Dine and Disco Competition
Chris launches the competition to win a pair of tickets to attend Dine & Disco 2016. There's talk of roast potatoes and Chris chats to Dr Helen Czerski about the science of colour. Plus we hear claims to 'Greatest Living....' in today's top tenuous.
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Pretenders
Back On The Chain Gang
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Adele
Hello
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Bob Dylan
Positively 4th Street
- Bob Dylan - Greatest Hits.
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Curtis Mayfield
Move On Up
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The Script
Superheroes
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Olivia Newtonâ€John & Electric Light Orchestra
Xanadu
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Electric Light Orchestra
When I Was A Boy
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Elton John
Crocodile Rock
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Badly Drawn Boy
All Possibilities
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Anthony Newley
Pop Goes The Weasel
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One Direction
Perfect
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The Stone Roses
Waterfall
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T. Rex
Children of the Revolution
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Paul Weller
That Dangerous Age
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The Farm
Groovy Train
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Take That
Hey Boy
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Art of Noise
Kiss (feat. Tom Jones)
- Tom Jones - Greatest Hits.
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Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakey
Together In Electric Dreams
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ABBA
One Of Us
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Coldplay
Yellow
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The Shires
I Just Wanna Love You
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Golden Earring
Radar Love
- Hot Love - Sounds Of The 70's, Part 1.
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The Doors
Riders on the Storm
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Olly Murs
Kiss Me
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Eddie Floyd
Knock On Wood
- Rediscover The 60's & 70's (Various).
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Fleetwood Mac
Never Going Back Again
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Pause For Thought
From Rabbi Pete Tobias of the Liberal Synagogue, Elstree:
Recently while watching Watford play I’ve been noticing similarities between my Saturday afternoon experience and the one I share with my community earlier the same morning. There are familiar rituals like the music and the presentation of the teams at the start of the game. There are the tribal symbols of coloured hats and scarves, and the familiar chants with which the majority join in.
At both venues there’s a remarkable sense of community as well. In my synagogue we regularly mention those members of the congregation who are sick or who have suffered a bereavement and offer them support. And last season a Watford fan, Nic Cruwys, was horribly beaten up at an away game in Wolverhampton, and his struggle to return to health – now almost achieved – was acknowledged at every game with a minute of applause, and backed up by a fundraising campaign started by a Wolves supporter. And just a couple of places along the row where I sit there are two empty seats. Last season they were occupied by two fans, Chris Dyer and his fiancée Gina van Dort. They went on a summer holiday to Tunisia and Chris was killed in the terrorist attack, while Gina was badly injured. No amount of chanting or applause can mend that, but Chris’ memory was honoured at the first game of the Premiership season.
But despite those similarities, I think that my attempt to equate football and religion ends there. Because although they both offer an opportunity to be part of a like-minded community and even allow us to indulge our basic human yearning to be part of a tribe, they ultimately have different goals.
Football’s goals are pretty obvious: score more of them than the opposition. Those of religion are less clear-cut and more difficult to achieve. Perhaps the key difference is that the aim of religion is not to beat the opposition, but rather to develop and promote ways to live in harmony with it. In a world where football fans can get beaten up for supporting the wrong team or murdered by those professing to hold different beliefs, that quest for tolerance and peace is all the more necessary: a goal that’s definitely worth cheering.
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