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Chris speaks to tuk-tuk enthusiast Rob Leggett about the three-wheeled wonder, and Michaela Strachan talks Winterwatch.

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Wed 27 Jan 2016 06:30
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    Everybody's Talkin'

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    We Are Detective

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    Born To Be Wild

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    Sir Duke

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    Three Wheels On My Wagon

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  • Guy Garvey

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

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Julia Neuberger, Senior Rabbi at the west London Synagogue:

George Weidenfeld died last week, aged 96. He was a consummate publisher, fixer, friend of many, philanthropist, and a great man. Last September, Claus Moser died aged a mere 92.Ìý An economist, he had been head of the National Statistical Service, raised millions for the British Museum, and was an outstanding musician. Both worked their socks off, and both did brilliantly. Eventually, both were feted with awards and both became members of the House of Lords, in their adopted country. For George Weidenfeld arrived as a penniless refugee from Vienna in 1938, and was helped to settle by my grandmother, of which he always reminded meÌý - whilst Claus Moser arrived from Berlin in 1936. Both were Jews fleeing from the Nazis. And neither ever forgot how good Britain had been to them.

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day, the 71st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. If Claus Moser and Geroge Weidenfeld hadn’t managed to get here, if the British authorities hadn’t taken in so many Jewish refugees between 1933 and 1939, they too might have been gassed in the extermination camp of Auschwitz, or died of starvation and slave labour.

They never forgot. Nor should we forget. Not the horrors alone, and the unspeakable cruelty human beings can inflict on one another, important though that is. But also what might have been. What could all those murdered people, Jews, Sinti, Roma, gays, Jehovah’s Witnesses, left wingers and others have achieved had they been allowed to live? The tragedy of the Holocaust is not just the genocide and the warped ideology that shaped it, but what might have been if those people had lived their lives to the full. George Weidenfeld and Claus Moser achieved great things as refugees in Britain. What might six million other human beings have achieved too, had they lived? That loss of what might have been makes me lament the wasted talent and capacity for love that perished in those hideous extermination camps- as well as the horror that they existed at all, and for so long.

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