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Miranda Hart and Ben Smith

Miranda Hart on her best pet pal Peggy and we catch up with marathon runner Ben Smith before his 401st run. Plus what does it take to be one of the best pubs in Britain?

Miranda Hart tells Chris about her best pet pal, Peggy the dog, who's the inspiration for her new book. We catch up with marathon runner Ben Smith before his 401st run today, so instead of a Top Tenuous Vassos has a Top Benuous! Plus Matt Slocombe of The Crown in Woolhope enlightens us on what it takes to be one of the best pubs in Britain. Rabbi Dr Harvey Belovski provides the daily Pause For Thought inspired by today being the most popular birthday of the year in America.

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Wed 5 Oct 2016 06:30
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Music Played

  • ABBA

    Voulez-Vous

    • Abba Gold.
    • Polydor.
    • 013.

  • Michael Bublé

    Nobody But Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Reprise.

  • Queen

    You're My Best Friend

    • Queen - Greatest Hits.
    • Parlophone.
    • 4.

  • The Stone Roses

    Fools Gold

    • Precious - Various Artists.
    • Dino.

  • OneRepublic

    Wherever I Go

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.

  • The Whispers

    And The Beat Goes On

    • Time For Love (Various Artists).
    • Truetrax.

  • Tom Odell

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

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

  • Deep Blue Something

    Breakfast At Tiffany's

    • This Year's Love (Various Artists) C.
    • Global Television.

  • Manfred Mann

    Pretty Flamingo

    • Ages Of Mann.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Smoove & Turrell

    You Could've Been A Lady

    • (CD Single).
    • Jalapeno Records.
    • 1.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Spinning Around

    • Now 46 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Cher

    The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)

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

  • Modern Romance

    Best Years Of Our Lives

    • The Platinum Collection.
    • Rhino.

  • AC/DC

    Highway To Hell

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

  • Robbie Williams

    Party Like A Russian

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Heather Small

    Proud

    • Proud.
    • Arista.

  • Craig David

    Ain’t Giving Up (feat. Sigala)

    • Insanity/ Speakerbox/ Sony.

  • Billy Joel

    Allentown

    • Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Vol.2.
    • CBS.

  • Talk Talk

    It's My Life

    • More Greatest Hits Of 80's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • The Housemartins

    Happy Hour

    • Now That's What I Call Quite Good.
    • Go! Discs.

  • Shakin’ Stevens

    Last Man Alive

    • (CD Single).
    • HEC.

  • Jo Jo Gunne

    Run Run Run

    • The Sound Of The Seventies (Various Artists).
    • Warner Music TV.

  • Annie Lennox

    Walking On Broken Glass

    • Now 1992 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 2.

  • Blondie

    Heart Of Glass

    • Billboard Top Hits: 1979 (Various).
    • Rhino.
    • 13.

  • Van Morrison

    Too Late

    • Keep Me Singing.
    • Exile.

  • Junior Walker & allSTARS*

    Roadrunner

    • Spectrum.

  • Ed Sheeran

    Sing

    • (CD Single).
    • Asylum Records.
    • 001.

  • Johnny Keating & The Z Men

    Z Cars (Theme From)

    • Sleepy Shores - Instrumental Classics.
    • Old Gold.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Rabbi Dr Harvey Belovski, rabbi of Golders Green Synagogue and CEO of University Jewish Chaplaincy:

Ìý

I recently discovered that in the USA, 5th October is the most popular birthday of the year.Ìý I’d have thought that birthdays were distributed about evenly, but apparently, more babies are born on 5th October than any other day of the year, with about 950,000 Americans celebrating their birthday today.

Ìý

No one really knows the reason for this, but someone clever noticed that early October is almost exactly nine months after New Year’s Eve.Ìý Probably enough said.Ìý

Ìý

This week, the Jewish community has been marking a mega-birthday – the Jewish New Year. ÌýWe consider it to be the birthday of the world as we know it – the anniversary of human history with all its amazing opportunities and challenges. ÌýIn fact, the festival finished just last night.

Ìý

Our new year is not really a time to party in the conventional sense – although we did have some delicious meals and some excellent wine.Ìý Since it’s the anniversary of the start of history, it’s an opportunity to review our goals, rethink our priorities and think about how we’d like the world to look if we were able to change what’s wrong.Ìý In short, the Jewish New Year is an occasion to think about why we’re alive and to recalibrate our relationship with God.

Ìý

But I don’t want to give the impression it’s a miserable day – not at all.Ìý We eat traditional foods, especially apple dipped in honey to wish each other a sweet and fruitful year and our synagogue services include ancient, beautiful melodies and a kind of wake-up call blown on a ram’s horn to encourage us to think about some of those big life themes.

Ìý

It’s also a time when lots of people come to the synagogue, even those who attend rarely, something which always causes amusement, especially among the regulars. ÌýThis reminds me of the awful joke once made by a rabbi to the invisible man – funny, I haven’t seen you in synagogue recently.

Ìý

The Jewish New Year is one of the most demanding – and rewarding – occasions in my rabbinic calendar.Ìý It’s that tension that makes it so special and it teaches an important lesson: that birthdays can be enjoyable and meaningful all at once – an opportunity to turn a celebration into a celestial moment.Ìý Happy birthday, world.

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