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Steven Moffat and Michael Ball

Steven Moffat on leaving Doctor Who and why he thinks Peter Capaldi decided to stop playing the Time Lord. Michael Ball chats about battling the elements at outdoor gigs.

Steven Moffat on leaving Doctor Who, his upcoming project Dracula and why he thinks Peter Capaldi decided to stop playing the Time Lord. Michael Ball chats about performing in all kinds of weather at outdoor gigs and we praise the inventor of the Plimsoll line, Samuel Plimsoll. In the sports locker, former Olympic champion Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill gives Vassos her tips for getting kids more active. Today's Pause For Thought is read by writer Abdul-Rehman Malik.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Thu 29 Jun 2017 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Roxette

    The Look

    • Now 15 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie

    Red Sun

    • (CD Single).
    • East West.

  • Rick James

    Super Freak

    • Dancing In The Street (Various Artis.
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • Olly Murs

    Wrapped Up (feat. Travie McCoy)

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
    • 1.

  • Green Day

    Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)

    • Green Day - Nimrod.
    • Reprise.

  • The Jacksons

    I Want You Back

    • The Best Michael Jackson & Jackson Five.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 1.

  • Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

    I Gotta Praise

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Dancing In The Dark

    • Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits.
    • Columbia.

  • WALK THE MOON

    Work This Body

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.

  • The Searchers

    Needles and Pins

    • (Single).
    • Pye.

  • Robin Schulz

    OK (feat. James Blunt)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • The Cure

    The Love Cats

    • The Cure - Staring At The Sea.
    • Fiction.

  • The Clash

    I Fought The Law

  • Keane

    Spiralling

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

  • New Order

    Blue Monday

  • Liam Gallagher

    Wall Of Glass

  • The Doobie Brothers

    The Doctor

    • American F.M. (Various Artists).
    • Nectar.

  • k.d. lang

    Constant Craving

    • The No.1 Acoustic Rock Album (Variou.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Sheryl Crow

    All I Wanna Do

    • The No.1 Acoustic Rock Album (Variou.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Michael Ball

    Love Changes Everything听

    • The Very Best Of Andrew Lloyd Webber.
    • Polydor.

  • Betsy

    Little White Lies

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Cher

    The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.

  • Artists for Grenfell

    Bridge Over Troubled Water

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.

  • The Style Council

    Shout To The Top

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

Pause For Thought

From writer Abdul-Rehman Malik:

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Chris, I have always prided myself with being able to live with a fair bit of chaos. My so-called work-life balance forever feels like it鈥檚 on the edge of toppling over. I juggle projects and deadlines like a high wire performer 鈥� who鈥檚 decided to toss dinner plates in the air while shuffling along a trapeze wire. Inevitably something comes crashing down and even then 鈥� at least most of the time 鈥� some deep breaths and high quality caffeine sets me up to pick up the pieces.

听

But the other day, I hit the brick wall. With the Eid festival upon us 鈥� and the entire house in a tizzy 鈥� I walked into our bedroom and sort of lost it. Not at anyone in particular, but really at myself. How did I let it come to this? Clothes were piled up on the chair in the corner, books were teetering on the edge of the desk and those hooks behind the doors were literally heaving with bags of papers collected from one too many conferences. 听

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I decided to put everything aside and tackle the mess. As I sorted clothes, papers and books, I kept finding other unusual things hidden here and there: previously used cardboard boxes, pieces of strings tied together, scraps of paper with scribbles all over them. They all went into a big recycling bag 鈥� that is until my son found the bag.

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鈥淎bba! What are you doing? I need these things!鈥�

听

But why, I exclaimed, they鈥檙e just boxes and scraps and I鈥檓 trying to tidy up. He started to tear up a bit.

听

鈥淣o Abba! I need them for my imagination!鈥�

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It reminded me of something The Little Prince says in Antoine de Saint-Exup茅ry鈥檚 celebrated 1943 book. 鈥淕rown-ups鈥�, he complained, 鈥渘ever understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.鈥�

听

Saint-Exup茅ry 鈥� who was born 117 years ago today 鈥� was on to something. Children come into the world with a truly divine gift: oceans of imagination and heaps of ingenuity. They make and remake the world any way they choose. Adults like me forget that.

听

So while my room is cleaner, the boxes and knick-knacks remain 鈥� for now. Where I see trash, my son sees possibility. As much I like a clean room, I like his mess a whole lot more.听听

Broadcast

  • Thu 29 Jun 2017 06:30
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