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Sara catches up with Richard Madeley in Rate My Christmas, and personal trainer and sports presenter Charlie Webster pops in with her simple tips for getting fit in 2016.

Sara catches up with Richard Madeley's to find out how his festive celebrations were in 'Rate My Christmas'. Personal trainer and sports presenter, the courageous Charlie Webster pops in with her simple tips for getting fit in 2016. Plus 30 minutes of top party tunes in Sara's Half Wower, and a Pause For Thought from Dr. Jim Harris.

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Tue 29 Dec 2015 06:30
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Music Played

  • DeBarge

    Rhythm Of The Night

    • Dancing In The Street (Various Artis.
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • Jess Glynne

    Hold My Hand

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Elvis Presley & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    It's Now Or Never

    • If I Can Dream: Elvis Presley With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Sony.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    A Design For Life

    • Everything Must Go - 20th Anniversary Edition.
    • Columbia.
    • 16.

  • Curtis Mayfield

    Move On Up

    • The Old Skool Reunion (Various Artis.
    • Global Television.

  • 惭辞迟枚谤丑别补诲

    Ace Of Spades

    • Rock Anthems Volume 2 (Various).
    • Dino.

  • Coldplay

    Clocks

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • The Lightning Seeds

    Lucky You

    • Lightning Seeds - Jollification.
    • Epic.

  • Foxes

    Amazing

    • (CD Single).
    • Sign Of The Times.

  • 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.

  • Scissor Sisters

    I Don't Feel Like Dancin'

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Robin Schulz

    Sugar (feat. Francesco Yates)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Olivia Newton鈥怞ohn

    Physical

    • Physical.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Ella Fitzgerald

    What Is This Thing Called Love

    • Essential Ella.
    • Verve.

  • Britney Spears

    Toxic

    • (CD Single).
    • Zomba.

  • The Beatles

    Back In The U.S.S.R.

    • Parlophone.

  • Rihanna

    Pon De Replay

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 62 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The White Stripes

    Seven Nation Army

    • (CD Single).
    • Xls.

  • Prince & The Revolution

    Kiss

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.

  • KISS

    God Gave Rock 'n' Roll To You II

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.

  • Manfred Mann鈥檚 Earth Band

    Blinded By The Light

    • Drivetime 3 (Various Artists).
    • Dino.

  • Elle King

    Ex's And Oh's

    • Love Stuff.
    • RCA.
    • 2.

  • Stevie Wonder

    Superstition

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

  • Adele

    Million Years Ago

    • 25.
    • XL Recordings.

  • Shocking Blue

    Venus

    • Dance Hits Of The '60's & '70's.
    • Old Gold.

  • Tears for Fears

    Mad World

    • Tears For Fears - Tears Roll Down.
    • Fontana.

  • Paolo Nutini

    New Shoes

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Pulp

    Common People

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 5.

  • Anastacia

    Army Of Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.
    • 001.

  • 补鈥恏补

    Foot of the Mountain

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal.
    • 3.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Art Historian, Dr Jim Harris

There鈥檚 a lot of new stuff around our house after Christmas. 聽New clothes, new toys, new smells, new novelty foodstuffs, and yet somehow, a couple of days later the place contrives to feel weary and old and hungover.

So I鈥檝e been doing the laundry. Yesterday, I did six loads of washing, clean, dried, folded and put away.聽 No ironing, though. 聽I鈥檓 not Superman.

I changed the beds, cleared the detritus from the boys鈥� rooms, emptied the bins and hoovered throughout.聽 I saved the house.聽 Maybe I am Superman鈥� The house certainly needed saving. 聽Like most of our homes it was covered with a layer of Christmas so thick you had to peel it off. And now it鈥檚 clean again, the tree looks less like it鈥檚 suffering from seasonal-affective disorder and the whole place feels fresh. 聽Which, for an anally-retentive tidiness obsessive like me is a positively life-changing experience.

Now, we tend to think of New Year as the moment for renewal. 聽We make resolutions, we promise to be better, healthier, kinder, to work harder, eat less butter, somehow to save ourselves. 聽But yesterday made me think again about that.

The Christmas stories in the bible cover many of the things that feature in our own seasonal experiences: family, anxiety dreams, presents, terrible journeys and unexpected guests. 聽But what pops up in all of them is the idea that Jesus, that tiny little scrap wrapped in rags in a cowshed, is here to save us.

And being saved isn鈥檛 just about one thing stopping.聽 It鈥檚 about a better thing starting: we鈥檙e saved from something and into something - from weariness into rest, from bitterness into love, from death into life.

So I reckon Christmas is the moment for the fresh start. New Year is just an accident of the calendar.聽 Because in among all the sheer weight of traffic - presents, food, drink, all the joy of catching up with loved ones - and all the aggravation of catching up with loved ones 鈥� Christmas offers the chance to save and be saved, by the odd gentle word, by the kindness of a gift, by the generosity of a meal and a bottle of wine shared.

And after we鈥檙e saved, we can tidy up.

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