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#BeatlesAtTheBeeb - Day Two!

It is a cracker of a show with our Beatles at the Beeb search, live studio FX, scrabble and Nanny McMoira!

It's a cracker of a show this 5th November, with live studio FX and a guest appearance from Nanny McMoira!

We continue our Beatles At The Beeb search, with some extra insight from producer Kevin Howlett. Can you help us find the folk mentioned by the Fab Four back in the day? If you can, please e-mail: theoneshow@bbc.co.uk.

Today's names from the Beeb archives are: Irene and Sandra Lennon; Steve Mansfield in Louth, Lillian, Margaret and little Sharon; plus forms 3X and 3C from Wanstead County High School.

Today's Mystery Guest is Scrabble Supremo Paul Allen. Our fanfare star, Melissa Morgan, reviews Macbeth. And our Pause for Thoughter is Baroness Julia Neuberger.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Tue 5 Nov 2013 06:30

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  • 10cc

    Dreadlock Holiday

    • The Very Best Of 10cc.
    • Mercury.
    • 15.
  • Art of Noise

    Close (to the Edit)

    • (Single).
    • China Records.
    • 4.
  • The Banana Splits

    The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)

    • Television's Greatest Hits Vol. 5: In Living Color (Various Artists).
    • TVT Records.
  • Buzzcocks

    Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)

    • Greatest Hits Of The 70's (Various).
    • Disky.
  • James Cagney

    Yankee Doodle Boy

    • Hollywood Hit Parade.
    • RCA.
  • Matt Cardle

    When You Were My Girl

    • (CD Single).
    • Absolute.
  • Paul Carrack

    That's All That Matters To Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Carrack-UK.
    • 001.
  • Deep Blue Something

    Breakfast At Tiffany's

    • This Year's Love (Various Artists) C.
    • Global Television.
  • Eddie & the Hot Rods

    Do Anything You Wanna Do

    • Virgin.
  • Imagine Dragons

    On Top Of The World

    • Night Visions.
    • Interscope.
    • 001.
  • Michael Jackson

    Beat It

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
  • Billy Joel

    We Didn't Start The Fire

    • Billy Joel - The Ultimate Collection.
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.
  • Billy Joel

    Uptown Girl

    • An Innocent Man.
    • CBS.
  • Keane

    Higher Than The Sun

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 001.
  • Lenny Kravitz

    California

    • Lenny Kravitz - Baptism.
    • Parlophone.
  • Jerry Lee Lewis

    Great Balls of Fire

    • The Essential One & Only Jerry Lee Le.
    • Trax Records.
  • Dean Martin & Helen O’Connell

    How D'Ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning?

    • Cool Couples (Various Artists).
    • Sanctuary.
  • The Miracles

    Love Machine

    • Dancing In The Street (Various Artis.
    • Universal Music Tv.
  • Katy Perry

    Firework

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
    • 1.
  • Pet Shop Boys

    Thursday (feat. Example)

    • (CD Single).
    • x2 Recordings.
    • 001.
  • Tom Petty

    I Won't Back Down

    • Tom Petty - Anthology.
    • MCA.
  • Soft Cell

    Tainted Love

    • Hits & Pieces - The Best of Marc Almond & Soft Cell.
    • UMC.
  • Bruce Springsteen

    Dancing In The Dark

    • Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits.
    • Columbia.
  • Sweet

    Block Buster!

    • The Best Glam Rock Album In The World...Ever!.
    • VIRGIN.
    • 2.
  • Taylor Swift

    The Last Time (feat. Gary Lightbody)

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
    • 001.
  • Joe Walsh

    Life's Been Good

    • Driving Rock (Various Artists).
    • Global Records & Tapes.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Rabbi Julia Neuberger - Senior Rabbi at the West London Synagogue:

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Recently, I visited The Hook Lighthouse, at the tip of the Hook Peninsula in County Wexford. One of the oldest lighthouses in the world, it is the oldest operating lighthouse in Ireland. 36 metres high, it marks the eastern entrance to Waterford Harbour, guiding ships away from rocks and towards the river estuary.Μύ The existing tower dates from the twelfth century, though tradition has it that DubhΓ‘n, a missionary to the Wexford area, established some sort of beacon there as early as the fifth century.

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Nothing unusual about all that. But what IS fascinating is that the first custodians of the lighthouse were a small group of monks whose monastery was situated on the peninsula. They lit warning fires and beacons throughout the years, possibly starting as early as the fifth century, and they became the first official lighthouse-keepers. They probably helped build the tower too. The inside has the feel of a monastery, though eventually, with the dissolution of the monasteries in the sixteenth century, it became home to secular lighthouse keepers. But what’s so fascinating is that part of the religious duty of these monks, as they saw it, was to save life. In Jewish tradition, we are taught: β€œHe who saves a human life is as if he has saved a whole world.” Those monks, from a different tradition, and probably even long before the present lighthouse was built, obviously felt the same. They carried coal up the tower by 115 uneven steps day and night to make the fire at the top that served as a warning. They lived, slept and prayed there. And, through their efforts, countless lives were not lost at sea, numbers we’ll never know. β€œHe who saves a single life is as if he has saved a whole world”. By that reckoning, those monks, and their successors, saved world after world after world.

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