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Dinosaurs and salads

Professor Alice Roberts talks dinosaurs and her new 麻豆约拍 Two show and chef Yotam Ottolenghi gives Chris some super salad suggestions.

Professor Alice Roberts talks dinosaurs and her new 麻豆约拍 Two show The Day The Dinosaurs Died. Chef Yotam Ottolenghi gives Chris some super salad suggestions using seasonal vegetables and fruit. In the sports locker, Vassos speaks to Team England cheerleading coach Angela Green about their World Championship win. Father Brian D'Arcy reads the daily Pause for Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Music Played

  • Whitney Houston

    How Will I Know

    • The Best Of.
    • Arista.
  • JP Cooper

    Passport 麻豆约拍

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
  • Blondie

    Dreaming

    • Atomic: The Very Best Of Blondie.
    • EMI.
  • Jason Derulo

    Want To Want Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.
  • Pretenders

    Don't Get Me Wrong

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

    You Shook Me All Night Long

    • AC/DC - Back In Black.
    • EMI.
  • Erasure

    Love You To The Sky

    • (CD Single).
    • Mute.
  • Roxy Music

    Do The Strand

    • Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music - Street Life.
    • Eg.
  • Bryan Adams

    Do What Ya Gotta Do

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 006.
  • The Monkees

    Last Train To Clarksville

    • Delilah - Jukebox 60's Hits.
    • Old Gold.
    • 2.
  • TLC

    Way Back (feat. Snoop Dogg)

    • (CD Single).
    • Cooking Vinyl.
  • Salvador Sobral

    Amar Pelos Dois (Portugal)

    • Eurovision Song Contest 2017.
    • Universal.
  • Hanson

    MMMBop

    • Now 37 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • Gene Vincent

    Be Bop A Lula

    • That's Rock'n'Roll (Various Artists).
    • EMI.
  • John Travolta & Olivia Newton鈥怞ohn

    We Go Together

    • Grease (Original Movie Soundtrack).
    • Polydor.
  • Harry Belafonte

    Jump In The Line

    • The Best Of.
    • Camden.
    • 16.
  • Lady Gaga

    The Cure

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.
  • Was (Not Was)

    Walk The Dinosaur

    • (Single).
    • Fontana.
  • Clean Bandit

    Rockabye (feat. Sean Paul & Anne-Marie)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • Sonny & Cher

    I Got You Babe

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

    Runaway

    • Greatest Hits.
    • Rhino.
    • 1.
  • Harry Nilsson

    Coconut

  • Orange Juice

    Rip It Up

    • Rip It Up (Various Artists).
    • EMI.
  • Elkie Brooks

    Love Ain't Something You Can Get For Free

    • (CD Single).
    • A&M.
  • The Icicle Works

    Love Is A Wonderful Colour

    • The Best Of.
    • Beggars Banquet.
  • The La鈥檚

    There She Goes

    • Love - 38 All Time Love Classics.
    • Polygram Tv.
  • Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie

    In My World

    • Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie.
    • East West.
  • Enrique Iglesias

    Bailamos

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
  • Soul II Soul

    Keep on Movin' (feat. Caron Wheeler)

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Father Brian D鈥橝rcy, a Catholic Passionist priest:

An encouraging listener sent me a short note after last Monday鈥檚 PFT.

鈥淗ere鈥檚 what I heard you say to me,鈥 she wrote. 鈥業t鈥檚 brilliant when you realise this a brand new day with no mistakes in yet.鈥 Thanks.鈥

I didn鈥檛 say it as well as she did, but that鈥檚 what I meant. Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

Here鈥檚 another way of looking at it. Did anyone ever ask you 鈥榃hat鈥檚 right with you?鈥 But I鈥檒l bet thousands have asked you 鈥榃hat鈥檚 wrong with you?鈥 Yet those two questions evoke totally different reactions. One motivates you and the other doesn鈥檛. One gives you energy, the other flattens you.

I see it when I鈥檓 with young adults and, even more so, with struggling sports people. You can cause a mental block in a boxer鈥檚 head by saying-: 鈥淵our jab is way too slow.鈥 But if a trainer says 鈥撯淟et鈥檚 see how we can get that great jab you have to travel twice as fast,鈥 he鈥檒l have a point scoring machine in a week.

Catch people doing something right and praise them and you鈥檒l convince them that there are no wrong turns on the road of life, just unexpected paths to explore.

Philosophers say we don鈥檛 get to choose how we鈥檙e going to die. You can only decide how you鈥檙e going to live now.

There鈥檚 a legend in Australia that one group of Aborigines was able to make rain with their mystical dancing. When a neighbouring community was suffering from a never-ending drought, they pleaded with the group to help. The rainmakers willingly obliged.

When their dancing was over, the rains came. The leader went to the dancers to thank them and he asked 鈥淲hy is it that every time you dance it rains?鈥 The chief replied, 鈥淚t鈥檚 very simple. We dance until it rains.鈥

The principle is clear then. Shine a light on what is good and keep on doing it.

It鈥檚 in the Bible. 鈥淒on鈥檛 grow weary of doing good鈥 you鈥檒l reap the harvest when the time is right.鈥 (Gal 6:9)

Broadcast

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