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Cupboards or Cabinets?

When does a cupboard become a cabinet? We find out by asking the nation! Plus, our Mystery Guest talks scrumping and cider.

When does a cupboard become a cabinet? We find out by asking the nation!

Our Mystery Guest John Wright talks scrumping and cider...

Little Louie from Scotland tells us about going to the bakery to make mince pies, he'll be back tomorrow...

Gareth Gates takes us back in time in On This Day...

And Rev Ruth Scott makes us Pause For Thought...

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Wed 4 Dec 2013 06:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Adam and the Ants

    Antmusic

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Adele

    Rolling In The Deep

    • (CD Single).
    • XL.
    • 1.

  • Lily Allen

    Somewhere Only We Know

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Band Aid

    Do They Know It's Christmas?

    • That's Christmas (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Gary Barlow

    Let Me Go

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Blur

    Country House

    • The Best Album In The World Ever!(Va).
    • Virgin.

  • Dan Croll

    Â鶹ԼÅÄ

    • (CD Single).
    • Deram.
    • 001.

  • Duran Duran

    Rio

    • Duran Duran - Greatest.
    • EMI.

  • Fine Young Cannibals

    She Drives Me Crazy

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

  • Gareth Gates

    Anyone Of Us (Stupid Mistake)

    • (CD Single).
    • 19/Rca/Bmg.

  • Genesis

    Land Of Confusion

    • Genesis - Turn It On Again.
    • Virgin.

  • The Housemartins

    Happy Hour

    • Now That's What I Call Quite Good.
    • Go! Discs.

  • John Lennon

    Whatever Gets You Thru The Night

    • GIMME SOME TRUTH. (Deluxe).
    • Calderstone.

  • Jeff Lynne

    Mercy Mercy

    • Long Wave.
    • Frontiers Records.
    • 4.

  • Paul McCartney

    Queenie Eye

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

  • John Newman

    Losing Sleep

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

  • Paolo Nutini

    Pencil Full Of Lead

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

  • Tom Odell

    I Know

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Robert Plant & Band of Joy

    Angel Dance

    • Digging Deep: Subterranea.
    • Es Paranza Records.
    • 1.

  • The Police

    Message In A Bottle

    • The Very Best Of Sting & The Police.
    • A&M.

  • Queen

    Killer Queen

    • Queen - Greatest Hits.
    • Parlophone.
    • 2.

  • Status Quo

    Whatever You Want

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Ultravox

    The Voice

  • Wham!

    Last Christmas

    • That's Christmas (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Wham!

    Everything She Wants

    • Wham! - Make It Big.
    • Epic.

  • The Who

    Squeeze Box

    • The Who Hits 50! (Deluxe Edition).
    • Polydor.
    • 007.

  • Will Young

    Light My Fire

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG/RCA.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Rev Ruth Scott, an Anglican vicar in Richmond:

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Advent is marked in different ways around the world. In Mexico, village children dress up as Mary and Joseph and visit a different home each night asking if there’s room for them to come in. They’re given welcome and hospitality as they tell the story of their journey to Bethlehem. At my school this Advent we decided to try our own version. Even as I speak, life-size wooden figures of Mary, Joseph and the donkey are travelling around the school, with the staff and students in each department doing special things when the trio are with them. In Music on Monday they sang carols. In Food Tech they’re going to make and share the kind of Middle Eastern food people like Mary and Joseph might have enjoyed. In PE they’ll be working out a gymnastics routine with the theme, ‘Leap of Faith’. Today, while they discuss how we help people who are travelling a difficult road, the students are filling shoe boxes with toys for children who don’t normally receive presents. And so it goes on. The trouble is, the term has been exceptionally busy, everyone is tired and extra activities like this can feel more like a pressure than a pleasure. More than one colleague has been tempted to say there’s no room in their particular ‘inn’ for these nativity guests. Such is life. In fact, it’s often the case, and I know that’s true of me, that when we feel stretched and stressed we can feel less open to the needs of others, or to new ways of understanding or to unlooked-for encounters – all of which take time and energy we don’t feel we have. But closing psychological doors to such guests blocks the possibility of unexpected blessings coming into our lives. That’s why I believe Advent is a time for opening up hearts and minds once more and allowing light to transform our personal blindspots. When that happens, as Christmas reminds us, something new and joyful will come to birth.

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    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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