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Princely Preparations!

Chris gets ready for royalty as he prepares to interview Prince Harry, plus Rabbi Pete Tobias delivers a moving Pause For Thought.

Chris gets ready for royalty as prepares to interview Prince Harry, which you can hear on Thursday 31st July at 8:10am...

Little Ivan tells us all about his triumphant trip to see the amazing meerkats at London Zoo for the very first time...

Our Mystery Guest baffles our brains on the colossus of cognitive science as he is Dr. Jonathan Roiser...

As Chris reveals that TFI Friday is nearly 20 years old! Our Top Tenuous takes us to your desperate claims to the fame of that former Friday night TV show..
And finally a mascara warning is well and truly needed for Rabbi Pete Tobias' Pause For Thought as reads a poignant prayer...

Today's show is dedicated to anyone who is applying for any out of the ordinary planning permission...
And today's show is entitled: leading the charge on that one, how about the group in Scotland who have applied for planning permission in the Trossachs for a goldmine!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Wed 30 Jul 2014 06:30

Music Played

  • Madonna

    True Blue

    • 32 Ones On One Radio 1's 25th Birthday (Various Artists).
    • Connoisseur Collection.
  • Michael Jackson

    Loving You

    • Xscape.
    • Epic.
    • 3.
  • Roachford

    Cuddly Toy

    • Walk On - Hits From The Last 2 Decade.
    • Columbia.
  • Robert Palmer

    Every Kinda People

    • The Very Best Of Robert Palmer.
    • EMI.
  • The Who

    Baba O'Riley

    • The Who Hits 50! (Deluxe Edition).
    • Polydor.
    • 001.
  • Queen

    Crazy Little Thing Called Love

    • The Game.
    • Island.
    • 5.
  • Paloma Faith

    Trouble With My Baby

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.
  • Kate Bush

    Wuthering Heights

    • Remastered Part I.
    • Fish People.
  • Wham!

    Club Tropicana

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

    Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

    • Heartbeat: Love Me Tender (Various).
    • Global Television.
    • 3.
  • Dolly Parton

    Try

    • Blue Smoke.
    • Sony Music.
  • Aztec Camera

    Oblivious

    • The Best Of Aztec Camera.
    • Warner E.S.P..
  • Ocean Colour Scene

    The Riverboat Song

    • (CD Single).
    • MCA.
    • 3.
  • Space

    Female Of The Species

    • Crush (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.
  • Shed Seven

    Going For Gold

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 7.
  • New Radicals

    Get What You Give

    • (CD Single).
    • MCA.
  • Prince

    1999

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.
  • Naughty Boy

    Â鶹ԼÅÄ (feat. SAM ROMANS) (feat. ROMANS)

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal.
  • Neil Young

    Heart Of Gold

    • Neil Young - Decade.
    • Reprise.
    • 4.
  • Pulp

    Disco 2000

    • Hits.
    • Island.
    • 6.
  • The Doors

    Love Her Madly

    • The Doors - The Best Of The Doors.
    • Elektra.
  • Thin Lizzy

    Jailbreak

    • Best Air Guitar Album In The World II.
    • Virgin.
  • Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel

    Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)

    • 20 Number 1's Of The 70's (Various).
    • MFP.
  • Eric Clapton

    Call Me The Breeze

    • The Breeze.
    • Polydor.
    • 001.
  • Billy Joel

    Tell Her About It

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

    Ca Plane Pour Moi

    • VirginMegaMusic Totally 80's (Var).
    • Rhino.
  • Goldfrapp

    Ooh La La

    • (CD Single).
    • Mute Records.
  • Si Cranstoun

    Caught In The Moonlight

    • (CD Single).
    • EastWest.
    • 1.
  • Supergrass

    Alright

    • The Best Pub Jukebox In The World (V).
    • Virgin.
  • Avril Lavigne

    Complicated

    • Avril Lavigne - Let Go.
    • Arista.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Rabbi Pete Tobias of the Liberal Synagogue, Elstree:

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The events in Israel/Palestine are so horrific that sometimes it’s hard to feel anything other than horror and despair. So as a rabbi, I believe what's needed is prayer. Here’s the sort of prayer that I earnestly hope will one day arise from that devastated region:

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God of Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac

God of every human on this fragile earth

Help me recognise the good that dwells within me:

The potential that’s created at my birth.

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Help me understand the future of this planet

Will not be shaped by missiles, tanks or guns,

That to use Your name to justify our hatred

Is just nonsense. Help me learn that we’re the ones

In whom resides the choice of good or evil

That our destiny is in our hearts and hands

That rockets bringing murder and destruction

Was not the role of humans in Your plans.

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As I look upon the wreckage of the building

Where I lived and that I used to call my home

As I watch my father clutch my broken sister

To his heart which turns from flesh and blood to stone

Swearing cold revenge on those who made this happen.

Speak to me, I beg You God, with different lines.

Remind me that this is not what You wanted;

Plant in me a vision of a future time

Where our goals are not to rectify a grievance

Or to claim some territory we think we own

But to find an answer to Your constant question

Asking us if we have learned, if we have grown.

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So help us, God of Abraham and Ishmael,

God of Isaac and of everyone there is

When we turn to you to ask for hope and guidance

Help us understand that what you want is this:

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To seek not revenge, but reconciliation

Not to hate, but try instead to understand

That all humans want and ask and need and yearn for

Is to live our lives exactly as You planned:

To appreciate Your world and one another,

To plant seeds of love wherever we might dwell

To raise families in peaceful homes, in safety

And ensure that others live like this as well.

To recognise that You’re in every person

And see Your face in all women and men.

May we help to bring about this understanding

Soon, in our days, and let us say ‘Amen’.

Broadcast

  • Wed 30 Jul 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.

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