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Liz Bonnin and George Clarke

Scientist Liz Bonnin tells Chris about her Nature's Epic Journeys tv series and Amazing Spaces presenter George Clarke, eulogises about the most brilliant, eccentric and quintessentially British type of outdoor buildings and how they can be entered into the 'Shed Of The Year' competition.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Wed 11 May 2016 06:30
大象传媒 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • David Bowie

    The Jean Genie

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Sweet

    Block Buster!

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

  • Gregory Porter

    Don't Lose Your Steam

    • Take Me To The Alley.
    • Decca.
    • 001.

  • Daryl Hall & John Oates

    You Make My Dreams

    • Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.
    • 5.

  • Lenny Kravitz

    Fly Away

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

  • Noah and the Whale

    Tonight's The Kind Of Night

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

  • Kaiser Chiefs

    Ruby

    • (CD Single).
    • B-Unique.

  • P!nk

    Just Like Fire

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.
    • 001.

  • Roxette

    Joyride

  • Olly Murs

    Wrapped Up (feat. Travie McCoy)

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
    • 1.

  • Canned Heat

    Going Up The Country

    • The Hits Of 1969 (Various Artists).
    • MFP.

  • Jamie Lawson

    Someone For Everyone

    • (CD Single).
    • Gingerbread Man Records.

  • Deacon Blue

    Dignity

    • Our Town- Deacon Blue (Greatest Hits).
    • Columbia.

  • Coldplay

    Paradise

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
    • 1.

  • Snap!

    Rhythm Is A Dancer

    • Holiday Hits: Non Stop Euro Pop (Var).
    • Virgin.

  • Tom Odell

    Magnetised

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Toto

    Africa

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

  • Taylor Swift

    Shake It Off

    • (CD Single).
    • Big Machine.
    • 1.

  • The Blow Monkeys

    It Doesn't Have To Be This Way

    • The Blow Monkeys - Choices.
    • RCA.

  • Go West

    We Close Our Eyes

    • Now 1985 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • Marvin Gaye

    Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home)

    • The Very Best Of Marvin Gaye.
    • Motown.

  • Steve Mason

    Alive!

    • (CD Single).
    • Domino.
    • 001.

  • CeeLo Green

    Music To My Soul

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • The Shires & Ward Thomas

    Everywhere

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

  • Kylie Minogue

    Some Kind Of Bliss

    • (CD Single).
    • Deconstruction.

  • Peter Gabriel

    Sledgehammer

    • Now 1986 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Foxes

    Scar

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Ruth Scott Anglican Priest and Quaker:

Listening to Desert Island Discs on Sunday I was really touched by Tom Hanks who was Kirsty Young鈥檚 guest. Totally unexpectedly he found himself getting choked up talking about the 鈥渧ocabulary of loneliness鈥� that captured his teenage experience. Like Tom there are many young people, perhaps more than we imagine, who know what it is to feel lonely. Technology doesn鈥檛 necessarily help with this: The ability to be in touch with others at any time can just accentuate the pain of feeling you have no one who really understands you. It鈥檚 not just youngsters who have this experience. We鈥檝e heard a lot in recent times about the loneliness of older people whose partner may have died or whose mobility and financial circumstances limit what they can do.聽 I, too, at different times in my life have felt acutely lonely. Early on, I tried to deal with this by keeping busy, but that didn鈥檛 resolve the root cause. It just held it at bay. Loneliness, like physical pain, lets me know that something is out of kilter in my life and needs attention. It may be to do with what鈥檚 going on inside my own head or it may be symptomatic of a sickness in wider society. Loneliness experienced across generations suggests we鈥檙e suffering from the loss of community spirit and sense of belonging that are vital for mental health. Faith doesn鈥檛 offer easy answers but encourages us to address the issues. The gospels tell us how Jesus himself experienced the anguish of profound loneliness. His response wasn鈥檛 to deny or run away from it. He faced it head on, crying out with the pain of it, yes, but also reaching deep inside himself for the resources to work with what he learnt from it. Loneliness is a tough teacher, but with growing understanding it can be transformed, sometimes into contented solitude, and sometimes into reconnection with other human beings, as Tom Hanks went on to discover for himself.

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