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All New Dine & Disco

It's Day 3 of Chris' auctions for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Children In Need.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Wed 16 Nov 2016 06:30

Music Played

  • Wings

    Listen To What The Man Said

    • The 7" Singles Box.
    • MPL.
  • Clean Bandit

    Rockabye (feat. Sean Paul & Anne-Marie)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • Faith Hill

    This Kiss

    • New Hits 99 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.
  • One Direction

    Drag Me Down

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco Music.
  • Stereophonics

    Dakota

    • (CD Single).
    • V2.
  • Bon Jovi

    You Give Love A Bad Name

    • Slippery When Wet.
    • Mercury.
    • 2.
  • Maroon 5

    Don't Wanna Know (feat. Kendrick Lamar)

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.
  • David Essex

    Gonna Make You A Star

    • 70's Number Ones Vol 3.
    • Old Gold.
  • Bryan Adams

    Do What Ya Gotta Do

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 006.
  • Roy Orbison

    Oh, Pretty Woman

    • Fifty Number Ones Of The 60's (Variou.
    • Global Television.
    • 16.
  • Michael BublΓ©

    I Believe In You

    • Nobody But Me.
    • Reprise.
  • Justin Timberlake

    Can't Stop The Feeling!

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.
  • U2

    Beautiful Day

    • Now 47 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Shine A Little Love

    • ELO's Greatest Hits Vol.2.
    • Epic.
  • Texas

    In Demand

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.
  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Livin' Thing

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.
  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Hold On Tight

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.
  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Rock 'n' Roll Is King

    • ELO's Greatest Hits Vol.2.
    • Epic.
  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Sweet Talkin' Woman

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.
  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Telephone Line

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.
  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Wild West Hero

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.
  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Don't Bring Me Down

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.
    • 4.
  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Evil Woman

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.
  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Roll Over Beethoven

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.
  • Texas

    Halo

    • Texas - The Greatest Hits.
    • Mercury.
  • Texas

    Black Eyed Boy

    • Hits Zone - The Best Of 97 (Various).
    • Polygram Tv.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

Art Historian, Dr Jim Harris

It's great to have a lot of money.Β  I know this to be true because once a month I feel as if I have a lot of money and I like it. It makes me wonder whether I might buy a new bike, or some new sneakers, whether I might go out for dinner or book a weekend away somewhere glamorous and romantic.Β  It's a great feeling.

And it lasts about a nanosecond, or as long as it takes to realise that the number on my payslip, minus the mortgage, the bills, the council tax, a little food, toothpaste and a pint is approximately equal to zero, so the new bike goes on hold until, oh, roughly speaking, never.

The thing is, I'd be very happy if I could resign myself to that monthly inevitability but the sorry truth is I can't. I wish I had more money. I fantasise about what I’d do with a million pounds. Or ten million.  And before I know it I'm looking resentfully at blokes with better bikes and new sneakers and getting a little bit Gollum about the whole thing.

Now the bible has plenty to say about money and what I wish it said was that money is a bad thing, because then I could at least assume some moral superiority over those that have it.

But it doesn't. What it actually teaches is an attitude, that it's not money itself that's dangerous, it's the love of money, because when we love money we cannot love anything else, or, more importantly, anyone.

I find that immensely challenging because my attitude, sadly, tends towards, if not actually loving money, then at least looking at it rather fondly and wistfully from a distance.  And that doesn’t tend towards contentment.

It’s a vast encouragement, then, to hear people during this Children in Need week, literally competing to give money away or pouring all their creativity into finding new ways to get it, not for themselves but for people they’ve never met and never will.  I reckon it’s the opposite of the love of money - it’s the love of people.  Not people like us, or people who love us, just people.

And if the love of money is the root of all evil, the love of people, surely, is the root of all hope.

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