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Meteorological Mysteries

Chris chats to top 大象传媒 weatherman Chris Deakin about the recent meteorological mysteries.

We find out more about the recent meteorological mysteries with top 大象传媒 weatherman Alex Deakin...

Little Grace tells us about her very first time dressing up as a jellyfish and singing songs about the sea...

With half-term holiday's approaching, Lynn's said she's going to let loose and build a bench, so our mystery guest is the perfect carpenter coach and master craftsman, Nigel Dorrington...

And as teachers are told to watch what they wear , our top tenuous takes us to your desperate claims to the fame of Ofsted...

Today's show is dedicated to anyone who has given up the evil weed as recent figures show, Britain is now down to less than 20% of smokers for the first time in decades...

And today's show is entitled: if we were meant to puff, we would have been born with chimney's.

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Wed 12 Feb 2014 06:30
大象传媒 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Amen Corner

    (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice

    • Sunny Afternoon - Sound Of The 60's,V.
    • Old Gold.

  • Bad Company

    Can't Get Enough

    • Driving Rock (Various Artists).
    • Global Records & Tapes.
    • 1.

  • Bee Gees

    You Should Be Dancing

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.

  • Toni Braxton

    Hurt You (feat. Babyface)

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
    • 001.

  • Paul Carrack

    Life's Too Short

    • (CD Single).
    • Carrack-UK.
    • 001.

  • The Cars

    Drive

    • The Greatest Love (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • The Corrs

    Breathless

    • (CD Single).
    • 143 Records.

  • Dire Straits

    Money For Nothing

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

  • The Emotions

    Best Of My Love

    • Mellow Madness (Various Artists).
    • Epic.

  • A Great Big World

    Say Something (feat. Christina Aguilera)

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

  • Bill Haley and His Comets

    Rock Around The Clock

    • That's Rock'n'Roll (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • James

    Sit Down

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

  • Elton John

    Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)

    • Diamonds.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Lorde

    Team

    • Pure Heroine.
    • Universal.
    • 6.

  • Manfred Mann

    Pretty Flamingo

    • Ages Of Mann.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Plan B

    She Said

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 7.

  • Gregory Porter

    Liquid Spirit

    • Liquid Spirit.
    • Blue Note.
    • 001.

  • Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

    Shop Around听

    • Tamla Motown Gold (Various).
    • Motown.

  • The Stranglers

    Golden Brown

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • The Sundays

    Here's Where The Story Ends

    • The Sundays - Reading Writing & Arith.
    • Parlophone.

  • The Supremes

    Stoned Love

  • Sweet

    Block Buster!

    • Blockbuster! Sensational 70's (Va).
    • Castle.

  • John Travolta

    Sandy

    • Grease (Original Movie S/Track).
    • Polydor.

  • The Waterboys

    The Whole of the Moon

    • Now 1991 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.

  • Robbie Williams

    Strong

    • (CD Single).
    • Chrysalis.

  • ZZ Top

    Gimme All Your Lovin'

    • Top Gear 2 - Various Artists.
    • Columbia.

Pause for Thought: Leslie Griffiths

Pause for Thought: Leslie Griffiths

From Leslie Griffiths, Methodist Minister:

听

Twenty years ago a new album hit the stores. It was called 鈥淭he Holy Bible.鈥� Its cover was splattered with churchy stuff, - there was one of those three-panelled picture-frames you see on altars. But the panels didn鈥檛 carry biblical images, just three grossly obese women in ugly self-display. And the group responsible for all this, Welsh boys every one, dared to call itself the Manic Street Preachers. Holy Bible, churchy pictures, preachers 鈥� this was my territory 鈥� I decided to investigate. I learned about Richey Edwards who鈥檇 written most of the lyrics for the songs, and who sadly disappeared, feared dead, the following year. His lyrics were clever and passionate. He dared to look at heavy political and social subjects 鈥� racism, anorexia, war, self-mutilation and so much else. Edwards hated, I mean really hated, religion 鈥� he saw it as manipulative, obliging believers 鈥渢o pretend respect for people and institutions [they] think absurd.鈥� I heard a number of religious people at the time return the compliment, dismissing the Manics as irresponsible and anti-everything; in a word, losers.

听

I鈥檓 a follower of Jesus and I ask myself where he would stand on matters like this. He could be critical of organised religion himself but, far more impressive, he had a rare knack for empathising with people who didn鈥檛 feel included in society. When Jesus came across people in need 鈥� hungry, suffering, unwanted people 鈥� he鈥檇 feel their plight like a kick in the gut, the pain of his compassion would tear him apart.

听

It鈥檚 surely time for us, especially us religious people, to stop tut-tutting and finger-wagging -听 whether it鈥檚 a rock group,听 playwright or filmmaker. We need to listen harder to what they鈥檙e saying, feel what they鈥檙e going through, in the hope that, somehow, one day, we鈥檒l find a way to bridge this terrible gap between us who think of ourselves as 鈥渞espectable society鈥� and those we dismiss as serving little or no useful social purpose. That鈥檚 what Jesus did. I want to do it too.

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