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Michael Palin tells Chris about narrating the new series of the Clangers and comparing notes with the US narrator William Shatner. Plus constructive careers advice from Tom Laws.

Michael Palin tells Chris about narrating the new series of the Clangers for CBeebies and comparing notes with the US narrator William Shatner. Plus, as exams season hots up we get some constructive advice from careers advisor Tom Laws who shares his top tips to get you your dream job. Vassos asks for your 'tent-uous' links to theme of famous tents after a glorious weekend camping. Father Brain has the first Pause for Thought of the week.

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Mon 23 May 2016 06:30
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Music Played

  • XTC

    Making Plans for Nigel

  • Beverley Knight

    Middle Of Love

    • Soulsville.
    • EastWest.

  • Irene Cara

    Fame

    • NOW Yearbook '82 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Aztec Camera & Mick Jones

    Good Morning Britain

    • The Best Of Aztec Camera.
    • Warner E.S.P..

  • Thomas Rhett

    Crash And Burn

    • Tangled Up.
    • The Valory Music Co.
    • 1.

  • ZZ Top

    Gimme All Your Lovin'

    • Top Gear 2 - Various Artists.
    • Columbia.

  • Paul Simon

    Wristband

    • (CD Single).
    • Concord Music Group.
    • 1.

  • Shanks & Bigfoot

    Sweet Like Chocolate

    • (CD Single).
    • Chocolate Boy.

  • CeeLo Green

    Music To My Soul

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Glen Campbell

    Galveston

    • Now 100 Hits Country (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • OneRepublic

    Wherever I Go

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.

  • Erasure

    A Little Respect

    • Erasure - Pop!.
    • Mute Records.

  • T. Rex

    I Love to Boogie

    • T. Rex - The Singles As & Bs.
    • Repertoire.

  • KT Tunstall

    Black Horse and the Cherry Tree

    • (CD Single).
    • Relentless Records.

  • Harry Belafonte

    Jump In The Line

    • The Best Of.
    • Camden.
    • 16.

  • Justin Timberlake

    Can't Stop The Feeling!

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Hue and Cry

    Labour Of Love

    • Now 24 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Nik Kershaw

    I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.
    • 4.

  • The Monkees

    Daydream Believer

    • The Definitive Monkees.
    • Warner Strategic Marketing.
    • 5.

  • The Lovin鈥� Spoonful

    Daydream

    • The Lovin' Spoonful Collection.
    • Castle Communications.

  • Commodores

    Nightshift

    • Soul (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Madness

    One Step Beyond

    • Greatest Hits Of The 70's (Various).
    • EMI.
    • 5.

  • Tom Odell

    Magnetised

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

  • New Radicals

    Get What You Give

    • (CD Single).
    • MCA.

  • Florence + The Machine

    You've Got The Love

    • Now That's What I Call Music 74 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 5.

  • Coldplay

    Up & Up

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
    • 001.

  • Pink Floyd

    See Emily Play

    • Echoes - The Best Of Pink Floyd.
    • EMI.

  • Travis

    3 Miles High

    • (CD Single).
    • Red Telephone Box.
    • 001.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Father Brian D鈥橝rcy, a Catholic Passionist priest:

I have another confession to make this week Chris. My friends tell me I am a work-alcoholic. Like all addicted people I鈥檓 quick to deny it. I鈥檓 convinced the best tools with which to achieve anything in life are hard work and common sense. Dreams don鈥檛 work unless I work. A major factor which drives on a work- alcoholic like me, is the fear that if I stopped I鈥檇 feel worthless.

听

This got me thinking about Henrik Ibsen鈥檚 play of self-avoidance and self-discovery, Peer Gynt. Towards the end, the hero experiences a moment of self-revelation.

听

After a lifetime of travel and adventure he begins to reflect on his own life. He asks himself this essential question: 鈥淲ho am I?鈥�

听

At this point Peer begins to peel an onion 鈥� a symbolic action representing his desire to discover what lies at the core of his own life. Of course he discovers an onion doesn鈥檛 have a core. So he forced to conclude that there is nothing at the centre of his own life either.

听

There is no human fear more devastating than the realisation that we amount to nothing. Those of us who constantly stretch ourselves听 live with the daily terror that at our very core there is quite simply nothing at all.

听

This is the fear that keeps us running, terrified that like Peer Gynt we will discover nothing but emptiness within. That鈥檚 a false fear that will cripple us unless we face up to it.

听

This is what I have to do repeatedly during my life. I have to be quite certain that there is an obvious meaning to my life, and to what I do. I believe that at the core of my life I am worth something. God doesn鈥檛 make second hand goods. I don鈥檛 have to do anything to be lovable or valuable. God loves me exactly as I am. It鈥檚 a gift not an achievement.

听

It is true there is no substitute for hard work but there鈥檚 more to life than that. To discover a reason for living, I have to stop running and be grateful for the miracle of simply being human, alive and lovable.

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