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Mark Goodier sits in

Mark Goodier sits in and is joined by DIY SOS' Nick Knowles who's helping to raise awareness of Carers Week 2016. Plus there's 30 minutes of non-stop music in the Half Wower and a perky Pause for Thought from Rev Sharon Grenham-Thompson.

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Thu 9 Jun 2016 06:30
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Music Played

  • Dexys Midnight Runners

    Come On Eileen

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • Red Hot Chili Peppers

    Dark Necessities

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Alannah Myles

    Black Velvet

    • Red Hot Metal (Various Artists).
    • Dover Records.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Sweet Talkin' Woman

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.

  • Nina Simone

    Ain't Got No, I Got Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony BMG.

  • Travis

    3 Miles High

    • (CD Single).
    • Red Telephone Box.
    • 001.

  • Level 42

    Something About You

    • The Complete Polydor Years: Volume 2 (1985-1989).
    • Cherry Red Records.

  • Justin Timberlake

    Can't Stop The Feeling!

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • MC Hammer

    U Can't Touch This

    • Fast Forward (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • The Divine Comedy

    Something For The Weekend

    • Fresh Hits 96 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.

  • Meghan Trainor

    Lips Are Movin

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
    • 001.

  • Alice Cooper

    School's Out

    • Sounds Of The 70's (Various Artists).
    • Warner E.S.P..

  • All Saints

    This Is A War

    • (CD Single).
    • London.
    • 001.

  • Dolly Parton

    Jolene

    • Million Sellers Vol.15 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • The Rolling Stones

    Under My Thumb

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.

  • The Human League

    Don't You Want Me

    • Dare!.
    • Virgin.

  • Sophie Ellis-Bextor

    Take Me ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ (A Girl Like Me)

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Zara Larsson

    Lush Life

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

  • Starship

    We Built This City

    • Now 1985 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 1.

  • Rihanna

    Umbrella (feat. JAY-Z)

    • (CD Single).
    • Def Jam.

  • Todd Rundgren

    I Saw The Light

    • My Girl (Original 1992 Film S/Track).
    • Epic.

  • Todd Terry, Martha Wash & Jocelyn Brown

    Something Goin' On

    • (CD Single).
    • Manifesto.

  • Madness

    Baggy Trousers

    • More Greatest Hits Of 80's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • The Who

    I Can't Explain

    • The Who Hits 50! (Deluxe Edition).
    • Polydor.
    • 002.

  • Pet Shop Boys

    Twenty Something

    • (CD Single).
    • x2 Recordings.
    • 001.

  • OMC

    How Bizarre

    • Now 34 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Reef

    Place Your Hands

    • 21st Century Rock (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Joe Cocker

    With a Little Help From My Friends (Radio 1 Session, 7 Oct 1968)

    • Rediscover The 60's - With A Little H.
    • Old Gold.

  • Shaun Escoffery

    When The Love Is Gone

    • (CD Single).
    • Dome Records.

  • Giorgio Moroder

    Deja Vu (feat. Sia)

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

  • Cream

    Sunshine Of Your Love

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1968.
    • Premier.

  • Sinéad O’Connor

    Nothing Compares 2 U

    • The Best Love Songs...Ever! (Various).
    • Virgin.

  • Ladyhawke

    A Love Song

    • (CD Single).
    • Mid Century Records.
    • 001.

  • Elbow

    One Day Like This

    • (CD Single).
    • Fiction.
    • 1.

  • Kool & the Gang

    Celebration

    • Kool & The Gang - The Singles Collect.
    • Phonogram.

  • The Housemartins

    Five Get Over Excited

    • The Housemartins - The Best Of.
    • Go Discs.

Chris’ Pause For Thought: Sharon Grenham-Thompson

Chris’ Pause For Thought: Sharon Grenham-Thompson

From Reverend Sharon Grenham-Thompson, vicar in Milton Keynes:

My church is getting ready for a big tea party on Saturday afternoon, one of the many places where people will be celebrating the Queen’s 90th birthday this weekend. It’s the Duke of Edinburgh’s 95th tomorrow as well, although he has said he wants the attention to be on Her Majesty.

I was really moved by a story I read about Her Majesty this week, told by a doctor returning from frontline military duty. He suffered from PTSD, and, at a formal occasion with the Queen, found himself too traumatized even to speak to her. Far from being annoyed or offended, the Queen recognized the poor doctor’s distress, and spent 20 minutes with him, allowing him to feed and pet her corgis, until he had calmed down.

Whatever one’s views on the monarchy, there’s no denying the Queen and Prince Phillip, now two very elderly people, have spent the best part of their lives supporting individual people and all kinds of projects, with the aim of serving the common good - or common ‘weal’ to use the old word for it - which is where we get the ‘Commonwealth’ from.

There’s a prayer in one of the Church of England service books which asks God to help us ‘honour one another and seek the common good.’ And this idea of a collective responsibility to ensure the well-being of all in society is one that goes back many centuries, from Aristotle onwards.  At the heart of the ‘common good’ is the philosophy that we should aim for human flourishing in all lives, not just our own.

In a demanding and competitive world I believe it can be very tempting sometimes just to focus on our own individual flourishing, over and above anyone else’s. Worries about income, housing, even culture, can lead people to see one another as rivals, rather than simply as men, women and children with needs, hopes and dreams. High stress lives can mean we miss the signs of distress in others, too preoccupied with our own troubles.

Our tea party on Saturday, like so many other celebrations, will bring all kinds of people together. What a tribute to the Queen’s legacy it would be if we could carry on that togetherness into the future - honouring one another and seeking the common good.

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