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Museum of the Year

Chris plays the first in a series of looks at the Museum of the Year finalists, with Ken Bruce visiting Oxford's Natural History Museum.

Chris plays out the first of our Museum Of The Year finalist packages - ahead of the winning announcement. What did Ken Bruce discover at Oxford's Natural History Museum?

Each year the Art Fund host the Museum of the Year Awards with a transformative prize of 拢100,000.
For 2015, key Radio 2 daytime presenters visited the six shortlisted venues.

Chris Evans went to the Imperial War Museum in London; Sara Cox visited Dunham Massey in Cheshire; Jo Whiley went to The MAC in Belfast; Simon Mayo went to the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester and and Jeremy Vine visited the Tower of London. They each recorded a short audio package about what they saw there.

This week the packages will be played out across daytime Radio 2.

The network's support of Museum of the Year comes to a climax with a very special edition of Friday Night is Music Night: 'Friday Night at the Museum' - where curators from the six shortlisted museums will 'show and tell' some of their most interesting exhibits, and we will match them with appropriate music.

On Thursday 2nd July the Director of the winning Museum of the Year will appear on the Chris Evans show.

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Mon 22 Jun 2015 06:30
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Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Rev Ruth Scott, Anglican Vicar in Richmond:

Many years ago my friend, Robi, asked me a question that鈥檚 remained with me ever since: What is forgiveness? When Robi鈥檚 son was shot dead by a sniper her life changed for ever. After a while she joined the Parents Circle Families Forum - a group of bereaved Israelis and Palestinians whose loved ones died at the hands of people from the other community. They have every reason to hate one another but choose instead to work together and to try and find ways to stop others experiencing similar tragedies. Robi travels all over the world now with her Palestinian counterparts sharing her story. Wherever she goes she asks her listeners to define forgiveness. Like me, she knows that people are careless in the way they use that word. They sometimes impose greater distress on those who are already suffering by expecting them to forgive the perpetrators without any real understanding of what that means in practice. Forgiveness takes very seriously what has happened. It鈥檚 not about fuzzy warm feelings or letting the perpetrator off the hook. It鈥檚 profoundly costly because it often requires us not to act on understandable instinctive responses like hatred or the desire for violent revenge which only perpetuate pain in our world.

Forgiveness has been very much on my mind this weekend as I鈥檝e heard the relatives of those killed in the Charleston church speak in court to Dylann Roof, the alleged murderer. The daughter of one of the victims echoed the sentiments of a number of them when she said, 鈥淵ou took something very precious from me. But I forgive you.鈥�

After years of thinking about Robi鈥檚 question, reflecting on my own experience, and listening to many other victims of violence I now have a working definition that feels true to how I see forgiveness being lived out in the lives of men and women like Robi. For me, hard-lived forgiveness is not allowing the inhumanity of another person to diminish or destroy my own precious humanity.

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