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Chris' Children In Need Auctions

The week of Children In Need auctions continues, with running, golf and Christmas lunch packages. Steve Cram and Ken Bruce join Chris in the studio as the bidding continues.

It's day three of Chris' amazing auctions, with money-can't-buy experiences up for grabs all in aid of 大象传媒 Children In Need.

Today you can bid for the Radcliffe, Crammy & VIP London with a Half package, which includes a guaranteed place to run the 2019 London Marathon. Plus the Mine's A Half' package to enjoy a Windsor Half Marathon weekend party.

Then there's also your chance to bid for the Ultimate Christmas Lunch at Rick Stein's restaurant in Barnes. You will be hosted by Mary Berry, Joanna Lumley and Prue Leith then afterwards get to play Popmaster with the one and only Ken Bruce!

And last but not least there's the Super Swing Golf Package, to enjoy the 2019 PGA Championships and play in a pro-am tournament with Lee Westwood and Graeme McDowell.

Still to come... You could be a VIP guest at Carfest 2019 and there's the chance to Spice Up Your Life with the Spice Girls at Wembley Stadium!

Plus our daily Our Pause for Thought comes from Dr Jim Harris.

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Wed 14 Nov 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • Bonnie Tyler

    Holding Out For A Hero

    • The No.1 Movies Album (Various Artist.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Little Mix

    Woman Like Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco Music.

  • The Proclaimers

    I'm on My Way

    • The Best Of The Proclaimers.
    • Chrysalis.

  • Simon & Garfunkel

    A Hazy Shade Of Winter

    • The Definitive Simon & Garfunkel.
    • Columbia.

  • Bryan Adams

    You Belong To Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • Primal Scream

    Rocks

    • Dirty Hits.
    • Columbia.

  • Jamie Cullum

    Love Is In The Picture

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Dean Martin

    Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu)

    • Best Of The Capitol Years - Dean Mart.
    • Capitol.

  • Zara Larsson

    Ruin My Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Black Butter.

  • Ocean Colour Scene

    The Riverboat Song

    • (CD Single).
    • MCA.
    • 3.

  • Lenny Kravitz

    California

    • Lenny Kravitz - Baptism.
    • Parlophone.

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Glory Days

  • Queen

    Don't Stop Me Now

    • Jazz.
    • Island.
    • 12.

  • Fatboy Slim

    Praise You

    • Now 1999 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.

  • The Jacksons

    Frosty The Snowman

    • 20 Motown Christmas Classics (Variou.
    • Hitsville.

  • The Kinks

    You Really Got Me

    • The Journey - Part 1.
    • BMG.
    • 7.

  • Reef

    Place Your Hands

    • 21st Century Rock (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Dr Jim Harris, Art Historian:

听

Two things happened on Monday.听 One was that men came to deliver our new washing machine.听 And the other was that Stan Lee, the Father of Superheroes, passed away at 95.

I鈥檓 not comparing the gravity of these events, but bear with me鈥�

听

Our washing machine lives in the cellar.听 But the washing machine men did not put the washing machine in the cellar.听 They put it in the kitchen. And the hour I spent manoeuvring it down the cellar steps is an hour of private grief I never want to relive, a cycle of struggle, despair, tears, rage and more struggle, marked by a yawning absence of superpowers.

听

And I mourned Stan Lee, because what I needed then was a superhero.听 Or rather, I needed to be a superhero, with the proportional strength of a spider; the ability to move metal with my mind; or just a really big hammer to smash something. I needed to be better.

听

I think it鈥檚 natural to aspire to be better, and we long to meet our heroes in the hope that something of their 鈥榖etterness鈥� will rub off.听 It鈥檚 why we bid to train with Paula Radcliffe and Steve Cram, play golf with Lee Westwood and Graeme McDowell or talk cake with Mary Berry.

听

Even so, the brutal truth is that even that training won鈥檛 make most of us run a sub three-hour marathon.听 That golf won鈥檛 bring down our handicap.听 That conversation will not bake us a better sponge.

听

Christians follow Jesus for some of the same reasons we love our heroes: we hope and believe that he can save us, make us better.听 It鈥檚 what gods are for.

听

But the thing about Jesus, according to the Bible, is that he's not just God. Christians also believe that he is fundamentally like us - a human person who knows all the frustrations and sheer, punishing, relentlessness that human life entails.

听

Now no one can aspire to be like a god. But we can aspire to be like another person, even a person like Jesus.听 And then we can train to be faster, develop our swing or attend to our soggy bottom. Or even just move a washing machine without swearing quite so much.

听

And I reckon that when we set our sights a little higher, then aspiration can become transformation.听 And then we are all capable of being superheroes.

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    大象传媒 Radio 2

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