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Strictly Come Dancing and Knitting

Chris is joined by Strictly Come Dancing's Reverend Richard Coles, the latest contestant to leave the ballroom and he celebrates UK Wool Week with yarn doctor Bronagh Miskelly.

Chris is joined by Strictly Come Dancing's Reverend Richard Coles, the second contestant to leave the ballroom, who reveals what happens to each contestant after they're eliminated from the competition. Chris gets into the spirit of UK Wool Week with Bronagh Miskelly, the Yarn Doctor whose been knitting for over 30 years and even weaved jumpers for Peter Capaldi. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by 大象传媒 Entertainment Correspondent and Scotland football fan, Colin Paterson. We ask for your claims to the fame of knitter-phernalia in today's Top Tenuous and Catholic Passionist Priest Father Brian D'Arcy has the first Pause For Thought of the week.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Mon 9 Oct 2017 06:30
大象传媒 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Eurythmics & Aretha Franklin

    Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves

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

  • Craig David

    Heartline

    • (CD Single).
    • Insanity Records.

  • Laura Branigan

    Gloria

    • Disco Queens: The '80s (Various Artists).
    • Rhino.

  • Jigsaw

    Sky High

    • Billboard Top Hits 1975.
    • Rhino.

  • David Bowie

    Rebel Rebel

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • The Rolling Stones

    Miss You

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.

  • Paloma Faith

    Crybaby

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Kylie Minogue

    In Your Eyes

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Chris Andrews

    Yesterday Man

    • The Songs Of Chris Andrews.
    • Glissando Records.

  • Morrissey

    Spent The Day In Bed

    • Low In High School.
    • BMG.

  • David Hasselhoff

    Looking For Freedom

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Hungry Heart

    • Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits.
    • Columbia.

  • Chris Rea

    I Can Hear Your Heartbeat

    • The Best Of Chris Rea.
    • East West Records.

  • Blossoms

    Blown Rose

    • Blossoms.
    • Virgin EMI.
    • 007.

  • Harry Belafonte

    Jump In The Line

    • The Best Of.
    • Camden.
    • 16.

  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    Holy Mountain

  • Queen

    Flash

    • Queen - Greatest Hits.
    • Parlophone.

  • Maroon 5

    What Lovers Do (feat. SZA)

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.

  • The Flowerpot Men

    Let's Go To San Francisco

    • Sunny Afternoon - Sound Of The 60's,V.
    • Old Gold.

  • The Move

    Blackberry Way

    • Shazam.
    • Esoteric Recordings.
    • 009.

  • The Searchers

    Needles and Pins

    • (Single).
    • Pye.

  • Sam Smith

    Too Good At Goodbyes

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.

  • Soft Cell

    Tainted Love

    • Hits & Pieces - The Best of Marc Almond & Soft Cell.
    • UMC.

  • Depeche Mode

    New Life

    • The Best Of.
    • Mute.

  • Roy Orbison & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    I Drove All Night (feat. Ward Thomas)

    • A Love So Beautiful: Roy Orbison & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Legacy Recordings.

  • Gilbert O鈥橲ullivan

    Get Down

    • The Essential Collection.
    • BMG.
    • 008.

  • The Beatles

    Hello, Goodbye

    • The Beatles - 1.
    • Apple.
    • 019.

  • Toploader

    Dancing In The Moonlight

    • Onka's Big Moka - Toploader.
    • Sony Soho Square.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

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

It鈥檚 a while since I had the honour of being on Pause for Thought. There鈥檚 a good reason for that. Five weeks ago I changed from my beloved Enniskillen to take up a new post in a monastery in Crossgar, Co Down. It鈥檚 less than 100 miles away, but after 20 years ministering in Enniskillen it鈥檚 like moving to a different planet.

I was born in Enniskillen; I love the people there. They were kind to me at a time in my life when I almost fell apart. And they always forgave my many faults generously.

If I鈥檓 honest though, the trauma of change has taught me some valuable lessons. I discovered lots of new things about myself. For example, the older I get the more set in my ways I become. As the saying goes, the only one in favour of change is a baby with a soiled nappy.

And here鈥檚 good advice -if you have to leave the place you love, it鈥檚 best to move as fast as you can. Furthermore it鈥檚 necessary to ruthlessly discard as many possessions as possible. Carry memories instead of things.

I just about accept now that life itself is a journey not a destination; it鈥檚 a series of many goodbyes and just as many hellos. We have to treasure both.

Being grateful for past blessings teaches us to be open to new people and new challenges.

Every time I move on, I leave something of myself behind but聽 the bottom line is I have to grow where I鈥檓 planted.

Goodbyes are tough on those left behind too, so I must be careful not to become a ghost from the past constantly stirring up painful memories.

Most important of all is the realisation that every leaving is a preparation for the inevitable final departure from this earth.

Loving, living and leaving - that鈥檚 life.聽 If I avoid the pain of leaving, I will never really experience the joys of living and loving.

I鈥檝e learned that love is stronger than fear. Life is stronger than death. And hope is stronger than heart-break.聽

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