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Tue 18 Mar 2014 06:30
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Music Played

  • 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.

  • Bay City Rollers

    Bye Bye Baby (Baby, Goodbye)

  • Tony Bennett

    I Left My Heart In San Francisco

    • Melodies Of Love (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Blondie

    Denis

    • Atomic: The Very Best Of Blondie.
    • EMI.

  • Kate Bush

    Babooshka

    • Remastered Part I.
    • Fish People.

  • Chubby Checker

    Let's Twist Again

    • Cameo Parkway 1957 - 1967 (Various Artists).
    • ABKCO Records.

  • Chic

    Everybody Dance

    • The Last Days Of Disco (Film Soundtra.
    • Columbia.

  • Dire Straits

    Walk Of Life

    • Brothers In Arms 20th Anniv Edition.
    • Vertigo.

  • David Essex

    Gonna Make You A Star

    • 70's Number Ones Vol 3.
    • Old Gold.

  • Extreme

    More Than Words

    • The No.1 Acoustic Rock Album (Variou.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Florence + The Machine

    You've Got The Love

    • Now That's What I Call Music 74 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 5.

  • Genesis

    Land Of Confusion

    • Genesis - Turn It On Again.
    • Virgin.

  • Golden Earring

    Radar Love

    • Hot Love - Sounds Of The 70's, Part 1.
    • Old Gold.

  • Heatwave

    Boogie Nights

    • Too Hot To Handle.
    • BBR.
    • 013.

  • Kaiser Chiefs

    Coming ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ

    • (CD Single).
    • Fiction.
    • 001.

  • Katrina and the Waves

    Walking On Sunshine

    • The Best Summer Ever (Various Artist.
    • Virgin.

  • Lissie

    The Habit

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Dean Martin & Helen O’Connell

    How D'Ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning?

    • Cool Couples (Various Artists).
    • Sanctuary.

  • George Michael

    Let Her Down Easy

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Mike + the Mechanics

    Word Of Mouth

    • Mike & The Mechanics Hits.
    • Virgin.

  • Paolo Nutini

    Scream (Funk My Life Up)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Gregory Porter

    Hey Laura

    • Liquid Spirit.
    • Blue Note.
    • 001.

  • The Psychedelic Furs

    Pretty In Pink

    • Teenage Kicks (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Randy & the Rainbows

    Denise

    • 20 Great Crusing Hits Of The 50's & 60's Vol.2 (Various Artists).
    • Cascade.

  • Todd Rundgren

    Hello It's Me

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Rhino.
    • 1.

  • Snow Patrol

    Spitting Games

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • T. Rex

    Jeepster

    • Electric Warrior (Deluxe Edition).
    • A&M.
    • 3.

  • Three Dog Night

    Mama Told Me (Not To Come)

    • 25 Years Of No.1 Hits - Vol.1 (Vario.
    • Connoisseur Collection.

  • Paul Weller

    Wild Wood

    • Acoustic Rock (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Stevie Wonder

    Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours

    • You've Got Mail (Film S/Track).
    • Warner Sunset/Atlantic.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Leslie Griffiths, Methodist Minister:

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Just now, I feel overwhelmed by Ireland. Yesterday was St Patrick’s Day and on Saturday, nail-bitingly, the Irish rugby team became the Six Nations champions, making it a fitting farewell for the mighty Brian O’Driscoll. On top of that, I’ve been in Belfast with some of the best friends anyone ever had – we polished off a few bottles, told our oldest stories and laughed till it hurt. How true it is that β€œin the lilt of Irish laughter you can hear the angels sing.” Well, the angels sang all right, for St Patrick, for rugby and for friendship and I’m glad to remember that a Welshman is just an Irishman who couldn’t swim.

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I was staying in East Belfast and my happiness at being there was punctured by just one down-beat experience – the sight of huge, open-air murals that abound in that part of the city. They’re horrible. One pictured an armed man wearing a balaclava in gung-ho militaristic pose with a slogan that declared the right of the people of that community to resort to the use of guns if and when the need arose. What I found most sickening was the sight of children and young people playing on their bikes in the shadow of such a picture. Jesus made his views on children clear – we should never harm them but rather receive and honour them. Indeed, if we could summon up the necessary courage and imagination, we might hear the sharp-edged questions and the to-the-point observations which proceed out of the mouths of babes and sucklings. That’s why I’d like to take down those pictures of gun-toting hoodies and replace them with bike-riding kids. And my slogan would dwell on their hopeful future rather than the rancid past to which too many of their elders cling. For when Irish kids are smiling, sure they steal your heart away.

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  • Tue 18 Mar 2014 06:30
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