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PopMaster Ken Bruce

Ken Bruce chats to Chris about a special PopMaster for Children In Need. Ken also has his knowledge tested in a PopMaster quiz and in keeping it all Ken, there's a top 'Kenuous'!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Mon 12 Oct 2015 06:30
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Music Played

  • Genesis

    Invisible Touch

    • Genesis - Turn It On Again.
    • Virgin.

  • The Shires

    I Just Wanna Love You

    • (CD Single).
    • Decca Nashville.

  • Bee Gees

    Someone Belonging To Someone

    • Tales From The Brothers Gibb: A History In Song 1967-1990 Volume 4.
    • Warner Music UK Limited.
    • 4.

  • Meghan Trainor

    Lips Are Movin

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
    • 001.

  • Elbow

    Open Arms

    • (CD Single).
    • Fiction.
    • 1.

  • Elvis Costello & The Attractions

    I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down

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

  • John Newman & Charlie Wilson

    Tiring Game

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 001.

  • John Newman & Charlie Wilson

    Tiring Game

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 001.

  • Bay City Rollers

    Shang-A-Lang

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

  • Perry Como

    Delaware

    • The Definitive.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
    • 19.

  • Andreya Triana

    Playing With Fire

    • (CD Single).
    • Counter Records.
    • 001.

  • U2

    Desire

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

  • U2

    Desire

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

  • Take That

    Shine

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Toto

    Africa

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

  • The Rembrandts

    I'll Be There For You

    • The Love Songs Album (Various).
    • Universal.

  • Harry Belafonte

    Jump In The Line

    • The Best Of.
    • Camden.
    • 16.

  • Harry Belafonte

    Jump In The Line

    • The Best Of.
    • Camden.
    • 16.

  • Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

    The Austerity Of Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Slade

    How Does It Feel?

    • Slade - Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.

  • The Byrds

    Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There is a Season)

    • Turn! Turn! Turn!.
    • Columbia.

  • Sam Cooke

    Twistin' the Night Away

    • Sam Cooke - The Man & His Music.
    • RCA.

  • Deacon Blue

    Chocolate Girl

    • Deacon Blue - Raintown.
    • CBS.

  • Sam Smith

    Writing's On The Wall

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.

  • Paolo Nutini

    Pencil Full Of Lead

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

  • Dexys Midnight Runners

    Come On Eileen

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • Plastic Bertrand

    Ca Plane Pour Moi

    • VirginMegaMusic Totally 80's (Var).
    • Rhino.

  • Ryan Adams

    Bad Blood

    • 1989.
    • Blue Note.

  • R.E.M.

    What's the Frequency, Kenneth?

  • Unit 4+2

    Concrete & Clay

    • Leader Of The Pack-Sound Of The 60's.
    • Old Gold.

  • Unit 4+2

    Concrete & Clay

    • Leader Of The Pack-Sound Of The 60's.
    • Old Gold.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
From Sarah Joseph, Editor of a Muslim lifestyle magazine:

When I leave the studio today I will make my way to a different kind of a studio. I will be heading over to an art centre where a kiln of glazed pots is waiting for me. My first full kiln, representing months of work and experimentation.

Clay somehow resonates with me. In Islam's creation account the first human was formed of clay. Yet, I didn’t take pottery further when I was at school because I never felt good enough. Thirty years followed of clay-like activities - papier-mâché sculptures, salt dough plaques, coloured plasticines, even my apple pies would have the most intricate roses and flourishes on them! Last year however I overcame that sense of inadequacy to take the risk to see if working in ceramics was for me.  It hasn’t been a perfectly smooth road, however I have managed to eke out enough time for lots of trial and error, to see what I enjoy, and what I don’t, to slowly find my feet.

Here is the thing though – when I open that kiln in a couple of hours – it could all be for nothing. I could find a kiln where a single pot has exploded or fallen, ruining everything else. I could find glaze which has run, crazed, pitted, blistered, shivered or crawled, or any other problem that happens to pots when you fire them at such extraordinary temperatures. Or I could find a kiln filled with hand carved bowls, vases, and tiles, just as I imagined them to be.

More broadly these are the risks of life. Daring to do something even though you may not be good at it. Committing to something even though the everyday responsibilities of life pull you the other way. Experimenting. Working out what you like, and what you don’t. Risking that other people may not like what you do. Risking everything going wrong because that is the nature of life. And you know what – whatever that kiln holds for me, it was worth it. Working in clay have been some of the happiest hours I have spent in recent years, and even if it all goes wrong, I will continue to strive – as in clay, as in life.

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