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Chris is feeling festive on Christmas Eve Eve with an open-mic show. Damian Wilson, Phil Holbird, Mancie Baker, Tom Figgins and Sound of the Sirens perform live.

It's Christmas Eve Eve and Chris is feeling festive with an awesome open-mic show. Damian Wilson, Phil Holbird, Mancie Baker, Tom Figgins and Sound of the Sirens perform the Yuletide classics and put a tinsel-tastic twist on Band Aid's heavenly hit!

Chris continues to celebrate more of the countries cracking Christmas heroes with the nation's best Roadside Recovery crews who are keeping us moving across the country and getting us from A to B!

And Reverend Sharon Grenham-Thompson has a Pause for Thought on God's gift.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Wed 23 Dec 2015 06:30
91热爆 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Van Halen

    Jump

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

  • Elvis Presley & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Burning Love

    • If I Can Dream.
    • RCA.
    • 001.

  • Little Isidore and the Inquisitors

    Christmas of Love

  • Take That

    Shine

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Slade

    Merry Xmas Everybody

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.

  • Darlene Love

    Marshmallow World

    • A Christmas Gift For You (Phil Spect.
    • Phil Spector Int.

  • Michael Bubl茅

    The More You Give (The More You'll Have)

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Pet Shop Boys

    Always On My Mind

    • Pet Shop Boys - Discography.
    • Parlophone.

  • Toploader

    Dancing In The Moonlight

    • Onka's Big Moka - Toploader.
    • Sony Soho Square.

  • The Springfields

    Bambino

  • Kylie Minogue

    Every Day's Like Christmas

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • The Kinks

    Father Christmas

    • Picture Book.
    • Sanctuary.
    • 3.

  • Lily Allen

    Somewhere Only We Know

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Blondie

    Heart Of Glass

    • Billboard Top Hits: 1979 (Various).
    • Rhino.
    • 13.

  • Destiny鈥檚 Child

    Independent Women, Part I

    • Destiny's Child #1's.
    • Columbia.

  • Mike Oldfield

    In Dulci Jubilo

    • The Best Christmas Album In The World.
    • Virgin.
    • 1.

  • Lynyrd Skynyrd

    Sweet 91热爆 Alabama

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

  • Lemar

    Higher Love

    • The Letter.
    • BMG.

  • Ed Sheeran

    Sing

    • (CD Single).
    • Asylum Records.
    • 001.

  • David Bowie & Bing Crosby

    Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy

    • I Believe.
    • Telstar.

  • Ramones

    Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)

    • The Perfect Christmas (Various).
    • Rhino.

  • Jeff Lynne's ELO

    One Step At A Time

    • Alone In The Universe.
    • Columbia.

  • George Ezra

    Cassy O'

    • Wanted On Voyage.
    • Columbia.

  • Bob Dylan

    Must Be Santa

    • Christmas In The Heart.
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Lou Monte

    Dominick The Donkey

    • Dominick The Italian Christmas Donkey.

  • Adele

    Send My Love (To Your New Lover)

    • 25.
    • XL Recordings.

  • Aztec Camera

    Walk Out to Winter

    • The Best Of Aztec Camera.
    • Warner E.S.P..

  • Kay Starr

    (Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man With The Bag

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Reverend Sharon Grenham-Thompson, Anglican Priest and Prison Chaplain:

Many of us are looking forward excitedly to ripping open the wrapping in a few days鈥� time. Like most households, I鈥檓 sure my family will have a combination of things we asked for, plus a few surprises too. 聽But on Monday I heard about one of the most surprising gifts you can imagine - a mountain! There鈥檚 a campaign going in Norway to transfer ownership of a Norwegian peak to neighbouring Finland, in recognition of Finland鈥檚 100 years of independence, and would only require a tiny redrawing of the Norwegian border.

This unexpected and highly unusual offering seems so very appropriate when you think that Christmas itself is a celebration of perhaps the most unlikely present of all - divine love and power, all wrapped up in a tiny defenceless baby - quite literally God鈥檚 gift!

This newborn in a stable drew the rich and the wise, the spiritual and holy, as well as the poor and marginalised, to the place of his birth - the wise men, the angels and the shepherds. And in the centuries since, men and women of all nationalities and backgrounds have found direction, comfort and hope in that same vulnerable child of Bethlehem, whose life ended as it began, on the margins.聽

It seems a complete contradiction - and yet I believe this heavenly gift has the potential to change lives more surely than anything we can buy. Because Christmas suggests the weakest among us can be the source of the greatest meaning. Children can re-introduce joy, and simplicity. The very elderly can be a reminder of the need to belong; the refugee, the importance of community; the ones who are different say something about each person鈥檚 unique value; the poor challenge materialism.


When you look at life that way, soon everyone we meet has the potential to bring something special into our lives - and we into theirs. We can become a gift to one another - something that might one day have the power to move mountains.

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