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Sara Cox sits in for Chris Evans and is joined by ELO's Jeff Lynne, who reveals his plans for 2017 following his performance in the legends slot at the 2016 Glastonbury Festival.

Sara Cox sits in for Chris and is joined by ELO's Jeff Lynne. After playing the 'legends' slot at this year's Glastonbury Festival, Jeff reveals his exciting plans for 2017 - a one off show at Wembley Stadium. On the first day of Wimbledon, ±«Óãtv Sports broadcaster Russell Fuller gives Vassos a crash course on the tennis tournament. Plus there's thirty minutes of non-stop music in the Half Wower and our first Pause for Thought of the week is from Canon Ann Easter.

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Music Played

  • Four Tops

    Loco In Acapulco

    • Their Greatest Hits.
    • Telstar.

  • Shaun Escoffery

    When The Love Is Gone

    • (CD Single).
    • Dome Records.

  • The Feeling

    Fill My Little World

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Island.

  • Beverley Knight

    Come as You Are

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Justin Timberlake

    Can't Stop The Feeling!

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Fine Young Cannibals

    Good Thing

    • The Raw & The Cooked.
    • London.

  • Ward Thomas

    Carry You ±«Óãtv

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.

  • Bryan Adams

    Can't Stop This Thing We Started

    • Bryan Adams - The Best Of Me.
    • Mercury.

  • Carly Rae Jepsen

    Call Me Maybe

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.

  • Burl Ives

    The Ugly Bug Ball

    • Classic Disney Volume 1.
    • Disney.
    • 14.

  • Travis

    Animals

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

  • Taylor Swift

    Shake It Off

    • (CD Single).
    • Big Machine.
    • 1.

  • Soft Cell

    Tainted Love

    • Hits & Pieces - The Best of Marc Almond & Soft Cell.
    • UMC.

  • Green Day

    Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)

    • Green Day - Nimrod.
    • Reprise.

  • Coldplay

    Adventure Of A Lifetime

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Marvin Gaye

    Got To Give It Up

    • Marvin Gaye - The Love Songs.
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • Madonna

    Vogue

    • Finally Enough Love (Deluxe Edition).
    • Rhino.

  • ZZ Top

    Sharp Dressed Man

    • (Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Gala

    Freed From Desire

  • Zak Abel

    Everybody Needs Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • The Rolling Stones

    Little Red Rooster

  • B.B. King

    Better Not Look Down

    • BB King: His Definitive Greatest Hits.
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • Electric Light Orchestra & Jeff Lynne

    Mr. Blue Sky (Glastonbury, 26 June 2016)

    • ELO's Greatest Hits.
    • 11.

  • Santana

    Leave Me Alone

    • Santana IV.
    • Santana Records.
    • 001.

  • Faith No More

    Easy

  • Kaiser Chiefs

    Never Miss A Beat

    • (CD Single).
    • B-Unique Records.
    • 1.

  • Stereophonics

    Mr And Mrs Smith

    • (CD Single).
    • Ignition Records.

  • Steeleye Span

    All Around My Hat

    • The Best Of Steeleye Span.
    • Chrysalis.

  • Roxette

    The Look

    • Now 15 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

Chris's Pause for Thought: Ann Easter

Chris's Pause for Thought: Ann Easter

From Canon Ann Easter, Chaplain to the Queen:

My son tells me that there are about 700 festivals this year, featuring everything from heavy metal to crafts to literature – whatever you enjoy, there’s a festival to take part in.

They tend to happen at weekends which makes it a bit difficult if you have to work on Sundays but I have been to one festival – my then boyfriend Christopher and I went to Cropredy in the late eighties and saw Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span, and I remember a blissfully warm, golden summer evening of music and dancing til the early hours.

At the centre of a festival is the idea of celebration – the word comes from the same root as ‘feast’ – and certainly, spending a couple of days in a happy, relaxed atmosphere, sharing good things and finding out about some more, being carefree and safe and having a little break away from work and worry – what’s not to celebrate??

I reckon that a festival can be a gift and a blessing because perhaps the one of God’s commandments that we most neglect these days is the one that says:

Observe a Sabbath and keep it holy; you have six days to do your work but the seventh day is a day of rest……

The Bible tells us that God took a day off to recuperate after six days’ work creating the whole universe but we like to convince ourselves that, somehow, we’re above that and we surround ourselves with beeping, flashing reminders of how much we’re needed so that we can’t rest.  And I believe that God wants us to have some space in our lives, a chance to rest and relax.

We may not be able to go to a festival for all sorts of reasons or even take a whole day off – but I think we’re usually the one that’s stopping us from taking a break, from smelling the roses, from seeing the smiles, from enjoying a cup of tea or whatever it is that is a feast for our senses and a rest for our souls. Let’s go festival!

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