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The marvellous Miriam Margolyes gets giddy about The Real Marigold Hotel which starts tonight on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Two and today's Mystery Guest tells Chris all about the wonderful world of welding. Plus, Kate Bottley is back with a perky Pause for Thought.

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Tue 26 Jan 2016 06:30
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  • Pilot

    January

    • 25 Years Of No.1 Hits Vol.3 (1974/19.
    • Connoisseur Collection.

  • Paul Carrack

    Keep On Lovin' You

    • Soul Shadows.
    • Carrack-UK.
    • 001.

  • The Psychedelic Furs

    Pretty In Pink

    • Teenage Kicks (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Texas

    Inner Smile

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.

  • Andy Burrows

    Keep On Moving On

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

  • The Housemartins

    Five Get Over Excited

    • The Housemartins - The Best Of.
    • Go Discs.

  • Josef Salvat

    Open Season

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Mud

    Tiger Feet

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1974 (Various).
    • Premier.

  • Paloma Faith

    Stone Cold Sober

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
    • 1.

  • The Animals

    House Of The Rising Sun

    • The Hits Of 1964 (Various Artists).
    • MFP.

  • Turin Brakes

    Keep Me Around

    • Lost Property.
    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • INXS

    Need You Tonight

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

  • Mumford & Sons

    Roll Away Your Stone

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • Dean Martin & Helen O’Connell

    How D'Ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning?

    • Cool Couples (Various Artists).
    • Sanctuary.

  • Ellie Goulding

    Army

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • The Bluebells

    Young At Heart

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

  • Guy Garvey

    Let's Dance (Radio 2 Session, 22nd Jan 2016)

  • Bee Gees

    Night Fever

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.

  • AC/DC

    Highway To Hell

    • AC/DC - Highway To Hell.
    • Albert.

  • T. Rex

    Metal Guru

    • Can The Glam! (Various Artists).
    • Cherry Red Records.

  • Take That

    These Days

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Thomas Rhett

    Crash And Burn

    • Tangled Up.
    • The Valory Music Co.
    • 1.

  • Prefab Sprout

    The King of Rock 'N' Roll

    • Hits Album 8, Part 2 (Various Artist.
    • Hits Album.

  • Fairground Attraction

    Perfect

    • The First Of A Million Kisses (Expanded Edition).
    • Cherry Red Records.
    • 002.

  • Birdy

    Keeping Your Head Up

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 001.

  • Bobby Vee

    Rubber Ball

    • The Best Of Bobby Vee.
    • Liberty.

  • Years & Years

    King

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 90 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Revered Kate Bottley, Vicar of the churches of Blyth, Scrooby and Ranskill:

Lots of people talk about where were you when? And usually it’s for something momentous in history. Where were you when the moon landing happened or when Kennedy was shot? Well this time 12 months ago I can tell you exactly where I was. I was on a train to York going to see the consecration of the first woman bishop, Libby Lane. Completely over excited I arrived early and ended up in a posh tea room with various other vicars eating expensive sausages and it seemed only right to enjoy a glass of fizz with our full English. The over excitement didn’t stop there I went on a hugging spree, one bishop had to hold me at arm’s length. 

And although I was sat behind a pillar and didn’t know all the hymns the service had a real sense of history being made and an overwhelming feeling of ‘About time too!’ Later I missed my train home and had to get a lift with a friend to a service station half way down the A1, a brilliant day and a fantastic time.

The Ancient Greeks had two words for time, chronos, which is where we get the word chronological from, time like hours and minutes but they also had the word Kairos, the sort of time that means a moment, a sense of time as event with purpose and meaning - something life changing. In the old testament in the book of Ecclesiastes, with words made later into a song by the Byrds, it says ‘There is a season for everything and a time to every purpose under heaven.’ And while we might not be there for every moment when global history is made, In all our lives, in our own history, there are those momentous moments which we can look back on and recognise that at that point, for us, something amazing changed, our own Kairos moment. When we can look back and say ‘Now, That was the time of my life’.  In the rush of everyday I know I can sometimes get so caught up in the chronos time that I miss the Kairos, those unforgettable life changing moments that need to be celebrated.

Here’s to less clock-watching, and more moments that make life worth living.

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