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Richard Allinson sits in

Richard Allinson sits in with a fully interactive show for all the family, featuring music, special guests and listeners on the phone.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Thu 19 Jun 2014 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Arctic Monkeys

    Snap Out Of It

    • (CD Single).
    • Domino.
    • 001.

  • David Baddiel, Frank Skinner & The Lightning Seeds

    Three Lions

    • Beautiful Game (Various Artists).
    • Universal.

  • Sara Bareilles

    Love Song

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Bee Gees

    Spirits (Having Flown)

    • Heartbeats - 18 Great Love Songs.
    • Solitaire Collection.

  • David Bowie

    The Jean Genie

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Paula Cole

    Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • The Coral

    Dreaming Of You

    • (CD Single).
    • Deltasonic.

  • Earth, Wind & Fire

    Let's Groove

    • 15th Anniversary Music Celebration (Various Artists).
    • Rhino.

  • Sophie Ellis鈥怋extor

    Love Is A Camera

    • (CD Single).
    • Douglas Valentine.
    • 001.

  • England United

    (How Does It Feel To Be) On Top Of The World

    • The Best World Cup Album..Ever!.
    • Music Factory.
    • 21.

  • The England World Cup Squad

    Back 麻豆约拍

    • England The Album (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Fat Les

    Vindaloo

    • England The Album (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Peter Gabriel

    Solsbury Hill

  • Glenn & Chris

    Diamond Lights

    • The Best Footie Anthems In The World...Ever!.
    • Virgin.

  • Guns N鈥� Roses

    Sweet Child O' Mine

    • Greatest Hits.
    • Geffen.

  • Ella Henderson

    Ghost

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.
    • 001.

  • Michael Jackson

    Black Or White

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.

  • Elton John

    Crocodile Rock

    • Diamonds.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey

    Some Kind Of Hero

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal.
    • 001.

  • Rickie Lee Jones

    Chuck E's In Love

    • Country Roads (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Led Zeppelin

    Stairway To Heaven

    • Led Zeppelin - Early Days.
    • Atlantic.

  • John Leyton

    Johnny Remember Me

    • 60's Number Ones Vol 1.
    • Old Gold.

  • Madness

    Our House

    • Now 1983 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • S茅rgio Mendes & Brasil '66

    Mas Que Nada

    • Mundo Latino (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Ocean Colour Scene

    Better Day

    • The Best Of Ocean Colour Scene.
    • Island.

  • Osibisa

    Sunshine Day

    • 25 Years Of Rock'n'Roll 1976.
    • Connoisseur.

  • The Pierces

    Kings

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • Gerry Rafferty

    Night Owl

    • Gerry Rafferty - Right Down Line.
    • EMI.

  • Red Box

    Lean On Me

    • Red Box - The Circle & The Square.
    • Sire.

  • La Roux

    Uptight Downtown

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • Neil Sedaka

    Laughter in the Rain

    • The Very Best Of Neil Sedaka.
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • The Specials

    Ghost Town

    • The Ultimate Eighties (Various).
    • Hit Records.

  • Stereophonics

    Dakota

    • (CD Single).
    • V2.

  • Donna Summer

    On The Radio

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

  • Talking Heads

    And She Was

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

  • Voice of the Beehive

    Don't Call Me Baby

    • Now 12 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Julia Neuberger, Senior Rabbi at the west London Synagogue:


When my mother was a girl in Germany before the war, she desperately wanted to be an artist. In later life, she amassed a huge collection of drawings and prints, perhaps to compensate for the fact that she wasn鈥檛 allowed to go to art school because she was Jewish. Amongst her possessions, after she died, we found a few of her own works, which show how influenced she was by the German modern art movement, and by artists themselves banned by the Nazis as forbidden art.


As a child, I thought it was normal not to be able to see the colour of the walls. There were pictures up everywhere! Many years later, clearing my parents鈥� flat after my mother died, I thought I had finished. I pulled back a curtain just to check, and, lo and behold, there were six more tiny pictures in a very narrow space by a window frame!

My mother鈥檚 life ended up very different from the one she might have lived had the Nazis not come to power. As a refugee, she had a variety of jobs, from domestic servant when she first arrived, to working at Marks and Spencer鈥檚, to becoming a manager, to being a social worker, and to producing greeting cards for a charity, once again using her interest in art. Had she remained in Germany, in different circumstances, she might have become a commercial artist, or been an art teacher. We shall never know. But one thing remains clear. Through all the tribulations of her life, getting her brother and her parents out of Germany, working desperately hard, through various illnesses, when learning of the murder of most of her family in concentration camps, she was sustained by her love of art. If she was miserable, she went to an exhibition. If she had any money at all, she bought a picture. That love of art, and that sustaining of the human spirit by drawings and etchings, by form and colour, tells us a lot about what we human beings need. Man- and woman- does not live by bread alone.

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