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John Cleese and Vikings

Chris speaks to John Cleese who tells us about bringing George Faydeu's French farce Bang Bang to the stage. Jarl of the Volsen Vikings tells us about the Jorvik Viking Festival.

Chris speaks to John Cleese who tells us about bionic Basil Fawlty and bringing his adaptation of Georges Feydeau's French farce Bang Bang to the Mercury Theatre in Colchester. Jarl of The Volsen Vikings tells Chris about the Jorvik Viking Festival and what it's like to be a Nordic warrior in Yorkshire. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by the face of the This Girl Can initiative, Sam Mollaghan and today's Pause for Thought comes from Father Brian D'Arcy, live from Enniskillen.

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Mon 20 Feb 2017 06:30
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  • The Smiths

    This Charming Man

    • The Smiths - The Very Best Of.
    • WEA.
    • 2.

  • Marc Almond

    A Kind Of Love

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.
    • 1.

  • Eurythmics & Aretha Franklin

    Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves

    • Duets - 36 Of The World's Greatest Ev.
    • Telstar.

  • The Rolling Stones

    Tumbling Dice

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.
    • 1.

  • Rag’n’Bone Man

    Human

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

  • Madness

    Baggy Trousers

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

  • Pete Tong, Heritage Orchestra, Jules Buckley & Cookie

    Lola's Theme

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 3.

  • Take That

    Shine

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Chic

    I'll Be There (feat. Nile Rodgers)

    • It's About Time.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • The Bonzo Dog Band

    I'm The Urban Spaceman

    • The Ivor Novello Winners.
    • EMI.

  • Sia

    Move Your Body

    • (CD Single).
    • Monkey Puzzle Records.

  • John Lennon

    Whatever Gets You Thru The Night

    • GIMME SOME TRUTH. (Deluxe).
    • Calderstone.

  • Fine Young Cannibals

    She Drives Me Crazy

    • And Then She Kissed Me Vol.1 (Various.
    • Debutante.

  • LunchMoney Lewis

    Bills

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

  • Harry Belafonte

    Jump In The Line

    • The Best Of.
    • Camden.
    • 16.

  • Blondie

    Fun

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.

  • Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj

    Bang Bang

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Steve Miller Band

    Rock 'n Me

    • Ultimate Hits (Deluxe Edition).
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • The Supremes

    The Happening

    • Diana Ross & The Supremes - 40 Motown.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • The Zombies

    Time Of The Season

    • The Zombies - Odyssey & Oracle.
    • Rock Machine.

  • Florence + The Machine

    Ship To Wreck

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 001.

  • Jack Savoretti

    Only You

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.
    • 001.

  • Paul Weller

    That Dangerous Age

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

  • Oasis

    Don't Look Back In Anger

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

  • Suede

    Beautiful Ones

    • Now 35 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Amy Macdonald

    Dream On

    • Under Stars.
    • Mercury.
    • 1.

  • ²Ήβ€h²Ή

    Hunting High and Low

    • A-Ha - Hunting High & Low.
    • Warner Bros..
    • 5.

  • The Byrds

    All I Really Want to Do

    • Ready Steady Go! (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Father Brian D’Arcy, a Catholic Passionist priest:

In the English language, we use the word TIME in vastly different ways. For example β€œThe TIME is coming up to 9:30” is different from β€œI’m going through a difficult time.”

A well-known Irish songwriter, Tommy Sands, put it beautifully in an email to me recently. He was talking about past experiences leading to a fear of the future. He said: β€œThey say that time heals, but time is never there when you need it – the neighbours are.” Friends, neighbours and fellow travellers carry us through life’s difficulties. Fear rules our lives only if we let it.

When I’m frightened by the future – and it happens often – I immediately do something that scares me. That’s how I conquer fear of living. Fear of dying is different though. That’s a work in progress.

President Nelson Mandela had a helpful attitude to fear. β€œI learned that courage is not the absence of fear but the triumph over it,” he wrote. Courage knows what not to fear. FEAR should be an acronym for Face Everything And Recover.

When I’m with people who have lived a long life I listen intently; not only to what they say in words but to their sighs and their smiles and their eyes especially. That’s when I notice fear and love and faith in a merciful God.

I remember once holding the hand of a lovely aged woman who mothered six wonderful children. After prayers one night we talked about her children. I asked her if she loved them all equally.

β€œI loved them all, but NOT equally,” she whispered. β€œThe one who was weak I loved the most until she felt strong; I loved the one most who was hurt until he was healed and the one who felt a failure, I loved him until he felt good about himself.”

In these sacred moments I know that in life and death – real practical love is all that matters.Β  Such wisdom teaches me that a life and in death love makes sense of everything.Β 

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