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St Patrick's Day Pandemonium

Chris Evans presents a fully interactive show for all the family. We salute the shamrock and speak to Lord Mayor Christy Burke about Dublin's St Patrick's Day party.

On Tuesday's terrific show Matthew treats us to a tune and shows us he's the top brass at playing the cornet...

It's St. Patrick's Day pandemonium as we salute the shamrock and speak to Lord Mayor Christy Burke about Dublin's Paddy's day party plans...

And we get excited about experiments with the super spokesman of British Science Week, Imran Kahn...

Today's show is dedicated to all Paddy's everywhere...
And today's show has three Irish titles: put silk on a goat and it's still a goat, the hole is more honourable than the patch, and you've got to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Tue 17 Mar 2015 06:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Pilot

    Magic

    • 25 Years Of Rock'n'Roll Vol.2 (1974).
    • Connoisseur Collection.

  • Jess Glynne

    Hold My Hand

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Andy Williams

    Can't Take My Eyes Off You

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

  • Roy Orbison

    I Drove All Night

    • Now That's What I Call Music Vol.22.
    • Now.

  • Simon & Garfunkel

    Keep The Customer Satisfied

    • Bridge Over Troubled Water.
    • Columbia.

  • The Banana Splits

    The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)

    • Television's Greatest Hits Vol. 5: In Living Color (Various Artists).
    • TVT Records.

  • U2

    Angel Of Harlem

    • U2 - The Best Of 1980-1990.
    • Island.
    • 12.

  • Van Morrison & Michael Bublé

    Real Real Gone

    • Duets: Re-Working The Catalogue.
    • RCA.
    • 001.

  • Gloria Gaynor

    I Will Survive

    • Disco Fever (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Ward Thomas

    Push for the Stride

    • (CD Single).
    • WTW.
    • 1.

  • Ed Sheeran & Rudimental

    Bloodstream

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 002.

  • Idina Menzel & Kristen Bell

    Making Today A Perfect Day

  • Meat Loaf

    I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)

    • Now 1993 - The Millennium Series.
    • Castle.

  • Three Dog Night

    Mama Told Me (Not To Come)

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

  • The Corrs

    Runaway (Tin Tin Out Remix)

    Remix Artist: Tin Tin Out.
    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Andrew Gold

    Lonely Boy

    • Super Hits Of The '70s - Have A Nice Day, Vol. 19 (Various Artists).
    • Rhino Records.
    • 1.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Evil Woman

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

  • Big Audio Dynamite

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    • Alternative Eighties (Various Artist.
    • Sony Music TV.

  • Dire Straits

    Romeo and Juliet

    • The No.1 Love Album (Various Artists.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Toto

    Africa

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

  • The Pogues

    Fiesta

    • The Very Best Of The Pogues.
    • Warner Strategic Marketi.

  • Bros

    Drop The Boy

    • Push.
    • Cherry Pop.
    • 013.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor:Ìý

I met a friend last week and asked him if he had had an opportunity to watch the English-Irish rugby match on 1st March.Ìý I knew he had been abroad.Ìý ‘Yes’, he said, ‘I found an Irish pub and watched it there’.ÌýIrish pubs seem to be everywhere and so it seems are the countless millions of descendants of Irish people, like myself.ÌýSo today is St. Patrick’s Day and his feast is being celebrated all over the world.ÌýWhat do you know about him?ÌýWell, it is alleged that he was born in England, though there are many Welshmen who would dispute that.Ìý It is alleged that snakes were crawling all over Ireland and he banished them from the country.Ìý It is alleged that he confronted and confounded the Druids.Ìý It is alleged, no, I think it is true, that one day he picked up a three-leafed plant called a shamrock to illustrate the Christian belief in what we call the Holy Trinity, that God is not only God, God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit.ÌýÌý He is Love.

It seems to me that of all the patron saints of the different countries, St. Patrick has an undying appeal, especially of course in Ireland, but also elsewhere.Ìý I want to suggest that when Patrick was swept off into slavery at the age of sixteen, he suffered what we would call now a sort of trauma from which, in a sense, he never quite recovered.Ìý As a result, Patrick always thought of himself, even as an old man and a bishop, as being utterly helpless, utterly defenceless, utterly abandoned.Ìý That is why we feel a terrific sympathy with Patrick;Ìý his humility was so sincere and it is expressed in everything he wrote and everything he did.ÌýAgain and again, he brings out his own sense of inadequacy, always turning to the strength given him by God.Ìý Patrick was very, very human and his trust was not in himself but in the God who called him.ÌýÌý

The message for me from Patrick is not only his example of prayer but also his humility.Ìý So my thought today is really to remember Patrick’s humility and ask him for something of it for ourselves.Ìý We often feel, and perhaps should feel, that we are weak and unable to cope in different ways, so let us realise that humility is a great virtue because it means we don’t depend totally on ourselves and that we are always in the need of the help, the love, the support of other people.Ìý I would also say that we also need the help of God.

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