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Celebrating awesome albums!

Chris launches a new week with your Smug News, celebrates the album chart's first millennium, chats to Bond author William Boyd and demystifies the Doctor Who anniversary special!

Chris launches a new week with your Smug News and, boy, you've all been busy! We hear about listeners scaling tall buildings, and kicking the competition into touch - quite literally - in sporting events (and games of rock, scissors, paper) across the land!

As the album chart celebrates its first millennium (with Robbie Williams' Swings Both Ways), we celebrate the Long Player with some cracking chart-toppers (and a seven minute pause for Pink Floyd!)

Our marvellous Mystery Guest is Boyd, William Boyd! The latest best-selling author to pick up the pen from Ian Fleming.

Our Fanfare kid, Alex, fills us on in Blue Peter's live Doctor Who special, while listener Lesley Bolton helpfully demystifies the 50th anniversary programme, with a 60 second summary!

And today's Pause for Thought is delivered by Father Christopher Jamison.

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Mon 25 Nov 2013 06:30
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Music Played

  • Gary Barlow

    Let Me Go

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • The Beatles

    Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

    • The White Album.
    • Parlophone.
    • 4.

  • The Beatles

    Sun King

  • Bee Gees

    Stayin' Alive

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.

  • µþ±ð²â´Ç²Ô³¦Ã©

    Crazy in Love (feat. JAY-Z)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Stir It Up

    • Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend.
    • Island.

  • Dario G

    Sunchyme

    • Huge Hits 1997 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Dion

    Runaround Sue

    • The Wanderers (Original S/Track).
    • Sequel Records.

  • The Everly Brothers

    Wake Up Little Susie

    • Acuff-Rose Opryland Music: 50th Anniv.
    • Acuff-Rose Opryland.

  • Mayer Hawthorne

    The Stars Are Ours

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

  • Chris Isaak

    Live It Up

    • Beyond The Sun.
    • Rhino.
    • 1.

  • Kraftwerk

    The Model

    • Into The Eighties (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Vera Lynn

    We'll Meet Again

    • The Very Best Of Vera Lynn - We'll Meet Again.
    • Decca.
    • 8.

  • Vera Lynn

    (There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover

    • We'll Meet Again (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.
    • 8.

  • Madonna

    Like A Virgin

    • Finally Enough Love (Deluxe Edition).
    • Rhino.
    • 7.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    Anthem For A Lost Cause

    • Rewind The Film.
    • Columbia.
    • 7.

  • Paul McCartney

    Queenie Eye

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

  • Olly Murs

    Hand On Heart

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
    • 1.

  • Paolo Nutini

    10/10

    • Sunny Side Up.
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • One Direction

    Story Of My Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco Music.

  • The Passions

    I'm In Love With A German Film Star

    • And Then She Kissed Me Vol.1 (Various.
    • Debutante.

  • Elvis Presley

    All Shook Up

    • Presley - The All Time Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.

  • The Proclaimers

    Letter From America

    • Greatest Hits Of The 80's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • Queen

    Radio Ga Ga

    • Queen - Greatest Hits II.
    • Parlophone.

  • Queen

    Don't Stop Me Now

    • Jazz.
    • Island.
    • 12.

  • Frank Sinatra

    You Make Me Feel So Young

    • The Frank Sinatra Collection.
    • EMI.

  • Jimmy Soul

    If You Wanna Be Happy

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.

  • T. Rex

    Metal Guru

    • Can The Glam! (Various Artists).
    • Cherry Red Records.

  • Thompson Twins

    Doctor! Doctor!

    • Young at Heart (Various Artists).
    • Reader's Digest.

  • Robbie Williams

    Go Gentle

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Robbie Williams

    Angels

    • The Best 90's Album In The World...Ev.
    • Virgin.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Benedictine Monk, Father Christopher Jamison:

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Yesterday was Stir Up Sunday, the traditional day for making the Christmas pudding, when each member of the family in turn is invited to help stir the rich ingredients of the pudding. In the face of so many adverts to buy readymade puddings perhaps not many people keep this tradition. But this kitchen tradition echoes the prayer appointed to be read at church services at this time. Each day this week we Christian ministers will say a prayer that begins ‘Stir up the will of your faithful people, O Lord.’ So stirring up the pudding matches stirring up the will of the people. But stirring people up to do what? The prayer goes on to encourage people to bestir themselves to do good works so that they might enjoy ‘the healing remedies of God’s kindness.’ Stir Up Sunday is a wonderful example of so much that’s good about this time of year. There are traditional foods, there are family traditions and there is the constant invitation to bestir ourselves to greater kindness so we can reflect God’s kindness. It’s exactly one month to Christmas and some people will be complaining that it’s all too commercial. Well the constant stream of seasonal marketing can be a reminder not only to buy things but also to live out all that’s best about preparing for Christmas. I can bestir myself to remember those in distress or those I’ve neglected or those who are lonely. To enter into the coming month with this spirit can lead to the fulfilment of the promise expressed in the Stir Up prayer, the promise that the ones who heal are themselves healed: to act with compassion towards a fellow human being is to experience what Christians believe the birth of Christ represents, namely, the healing remedies of God’s kindness.

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  • Mon 25 Nov 2013 06:30
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