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2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Thu 6 Feb 2014 06:30

Music Played

  • 10cc

    The Things We Do for Love

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1976 (Various).
    • Premier.
  • ABC

    The Look Of Love

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

    Fascination

    • (CD Single).
    • Copenhagen.
  • Louis Armstrong

    Hello, Dolly!

    • Housewives Choice (Various Artists).
    • Music & Memories.
  • Katy B

    Crying For No Reason

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
  • The Bangles

    Walk Like An Egyptian

    • Take A Break (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.
  • Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Buffalo Soldier

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

    You Make Me Feel So Young

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 001.
  • Buggles

    Video Killed The Radio Star

    • Our Friends Electric (Various Artist.
    • Telstar.
  • Glen Campbell

    Rhinestone Cowboy

    • Ultimate Country (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.
  • Dave Edmunds

    Queen Of Hearts

    • The Best Of Dave Edmunds.
    • Swansong.
  • Caro Emerald

    One Day

    • (CD Single).
    • Dramatico.
    • 001.
  • Gnarls Barkley

    Crazy

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.
  • A Great Big World

    Say Something (feat. Christina Aguilera)

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
    • 001.
  • Whitney Houston

    I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)

    • Whitney Houston - Whitney.
    • Arista.
  • Imagine Dragons

    Demons

    • Night Visions.
    • Polydor.
  • Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers & The Mastermixers

    Swing The Mood

    • Now That's What I Call Music 15 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 6.
  • Keane

    Somewhere Only We Know

    • (CD Single).
    • Transcopic Records.
  • Nick Lowe

    Cruel To Be Kind

    • Fantastic 70's (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.
    • 9.
  • Paul McCartney & Wings

    Live And Let Die

    • The 7" Singles Box.
    • MPL.
  • The Monkees

    I'm A Believer

    • Rediscover The 60's-With A Little Hel.
    • Old Gold.
    • 7.
  • OneRepublic

    If I Lose Myself

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.
    • 001.
  • Pulp

    Disco 2000

    • Hits.
    • Island.
    • 6.
  • Spandau Ballet

    Gold

    • The Gold Album (Various Artists).
    • The Hit Label Ltd.
  • Lisa Stansfield

    Carry On

    • (CD Single).
    • Monkeynatra.
    • 001.
  • Steppenwolf

    Born To Be Wild

    • Rock Anthems Volume 2 (Various).
    • Dino.
  • Take That

    Pray

    • Take That - Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.
  • The Temptations

    Cloud Nine

    • The Temptations - The Ultimate Collec.
    • Motown.
  • Thin Lizzy

    The Boys Are Back In Town

    • (Single).
    • Vertigo.
    • 10.
  • The Trammps

    Disco Inferno

    • NOW Boogie Nights - Disco Classics (Various Artists).
    • Now.

Pause for Thought: Pete Tobias

Pause for Thought: Pete Tobias

From Rabbi Pete Tobias of the Liberal Synagogue, Elstree:

I'm just back from America where as we know everything is bigger than over here. We might get a few inches of snow, they get several feet. We have football matches watched by a few million people on TV, they have a game watched by over 100 million. We have the FA Cup, they have the Super Bowl, the grand finale of the American Football season.

Even the teams are bigger. There are only 11 on the pitch at any one time but there are up to 45 on the sidelines and most, if not all might play.

And the day itself last Sunday wasn't just any ordinary Sunday. It was Super Sunday.  A certain TV channel has claimed that title for its Sunday afternoon football broadcasts but it's nowhere near as Super as the one I experienced last weekend.

There’s a bit of a problem if everything is super. Several years ago I was at a summer camp in California. It seemed anything that anyone did was always 'totally awesome'. There was a staff talent contest before the kids arrived. One act was a young guy performing an awful song he'd written on a guitar he couldn't play. I waited to hear how my American colleagues would respond to something so truly dreadful. Astonishingly they all declared his performance was 'totally awesome'.

Sometimes people need to be told the truth, to recognise their limitations. If they think that everything they do is ‘totally awesome’, people might end up with unrealistic expectations about themselves and think everything they do is super. The hype leading up to ‘Super Sunday’ clearly affected the Denver Broncos who produced a performance that even my summer camp colleagues would have struggled to describe as totally awesome.

The rabbis of old tell us that a wise person is ‘someone who is content with what they have’. It may not be ‘totally awesome’ but knowing what people can’t do will help them feel pride in what they actually can achieve.

Broadcast

  • Thu 6 Feb 2014 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.