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Chris' Children In Need Auctions

Chris starts four days of amazing auctions for 大象传媒 Children In Need with The Ultimate Christmas Party, with special guests Rick Astley, Tom Odell, Sister Bliss and Seasick Steve.

Chris kick starts four days of amazing auctions, with money-can't-buy experiences up for grabs all in aid of 大象传媒 Children In Need. Starting with your chance to be at The Ultimate Christmas Party at the O2 Arena in London, with special guests Tom Odell, Seasick Steve, Sister Bliss from Faithless and Rick Astley. Plus, Anton Du Beke pops by to let us know he'll also be there singing and dancing - and he gives us all the Strictly gossip. Our Pause For Thought comes courtesy of Father Brian D'Arcy.

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Mon 12 Nov 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • Coldplay

    Viva La Vida

    • Viva La Vida Or Death & All His Friends.
    • Parlophone.
    • 1.

  • Take That

    Out Of Our Heads

    • Odyssey.
    • Polydor.

  • Rita Ora

    Let You Love Me

    • Phoenix.
    • Atlantic.

  • Travis

    Sing

    • The Invisible Band (Deluxe Edition).
    • Concord.

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Glory Days

  • Zara Larsson

    Ruin My Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Black Butter.

  • Seasick Steve

    Down on the Farm

    • Hubcap Music.
    • Polydor Records.
    • 1.

  • Simon & Garfunkel

    Bridge Over Troubled Water

    • Bridge Over Troubled Water.
    • Columbia.

  • Michael Bubl茅

    Love You Anymore

    • Love (Deluxe Edition).
    • Reprise.

  • Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa

    One Kiss

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Rag鈥檔鈥橞one Man

    Human

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Faithless

    Insomnia

    • Now 35 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Rick Astley

    Never Gonna Give You Up

  • Seasick Steve

    Summertime Boy

  • Tom Odell

    Magnetised

  • Seasick Steve

    Down on the Farm

  • AC/DC

    Highway To Hell

    • AC/DC - Highway To Hell.
    • Albert.

  • Rick Astley

    Dance

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.
    • 006.

  • Tom Odell

    Grow Old With Me

    • Long Way Down.
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • George Ezra

    Hold My Girl

    • Staying At Tamara's.
    • Columbia.
    • 8.

  • Faithless

    God Is A DJ

  • Rick Astley

    Beautiful Life

  • Jamie Cullum

    Love Is In The Picture

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Tom Odell

    Real Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

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

These cold days remind me of the winters I was privileged to spend in warmer climates.I spent two winters in South Africa, over two decades ago, yet the memory of the glorious sunshine is dwarfed by the even warmer hearts of the people I ministered with.

The greater part of my work was in the most neglected Townships. The poverty was horrendous but the joy shown by the people praying in their tin churches raised my spirits. They left their hovels and trudged through dirt roads, yet always arrived immaculately dressed in white shirts or blouses.

They came to enjoy themselves and were in no hurry home either. They sang and danced their way through services which were never less than two hours short.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu is now an elderly man but then he was their hero; the embodiment of hope for all his people. I went to a service he presided over and felt like giving up on the spot. He was a magnificent communicator.

He raised his people out of their miserable poverty and convinced them of their self-worth by sharing his vision of a loving God and a happy heaven. He told them that 鈥済ood and laughter and justice will prevail.鈥�

Freedom was at the centre of his life and spirituality. In his relentless high pitched oratory he told them 鈥淕od is NOT even handed. God is biased in favour of the weak鈥od is always on the side of the one being clobbered.鈥�

Then he dropped his voice and closed in on the microphone as he shocked them, and me, explaining that God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he鈥檇 rather let us freely go to hell than compel us to enter heaven.

His private prayer was 鈥淕od I know you鈥檙e in charge and want us to overcome injustice, but I wish you鈥檇 make it a little more obvious.鈥�

Almost a quarter of a century later, I remember how he ended his talk:听 鈥淒o your little bit of good whenever you can; all those little bits added together overwhelms evil.鈥�

Exactly what CIN does every year.

听

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