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Seth MacFarlane, Mark Wahlberg, Greg Davies, Mark Sargeant, Tom Kerridge & Andreya Triana

Hollywood hotshots Seth MacFarlane and Mark Wahlberg, Comedian Greg Davies, Michelin-starred chefs Mark Sargeant, Tom Kerridge stoppped by! With live music from Andreya Triana!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 3 Jul 2015 06:30
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • The Cure

    Friday I'm In Love

    • True Brit (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • John Newman

    Come And Get It

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 001.

  • Moby

    Extreme Ways

    • MUTE RECORDS.

  • Eagles

    Take It Easy

    • The Best Of Eagles.
    • Asylum.

  • Billy Joel

    It's Still Rock and Roll To Me

    • Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Vol.2.
    • CBS.

  • Van Morrison

    Brown Eyed Girl

    • The Very Best Of Van Morrison.
    • Polydor.

  • Years & Years

    Shine

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • The Human League

    Don't You Want Me

    • Dare!.
    • Virgin.

  • Boy George & Mark Ronson

    Do You Really Want To Hurt Me (Glastonbury 2015)

  • Bobby Rydell

    Wild One

  • AC/DC

    Highway To Hell

    • AC/DC - Highway To Hell.
    • Albert.

  • C.W. McCall

    Convoy

    • Super Hits Of The '70s: Have A Nice Day Volume 14.
    • Rhino.

  • Ed Sheeran

    Photograph

    • X.
    • Atlantic.
    • 6.

  • Val Doonican

    Walk Tall

    • The Very Best Of Val Doonican.
    • Music Club.
    • 2.

  • Ed Sheeran

    Photograph

    • X.
    • Atlantic.
    • 6.

  • Morecambe & Wise

    Bring Me Sunshine

    • Summer Holiday (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music.

  • Pratt & McClain

    Happy Days

    • Television's Greatest Hits Volume 3 70s & 80s.
    • Silva Screen Records Ltd.

  • Tiffany

    I Think We're Alone Now

    • Now 12 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Jack Savoretti

    Written In Scars

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG Chrysalis.
    • 001.

  • Johnny Marr

    Easy Money

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Johnny Marr

    Easy Money

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Johnny Marr

    Easy Money

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Brandon Flowers

    I Can Change

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 001.

  • Iggy Pop

    Real Wild Child (Wild One)

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

  • Taylor Swift

    Bad Blood

    • 1989.
    • Universal.

  • Gallagher & Lyle

    I Wanna Stay With You

    • Gallagher & Lyle - Breakaway.
    • River Records.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Ten years ago today I looked in the mirror and saw something I’d not seen before. Me, in a cassock and dog collar. It was the eve of my ordination, and the following day in that collar and cassock, in the parish church of St. Botolph Boston, amid slightly anxious new parishioners, I embarked on the ministry I attempt however clumsily to serve today. Tom, you might have baked a cake.

 It was to be a week of firsts: at a baptism, when as a mark of respect one of the mums stuck her chewing gum on the side of a font; in the vestry, commenting ungenerously on a member of a visiting choir unaware that my radio mike was still on; on a train, when the bloke in the buffet car looked up and really said “More tea, Vicar?”

Ten years on the cassock is falling apart, the collar’s long been eaten by the dog, and if I was expected by now to be ‘delivering a world-class ministry’ then it’s disappointment all round

This is, in a part, a problem of volume, having more coming in than can be satisfactorily handled. That sometimes means missing things, important things, not just emails, but crises of faith, andonce a death bed. If I’m honest it’s also a sometimes a tactic to avoid an unwelcome task, an onerous chore.

But I like to think it is also because in ten years of parish ministry I’ve learned one important thing, and it’s this: don’t forget what you’re really for.

I am not a social worker, I am not a small businessman, I am not a project manager, nor a site supervisor, I’m not an accountant, I do not exercise a leadership style, nor do I ensure we are fully compliant with Health and Safety at work legislation. I am not a caterer, not an events organizer. I’m not a motivational speaker, a therapist, or a life-coach.  

I’m an afterlife coach – that’s all – and the joy and the burden of this job is to help people live this life more fully,more richly, more generously, in anticipation of the next.

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  • Fri 3 Jul 2015 06:30
    BBC Radio 2

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