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We reminisce about your local grand openings of yesteryear! Plus you guys take over from Vassos, and let us know your big sports stories. And Bake Off's Paul Hollywood leaves a message for our returning kid Alice who's baked some cracking cakes.

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Thu 20 Nov 2014 06:30
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Music Played

  • Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Three Little Birds

    • Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend.
    • Island.

  • Tina Charles

    I Love To Love

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

  • The Clash

    Rock The Casbah

    • The Singles.
    • Epic.

  • Sheryl Crow

    All I Wanna Do

    • The No.1 Acoustic Rock Album (Variou.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • The Crystals

    Then He Kissed Me

    • The Best Of The Crystals.
    • Phil Spector Int.

  • Neil Diamond

    Cracklin' Rosie

    • Neil Diamond - The Ultimate Collectio.
    • Columbia/Mca.

  • Dodgy

    Good Enough

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 34 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Idris Elba & Maverick Sabre

    You Give Me Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
    • 001.

  • Don Fardon

    Belfast Boy

  • Elton John

    I'm Still Standing

    • Diamonds.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Meat Loaf

    Bat Out Of Hell

    • Bat Out Of Hell.
    • Epic.

  • Olly Murs

    Wrapped Up (feat. Travie McCoy)

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

  • Paolo Nutini

    One Day

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 001.

  • Dolly Parton

    Blue Smoke

    • Blue Smoke - The Best Of Dolly.
    • Sony Music.
    • 1.

  • Pet Shop Boys

    West End Girls

    • Now That's What I Call Music '86.
    • Now.

  • R.E.M.

    Man on the Moon

    • Simply The Best Movie Album (Various).
    • Warner Strategic Market.

  • Sam Smith

    Like I Can

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.
    • 007.

  • Squeeze

    Up The Junction

    • Big Squeeze: The Very Best Of Squeeze.
    • Universal/A&M.

  • Take That

    These Days

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • The Tams

    Be Young Be Foolish Be Happy

    • (Single).
    • Stateside.

  • Tanita Tikaram

    Good Tradition

    • The Best Of Tanita Tikaram.
    • East West Records.

  • Tony Christie feat. Peter Kay

    (Is This The Way To) Amarillo

  • U2

    Elevation

    • Now 49 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Undertones

    Teenage Kicks

    • Beautiful Game (Various Artists).
    • Universal.

  • Barry White

    You See The Trouble With Me

    • Barry White - The Collection.
    • Mercury.
    • 2.

  • Whitesnake

    Here I Go Again (Remix)

    • Driving Rock (Various Artists).
    • Global Records & Tapes.

  • Andy Williams

    It's So Easy

    • The Very Best Of Andy Williams.
    • Pickwick.

  • The Wonder Stuff

    The Size Of A Cow

    • Now 1991 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Rabbi Pete Tobias of the Liberal Synagogue, Elstree:

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I put new strings on my guitar on Tuesday. My guitar lives in the synagogue – it’s the only place it gets used. It accompanies many of the prayers in our religious services. As I tightened up the strings, I was thinking about the six people who had died earlier that day in an attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem. So I kind of dedicated each string to one of those who had died that morning. At the moment of their deaths, they had been in a place dedicated to the worship of God.


According to my tradition, every human being is equal in the eyes of God. We are all made in God’s image. But as victims of geography, history, politics, religion, those six men – four Israeli, two Palestinian, as well as the Israeli policeman who later died of his injuries – were not equal, and nor were they seen as such by their respective sides mourning or celebrating the attack.


As I tuned my guitar, tightening the strings, it occurred to me that the whole principle on which a stringed instrument is based is tension. If there is no tension in the strings, then no sound will emerge. If the tension is too great, the strings will snap.

On Tuesday morning the tension in Jerusalem was wound too tight and something snapped. It has been too tight in that place, and so many places in our world, for too long. It is a pity, because if the world was tuned properly, if the tension was carefully tuned and balanced, then there would be potential for harmony to emerge.

One of my Religion School children’s favourite songs is called ‘Od Yavo’ Its words state that ‘One day peace will come to us and to all the world’, and the chorus incorporates the words Shalom and Salaam – the Hebrew and Arabic words for ‘peace’. Once I’d restrung my guitar, I played the chords of that song. It sounded horrendous – because new strings are initially hard to manage. Hopefully the tension in those strings – and in the wound up places in our troubled world – will settle and allow that song of peace be enjoyed by the children in my synagogue – and all places of worship throughout the world.

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