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The Force is Strong with This One

Chris Evans speaks to the man who played both the Green Cross Code Man and Darth Vader, David Prowse. Plus listeners claims to the fame of public information films in Top Tenuous.

Glorious George gets a fanfare for telling us how stayed overnight at the Think Tank in Birmingham for the very first time...

As the Green Cross Code Man gets ready for a return to TV, our Mystery Guest is the man behind that very voice as well as Darth Vader; it's the delightful Dave Prowse...

This leads onto the Top Tenuous and your desperate claims to the fame of Public Information Films...

And our Pause For Thought comes courtesy of Julia Neuberger, Senior Rabbi at the west London Synagogue.

Today's show is dedicated to anyone whose weekend out Hamilton'd Lewis'....
And today's show is entitled: willing beats wishing every day of the week!

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Mon 24 Nov 2014 06:30
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Music Played

  • AC/DC

    Play Ball

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • The Beatles

    All My Loving

    • 1962-1966.
    • Apple.
    • 3.

  • The Beatles

    In My Life

    • 1962-1966.
    • Apple.
    • 11.

  • The Blow Monkeys

    It Doesn't Have To Be This Way

    • The Blow Monkeys - Choices.
    • RCA.

  • Coldplay

    Ink

    • Ghost Stories.
    • Parlophone.
    • 001.

  • Dario G

    Sunchyme

    • Huge Hits 1997 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Del Amitri

    Roll To Me

    • Twisted.
    • A&M.
    • 007.

  • Neil Diamond

    In Better Days

    • Melody Road.
    • Mercury.

  • David Dundas

    Jeans On

    • Super 70's Summer (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Idris Elba & Maverick Sabre

    You Give Me Love

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

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    10538 Overture

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.

  • David Essex

    Hold Me Close

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

  • Foreigner

    Cold As Ice

    • 40.
    • Rhino Atlantic.
    • 3.

  • Go West

    We Close Our Eyes

    • Now 1985 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • Lulu

    The Boat That I Row

    • Lulu - The Greatest Hits.
    • Mercury.

  • Madness

    Our House

    • Now 1983 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • McBusted

    Air Guitar

  • Paul McCartney

    Hope For The Future

    • Pure McCartney.
    • Virgin EMI Records.
    • 1.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Spinning Around

    • Now 46 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • New Order

    Regret

    • Glorious (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Joey Ramone

    What A Wonderful World

    • (CD Single).
    • Sanctuary.

  • Ed Sheeran

    Thinking Out Loud

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • Slade

    Cum On Feel The Noize

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Smash Mouth

    All Star

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.

  • Sam Smith

    Like I Can

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

  • Sweet

    Ballroom Blitz

    • The Sweet - Originals.
    • RCA.

  • Take That

    These Days

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Robbie Williams

    Dream A Little Dream Of Me (feat. Lily Allen)

    • Swings Both Ways.
    • Island.
    • 006.

  • Amy Winehouse

    You Know I'm No Good

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Julia Neuberger, Senior Rabbi at the west London Synagogue:

Yesterday afternoon, Chris Bowers-Broadbent, Director of Music at my synagogue, gave a concert on the synagogue’s historic organ, to a hugely enthusiastic audience. Chris, a distinguished composer  and musician, has been with us for nigh on fifty years! Though not Jewish, he’s central to our community. He’s played at everything. We tease him that he must have been a child when he started. And it’s true he was just a boy when he first played on our organ.

Most of us don’t manage to sustain anything for 50 years. Marriages- golden weddings are not that common and diamond even rarer. Jobs- we mainly move around, from job to job. Even interests, volunteering, stamp collecting, gardening… ...we go through phases, we change, we lose enthusiasm. But Chris’s enthusiasm has only grown.

So what is it that allows some people to keep their interests and enthusiasms alive whilst others of us get bored, fed up, or disillusioned? Two things. First, perhaps being a serious musician isn’t just a job but truly a vocation. You can’t help yourself- playing, leading, composing- it’s what you were created to do – just ask Roger Daltrey or Mick Jagger. But the other is something else, which can apply to us all, talented musicians or not. And that’s a sense of urgency. There’s a rabbinic staying: "The day is short, the labour vast, the workers idle, the reward great, and the Master of the house is insistent." (Avot 2:20) Some of us already have this sense of urgency built in- we’re here on earth for a short spell, and must use the time to do as much as we can, as well as we can. (Ring any bells, Chris?) There’s no time to be bored, nor disillusioned. But others of us could try to acquire it- a personal strength of purpose, of course, but also (if you have a faith) a sense that God is behind us, chasing, and there’s masses to do, so NO slacking! And I believe that sense of urgency could be something for all of us, if we’d only let it enter our hearts and minds.

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