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Is That Paul McCartney Calling the Studio?

Paul McCartney phones the studio ahead of his Radio 2 gig and, with England's footie success, Chris swots up on his Portuguese. Plus, there is a Bake Off Breaking News special.

Paul McCartney makes a gap in his day to phone the studio ahead of his Radio 2 gig - and we catch up with our competition winner, Guy, who's setting off for the Â鶹ԼÅÄ's Maida Vale Studios.

To celebrate England's footie success, we look ahead to the 2014 World Cup. Chris gets a lesson in genders, vowels and, more importantly, how to say "I don't understand!"

Following the Great British Bake Off semi-final, and news of its Â鶹ԼÅÄ One transfer, we share listeners' brilliant Baking News.

Today's Fanfare kid, little Ariana, gets fierce and mighty as she practises her haka. (Ringa pakia, Uma tiraha, Turi whatia, Hope whai ake...)

Tina Ritchie gets confused between Thor and a snail....eh?! And Rabbi Pete Tobias delivers today's Pause for Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Wed 16 Oct 2013 06:30

Music Played

  • James Blunt

    Bonfire Heart

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.
  • Paul McCartney

    New

    • New.
    • Virgin/EMI.
  • Freeez

    I.O.U.

    • Club Classics From The 80's (Various).
    • Disky.
  • Ollie & Jerry

    Breakin'... There's No Stopping Us

    • Classic 80s Movie Songs (Various Artists).
    • Universal Music Enterprises.
  • Madness

    Baggy Trousers

    • More Greatest Hits Of 80's (Various).
    • Disky.
  • Stevie Wonder

    Another Star

    • Songs In The Key Of Life.
    • Motown.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From: Rabbi Pete Tobias of the Liberal Synagogue, Elstree:

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Every week in synagogues a particular section from the Torah, the Five Books of Moses, is read and the week is referred to by the title given to that weekly portion. Last week was Lech L’cha, which literally means ‘get up and go!’ – God’s instruction to Abraham and his wife Sarah to leave their home and journey to a place that would be shown to them.


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Last week I also got up and went. I went to the Ukraine and Austria; a journey that took me through Poland, Italy and Switzerland on planes, buses and trains.


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It was a rewarding and very informative trip, rather different, I suspect, from the one that Abraham and Sarah took almost four thousand years ago. One major difference was that I ended up back in the place where I’d started: I returned home. For Abraham and Sarah, there was no going back. They had to find a new home.


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I remember my university days when every few months I seemed to be moving somewhere new. My motto was ‘home is where the stereo is’ – and in those distant days of amplifiers, speakers, cables and turntables, that was a significantly more complicated exercise than just plugging in a smart phone.


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As I travelled round obscure parts of Europe, spending each night in a different country, I was reminded of a line in the Liberal Jewish prayerbook for the Day of Atonement. It asks us to be mindful of those who are disadvantaged, especially ‘those who never seem to find a resting place in the family of the secure’. And by a random sequence of thoughts, I also remembered the lyrics of a song from a quarter of a century ago by Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, called ‘Â鶹ԼÅÄ’. Everybody, he says, has somewhere, something or someone they call home.


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Â鶹ԼÅÄ isn’t just a roof that covers your head, or wherever your music collection happens to be. It’s a place where you feel that you belong, something all of us need. And if we are fortunate enough to have ‘a resting place in the family of the secure’, may our thoughts and hearts be turned to those without somewhere, something or someone they can call home.

Broadcast

  • Wed 16 Oct 2013 06:30

Farewell Chris Evans: The best bits from his last shows at Radio 2

After eight years of hosting the Breakfast Show, Chris Evans leaves Radio 2.

500 Words

Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2's story-writing competition for kids.