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

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Tue 4 Aug 2015 06:30
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Music Played

  • The Kinks

    All Day And All Of The Night

    • The Journey - Part 1.
    • BMG.
    • 23.

  • Beck

    Dreams

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.
    • 1.

  • Iggy Pop

    Real Wild Child (Wild One)

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1987, Pt.2 (Var).
    • Telstar.

  • James Blunt

    1973

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Genesis

    Land Of Confusion

    • Genesis - Turn It On Again.
    • Virgin.

  • 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.

  • Dodgy

    Staying Out For The Summer

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

  • Little Mix

    Black Magic

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco Music.

  • Prince & The Revolution

    Let's Go Crazy

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.

  • The Coral

    Pass It On

    • (CD Single).
    • Deltasonic.

  • Nancy Sinatra

    These Boots Are Made for Walkin'

    • The Greatest Hits Of Nancy Sinatra.
    • Boulevard.

  • The Shires

    All Over Again

    • Brave.
    • Decca.
    • 006.

  • Madonna

    Into The Groove

    • Celebration.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 8.

  • M

    Pop Muzik

    • Million Sellers Vol.16 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Fun Boy Three

    Our Lips Are Sealed

    • Now 1983 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • Dean Martin & Helen O鈥機onnell

    How D'Ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning?

    • Cool Couples (Various Artists).
    • Sanctuary.

  • Lianne La Havas

    What You Don't Do

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Mr. Blue Sky

    • ELO - Out Of The Blue.
    • Jet.

  • Free

    All Right Now

    • Back To The 70's (CD1) (Various).
    • EMI.
    • 15.

  • Bruno Mars

    Treasure

    • Unorthodox Jukebox.
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • Showaddywaddy

    Under The Moon Of Love

    • The Best Steps To Heaven.
    • Tiger.

  • Desmond Dekker

    You Can Get It If You Really Want

    • Young Gifted & Black (Various).
    • Trojan.

  • The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus And Royal Philharmonic Orchestra:Isidore Godfrey,

    I Am The Very Model of a Modern Major-General

  • Bon Jovi

    Saturday Night Gave Me Sunday Morning

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • Roxette

    Joyride

    • Roxette Hits!.
    • Capitol.

  • Dusty Springfield

    You Don't Have To Say You Love Me

    • Dusty - The Silver Collection.
    • Philips.

  • The Clash

    Should I Stay Or Should I Go

    • Now 19 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Rod Stewart

    Love Is

    • Another Country.
    • Capitol Records.

  • Geoff Love

    The Dam Busters

    • Big War Themes.
    • EMI.

  • Semisonic

    Secret Smile

    • (CD Single).
    • MCA.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Last Sunday I spent the entire day moving house. I have to admit that I was feeling a little bit sorry for myself 鈥� for reasons that aren鈥檛 worth going into that was the fourth time I鈥檝e moved in less than two years 鈥� and it鈥檚 not over yet.

It was a very hot day and there weren鈥檛 many people around on my street. In fact most of the neighbours were in their homes and, at one point, as I was transferring the umpteenth box into my car, I noticed that, presumably because of the heat, all the blinds of their windows were drawn.

I had a strange sense that something sinister was happening. I imagined that this might have been what it felt like for so many Jewish people in Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia three quarters of a century ago. The Nazi government introduced anti-Jewish legislation that meant many had to leave homes on streets they had shared for years with non-Jewish neighbours. And as they left, they could see people with whom they had once been friends watching from behind their closed curtains, doing nothing to prevent them from being forced to leave.

Of course that鈥檚 not what was going on in my leafy suburb of North-West London a couple of days ago. But I suddenly sensed how difficult it must have been for my ancestors to be obliged to leave places they had regarded as their homes, not just from Nazi Germany but in so many other places as well.

And of course that experience isn鈥檛 limited to the Jews. Countless people in all lands and ages have encountered war or cruelty and have been obliged or ordered to flee. In current news we hear of people who, for a variety of reasons, have either chosen or been forced to leave their homes.

Although, it is claimed that some migrants鈥� motives may be less than noble - many have a story of hardship and loss.听 And that story often begins with someone closing their curtains, turning a blind eye to a set of circumstances that force someone to abandon their home. Behind the eyes of such lonely, fearful travellers is an experience of hardship and loss and a yearning for human kindness that, all-too-often, is kept behind closed curtains by prejudice and fear.

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