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Kate Humble and Gold

Chris speaks to Kate Humble who tells us about the entrepreneurs who have fled their city jobs for the countryside and finds out the facts about gold with researcher Adrian Ash.

Kate Humble tells Chris about Back to the Land on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Two and some of the awesome entrepreneurs who've made their dream jobs come true by fleeing the city and building careers in the countryside. We find out that there is enough gold to fill two Olympic-sized swimming pools and other interesting facts about the precious metal with top researcher from the world's largest bullion trading platform, Adrian Ash. Vassos is joined by Carly England & Notts County ladies keeper Carly Telford and Methodist Minister Leslie Griffiths has today's Pause For Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Music Played

  • Taylor Swift

    Shake It Off

    • (CD Single).
    • Big Machine.
    • 1.
  • Maroon 5

    Cold

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope Records.
  • Frank Sinatra

    I've Got You Under My Skin

    • Songs For Swingin' Lovers.
    • Capitol.
    • 9.
  • M People

    One Night In Heaven

    • The Best Of M People.
    • BMG.
  • Fleetwood Mac

    Never Going Back Again

    • Fleetwood Mac - Rumours.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 10.
  • 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.
  • Maxine Nightingale

    Right Back Where We Started From

    • The Soul Years 1975 (Disc 1).
    • Knight Records.
  • Stevie Wonder

    Faith (feat. Ariana Grande)

    • Sing O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Island.
  • Oasis

    Roll With It

    • (CD Single).
    • Creation Records.
  • Desmond Dekker

    You Can Get It If You Really Want

    • Young Gifted & Black (Various).
    • Trojan.
  • James Blunt

    Love Me Better

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • Destiny’s Child

    Independent Women, Part I

    • Destiny's Child #1's.
    • Columbia.
  • The Trammps

    Hold Back The Night

    • (Single).
    • Buddah Records.
    • 14.
  • Frankie Goes to Hollywood

    Two Tribes

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artis.
    • Gut.
  • Judy Garland

    Get Happy

    • Musical Wonderland (Various Artists).
    • Warner Strategic Marketi.
  • Katy Perry

    Chained To The Rhythm (feat. Skip Marley)

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol Records.
  • Michael Jackson

    Man In The Mirror

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
  • Baccara

    Yes Sir, I Can Boogie

    • Million Sellers Vol.14 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.
  • ABBA

    Does Your Mother Know

    • Abba Gold (40th Anniversary Edition).
    • Polar.
    • 015.
  • The Stone Roses

    Fools Gold

    • Precious - Various Artists.
    • Dino.
  • Anne-Marie

    Ciao Adios

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

    Feeling Good

    • Origin Of Symmetry.
  • The Killers

    Mr Brightside

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
  • Betsy

    Waiting

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.
  • Boney M.

    Daddy Cool

    • Million Sellers Vol.14 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.
  • Ed Sheeran

    Castle On The Hill (Radio 2 Session, 3 Mar 2017)

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Leslie Griffiths, Methodist Minister:ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý

So why did I think that your musical guest last Friday Ed Sheeran and I had something in common? We’ve never met, I hardly qualify as cool and we certainly don’t look alike. So where did I get this crazy idea?

It was when I read about the way he played Wembley Stadium three nights in a row. Don’t get me wrong. I’ve never done Wembley Stadium nor am I ever likely to but there he was, all on his own, just him and his guitar and loop pedal on stage. As he put it, he felt he was “really going up the wall.â€

Really going up the wall, that was my point of contact with our best-selling superstar. Just a couple of weeks ago I was in India. I’d never been there before; I was the guest speaker at a massive rally. It was a Christian event but there were lots of Hindus present and a smattering of Moslems too. I had to speak on four successive days to an audience in six figures. Not quite Wembley but as near as I’ll ever get to it. Ed Sheeran had his songs to sing and his guitar and looper to help him. I was as nervous as a kitten even though I could hear murmurs of what I thought was approval and agreement coming from the vast crowd stretching out in front of me.

All I had was the old, old story that I’ve told a million times around the world. To make matters even more difficult, I had to tell my story through an interpreter so that people could understand it in the local Malayalam language. The interpreter was my loop pedal. He gave colour and rhythm and backing to the story I told. Different as we were in culture and background the message which bound us was one and the same. Ours is the story of a God who doesn’t and won’t let us go, who I believe loves us with a love that’s unconditional, unfathomable. And we’ve seen that love in the person of Jesus Christ. It’s a simple story and it travels well.

The messenger may not have been cool but the message most certainly was.

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