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Chocolate treats... Ummmm!

Chris chats to the Mystery Guest, who is choccy chomper and confectionery connoisseur, Rita Leaman.

Awesome Arabella gets a fanfare for telling us how she performed in the Malala concert at the Barbican for the very first time...

Our Mystery Guest gives us the gossip on how her perfect palate detects the best tasting chocolate as she is confectionery connoisseur, Rita Leaman...

Following on from this choccy topic, our Top Tenuous takes in your desperate claims to the fame of 'tasty' - professional or otherwise...

And as part of Radio 2's Faith In The World Week, we Pause For Thought on the subject of healing in music with Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor...

Today's show is dedicated to anyone who is feeling sad but for a good reason, ironically.
And today's show is entitled: the whisper goes further than the SHOUT!!!

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Music Played

  • ABBA

    Slipping Through My Fingers

    • Love Stories.
    • Polydor.
    • 4.

  • The Beatles

    Yesterday

    • The Beatles - 1.
    • Apple.
    • 011.

  • The Commitments

    Mustang Sally

  • The Cure

    In Between Days

    • The Cure - Staring At The Sea.
    • Fiction.

  • Deacon Blue

    Chocolate Girl

    • Deacon Blue - Raintown.
    • CBS.

  • Dexys Midnight Runners

    Geno

    • Greatest Hits Of The 80's (Various).
    • Disky.
    • 5.

  • Neil Diamond

    Something Blue

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.
    • 001.

  • Dire Straits

    Money For Nothing

    • Sultans Of Swing - Best Of Dire Straits.
    • Vertigo.

  • Bryan Ferry

    Loop Di Li

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.
    • 1.

  • David Gray

    Babylon

    • (CD Single).
    • Iht Records.

  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience

    All Along The Watchtower

    • The Jimi Hendrix Collection.
    • Universal.

  • The Jam

    Going Underground

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • Janis Joplin

    Mercedes Benz

    • Janis Joplin - Pearl.
    • Columbia.

  • Lynyrd Skynyrd

    Sweet Â鶹ԼÅÄ Alabama

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

  • John Mellencamp

    Jack And Diane

    • John Cougar - American Fool.
    • Mercury.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Better The Devil You Know

    • Kylie Minogue - Rhythm Of Love.
    • Pwl Records.

  • Olly Murs

    Wrapped Up (feat. Travie McCoy)

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
    • 1.

  • Red Hot Chili Peppers

    Snow (Hey Oh)

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • The Rolling Stones

    (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

    • The Rolling Stones - Remastered.
    • Abkco.

  • Jack Savoretti

    Tie Me Down

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG Chrysalis.
    • 1.

  • Scissor Sisters

    Take Your Mama

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Pete Seeger

    Little Boxes

    • (Single).
    • CBS.

  • The Shires

    Islands In The Stream

    • Sounds Of The 80s.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Three Dog Night

    Mama Told Me (Not To Come)

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

  • U2

    Desire

    • U2 - The Best Of 1980-1990.
    • Island.

  • UB40

    Food For Thought

    • The Very Best Of UB40 1980-2000.
    • Virgin.

  • The Who

    Be Lucky!

    • Who Hits 50.
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • Brian Wilson & Various Artists

    God Only Knows

    • (CD Single).
    • Â鶹ԼÅÄ Music.
    • 4.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor:

Some years ago I had the privilege of having lunch with The Queen Mother who was then aged about 101.ÌýÌý During the course of the lunch we started talking about songs of the Second World War which we knew, mentioning those old favourites: We’ll meet again; The White Cliffs of Dover; A Nightingale sang in Berkeley Square and so on and before we knew where we were we started singing.ÌýÌý Then The Queen Mother said, I wonder if you know this song, it’s called ‘Taxi’?ÌýÌý She sang the song, very nicely, and at the end I said to her, Ma’am, I thought I knew all the songs of the Second World War but I never heard that one.ÌýÌý You wouldn’t, she said, it was a hit tune in 1910 – when she was ten years old.

Ìý I mention this because music and song brings us all together, whether you are a Liverpool fan singing, You’ll never walk alone, or in the crowd at the last night of the proms singing, Jerusalem.ÌýÌý Music creates harmony, unity, nostalgia and hope.Ìý I remember when I was a young curate starting a youth club just at the time when the Beatles came to popularityÌý the young people went mad singing, She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah;Ìý I want to hold your hand; Twist and Shout, and so on.Ìý It was full of life, excitement and vigour.Ìý I hope you will sing a song this morning as you go about your daily tasks.Ìý I might sing, Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away – Chris, I think I had better stop!

ÌýÌýÌýÌý I love music and I love songs.Ìý It seems all my life I have been singing, especially, I suppose as a priest, the great hymns. Whether you are a church-going person or not, there is no doubt that hymns have a very special capacity to evoke in us thoughts of praise, mystery and love. Most people enjoy singing hymns whether it is Abide with Me or Guide me O Thou Great Redeemer and many others.Ìý One of my favourites is Praise to the Holiest in the heights and in the depths be praise from The Dream of Gerontius.Ìý They are not only worthy songs they are also means by which we praise God, thanking Him for his goodness and his mercy.Ìý

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