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Jeffrey Daniel, Trevor Nelson and Jamie Oliver

Shalamar's Jeffrey Daniel looks forward to performing at Radio 2's All Star Party and Jamie Oliver tells us about his new book and Channel 4 show 5 Ingredients: Quick & Easy Food.

Shalamar's Jeffrey Daniel looks forward to performing at Radio 2's All Star Party and Trevor Nelson talks about celebrating our 50th birthday in September. Jamie Oliver tells us why he's keeping it simple in his new Channel 4 show 5 Ingredients: Quick & Easy Food plus he reveals the perfect way to cook chicken drumsticks. In the Sports Locker, Mike Williams speaks to golfer Trish Johnson about the Solheim Cup and Art Historian Dr Jim Harris has a Pause For Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Mon 21 Aug 2017 06:30

Music Played

  • The Jam

    That's Entertainment

    • The Jam: The Singles 1980-1982.
    • Polydor.
  • Enrique Iglesias

    Súbeme La Radio (feat. Sean Paul & Matt Terry)

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music Latin.
  • The Emotions

    Best Of My Love

    • Mellow Madness (Various Artists).
    • Epic.
  • Dire Straits

    Money For Nothing

    • Sultans Of Swing - Best Of Dire Straits.
    • Vertigo.
  • Madonna

    Don't Tell Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Maverick.
    • 16.
  • Oasis

    She's Electric

    • What's The Story Morning Glory -Oasis.
    • Creation Records.
  • Calvin Harris

    Feels (feat. Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry & Big Sean)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
  • Gabrielle

    When A Woman

    • (CD Single).
    • Go Beat.
  • Keith Urban

    The Fighter (feat. Carrie Underwood)

    • Ripcord.
    • Capitol Nashville.
    • 001.
  • Aneka

    Japanese Boy

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

    Neon Blue

    • (CD Single).
    • Steps Music.
  • Bruno Mars

    Treasure

    • Unorthodox Jukebox.
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.
  • Lady Gaga

    Bad Romance

    • Now That's What I Call Music 75 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 1.
  • The Lightning Seeds

    The Life Of Riley

    • Sense - The Lightning Seeds.
    • Virgin.
  • Shalamar

    There It Is

    • Friends - Deluxe Edition.
    • Big Break Records.
    • 6.
  • Mark Morrison

    Return Of The Mack

    • (CD Single).
    • WEA.
  • Donna Summer

    Hot Stuff

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

    Sir Duke

    • Stevie Wonder - Song Review.
    • Motown.
  • UB40

    Food For Thought

    • The Very Best Of UB40 1980-2000.
    • Virgin.
  • JP Cooper

    She's On My Mind

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
  • Lene Lovich

    Lucky Number

    • Fantastic 70's (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.
  • Kraftwerk

    The Model

    • Into The Eighties (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.
  • Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie

    Feel About You

    • Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie.
    • EastWest.
  • Culture Club

    It's A Miracle

    • Culture Club - Greatest Moments.
    • Virgin.
  • KISS

    I Was Made For Lovin' You

    • Endless Love (Various Artists).
    • Mercury.
    • 4.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

Art Historian, Dr Jim Harris:

 One of the pleasures of returning to work at the museum last week (and there have to be pleasures in returning to work otherwise we’ll all go crazy) was to be surrounded again by its many treasures: pictures, sculptures, textiles shimmering with gold and silver thread, ceramics of miraculous delicacy. It is a daily treat to be immersed in a world of such beauty.

 There’s an amazing exhibition at the Ashmolean at the moment, of the drawings of the Italian renaissance artist (and Ninja Turtle) Raphael.  They are miraculous expressions of the creative imagination and the controlled hand - exquisite explorations of form, style and composition, sensitive to every nuance of texture, alive to every subtle turn of the body, capable of conveying the most profound emotion whether he was preparing to make a painting or simply mulling over the complex fall and twist of a piece of fabric.

 Museums are popular places because we are fascinated by art. But I reckon that the truly wonderful thing about them is the light they shine not on the products of human ingenuity but on the ingenious humans who made them. Raphael’s drawings are compelling because they give us some insight into Raphael’s person.

 The writers of the bible knew this and when they tried to express the wonder of the world by weaving stories of its making, it wasn’t the buildings, the statues and the gleaming metalwork they celebrated as the culmination of divine creativity but the miracle of humanity, made in the image and likeness of God him and herself.

 And there’s a reason why Christians (and Jews, and Muslims and members of almost every other faith) believe that the human person in all its astounding variety of shape, size, colour, gender, talent, is the most creative thing in all creation.  It’s because we are.  You are.

Which brings me back to the Ashmolean, and the realization that chief among the pleasures of returning to work is not the tiny, ancient, Chinese celadon porcelain bowl I covet, nor even the transcendent Raphael exhibition, but the people, my colleagues, the most creative things in the whole Museum, interpreting the collections, caring for them, researching them, teaching about them, sharing them, helping visitors enjoy them. They truly are a miracle.

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