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Diego Luna and Carol Klein

Diego Luna gives Chris the full lowdown on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Plus Carol Klein gives her winter gardening tips and her dislike of lawns!

Diego Luna gives Chris the full lowdown on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and what it was like being Cassian Andor, a Rebel Alliance Intelligence officer. Horticultural queen Carol Klein gives her winter gardening tips and reveals her dislike of lawns! Chris admits his devious Christmas cheating tricks during family games. It's a Gardener's World Top Tenuous and Dr Jim Harris provides the daily Pause for Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Tue 13 Dec 2016 06:30
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Music Played

  • Wham!

    Last Christmas

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

  • Craig David

    Change My Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Insanity Records.

  • Judy Garland

    Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

    • The Greatest Hits.
    • Pure Music.

  • Florence + The Machine

    Queen Of Peace

    • How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful.
    • Island.
    • 004.

  • Chicago

    25 Or 6 To 4

    • (Single).
    • CBS.

  • The Banana Splits

    The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)

    • Television's Greatest Hits Vol. 5: In Living Color (Various Artists).
    • TVT Records.

  • Shakin’ Stevens

    Merry Christmas Everyone

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

  • Jamie Cullum

    Show Me The Magic

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

  • Backstreet Boys

    I Want It That Way

    • (CD Single).
    • Jive.

  • ABC

    A Christmas We Deserve

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Robbie Williams

    Sensational

  • Mary J. Blige

    This Christmas

    • A Mary Christmas.
    • Decca.

  • The Doobie Brothers

    China Grove

    • The Very Best Of The Doobie Brothers.
    • Warner Bros.

  • 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.

  • Muse

    Starlight

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Gilbert O’Sullivan

    Christmas Song

    • Gilbert O'Sullivan -Nothing But The B.
    • Park Records.

  • ABBA

    The Name Of The Game

    • Abba Gold.
    • Polydor.

  • Louis Armstrong & Gordon Jenkins & His Orchestra

    Winter Wonderland

    • Now That's What I Call Christmas! The Signature Collection (Various Artists).
    • Capitol.

  • Betsy

    Wanted More

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • The Beach Boys

    Little Saint Nick

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

  • Paul McCartney

    Wonderful Christmastime

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

  • Queen

    Thank God It's Christmas

    • It's Christmas Time (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Simple Minds

    Sanctify Yourself (Acoustic Version)

    • Acoustic.
    • Caroline.

  • Tom Jones

    Green Green Grass Of Â鶹ԼÅÄ

    • Fifty Number Ones Of The 60's (Variou.
    • Global Television.

  • Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

    Nowhere To Run

    • Motown - The Hits Collection Vol.2.
    • Motown.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

Art Historian, Dr Jim Harris

There is a recurring dream I’ve been having for 34 years.  It is the last term before my A levels and I am trying to revise Geography but, horrifyingly, I have done none of the course work.  Not a single essay. I move from classroom to classroom, fearful of what and who will be behind every door.  To quote the great Martha Reeves, there is nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.  Now I’ve spoken about my general anxiety before, but this is very specific: Geography makes me anxious.

So, last week I met a Geography teacher.  Remarkably, I didn’t panic.  I’ll call him Graham (for that is his name).  Graham has spent his career explaining glaciation to young people who probably didn’t always do their homework and, as a head teacher, explaining the disciplinary consequences to students who never did.

But what was clear was that for Graham, discipline was never the only issue.  And nor was glaciation.  When he spoke about education he used words like ‘social’ and ‘emotional’, ‘restorative’ and ‘justice’. He knew that teaching means more than providing a clear and accessible handout on features of the alpine landscape.

He knew that it means helping students learn to deal with each other and the world. To have empathy and to be resilient.  To value others and work in a team.  To take responsibility for their actions and not just feel blamed.

Jesus was a great teacher, and he taught those things too.  That when we are cared for and valued we are stronger - and we learn how to care for and value others.  That when we mess up, justice shouldn’t only be about punishment – it must also be about restoration and forgiveness.

Now, my friend Graham is helping establish a school where young offenders can be taught, not just Geography, mercifully, but also some of the skills they might have needed to stay out of trouble in the first place.  Because he has learned that it helps his students just as much to be emotionally and socially smart as to be A* geographers.

I reckon that’s a great way to think about learning: teach people to be whole, not just clever.  They’re safer that way.  And in a complicated, chaotic, broken world, whole people are what we need to help put things back together.

Broadcast

  • Tue 13 Dec 2016 06:30
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