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Simon Callow, Henry Blofeld, Ellie Harrison and Andy Burrows

Chris gets that Friday feeling going with actor Simon Callow, Test Match Special star Henry Blofeld, Countryfile's Ellie Harrison and Andy Burrows.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Fri 29 Aug 2014 06:30

Music Played

  • Rick Astley

    Never Gonna Give You Up

    • Rick Astley - Whenever You Need Someb.
    • RCA.
  • Bon Jovi

    Lay Your Hands On Me

    • Blue Smoke - The Best Of.
    • Sony Music.
  • Adam Cohen

    We Go Â鶹ԼÅÄ

    • (CD Single).
    • Cooking Vinyl.
  • Danny & the Juniors

    At The Hop

    • That's Rock'n'Roll (Various Artists).
    • EMI.
  • Sammy Davis Jr.

    Talk To The Animals

    • Sammy Davis Greatest Hits.
    • Curb.
    • 1.
  • Shaun Escoffery

    Nature's Call

    • Nature's Call.
    • Dome Records.
    • 001.
  • The J. Geils Band

    Centrefold

    • And The Road Goes On Forever Vol 1.
    • Debutante.
  • Michael Jackson

    Black Or White

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
  • Tommy James & The Shondells

    Mony Mony

    • Fifty Number Ones Of The 60's (Variou.
    • Global Television.
  • Manfred Mann

    5-4-3-2-1

    • Ages Of Mann.
    • Polygram Tv.
  • Meat Loaf

    Dead Ringer for Love

    • Rock Of America (Various Artists).
    • Trax Label.
  • ²Ñ´Ç³Ùö°ù³ó±ð²¹»å

    Ace Of Spades

    • Rock Anthems Volume 2 (Various).
    • Dino.
  • Odyssey

    Going Back To My Roots

    • Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.
    • 6.
  • The Police

    Message In A Bottle

    • The Very Best Of Sting & The Police.
    • A&M.
  • Gregory Porter

    Hey Laura

    • Liquid Spirit.
    • Blue Note.
    • 001.
  • Pratt & McClain

    Happy Days

    • Television's Greatest Hits Volume 3 70s & 80s.
    • Silva Screen Records Ltd.
  • Mark Ronson

    Valerie (feat. Amy Winehouse)

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony BMG.
  • The Script

    Superheroes

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
  • Dusty Springfield

    I Only Want To Be With You

    • Dusty- The Silver Collection.
    • Philips.
  • Emma Stevens

    Make My Day

    • (CD Single).
    • Emma Stevens Music.
    • 001.
  • T. Rex

    Jeepster

    • Electric Warrior (Deluxe Edition).
    • A&M.
    • 3.
  • They Might Be Giants

    Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

    • User's Guide To They Might Be Giants.
    • Elektra/Rhino.
  • Dick Van Dyke & Julie Andrews

    Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

    • Disney's Greatest Hits.
    • BMG.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Rabbi Pete Tobias of the Liberal Synagogue, Elstree

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I saw a sign the other day that read ‘In the event of a fire please leave the building before tweeting or texting about it.’
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ÌýWe live in an age of instant communication where, it would seem, unless we tell others what’s happening to us by text or with a photograph, we aren’t actually experiencing it.
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ÌýKate Bush, who started her run of London gigs this week, told her fans ‘It would mean a great deal to me if you would please refrain from taking photos or filming during the shows. It would allow us to all share in the experience together.’
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ÌýRoger Daltrey of the Who has also questioned why music fans spend more time filming and texting than watching the actual performance.Ìý He said: ‘Looking at life through a screen and not being in the moment totally - if you're doing that, you're 50% there, right?’
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ÌýHe’s right - we seem unable to live in the present, operating instead in some kind of future past tense, where we do things simply in order to recall them later.
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ÌýIf we cannot find moments of value in our days, we may end up living out Shakespeare’s famous words in what I believe I have to call ‘The Scottish Play’ – ‘Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day… a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.’
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ÌýMaybe that’s why we feel the need to photograph or text so much; to enable us to appreciate that some moments do have significance. Though he lived in the 11th century when there were no mobile phones or cameras, Jewish philosopher Bachya ibn Pakuda seems to anticipate our obsession with capturing special moments. ‘Days are like scrolls,’ he said. ‘Write on them what you want to be remembered.’
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ÌýBut memorable moments are only memorable if we are fully present in them. And if we spend too much time trying to record them in pictures or texts, we may end up regarding life as no more than a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets its hour upon the stage – or a series of images on a social media site. Surely there must be more to life than that.

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