Armstrong

    We Have All The Time In The World

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

  • Culture Club

    Do You Really Want To Hurt Me

    • Culture Club - Kissing To Be Clever.
    • Virgin.

  • The Kinks

    Tired Of Waiting For You

    • The Journey - Part 1.
    • BMG.
    • 6.

  • The Banana Splits

    The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)

    • Television's Greatest Hits Vol. 5: In Living Color (Various Artists).
    • TVT Records.

  • Genesis

    Invisible Touch

    • Genesis - Turn It On Again.
    • Virgin.

  • John Newman

    Come And Get It

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 001.

  • The Boomtown Rats

    I Don't Like Mondays

    • 25 Years Of Rock'NRoll: 1979 (Various Artists).
    • Connoisseur Collection.
    • 15.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Wow

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Ray Charles

    Georgia On My Mind

    • Ray Charles - The Collection.
    • Castle Communications.

  • Jess Glynne

    Don't Be So Hard On Yourself

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 001.

  • Sugar Ray

    Every Morning

    • (CD Single).
    • Lava/Atlantic.

  • Razorlight

    Somewhere Else

    • (CD Single).
    • Vertigo.

  • Dean Martin & Helen O鈥機onnell

    How D'Ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning?

    • Cool Couples (Various Artists).
    • Sanctuary.

  • Little Mix

    Black Magic

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco Music.

  • New Order

    Restless (Radio Edit)

  • Slade

    Coz I Luv You

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1971 (Various).
    • Premier.

  • Gabriella Cilmi

    Sweet About Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Cliff Richard

    Devil Woman

    • Cliff Richard - 40 Golden Greats.
    • EMI.

  • Black Sabbath

    Paranoid

    • Million Sellers Vol.18 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • The Velvelettes

    Needle In A Haystack

    • Leaders Of The Pack (Various Artists.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 6.

  • Tobias Jesso Jr.

    Without You

    • (CD Single).
    • Matador.

  • John Mellencamp

    Jack And Diane

    • John Cougar - American Fool.
    • Mercury.

  • Traveling Wilburys

    End Of The Line

    • Traveling Wilburys Vol.1.
    • Wilbury.

  • LEN

    Steal My Sunshine

    • Beautiful Game (Various Artists).
    • Universal.

  • Bon Jovi

    Saturday Night Gave Me Sunday Morning

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • Alvin Stardust

    My Coo Ca Choo

    • Jukebox 70's Hits -I Got The Music In.
    • Old Gold.
    • 1.

  • U2

    Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Well Chris, last time I saw you I was just about to head off to my son鈥檚 wedding in California. Now I don鈥檛 know exactly how my son and new daughter-in-law met, but I鈥檓 pretty sure it wasn鈥檛 anything to do with a moment in the Jewish calendar that occurs later this week. For reasons that aren鈥檛 properly explained anywhere in Jewish sources, the full moon of this particular month was an occasion when unmarried girls would put on white dresses and dance in the vineyards. Apparently this annual summer ritual was an attempt to find husbands, and although it鈥檚 a little known Jewish celebration, its main theme is romantic love. 聽

Several centuries after this Jewish equivalent of Valentine鈥檚 Day was established came a tragedy when the Babylonians destroyed Temple in Jerusalem and took many of its citizens into exile. The anniversary of that event was just a few days ago, and was commemorated with a fast.

So for Jews, this week offers an improbable combination of events: violence, destruction and exile preceded half a century earlier by a kind of biblical version of speed dating. Maybe that's what inspired the prophet Jeremiah, who witnessed the destruction, to write a letter to the people of Jerusalem who were exiled by the rivers of Babylon. Instead of weeping, he told them, they should find husbands and wives for their children so they could build new lives there.

Jewish tradition sees the weeks following the anniversary of the Temple's destruction as a period of consolation, when specific readings are included in synagogue services, beginning this coming Sabbath with Isaiah鈥檚 words 'Nachamu, nachamu ami' 鈥� 'be comforted, my people'.

After a time of grief, we need comfort. For many, comfort comes from the opportunity to be consoled by others who care for us - and for whom we care whether we marry them or not. Caring and being cared for of course increases the possibility of further grief should we ever lose that care. But without it, I believe, our humanity is diminished. Perhaps the contrast in this week鈥檚 Jewish observances remind us that the tragedies and the joys we experience in our lives can help us to cherish the value of human companionship and compassion.

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