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26/12/2008

With his usual mix of music and banter for Boxing Day.

3 hours, 30 minutes

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Boxing Day 2008 04:00

Music Played

  • The Teardrop Explodes

    Reward

    • The Teardrop Explodes - Greatest Hits.
    • Mercury.
  • The Crystals

    Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer

  • Girls Aloud

    The Loving Kind

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 1.
  • Peter Gabriel

    Sledgehammer

    • Now 1986 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • Cher

    Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)

    • Cher - The Greatest Hits.
    • Wea/Universal.
  • Eli 鈥淧aperboy鈥 Reed & The True Loves

    Am I Wasting My Time?

    • (CD Single).
  • Kate Bush

    December Will Be Magic Again

    • It's Christmas Time (Various Artists).
    • EMI.
  • Dire Straits

    Money For Nothing

    • Sultans Of Swing - Best Of Dire Straits.
    • Vertigo.
  • Keane

    Perfect Symmetry

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 1.
  • Beverley Knight

    Shoulda Woulda Coulda

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
  • Saint Etienne

    I Was Born On Christmas Day

    • (CD Single).
    • Heavenly.
    • 17.
  • Oasis

    I'm Outta Time

    • (CD Single).
    • Big Brother Recordings.
    • 1.
  • Band Aid

    Do They Know It's Christmas?

    • That's Christmas (Various Artists).
    • EMI.
  • The Supremes

    You Keep Me Hangin' On

    • Diana Ross & The Supremes - 40 Motown.
    • Polygram Tv.
  • Jools Holland & Ruby Turner

    The Informer

    • (CD Single).
    • Rhino.
    • 1.
  • Lenny Kravitz

    Fly Away

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

    Common People

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 5.
  • Snow Patrol

    Crack The Shutters

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

    It's A Marshmallow World

    • The Perfect Christmas: Holiday Music 2006 (Various Artists).
  • Meat Loaf

    I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)

    • Now 1993 - The Millennium Series.
    • Castle.
  • Madonna

    Miles Away

    • (CD Single).
  • Heart

    All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You

    • Absolute Gold (Various Artists).
    • Capitol.
  • Billy Joel

    The River Of Dreams

    • Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Volume III.
    • Columbia.
  • Average White Band

    Let's Go Round Again

    • The Best Of.
    • Rhino.
  • Wizzard

    I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday

    • That's Christmas (Various Artists).
    • EMI.
  • James Ingram & Michael McDonald

    Yah Mo B There

    • Duets - 36 Of The World's Greatest Ev.
    • Telstar.
  • Darlene Love

    All Alone On Christmas

    • Christmas Hits (Various Artists).
    • BMG.
  • George Michael

    December Song (I Dreamed Of Christmas)

    • (CD Single).
    • Aegean Records.
    • 1.
  • Estelle

    American Boy (feat. Ye)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 3.
  • Bryan Ferry

    A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

    • The Best Of Bryan Ferry.
    • Virgin.
  • Alexandra Burke

    Hallelujah

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony BMG.
    • 1.
  • U2

    Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

    • A Very Special Christmas (Various).
    • A&M.
  • Haircut One Hundred

    Love Plus One

    • Pelican West - Deluxe Edition.
    • Cherry Pop.
    • 002.
  • Pretenders

    Talk Of The Town

    • The Pretenders - The Singles.
    • WEA.
  • Slade

    Cum On Feel The Noize

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
  • The Beach Boys

    Good Vibrations

    • Smiley Smile (Stereo Version).
    • EMI.
  • Amy Macdonald

    Mr. Rock & Roll

    • (CD Single).
    • Vertigo.
  • Glen Campbell

    Grow Old With Me

    • Meet Glen Campbell.
    • Capitol.
    • 1.
  • Bananarama

    Robert De Niro's Waiting

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.
  • John Lennon, Yoko Ono & Plastic Ono Band

    Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (feat. The Harlem Community Choir)

    • GIMME SOME TRUTH. (Deluxe).
    • EMI.
  • Gabriella Cilmi

    Warm This Winter

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal.
    • 1.

Broadcast

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