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Welcome to Rocktober!

Chris kicks off Rocktober, relives sensational Strictly and is red-eyed from the Ryder Cup! Plus architecture expert Dan Cruickshank enthuses about the best British bridges.

Chris kicks off Rocktober, relives the weekend's sensational Strictly and is red-eyed from the Ryder Cup! Architecture expert Dan Cruickshank enthuses about the best British bridges and Vassos chats Women's Sport Week with MP Tracey Crouch. It's International Radio 2 Calling in All Abroad, you tell us your smug breaking news and it's a bridge opening Top Tenuous. Plus Father Brian D'Arcy provides the daily Pause For Thought on the first Monday of Rocktober.

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Mon 3 Oct 2016 06:30
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Music Played

  • David Bowie

    Golden Years

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Tom Odell

    Here I Am (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2016)

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

  • Maria McKee

    Show Me Heaven

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

  • The Beat

    Mirror In The Bathroom

    • The Beat - Beat This!.
    • Sire.

  • Mark Ronson

    Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars)

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

  • Yazoo

    Situation

    • Alison Moyet Singles.
    • Columbia.

  • Robbie Williams

    Party Like A Russian

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Michael Jackson

    Bad

  • Paolo Nutini

    Pencil Full Of Lead

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

  • John Denver

    Leaving on a Jet Plane

    • A Song's Best Friend: Very Best Of.
    • RCA/BMG.

  • Michael Bubl茅

    Nobody But Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Reprise.

  • U2

    Desire

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

  • Thin Lizzy

    The Boys Are Back In Town

    • (Single).
    • Vertigo.
    • 10.

  • Bellowhead

    Roll The Woodpile Down

    • Broadside.
    • Navigator Records.
    • 003.

  • Harry Belafonte

    Jump In The Line

    • The Best Of.
    • Camden.
    • 16.

  • Shakin鈥� Stevens

    Last Man Alive

    • (CD Single).
    • HEC.

  • Coldplay & Barry Gibb

    Stayin' Alive (Glastonbury, 26 June 2016)

    • A Head Full of Dreams.
    • 10.

  • Oasis

    Wonderwall

    • What's The Story Morning Glory -Oasis.
    • Creation Records.

  • The Who

    My Generation

    • The Who Hits 50! (Deluxe Edition).
    • Polydor.
    • 004.

  • Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

    Jimmy Mack

    • Leaders Of The Pack (Various Artists.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Wax

    Bridge To Your Heart

    • American English.
    • Lemon Recordings.
    • 5.

  • The Shires

    My Universe

    • My Universe.
    • Decca.
    • 001.

  • The Jam

    Down In The Tube Station At Midnight

    • Into The Eighties - Various Artists.
    • Global Television.

  • Van Morrison

    Too Late

    • Keep Me Singing.
    • Exile.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    Walk Me To The Bridge

    • Futurology.
    • Sony Music.
    • 001.

  • The Beatles

    Can't Buy Me Love

    • The Beatles - 1.
    • Apple.
    • 005.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Father Brian D鈥橝rcy, a Catholic Passionist priest:

It鈥檚 often said that being average means you鈥檙e as close to the bottom as you are to the top. That鈥檚 fine if you鈥檙e happy to drift through life accepting whatever comes your way. It鈥檚 a valid philosophy of life for some.聽 Most days I鈥檓 your typical average guy. Then I begin to think about where I鈥檓 going. It鈥檚 dangerous when I think. I hate drifting because drifting usually means going nowhere.

One way to snap out of drifting aimlessly is to pay attention to little things. Harriet Beecher Stowe, in Uncle Tom鈥檚 Cabin, the great anti-slavery novel, writes-: 鈥淭o be really great in little things, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonisation.鈥�

On a plane recently I was fascinated by a young mother and baby sitting across the aisle from me. Baby was a having a great time flinging her dummy onto the floor and then gurgling loudly with delight. Mother lifted it, cleaned it and put it back in baby鈥檚 mouth. Out it came again. This time I lifted it. Next time the flight attendant whipped it up as she sped by. The joke was beginning to wear thin by now. The attendant came back down the aisle. She picked up the dummy once more but this time she attached it to a ribbon which mother duly tied to the seat in front. Problem solved. That鈥檚 seeing the importance of little things and little ones. I felt like clapping.

Almost anyone can focus on the big issues but excellence happens when the little things are done with care. Excellence is often a matter of recognising there are no little things.聽 On these darkening October days I believe you could brighten your own and other鈥檚 days by going the extra yard. Why not do a little more than you鈥檙e paid to do. Give more that you have to. Aim a little higher than you usually do. Most of all try a little harder than you want to.

Even Mother Teresa had to admit we can鈥檛 all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.

Broadcast

  • Mon 3 Oct 2016 06:30
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