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Today's show is dedicated to all UK sheep dogs because according to mischievous talk in this morning's papers, you're about to replaced by robots?

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Wed 27 Aug 2014 06:30

Music Played

  • Adamski

    Killer (feat. Seal)

    • Now 17, Part 2 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 1.
  • Booker T. & The M.G.'s

    Soul Limbo

    • Cafe Latino (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.
  • Brotherhood of Man

    Save Your Kisses For Me

    • The Ivor Novello Winners.
    • EMI.
  • Nell Bryden

    What Does It Take

    • (CD Single).
    • 157 Records.
    • 1.
  • Kate Bush

    Babooshka

    • Remastered Part I.
    • Fish People.
  • Charles & Eddie

    Would I Lie To You?

    • Duets - 36 Of The World's Greatest Ev.
    • Telstar.
  • Shaun Escoffery

    Nature's Call

    • Nature's Call.
    • Dome Records.
    • 001.
  • Eurythmics

    There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)

    • The Female Touch 2 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.
  • The Floaters

    Float On

  • The Fratellis

    Whistle for the Choir

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
  • Peter Gabriel

    Steam

    • Now 24 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

    Ain't No Mountain High Enough

    • Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell: Greatest Hits.
    • Tamla Motown.
  • George Harrison

    Got My Mind Set on You

    • George Harrison - Cloud Nine.
    • Dark Horse.
    • 1.
  • Chrissie Hynde

    Down The Wrong Way

    • Stockholm.
    • Caroline.
  • INXS

    Need You Tonight

    • The All Time Greatest Rock Songs ....
    • Columbia.
  • The Kinks

    All Day And All Of The Night

    • The Journey - Part 1.
    • BMG.
    • 23.
  • Maroon 5

    Maps

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 001.
  • Modern Romance

    High Life

  • Modern Romance

    Everybody Salsa

    • 25 Years of Rock 'N' Roll Volume 2 1981.
    • Connoisseur Collection.
  • Modern Romance

    Best Years Of Our Lives

    • The Platinum Collection.
    • Rhino.
  • Noah and the Whale

    Tonight's The Kind Of Night

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.
    • 1.
  • Robert Palmer

    Addicted To Love

    • Sounds Of The 80s - Like A Record Baby (1984-1986) (Various Artists).
    • UMC.
  • The Script

    Superheroes

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
  • Soul II Soul

    Back to Life (However Do You Want Me) (feat. Caron Wheeler)

    • NOW 100 Hits 80s No.1s (Various Artists).
    • NOW.
  • Sugar Ray

    Every Morning

    • (CD Single).
    • Lava/Atlantic.
  • Ruby Turner

    Move On

    • (CD Single).
    • RTR Productions.
    • 001.
  • The Tymes

    Ms Grace

    • 70's Number Ones Vol 3.
    • Old Gold.
  • Stevie Wonder

    He's Misstra Know-It-All

Pause For Thought

From Canon Ann Easter, Chief Executive of a Charity and Chaplain to the Queen:

Well here it is! My first Christmas catalogue! It came last week even before the summer Bank Holiday; and I know the weather鈥檚 not been up to much, but Christmas! Please!

Of course, being the shrewd and sensible shopper that I am, I do have a little stash of Christmas cards and gifts, that I bought in the January sales; I just have to remember that I鈥檝e got them before I start buying some more, and then I鈥檝e got to remember where I put them. But I didn鈥檛 really want to start thinking about Christmas just yet.听 Jesus said 鈥楽ufficient unto the day is the evil there of, in other words, enjoy what today brings and don鈥檛 worry about tomorrow, let alone Christmas.

Practice being in the moment; these days they call it mindfulness, it鈥檚 the knack, and they reckon you can learn it - of putting aside all the stuff that bothers and distracts us and concentrating only on what鈥檚 happening right this minute. Well, all right for some perhaps but as the Chief Executive of a charity and a wife and mother, I spend so much of my life planning and worrying about the next big thing. Sometimes I realise I鈥檓 not paying much attention to today. But then, what if today isn鈥檛 much fun?

I have some sympathy with a person who sees the news on television with all its unremitting violence - then looks at the Christmas catalogue and thinks wistfully of that warm golden glow and our sure hope that the love and the life that Christmas promises is real. And I believe that it is. Christmas celebrates God鈥檚 love and God鈥檚 love is for the whole year and the entire Creation to comfort and strengthen us whatever life flings at us.听 So maybe my Christmas catalogue came as a comforter - just what I needed!

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