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is Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield.

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We've been following the story of eleven-year-old , who has Asperger's. He wrote the words and music to 'The Spirit of Christmas', which was such a hit locally that Fynnjan’s mum, SuÌýVerhoeven decided to release it as a charity single in time for Christmas. We catch up with Fynnjan and his mum live in the studio.

Listen toÌýFynnjan onÌýSaturday LiveÌýback in and .

Saturday Live listener Ted ChanceÌýcontacted the programme to tell us about the time he appeared in 'Victims', the Culture Club Christmas video of 1983.

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Paul Watson is an international football coach training teams in Micronesia and Mongolia.Ìý

His book Up Pohnpei is published by Profile Books.Ìý His documentaryis due for release soon.

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Paul's blog:Ìý

Janet Martin is a fourth generation Officer. Both her parents met in the Salvation Army and her grandparents and great grandparents were missionaries for the Church.ÌýÌý

– Joining the Salvation Army, on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Four, Tuesday 7 January at 9.00pm

John Challis (AKA Boycie) chooses his Inheritance Tracks:

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Peter Lind Hayes: Life Gets Tee-Jus, Don't It?

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Whitesnake – Here I Go Again.Ìý

Former sound engineer Andy MillerÌýcame on earlier this year to listen to a tape labelled ‘Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison bootleg’ which he’d once given to his daughter Jess. What he heard was a demo of a song he’d written overÌý35 years ago. NowÌýhe has finally finished the song.

JP Devlin, Paul Watson, Janet Martin, Anita Anand, Fynnjan, Murray Lachlan Young, Angie Hobbs, Su Verhoeven.Ìý

If beyond everything there isÌýnothing

AndÌýnothingÌýknowsÌýnothingÌýofÌýthings

AndÌýnothingÌýknowsÌýnothingÌýofÌýnothing

Then everything’s everything

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And for every thing to beÌýsomething

FirstÌýsomethingÌýmust sayÌýthingsÌýareÌýthings

For without a thing, to decideÌýthingsÌýareÌýthings

Tell me how can a thing be a thing?

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For when looking atÌýthingsÌýwe can see they areÌýthings

So we know and we say they areÌýthings

For they look like a thing and they act like a thing

So of course then they must be the thing.

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But whenÌýsomethingÌýsaysÌýsomethingÌýisÌýnothing

ThenÌýnothingÌýis know by by a thing

So the thing that saidÌýsomethingÌýisÌýnothing

MakesÌýnothingÌýa thing that’sÌýsomething

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If beyond everything there isÌýnothing

AndÌýnothingÌýknowsÌýnothingÌýofÌýthings

AndÌýsomethingÌýknowsÌýsomethingÌýofÌýnothing

CanÌýnothingÌýnot, not be a thing?

I stand before you today for a reason<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

That reason to some may not be clear

But reason there is and its simple

And I know I speak for the many who can’t be here

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For there comes a moment in a persons lifetime

When a person must stand up and say

All the things that that person was thinking

But has never has had the chance to say-

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On behalf of the people who say nothing

But would like to say something but don’t know what to say

To the people they think are not listening

To the things they thought that they wanted to say

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About all of the things, out there that are, happening

And the things, out there that are, not happening as well

And all the things out there that might be on the verge of happening

But might or might not happen because it’s a little too early to tell

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And if those people, have truly not been thinking of listening

To the things that the people who wanted to say something

But didn’t say it because they didn’t know what to say, had to say

Then someone really must speak out for those people

And that is why I stand before you here today.

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For when I say what I shall say

Tall trees will bend and buildings sway

And word will spread from mouth to ear

From home to home, from far to near

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From them to them from he to she

From near to far to she to he

And they my friends eventually

Those words will come right back to me

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And I will hear what I have said

From those whose words I first did say

From thoughts they did not know they had

From the words I spoke first here today.

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ThankÌý you.