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Kirsty Young and Brolga

Kirsty Young tells Chris about her David Attenborough programme for 大象传媒 One, plus 大象传媒 Two's Aussie kangaroo carer Brolga.

Kirsty Young tells Chris about her very special Sir David Attenborough programme for 大象传媒 One and we meet Brolga, 大象传媒 Two's awesome Aussie Kangaroo carer.

On Kid For A Fanfare we were joined by the adorable Grace who was doing her bit for charity.

Our Top Tenuous also took us back to the Godfather of nature, Sir David Attenborough.

Plus, Julia Neuberger provides the Pause For Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Thu 5 May 2016 06:30
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    • Arista.

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    A Simple Game

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  • Curiosity Killed the Cat

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  • Jamie Cullum

    Everybody Wants To Rule The World

    • 大象传媒 Radio 2 Sounds Of The 80s Vol 2 (Various Artists).
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    Summertime

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    Near Wild Heaven

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    Don't Lose Your Steam

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    Wild Thing

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    Bonfire Heart

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Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Julia Neuberger, Senior Rabbi at the west London Synagogue:

Last night at my synagogue, as part of Yom Hashoah, the Holocaust Memorial Day observed by many Jews, we dedicated a memorial to Rabbi Hugo Gryn who died 20 years ago, who was himself a Holocaust survivor, and spent part of his childhood in concentration camp. He frequently wrote, preached and broadcast about his experiences. It was an extremely moving memorial, and a fitting tribute to him.


The whole ceremony reminded me of many conversations I had with Hugo about how people were traumatised into silence by their experiences, and how we needed ways of dealing with that trauma of experiencing the unspeakable. He died just a year after many people, survivors of the camps or refugees from Nazi Germany and Austria, began to speak in the wake of the 50th anniversary- in 1995- of the liberation of Auschwitz. My mother was one of those who began to speak, and she didn鈥檛 really stop till she died six years later. She was not alone. These days, we know about post-traumatic stress. These days, we provide support and counselling to traumatized people, though not always enough. But in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, those who survived thought they had better just get on with making a life- if they could. And they didn鈥檛 speak. But Hugo, unusually for his time, did. So the Hugo Gryn memorial shows people something of what happened to one person and his family, and expresses our pride in all he achieved after his terrible teenage years, watching his brother and later his father die. But it also reminds us to talk about the terrible things in life, and not to pretend they didn鈥檛 happen. The Biblical book of Kings tells us about men sitting at the city gate, chatting to one another about being afflicted with leprosy. They鈥檙e talking about their feelings- as they should! Hugo Gryn taught us that talking helps, not only about terrible things, but also just chatting to people very different from ourselves. He said that was how to create a healthy society. I think he was right.

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