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Anton Du Beke and Great Job Wednesday!

Anton Du Beke gives Chris the scoop on extravaganza Strictly Come Dancing: The Spectacular. For Great Job Wednesday, Chris speaks to Tim Morphew, curator at Folly Farm Zoo.

Anton Du Beke gives Chris the scoop on new live extravaganza 'Strictly Come Dancing: The Spectacular' featuring workshops, exhibitions and Q&As. For Great Job Wednesday, Chris speaks to Tim Morphew; curator at Folly Farm Zoo in Pembrokeshire. Vassos chats to Wigan Warriors academy player Craig Mullen about his surprising new training regime in the sports locker. We talk about all things goat-related as well as St David's Day and comedian Paul Kerensa provides the Pause For Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Wed 1 Mar 2017 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • The Mock Turtles

    Can You Dig It? (Remix)

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • Anne-Marie

    Ciao Adios

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

  • Paul McCartney & Wings

    Live And Let Die

    • The 7" Singles Box.
    • MPL.

  • The Alarm

    68 Guns

    • Celtic Rock (Various Artists).
    • Crimson.

  • Guy Garvey

    Angela's Eyes

    • Counting The Squall.
    • Fiction.
    • 1.

  • Black Box

    Ride On Time

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Train

    Play That Song

    • A Girl A Bottle A Boat.
    • Columbia.

  • Joy Division

    Love Will Tear Us Apart

    • Glorious (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • George Ezra

    Cassy O'

    • Wanted On Voyage.
    • Columbia.

  • The Tremeloes

    Silence Is Golden

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

  • Take That

    Giants

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Flash and the Pan

    Waiting For A Train

    • The Ultimate Eighties (Various).
    • Hit Records.

  • Justin Timberlake

    Mirrors

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.
    • 1.

  • The KLF

    Justified & Ancient (Stand by The JAMs) (feat. Tammy Wynette)

    • (CD Single).
    • K.L.F. Communications.

  • Marc Almond

    A Kind Of Love

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

  • Rick Astley

    Dance

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.
    • 006.

  • Tom Jones

    She's A Lady

    • Take A Break (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Bonnie Tyler

    Total Eclipse Of The Heart

    • Moments In Love (Various Artists).
    • Music Club.

  • Shakin鈥� Stevens

    This Ole House

    • The 80's Collection: 1981 (Various).
    • Time Life.

  • Sammy Davis Jr.

    Talk To The Animals

    • Sammy Davis Greatest Hits.
    • Curb.
    • 1.

  • Imelda May

    Black Tears (feat. Jeff Beck)

    • Life. Love. Flesh. Blood.
    • Decca.
    • 002.

  • Bon Jovi

    Livin' On A Prayer

    • Music Of The Millennium (Various).
    • Universal Music Tv.
    • 1.

  • 4 Non Blondes

    What's Up?

  • Pete Tong, Heritage Orchestra, Jules Buckley & Cookie

    Lola's Theme

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

  • David Bowie

    Fashion

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Bruno Mars

    Treasure

    • Unorthodox Jukebox.
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Paul Kerensa, Writer and Stand-Up Comedian:

听

A fortnight ago, my family played that classic British half-term game: Follow The Brown Sign. Somewhere in the Midlands hinterlands, we found a stately home with a fascinating Museum of Childhood.

In amongst the beanbags and Beanos we found their interactive Victorian experience 鈥� a classroom reconstruction, as a stern teacher-slash-actress educated us about the past we鈥檝e dodged. My family and I sat on benches, reciting by rote her little verse till we got it into our thick heads:

鈥淕ood, better, best,

Never let it rest,

Until you good is better

And your better best.鈥�

听

Then there was an authentic chimney; our kids actually climbed into the workplace of their ancestors as junior sweeps. Their foreheads were then daubed with soot, proudly worn through the day. The soot faded from their heads, but the 鈥楪ood better best鈥� verse still hasn鈥檛; my three-year-old still recites it daily, and the neighbours think we鈥檙e stricter authoritarians than we are.

听

Today, not soot but ash will be daubed across thousands of foreheads worldwide. It鈥檚 Ash Wednesday, marking the start of Lent, that time for humble reflection leading up to Easter. Anyone can be 鈥榓shed鈥� with the sign of the cross 鈥� for 1500 years it鈥檚 symbolised mortality, humility and generally bringing us down a peg or two, as the minister says, 鈥榊ou are dust, and to dust you shall return鈥�. God knows we need a bit of humility in today鈥檚 brash world鈥� hashtag AshNotBrash.

听

Traditionally, these ashes were the burnt remains of the Palm Sunday branches, from the end of Lent the previous year. It kept continuity through the ages 鈥� just as the Norse folk kept their Yule log ashes to start next winter鈥檚 log-burning. Across the faiths, throughout history, these rituals bond us to our ancestors, reminding us of life鈥檚 cyclical patterns: that pride comes before a fall, that triumphant festivity gives way to more thoughtful times.

听

My kids鈥� sooty foreheads reminded us that we have it pretty good compared to our Victorian ancestors, and their chimney-chafing children 鈥� and that our mortal lives between dust and dust are wisely spent if we humbly don鈥檛 settle for being good, but go better, for best鈥� never let it rest鈥� until our good is better鈥� and our better best.

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