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Sara speaks to Mary Berry about her 91热爆 Two show 'Easter Feasts', with ideas for some Springtime baking! We hear your mini morning achievements, The Half Wower is back with some more top tunes, and Leslie Griffiths provides Pause For Thought, with added hip-hop lyrics...!

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Tue 22 Mar 2016 06:30
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Music Played

  • James Brown

    Living in America

    • 40th Anniversary Collection.
    • Polydor.
    • 4.

  • Reef

    How I Got Over

    • (CD Single).
    • REEFBAND.
    • 1.

  • Peter Gabriel

    Solsbury Hill

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • Giorgio Moroder

    Deja Vu (feat. Sia)

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

  • Bastille

    Pompeii

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin Records.

  • KISS

    Crazy Crazy Nights

    • Now 10, Part 1 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • All Saints

    One Strike

    • (CD Single).
    • London Records.
    • 1.

  • James Bay

    If You Ever Want To Be In Love

    • Chaos & The Calm.
    • Republic Records.
    • 001.

  • Mary Mary

    Shackles (Praise You)

    • Huge Hits 2000 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Joni Mitchell

    Big Yellow Taxi

    • Joni Mitchell.
    • Reprise.

  • Doris Day

    The Deadwood Stage

    • A Portrait Of Doris Day.
    • Stylus.

  • Holly Johnson

    Ascension

    • Fly (Songs Inspired By Eddie The Eagle) O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • UMC.
    • 001.

  • UB40

    Red Red Wine

    • Now 1983 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience

    Crosstown Traffic

    • The Jimi Hendrix Collection.
    • Universal.

  • Shawn Mullins

    Lullaby

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Corona

    The Rhythm Of The Night

    • Now 29 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Curtis Mayfield

    Move On Up

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

  • Robert Parker

    Barefootin'

    • The 60's - Soul (Various Artists).
    • Knight Records.

  • Elvis Costello & The Attractions

    Pump It Up

    • Elvis Costello & Attractions- The Man.
    • Imp Records.

  • Green Day

    Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)

    • Green Day - Nimrod.
    • Reprise.

  • Simple Minds

    Don't You (Forget About Me)

    • Glittering Prize - Best Of Simple Min.
    • Virgin.

  • WALK THE MOON

    Work This Body

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.

  • Nat King Cole

    L-O-V-E

    • Born Romantic O.S.T.(Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Julie London

    Fly Me To The Moon

    • The Best Of Julie London.
    • Liberty.

  • Maroon 5

    Sugar

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.

  • DNCE

    Cake By The Ocean

    • (CD Single).
    • Republic.
    • 1.

  • Texas

    Inner Smile

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.

  • Depeche Mode

    Enjoy The Silence (Reinterpreted)

    • (CD Single).
    • Mute Records.

  • Shed Seven

    Going For Gold

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 7.

  • Richard Ashcroft

    This Is How It Feels

    • (CD Single).
    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • Fugees

    No Woman, No Cry

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 4.

  • Echosmith

    Cool Kids

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 001.

Pause For Thought

From Leslie Griffiths, Methodist Minister:聽聽聽聽聽聽聽

I鈥檝e just read the memoir of Wyclef Jean, 鈥渙ne of the most influential voices in hip hop,鈥� or at least that what the publisher鈥檚 blurb says. A friend gave me the book for my birthday because Wyclef Jean is Haitian and I鈥檝e spent most of my life fighting the cause of Haiti, telling the world about its amazing people, as well as worrying away at its seemingly never-ending problems.

Wyclef Jean grew up in one of the toughest neighbourhoods in New York. He was streetwise as soon as he could walk. His dad was a pastor. So the youngster went to church services and got to know his Bible really well. He loved his dad but his dad hated his flirtation with this kind of music. For him it was satanic. He never guessed the extent to which the religion he鈥檇 given to his son kept showing through the music that he made. With his group The Fugees, Wyclef produced a startlingly successful album called The Score. One of the tracks carries these lines:聽

I woke up this morning, I was feeling kinda high; It was me, Jesus Christ and Haile Selassie. Selassie said greetings in the name of the most high, Jah Rastafari. Christ took a sip of the Amaretto, passed it down the table, said today I鈥檒l be betrayed by one of you twelve disciples. Give me a clue who could do this to you? The kid on the block who makes less money than you.

I really appreciate the way Wyclef Jean makes such an effort to keep his two worlds together. We鈥檙e in Holy Week, the week running up to Easter when Christians focus on the suffering and death of Jesus. And here鈥檚 a song that refers to the story of the way Judas Iscariot betrayed his best friend Jesus. The terrible thing is, the love of money can still drive people to do bad things now just as it did then. I like the way Haile Selassie makes his appearance but I鈥檓 still scratching my head about the Amoretto. So Wyclef鈥檚 dad didn鈥檛 live in a different world from his son after all. Both of them knew it was only love that can overcome human wickedness and they said so in their different ways.

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