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Harlem Globetrotters and Great Job Wednesday

Chris is joined live in the studio by 'Flight Time' Lang and 'Slick' Willie Shaw from the Harlem Globetrotters and on Great Job Wednesday we meet Lego builder Alex Bidolak.

Chris is joined live in the studio by 'Flight Time' Lang and 'Slick' Willie Shaw from The Harlem Globetrotters who tell us about the exhibition team's history ahead of their UK basketball tour. For Great Job Wednesday we meet master Lego builder Alex Bidolak, who literally built his career out of plastic and we find out some of his most memorable builds. Vassos is joined by captain of the England women's cricket team, Heather Knight and Anglican Priest Ruth Scott has today's Pause For Thought.

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Wed 8 Mar 2017 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • The Divine Comedy

    National Express

    • New Hits 99 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.

  • Maren Morris

    My Church

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Curtis Mayfield

    Move On Up

    • The Old Skool Reunion (Various Artis.
    • Global Television.

  • Heaven 17

    Temptation

    • A Kick Up The Eighties Vol. 5 (Various Artists).
    • Old Gold.

  • Gotye

    Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra)

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

  • McFadden & Whitehead

    Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now

    • Million Sellers Vol.19 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Blondie

    Fun

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.

  • Keane

    Everybody's Changing

    • (CD Single).
    • Transcopic Records.

  • The Platters

    The Great Pretender

    • The Platters Golden Hits.
    • Phonogram.
    • 5.

  • Bruno Mars

    That's What I Like

    • 24K Magic.
    • Atlantic.

  • Tracie

    The House That Jack Built

  • DNCE

    Cake By The Ocean

    • (CD Single).
    • Republic.
    • 1.

  • Lemar

    Dance (With You)

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony.

  • C+C Music Factory

    Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) (feat. Freedom Williams)

  • Jamiroquai

    Cloud 9

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
    • 1.

  • 厂办别别鈥怢辞

    I Wish

    • Polygram TV.

  • Bob & Earl

    The Harlem Shuffle

    • Shades Of Soul (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Midge Ure

    If I Was

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

  • The Style Council

    Shout To The Top

    • Billy Elliot O.S.T. - Various Artists.
    • Polydor.

  • Tegan and Sara

    Everything Is Awesome (feat. The Lonely Island)

  • Take That

    Giants

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • The Shires

    Beats To Your Rhythm

    • (CD Single).
    • Decca.
    • 001.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    A Design For Life

    • Everything Must Go - 20th Anniversary Edition.
    • Columbia.
    • 16.

  • Oasis

    Live Forever

    • Definitely Maybe.
    • Big Brother Records.
    • 003.

  • Betsy

    Waiting

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Paul McCartney & The Frog Chorus

    We All Stand Together

    • Paul McCartney - All The Best!.
    • Parlophone.

  • The Beatles

    Here, There and Everywhere

    • Revolver.
    • Parlophone.
    • 5.

  • Dave Edmunds

    Here Comes The Weekend

    • The Best Of.
    • Swansong.
    • 1.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Ruth Scott Anglican Priest and Quaker:

Years ago, when we lived in a rural parish, a wonderfully eccentric American couple moved into the vast and dilapidated old rectory next door. Within a few months they鈥檇 completely cleared the overgrown acres of their back garden. In the parish magazine we informed readers that they had put in for planning permission to build breeding pens for the North American skunk which they hoped to release into the wild here. Despite it being the April edition of the magazine, you鈥檇 be surprised how many people were taken in by this fake news foolery, and were up in arms about it. Fake news has received significant attention in recent times, and it raises interesting questions about the nature of truth. In a favourite holiday haunt of my children, King Arthur鈥檚 Caverns in Wales, we travelled underground and through the waterfall to hear the legends of King Arthur, and the voice of the poet told us, 鈥淎 story doesn鈥檛 have to be true to be true.鈥� It鈥檚 a truth we easily lose sight of today when we define truth simply as scientific fact. Back in his own time Jesus was renowned for telling parables. These stories had no historical basis in terms of having happened at one point in time, but they captured the truth of human experience in all times and places, which is why we continue to tell them today. And if I tell you that my beloved husband, Chris is my harbour and my home-coming, you know he鈥檚 not a strong stone wall or fire-side hearth, but you鈥檒l have a deeper sense of my love for him than if I tell you he鈥檚 5鈥�8鈥� tall, has grey hair, and walks with a slight stoop. The facts don鈥檛 convey what matters most. Chris鈥� favourite definition of a myth is that it鈥檚 a story about something that never was, but always is. Without being historically true such things as parables, myths and poetry can help us understand the deep and universal truths of human experience. Unlike fake news which hides the truth, they take us to the very heart of it.

Broadcast

  • Wed 8 Mar 2017 06:30
    麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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