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Bono and Volcanoes

Bono calls Chris to tell us about U2's special release for Record Store Day and we find out about the UK's volcanoes with Dr Rebecca Williams.

Bono calls Chris to tell us about U2's special release for Record Store Day and how the band is celebrating the 30th anniversary of The Joshua Tree album. We discover that the Lake District used to be like the Caribbean and find out about the world's volcanoes with University of Hull's expert Dr Rebecca Williams, which erupts into today's Top Tenuous. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by former international rugby union footballer Keith Wood and today's Pause For Thought comes from Rabbi Julia Neuberger.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Thu 20 Apr 2017 06:30
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Music Played

  • Chris Rea

    Let's Dance

    • Auberge EP.
    • East West Records.

  • Rick Astley

    This Old House

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG Rights Management GmbH.
    • 004.

  • House of Pain

    Jump Around

    • (CD Single).
    • Ruffness.

  • Baccara

    Yes Sir, I Can Boogie

    • Million Sellers Vol.14 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Meghan Trainor

    Dear Future Husband

    • Title.
    • Sony Music.
    • 001.

  • The Rolling Stones

    Brown Sugar

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.

  • James Blunt

    Bartender

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Luther Vandross

    Never Too Much

    • The Love Album (CD 1) (Various Artist.
    • Virgin.

  • The New Christy Minstrels

    Three Wheels On My Wagon

    • New Christy Minstrels Greatest Hits.
    • Embassy.

  • Harry Styles

    Sign Of The Times

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Simply Red

    Something Got Me Started

    • Simply Red Greatest Hits.
    • East West Records.

  • Paul Simon

    Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard

    • The Paul Simon Anthology (Disc 1).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 3.

  • Stevie Wonder

    Faith (feat. Ariana Grande)

    • Sing O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Island.

  • The Stranglers

    Walk On By

    • Liberty.

  • Texas

    Tell That Girl

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd.

  • U2

    Red Hill Mining Town

  • Spin Doctors

    Two Princes

    • Driving Rock (Various Artists).
    • Global Records & Tapes.

  • The Beautiful South

    Don't Marry Her

    • (CD Single).
    • Go! Discs.

  • Leona Lewis

    Fire Under My Feet

    • I Am.
    • Island.

  • Sea Power

    Keep On Trying (Sechs Freunde)

    • (CD Single).
    • Golden Chariot Records.
    • 001.

  • The Jam

    A Town Called Malice

    • Jam Story.
    • Universal.

  • The Smiths

    This Charming Man

    • The Smiths - The Very Best Of.
    • WEA.
    • 2.

  • Jennifer Hudson

    Remember Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.

  • The Crazy World of Arthur Brown

    Fire

    • Fifty Number Ones Of The 60's (Variou.
    • Global Television.

  • The Communards

    Don't Leave Me This Way (feat. Sarah Jane Morris)

    • Now 1986 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

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

I was writing an entry for a biographical dictionary, when I heard the UK election had been called. When you read peoples鈥� obituaries, it brings home just how very short our lives are, and how many events which feel momentous at the time sink into a kind of soggy oblivion not long after.聽 When we look back, distinct events often seem to merge, and we find remembering detail really hard. In the Hebrew Bible, King David sang the praises of his son, Solomon, his appointed successor- no election here! - but said this:聽

鈥淔or we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.鈥�

Our stay on earth is fleeting, like a shadow. We don鈥檛 stay on to see the future. And, as we contemplate momentous events, elections, threats of nuclear weapons use, the rise of nationalism or whatever, we have to remember that we are only here briefly.

That could make us fatalistic. If our stay on this earth is so brief, why bother to even try to improve things? But an answer comes from a compilation of the teaching from the rabbis, known as Ethics of the Fathers:

"It is not incumbent upon you to complete the work, but neither are you at liberty to desist from it" (Avot 2:21)

In other words, you won鈥檛 be able to finish God鈥檚 tasks here on earth, for you won鈥檛 get to the end of the story. But you have to give it a go. You鈥檙e not free to decide simply to take no account of what is going on, just because you won鈥檛 be there for the end.

In a time of so many uncertainties, I think that鈥檚 really important. We may feel like opting out, and just seeing our friends. After all, that鈥檚 a lovely way to live one鈥檚 life. But the truth is I believe we have to do more, take some responsibility, try to make the word a better place. I may never know if my contribution helped. I won鈥檛 know what happens next. But I think I do have to engage with that bit of the story I鈥檓 living in. Opting out isn鈥檛 an option.聽

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