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Children In Need's Record Breaking Fundraising figure

Chris chats to Pudsey Bear's pal Gareth Hydes about Children in Need's record-breaking fundraising figure of Β£49.6 million.

Chris chats to little Maddy about her very first time performing in Joseph and the Amazing Colour Dreamcoat at school, while Caro Emerald provides us with this morning's On This Day...

Pudsey Bear's pal 'Gareth Hydes' joins us on the phone to tell us all about Children In Need's record-breaking fundraising figure of Β£49.6 million...

Our Mystery guest is the finely tuned President of the British Trombone Society, Mr Christian Jones...

Tim Henman joins us to talk Andy Murray and Wimbledon tennis, plus Reverend Ruth Scott pops in with some pearls of wisdom with today's Pause For Thought.

Today's show is dedicated to anyone lining up a really special thank you for someone...
And today's show is entitled: if you look round the nearest corner you'll see a whole weekend waiting for us!

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Thu 3 Jul 2014 06:30
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Music Played

  • Chicago

    Now

    • (CD Single).
    • Frontiers Records.
    • 1.

  • Coldplay

    A Sky Full Of Stars

    • ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Music Awards (Various Artists).
    • UMOD.

  • Nat King Cole & George Shearing

    Let There Be Love

    • Heartbeat - Forever Yours.
    • Sony.

  • Erasure

    A Little Respect

    • Erasure - Pop!.
    • Mute Records.

  • David Essex

    Hold Me Close

    • 70's Number Ones Vol 2.
    • Old Gold.

  • George Ezra

    Budapest

    • Wanted On Voyage.
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Steve Harley & Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel

    Here Comes The Sun

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

  • Ella Henderson

    Ghost

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

  • Billy Joel

    Honesty

    • Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Vol.2.
    • CBS.

  • Elton John

    Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)

    • Diamonds.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Kaiser Chiefs

    9 To 5 (Glastonbury 2014)

    • Employment.

  • Katrina and the Waves

    Sun Street

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

  • KC and the Sunshine Band

    Get Down Tonight

    • Billboard Top Hits 1975.
    • Rhino.

  • The Killers

    Human

    • Day & Age.
    • Mercury.
    • 1.

  • Kirsty MacColl

    They Don't Know

    • Galore - The Best Of Kirsty MacColl.
    • Virgin.

  • MKTO

    Classic

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.

  • Gilbert O’Sullivan

    Get Down

    • The Essential Collection.
    • BMG.
    • 008.

  • Jimmy Osmond

    Long Haired Lover From Liverpool

    • The Very Best Of The Osmonds.
    • Polydor.

  • P!nk

    Get The Party Started

    • The Very Best Of All Woman 2003 (Var).
    • BMG.

  • Pulp

    Disco 2000

    • Hits.
    • Island.
    • 6.

  • Roxette

    Joyride

  • Nina Simone

    Sinnerman

    • Pastel Blues.
    • Philips.
    • 9.

  • Rod Stewart

    Mandolin Wind

    • The Best Of Rod Stewart.
    • Mercury.

  • The Stranglers

    Always The Sun

    • The All Time Greatest Rock Songs ....
    • Columbia.

  • Justin Timberlake

    Rock Your Body

    • (CD Single).
    • Jive.

  • UFO

    Doctor Doctor

  • Midge Ure

    Become

    • (CD Single).
    • Hypertension-Music.
    • 001.

  • Wet Wet Wet

    Wishing I Was Lucky

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

  • Will Young

    Jealousy

    • Echoes.
    • RCA.
    • 1.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Rev Ruth Scott, Anglican Vicar in Richmond:

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At the recent St Magnus Festival Service on Orkney, Fraser Macnaughton, the minister, spoke of an artist, Gordon Mackenzie, who used to visit schools to work with the children. He began by asking, β€œHow many artists are there present today?” In the infant classes children jumped out of their seats and virtually every hand went up enthusiastically in response, but the older the class, the fewer the raised hands. It seems by the time students left school hardly any thought of themselves as artists.

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What a tragedy! Everyday news confronts us with our human capacity to damage and destroy others and the world in which we live. We need artists of all kinds – whether painters, poets, musicians, sculptors or storytellers who help us to understand ourselves, or builders, bakers, healers and homemakers whose artistry takes other forms.Μύ Wouldn’t it be great if every child came of age knowing their capacity to be creative?

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Paradoxically, this doesn’t come about by denying or distancing ourselves from our ability to be destructive. In my experience the most damaging individuals and communities I know are those who believe themselves to be good and right, and the problems to be everyone else’s. Conversely, some of the most creative and inspiring people in my life are those who are upfront about their own flawed nature and try to work imaginatively with it.

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In his poem, β€˜The Circus Animals’ Desertion’, W. B. Yeats speaks of finding inspiration in β€˜the foul rag and bone shop of the heart’ – in other words, amid the mess of his life, not separate from it. In our own time, with all the violence of life around us, people of all ages and abilities can help to turn what is harmful into something healing, and the mess of human experience into something meaningful and magnificent. After all, as children in infant school know, everyone is an artist in their own particular way.

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  • Thu 3 Jul 2014 06:30
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