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Ibiza Announcement & Sandwiches

Chris announces Radio 2's first ever trip to the white isle of Ibiza withe Gary Davies. Zoe Ball and Ana Matronic plus we celebrate the first day of British Sandwich Week.

Chris announces Radio 2's first ever trip to the white isle of Ibiza with fellow presenters Gary Davies, Zoe Ball and Ana Matronic. It's the first day of British Sandwich Week so we speak to Max Halley, sarnie-making extraordinaire about how you can get the best fillings between your slices of bread. Plus Chris dissects the paper's reaction to the Royal Wedding, Carol is live with the weather from the Chelsea Flower Show and we Pause For Thought with art historian Dr Jim Harris.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Music Played

  • Average White Band

    Let's Go Round Again

    • The Best Of.
    • Rhino.
  • Ariana Grande

    no tears left to cry

    • (CD Single).
    • Republic Records.
  • Blur

    Beetlebum

  • Buddy Holly

    Peggy Sue

    • Rediscover The 50's-Rock With The Cav.
    • Old Gold.
  • Blossoms

    Charlemagne

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI.
  • Eurythmics

    Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

    • Our Friends Electric (Various Artists.
    • Telstar.
  • Paloma Faith

    Make Your Own Kind Of Music

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.
  • Michael Jackson

    P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)

    • Thriller.
    • Epic.
    • 6.
  • The Beatles

    Twist and Shout

    • Please Please Me.
    • Parlophone.
    • 14.
  • Phil Collins

    Two Hearts

    • Singles.
    • Rhino.
  • Meghan Trainor

    No Excuses

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
  • Perry Como

    Papa Loves Mambo

    • The Best Of Cult Fiction (Various).
    • Virgin.
  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    She Taught Me How To Fly

    • Who Built The Moon?.
    • Sour Mash Records.
  • The Shapeshifters

    Lola's Theme

    • (CD Single).
    • Positiva.
  • 808 State

    Pacific State

    • (CD Single).
    • ZTT.
  • Armand van Helden

    You Don't Know Me (feat. Duane Harden)

    • (CD Single).
    • FFRR.
  • 10cc

    Life Is a Minestrone

    • The Singles.
    • Mercury.
  • A Taste of Honey

    Boogie Oogie Oogie

    • Disco Fever 2 (Various Artists).
    • Universal.
  • Zara Larsson

    Lush Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.
    • 001.
  • The Lotus Eaters

    First Picture Of You

    • New Frontiers (Various Artists).
    • Temple Records.
  • The Style Council

    Long Hot Summer

    • The Best Summer Ever (Various Artists.
    • Virgin.
    • 4.
  • The Shires

    Sleepwalk

    • Accidentally On Purpose.
    • Decca.
    • 004.
  • Simple Minds

    Don't You (Forget About Me)

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

    High Five

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Jim Harris, Art Historian:


When I was a little boy, every time I went to a party, my parents would say the same two things to me:


鈥淩emember what your name is and remember who you belong to.鈥


I found this very confusing. How could I forget my name?听 And who did I belong to?

I thought it was just a way of telling me to behave myself (and it was) but it was useful too, reminding me that I wasn鈥檛 just myself out there, but I belonged to something bigger - a family.


Over the years I鈥檝e belonged to a lot of other things as well: school, university, scout troop, sports teams, bands, churches, the Museum.


I鈥檝e always wanted to belong to something. Not everyone does but a lot of us do. In an age of identity politics, when we align our beliefs and principles with other people 鈥榣ike us鈥 it seems more important than ever to know where we fit in.听 And yet it sometimes looks like we are more divided by our identities than united: left or right, leave or remain, United or City, the list goes on.


The Bible is a long story of people belonging, to families and tribes, to nations and cities.听 And at the centre of all that great web of belonging are a people who belong to God, whom God chose.


God鈥檚 chosen people.听 Now that鈥檚 an amazing thing, but it looks like a pretty closed shop, something no-one else can belong to, until St Paul writes this - that among the people who follow Jesus, who belong to him, 鈥渢here is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one.鈥

Now there are conventional ideas of identity turned upside down, because not one of them matters except membership in a community open to anyone.

And after a weekend when we鈥檝e thought a lot about belonging - principally, perhaps, about who can belong to the royal family these days - it鈥檚 astonishing to realise that such a thing exists: a place where anyone can belong.

I need that.听 And not just because I鈥檓 terrified of not belonging, but because with belonging comes acceptance, value and love.听 And those are things everybody needs.

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