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Chris gets pysched about the humble slipper and catches up with Spice Girls' Melanie C, who talks about her special Children In Need shows in December.

Chris gets pysched about the humble slipper and catches up with Spice Girls' Melanie C who tells us about her special Children In Need shows in December. Today's Top Tenuous takes in your desperate claims to the fame of Team Bridge, that's mother Steph Bridge and her super kite surfing sons; Olly, Guy and Tom!

Today's show is dedicated to all slipper lovers...
And today's show is entitled: To enjoy the luxor of a well-lined slipper is to walk upon a permanently carpeted world.

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Music Played

  • Queen

    Hammer To Fall

    • Queen - Greatest Hits II.
    • Parlophone.

  • The Corrs

    Bring On The Night

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Elton John

    Bennie and the Jets

    • Diamonds.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Wet Wet Wet

    Love Is All Around

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.

  • Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

    The Lady Is A Tramp

    • Duets II.
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • 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.

  • Pretenders

    Brass In Pocket

    • The Female Touch 2 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • James Bay

    If You Ever Want To Be In Love

    • Chaos & The Calm.
    • Republic Records.
    • 001.

  • Slade

    Coz I Luv You

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1971 (Various).
    • Premier.

  • The Elgins

    Heaven Must Have Sent You

    • Motown Hits Of Gold Vol.5 (Various).
    • Motown.
    • 6.

  • Mumford & Sons

    Tompkins Square Park

    • (CD Single).
    • V2.

  • Rod Stewart

    Maggie May

    • The Best Of Rod Stewart.
    • Warner Bros.

  • The Beat

    Hands Off...She's Mine

    • The Beat - Beat This!.
    • Sire.

  • Buddy Holly

    Heartbeat

    • B.Holly & The Crickets -20 Golden Gre.
    • MCA.

  • Dean Martin & Helen O鈥機onnell

    How D'Ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning?

    • Cool Couples (Various Artists).
    • Sanctuary.

  • CeeLo Green

    Music To My Soul

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Spice Girls

    Say You'll Be There

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • Wham!

    Everything She Wants

    • Wham! - Make It Big.
    • Epic.

  • Boston

    More Than A Feeling

    • Rock Of America (Various Artists).
    • Trax Label.

  • 10cc

    Good Morning Judge

    • The Very Best Of 10cc.
    • Mercury.

  • Stevie Wonder

    Blowin' in the Wind

    • Stevie Wonder - The Definitive Collec.
    • Universal.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    When I Was A Boy

  • The Killers

    Read My Mind

    • (CD Single).
    • Vertigo.

  • 补鈥恏补

    The Sun Always Shines on TV

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Whitesnake

    Here I Go Again (Remix)

    • Driving Rock (Various Artists).
    • Global Records & Tapes.

  • Leona Lewis

    Thunder

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

  • The Beatles

    Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!

    • Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
    • Apple.
    • 7.

  • Andy Burrows

    Keep On Moving On

    • (CD Single).
    • Play It Again Sam.
    • 1.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Art Historian, Dr Jim Harris

I鈥檝e been thinking about eagles.聽 And snakes.聽 And boats, and women.

Bear with me鈥�.

One of the best things about my job is meeting experts.聽 The Ashmolean Museum where I work is full of them, and so is the rest of Oxford.聽 The people I teach with are specialists - in history, modern languages, theology, classics, neuroscience, geography, literature and all sorts of other things 鈥� and they seem to know everything.聽 It鈥檚 the greatest imaginable treat to work with them.

Some days though, and yesterday was one, it鈥檚 the hardest imaginable stretch to keep up with them. I feel as if, no matter how much I learn, it鈥檒l never be enough and that I鈥檒l always be slightly in the dark.

Seeing as how, at this time of the year, I get up in the dark, travel to work in the dark and leave work in the dark it seems like an appropriate metaphor for my whole life.

The thing is, that while I鈥檓 certain that learning is good, I鈥檓 also pretty sure that we just can鈥檛 know everything.

In the book of Proverbs in the Bible, the writer says that there are four things he doesn鈥檛 understand - the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship on the sea and the way of a man with a young woman.

Now those are indeed mysterious things, as anyone who鈥檚 ever watched a David Attenborough documentary, or been on a boat out of sight of land, or been in love will know.

But sometimes, mystery is good. The mystery is not darkness.聽 There is beauty in it, and intrigue, and wonder, and the truth of what it is to be human, finding our way with each other.

So when we see what we don鈥檛 understand, I reckon it can do two great things: it can make us amazed at this astounding and wonderful world, which, even when it鈥檚 dark, is an astonishing place to live.

And it can set off the spark of curiosity that makes us want to learn more about it. And the more we learn about the world, the more we understand it and each other, the more amazing it becomes.

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