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Jeff Beck and How To Break Up With Your Phone

Chris chats to Jeff Beck about his guitar collection and author Catherine Price tells us how to break up with our phone.

Chris chats to guitar great Jeff Beck about his collection of instruments, and how his love of music started. Author of How To Break Up With Your Phone, Catherine Price explains her step-by-step guide on spending less time on your mobile. Vassos speaks to Olympian turned footballer Usain Bolt in the Sports Locker, and the Top Tenuous is outriders - inspired by the accompanying escort for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the 500 Words final on Friday. Plus Father Brian D'Arcy provides the daily Pause for Thought.

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Mon 11 Jun 2018 06:30
大象传媒 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Earth, Wind & Fire

    September

    • Greatest Hits Of 1978 (Various Artis.
    • Premier.
    • 3.

  • George Ezra

    Shotgun

    • Staying At Tamara's.
    • Columbia.

  • AC/DC

    Thunderstruck

    • (CD Single).
    • ATCO Records.
    • 420.

  • Stevie Wonder

    As

    • Stevie Wonder - The Definitive Collec.
    • Universal.

  • The Clash

    I Fought The Law

    • (Single).
    • CBS.

  • The Beach Boys & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Fun Fun Fun

    • The Beach Boys With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • UMC.

  • John Travolta & Olivia Newton鈥怞ohn

    You're The One That I Want

    • Grease (Original Movie S/Track).
    • Polydor.

  • Anne-Marie

    Ciao Adios

    • (CD Single).
    • Asylum.
    • 001.

  • Nina Simone

    I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel To Be Free)

    • The Best Of.
    • Philips.

  • Florence + The Machine

    Hunger

    • High As Hope.
    • Virgin EMI.

  • Daryl Hall & John Oates

    Private Eyes

    • Single Mixes.
    • RCA.

  • Scissor Sisters

    I Don't Feel Like Dancin'

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Perry Como

    Papa Loves Mambo

    • The Best Of Cult Fiction (Various).
    • Virgin.

  • Bastille

    Quarter Past Midnight (500 Words 8 Jun 2018)

  • The Yardbirds

    For Your Love

    • 25 Years Of Rock'n'Roll - 1965 (Various Artists).
    • Connoisseur Collection.
    • 9.

  • Charlie Puth

    Done For Me (feat. Kehlani)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Sweet

    Ballroom Blitz

    • The Sweet - Originals.
    • RCA.

  • Harry Chapin

    W*O*L*D*

    • (Single).
    • Elektra.

  • Taylor Swift

    We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.

  • Thin Lizzy

    The Boys Are Back In Town

    • (Single).
    • Vertigo.
    • 10.

  • Dobie Gray

    Drift Away

    • Soul Inspiration (Various Artists).
    • Dino.

  • Roger Daltrey

    How Far

    • As Long As I Have You.
    • Polydor.

  • Robbie Williams

    Millennium

    • (CD Single).
    • Chrysalis.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    Hold Me Like A Heaven

    • Resistance Is Futile.
    • Columbia.
    • 008.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

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

I鈥檓 always nervous officiating at marriages because I鈥檓 conscious of being an old bachelor who knows next to nothing about modern marriage. So I just tell the couple to feel free to ignore me.

The truth is that I really wanted to get married myself but being a catholic priest I wasn鈥檛 allowed to. I would have been a better, more grounded priest if I had married. The ancient scholar Socrates got it right when he said: 鈥淢y advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife you鈥檒l be happy and if you don鈥檛 you鈥檒l become a great philosopher.鈥�

Years ago I heard the legendary 大象传媒 personality Frank Muir being interviewed. He told us he鈥檇 been married for 39 years to a girl he met 鈥渉alf way between the beans and the toast in the 大象传媒 canteen.鈥�

He reflected on how his marriage survived so long in show-business. He said that even though he and his wife came from different religions, they prayed together every night. Each ended their prayer with 鈥淚 love you鈥�.听

Typically, Frank then said that when the tabloids asked him if he ever told his wife he loved her, he could honestly answer. 鈥漎es I have 鈥� at least 14,235 times.鈥�

The point is that marriage is held together not by chains but many little threads of human kindness. It鈥檚 more likely to be a lack of friendship rather than a lack of love which leads to an unhappy marriage. Experience tells me that we ought to go on falling in love over and over again 鈥� but with the same person every time.

I like to remind each couple that healthy relationships are built on the twin pillars of respect and trust. Once trust is broken I believe it can鈥檛 be repaired. We can certainly start over again, but it will be a new relationship even when it is between the same people.

As I head towards 2000 marriages in nearly 50 years of ministry, I鈥檒l continue to remind them, as an old bachelor of course, that a good marriage is not when the perfect couple come together; it鈥檚 when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. 听听听

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