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Pantos and Puddings

Chris speaks to the country's most dedicated pantomime performers, including Prince Charming, a Dame and a Giant! Cook Orlando Murrin has a recipe for easy Christmas pudding!

Chris is feeling festive as he meets three of the country's most dedicated pantomime performers: Derek Tait in the Orkney Islands who plays the giant in Jack and the Beanstalk, Gary Bridgend in Richmond who plays the Dame in Snow White and Paul Harris in Whitley Bay who plays Widow Twankey in Aladdin. Plus we catch up with ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Good Food's Orlando Murrin, who has an 'unbelievably easy' recipe for Christmas pudding! Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by Australian racing driver Mark Webber and Methodist Minister Leslie Griffiths has the Pause for Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Tue 6 Dec 2016 06:30
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Music Played

  • Candi Staton

    Young Hearts Run Free

    • Disco Fever (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Michael BublΓ©

    I Believe In You

    • Nobody But Me.
    • Reprise.

  • Perry Como

    Christmas Dream

    • The Odessa File (Soundtrack).
    • MCA.

  • Guy Garvey

    Angela's Eyes

    • Counting The Squall.
    • Fiction.
    • 1.

  • The Housemartins

    Happy Hour

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

  • The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra & Crouch End Festival Chorus

    We Wish You A Merry Christmas

    • Christmas Choral Classics.
    • 21.

  • LunchMoney Lewis

    Bills

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

  • Emeli SandΓ©

    Breathing Underwater

    • Long Live The Angels.
    • Virgin.

  • Europe

    The Final Countdown

    • The Very Best Of Power Ballads (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • The Crystals

    Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers

    • A Christmas Gift For You (Phil Spect.
    • Phil Spector Int.

  • Betsy

    Wanted More

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • AC/DC

    You Shook Me All Night Long

    • AC/DC - Back In Black.
    • EMI.

  • The Real Thing

    You To Me Are Everything

    • In The Summertime-Sound Of 70's, Part.
    • Old Gold.

  • Jamie Cullum

    Show Me The Magic

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

  • Dean Martin & Helen O’Connell

    How D'Ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning?

    • Cool Couples (Various Artists).
    • Sanctuary.

  • Adele

    Water Under The Bridge

    • 25.
    • XL.
    • 6.

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town

    • (Single).
    • CBS.

  • Chicago

    If You Leave Me Now

    • The Heart Of Chicago.
    • Reprise.

  • Eagles

    Please Come ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ For Christmas

    • Cold Christmas (Various Artists).
    • WEA.

  • Gregory Porter

    Don't Lose Your Steam

    • Take Me To The Alley.
    • Decca.
    • 001.

  • Cliff Richard

    It's Better To Dream (Christmas Mix)

    • Just... Fabulous Rock 'n' Roll.
    • Sony Music.

  • Boney M.

    Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord

    • That's Christmas (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • The Pogues

    Fairytale Of New York (feat. Kirsty MacColl)

    • (CD Single).
    • Rhino.

  • Elvis Presley & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    I've Got A Thing About You Baby

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.
    • 001.

  • Dusty Springfield

    Wishin' & Hopin'

    • Dusty- The Silver Collection.
    • Philips.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Leslie Griffiths, Methodist Minister:ΜύΜύΜύΜύΜύΜύΜύ

β€œYou can’t always get what you want” – the familiar words of a song carved out of the rock of popular music. The Rolling Stones launched that number almost fifty years ago but its sentiments are as old as the hills.

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Of course we can’t always get what we want but we might be forgiven just now for thinking that we can. For this is the season dominated by what we want. We’re shopping for what we want, writing to Santa to tell him what we want, hoping against hope that our Christmas presents will turn out to be what we want.

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It’s all fun and games and I shall be as merry as the best of them but this season does seem sometimes to have a hollow ring β€˜cos, quite simply, you can’t always get what you want.

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The next line of the chorus of that song brings things back into balance. β€œIf you try sometimes well,” it declares, β€œyou might find you get what you need.” Aha! Now we’re on to something.

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This season is known to Christians as Advent – a time of waiting, waiting expectantly, for the great event of Christmas Day. I wish the story of that day weren’t so well known, familiarity breeds a crass contempt.

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Christmas tells of the way, in the dispensation of God, we get what we need rather than what we want – a fleshed out message of hope, the embodiment of unconditional love, the answer to our deepest questions about the meaning and the potential of human life.

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Somehow, we’ve managed to turn this season of waiting into a season of wanting. One of my gurus bewailed the fact that we seemed to know the cost of everything but the value of nothing. I’d love to be able to do some reverse magic for, as another of my gurus put it, the meaning is in the waiting.

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