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Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry talk to Chris about The Great Comic Relief Bake Off final, and Paralympian David Weir is in for a special bulletin with Vassos.

On today's wonderful Wednesday show;
Young Georgie receives a fanfare after visiting the Houses of Parliament for the first time.
Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry tell us all about The Great Comic Relief Bake Off final.
Paralympic champion David Weir is in live for a special bulletin with Vassos.
Chris talks to travel journalist and author Dixie Wills about the joys of the tiny islands off Britain.
Today's Top Tenuous takes in your links to 'dances with actions'!

Today's show is dedicated to anyone who has ever been involved in the world of marching!
And the show is entitled "Today's March 4th, some say march forth!".

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Music Played

  • ZZ Top

    Gimme All Your Lovin'

    • Top Gear 2 - Various Artists.
    • Columbia.

  • Marlon Roudette

    When The Beat Drops Out

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco.
    • 001.

  • Keane

    This Is The Last Time

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Island.

  • Lulu & The Luvvers

    Shout

    • It's Party Time (Various Artists).
    • Magic.
    • 8.

  • Paul Simon

    You Can Call Me Al

    • The Paul Simon Anthology (Disc 2).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 4.

  • Maroon 5

    Sugar

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.

  • The Champs

    Tequila

    • The Wanderers (Original S/Track).
    • Sequel Records.

  • Petula Clark

    Downtown

    • NOW That's What I Call Jukebox Classics (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • James Bay

    Hold Back The River

    • Hold Back The River EP.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • David Essex

    Hold Me Close

    • 70's Number Ones Vol 2.
    • Old Gold.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Tusk

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 012.

  • Queen

    We Will Rock You

    • News Of The World.
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • Tom Petty

    Free Fallin'

    • Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever.
    • MCA.

  • Pet Shop Boys

    Go West

    • Pet Shop Boys - Very.
    • Parlophone.

  • Franz Ferdinand

    Take Me Out

    • Now That's What I Call Music 57.
    • Now.

  • Take That

    Kidz

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

  • Kaiser Chiefs

    Falling Awake

    • (CD Single).
    • Fiction.
    • 001.

  • Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston

    It Takes Two

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

  • Frankie Goes to Hollywood

    Two Tribes

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

  • Frankie Goes to Hollywood

    Two Tribes

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

  • Musical Youth

    Pass The Dutchie

    • Young at Heart (Various Artists).
    • Reader's Digest.

  • Texas

    Black Eyed Boy

    • Hits Zone - The Best Of 97 (Various).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Lionel Richie

    Dancing on the Ceiling

    • Dancing In The Street (Various Artis.
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • The Rolling Stones

    Jumpin' Jack Flash

    • The Rolling Stones - Remastered.
    • Abkco.

  • Madonna

    Living For Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.

  • The Toy Dolls

    Nellie The Elephant

    • Back To The Eighties (Various).
    • Music Club.

  • Whigfield

    Saturday Night

    • The Best Summer Ever (Various Artist.
    • Virgin.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Rabbi Pete Tobias of the Liberal Synagogue, Elstree:

This evening is my annual opportunity to dress up in a fancy dress costume and behave in a ridiculous fashion. I guess there are some in my congregation who think I do that all the time, but today I鈥檓 actually supposed to 鈥� it鈥檚 in the job description. Tonight sees the start of the Jewish festival of Purim 鈥� a carnival festival at which we are obliged to behave cheerfully.

It鈥檚 a fun celebration with a serious message: a light-hearted festival which, although it has a serious message about persecution, is a story like something out of the Arabian Nights, and its retelling tonight in synagogues the world over provides an opportunity to laugh at each other and ourselves.

Some of the things going on in our world make it difficult to laugh at anything to do with religion. Professor Richard Dawkins once described religion as 鈥榟armless nonsense鈥� 鈥� if he happened to turn up at my synagogue this evening, he鈥檇 find plenty to reinforce that opinion. He did change his mind after 9/11, however, revising his description to 鈥榣ethally dangerous nonsense鈥�. Given some of the things being perpetrated in many places in our world in the name of religion, it鈥檚 hard not to agree.

The use of the word nonsense in connection with religion is pretty risky these days, as recent events in Paris and Copenhagen have shown us. But the Purim story is meant to be ridiculed, with characters that we cheer and boo. It鈥檚 a pantomime, actually parodying those who claim that their belief system requires them to wipe out those who believe or practise something different.

One might imagine that in our world the author of the Purim story might be persecuted or worse for making fun of religion. In many ways it鈥檚 the biblical equivalent of a cartoon. Instead the self-mocking tale that will be read this evening is perhaps an opportunity to remind ourselves that if religion could be more about fun and celebration and less about fear and terror, there might be more room for hope and joy in our troubled world.

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