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Working Her Way Back to You!

Vanessa returns to Early Breakfast and asks about the colleagues who make work a chortle and not a chore for you. Plus Chris Allen in West Norfolk is the day's Jolly Good Fellow, born this day in 1947.

1 hour, 27 minutes

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Thu 2 May 2013 05:00
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Otis Redding

    I Can't Turn You Loose

    • The Definitive Otis Redding Vol.2.
    • Rhino.

  • Stereophonics

    Graffiti on the Train

    • (CD Single).
    • Stylus Records.
    • 1.

  • Canned Heat

    Let's Work Together

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1970 (Various).
    • Premier.

  • Deanna Durbin

    The Turntable Song

    • The Best Of Deanna Durbin.
    • MCA.

  • Lily Allen

    Smile

    • (CD Single).
    • Regal.

  • The Stranglers

    Always The Sun

    • The All Time Greatest Rock Songs ....
    • Columbia.

  • The Mavericks

    Born To Be Blue

    • In Time.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Sad Angel

    • Extended Play.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Nell Bryden

    Shake The Tree

    Pause For Thought

    • (CD Single).
    • 157 Records.

  • Daft Punk

    Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • The Crystals

    Da Doo Ron Ron

    • The Best Of The Crystals.
    • Phil Spector Int.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Spinning Around

    • Now 46 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Agnetha Fältskog

    When You Really Loved Someone

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 1.

  • Them

    Baby Please Don't Go

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1965.
    • Premier.

  • Frank Sinatra - Always

    For birthday boy CHRIS ALLEN in West Norfolk

  • Tunde Baiyewu

    Diamond In A Rock

    • (CD Single).
    • Waking Dreams.
    • 1.

Pause For Thought with Mary Colwell, religious and environmental commentator

Pause For Thought with Mary Colwell, religious and environmental commentator

Winter walks with my dog can be quite a chore to be honest, especially this year when I wish I’d been as cold adapted as a polar bear.Ìý But on a few occasions I have been quite literally stopped in my tracks by a singing tree. I walk Flip – that’s my dog – on open parkland in Bristol and there are many trees dotted around.Ìý Sometimes one of them sings so loudly and so beautifully a small group of us gather round the trunk just to listen.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

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At first it is hard to see what is making the noise as the tree is tall and the leafless branches are silhouetted against a pewter sky – so picking out detail is hard.Ìý But then small shapes start hopping around and you begin to see that the tree is alive with birds, all of them singing their little hearts out.Ìý It really is magical - a singing, ringing tree.Ìý Birds often flock together in the winter – tits, thrushes and starlings can form quite large groups – and it’s like listening to a heavenly orchestra that decides to brighten up a dark day.Ìý Like any orchestra, not all the individual calls are beautiful, some sound harsh, others repetitive but some are divine, like tinkling bells and ring in harmony.

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Now imagine someone putting a huge sound-proof cover over the tree.Ìý The birds can sing as loud as they like, but no one hears, their song has been silenced.Ìý If that did happen the world would indeed be less wonderful.Ìý So as I think about World Press Freedom day this week I’ll hold the image of the singing tree in my mind and thank God that no-one has silenced it yet.

Broadcast

  • Thu 2 May 2013 05:00
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2