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500 Words: Live Lesson 2018 and Dr Michael Mosley

Chris is back and is joined by Helen Skelton to help launch the 500 Words: Live Lesson 2018. Plus we find out the hottest diets hitting the headlines with Dr Michael Mosley.

Chris is back and is joined by Helen Skelton to help launch the 500 Words: Live Lesson 2018. She tells us all about how schools up and down the country can get involved and get kids thinking creatively. Plus we find out the three hottest diets this year; Raw Food, Med and Vegan with Dr Michael Mosley and which one he heartily recommends. We countdown the listeners' top ten kitchen gadgets including the egg cutter, wooden toast tongs and pizza cutter! Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by darts legend Bobby George which leads us to ask for your claims to the fame of darts in today's Top Tenuous. Writer and Vicar Dave Tomlinson has Thursday's Pause For Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Thu 11 Jan 2018 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Huey Lewis and the News

    The Power Of Love

    • Huey Lewis & The News - Fore!.
    • Chrysalis.

  • Cameo

    Candy

    • Trevor Nelson's Soul Nation (Various Artists).
    • Universal.

  • The Beatles

    Twist and Shout

    • Please Please Me.
    • Parlophone.
    • 14.

  • Fuse ODG

    Boa Me (feat. Ed Sheeran & Mugeez)

    • (CD Single).
    • Off Da Ground.

  • The Lightning Seeds

    Pure

    • Lightning Seeds - Cloudcuckooland.
    • Ghetto.

  • Dead or Alive

    You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)

    • Wave Party (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.
    • 4.

  • SZA & Calvin Harris

    The Weekend (Funk Wav Remix)

    • (CD Single).
    • Top Dawg Entertainment/RCA Records.
    • 1.

  • Avril Lavigne

    Sk8er Boi

    • (CD Single).
    • Arista.

  • Adele

    Rolling In The Deep

    • (CD Single).
    • XL.
    • 1.

  • Susan Maughan

    Bobby's Girl

    • Rediscover The 60's - Sealed With A K.
    • Old Gold.

  • Craig David

    I Know You (feat. Bastille)

    • (CD Single).
    • Insanity Records.

  • The Police

    Message In A Bottle

    • The Very Best Of Sting & The Police.
    • A&M.

  • Pet Shop Boys

    West End Girls

    • Now That's What I Call Music '86.
    • Now.

  • Olivia Newton鈥怞ohn & Electric Light Orchestra

    Xanadu

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.

  • The Jacksons

    Can You Feel It (Album Version)

    • Triumph.
    • Epic.

  • Naughty Boy & Joe Jonas

    One Chance To Dance

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin Records.

  • Clean Bandit

    Symphony (feat. Zara Larsson)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Nelly Furtado

    Maneater

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 64 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 2.

  • James

    Sit Down

    • True Brit (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Janet Jackson

    Together Again

    • Now 39 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Thompson Twins

    Doctor! Doctor!

    • Young at Heart (Various Artists).
    • Reader's Digest.

  • Jessie Ware

    Your Domino

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • The Clash

    I Fought The Law

  • Take That

    Never Forget

    • Now That's What I Call Music 1995 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Chumbawamba

    Tubthumping

    • The Best Pub Jukebox In The World (V).
    • Virgin.

  • Midge Ure

    Breathe

    • Orchestrated.
    • BMG.

  • Bruce Channel

    Hey! Baby

    • Rediscover The 60's - Sealed With A K.
    • Old Gold.

  • Paul Simon

    Late in the Evening

    • The Paul Simon Anthology (Disc 1).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 10.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

听From Dave Tomlinson,听writer and Vicar of St Luke鈥檚 Holloway in London:

There鈥檚 nothing like a winter wedding 鈥� very atmospheric, and a welcome excuse for a party in the dark days of the year. Last Saturday I was blessed to take part in the marriage of Abby and George in Yorkshire. Adorned in her splendid red, hooded cloak, Abby and her handsome prince looked stunning as they left the church in a cascade of confetti.

Before returning home, Pat and I took a short break in the Peak District where, on Monday, we made the brisk walk up to Solomon鈥檚 Temple, a Victorian landmark outside Buxton. The heavy frost on the hilltop hardly ceded to the gentle warmth of the brilliant winter sun. For Pat, the climb was a satisfying marker after a knee replacement last year.听

Standing on the stone tower surveying the magnificent views of Buxton and the surrounding countryside, I snatched a quick selfie with the missus 鈥� and felt a visceral sense of gratitude.

It鈥檚 seven years since I suffered a heart attack, when I thought my life may be over. And now, here I am: still breathing God鈥檚 fresh air, still doing the job I love, still helping beaming couples say, 鈥業 will鈥�, still relishing a giggle with pals, still trying to offer something useful to the world.

Gratitude isn鈥檛 primarily about the things given to us, deserved or otherwise 鈥� the array of stuff we possess. Gratitude is a state of mind: being awake to life, in both its beauty and pain 鈥� being present to the myriad things, happy and sad which tell us we are alive and able to make of life what we will.

Unusually, Abby and George chose a wedding reading from the cosmologist, Carl Sagan, which said that though our planet is a mote of dust in the morning sky, the world is exquisite with so much love and moral depth, and we should remain grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity life provides.听

For me, it doesn鈥檛 matter if we are religious or not, when we experience gratitude, we connect with the source of everything 鈥� whatever we call that.听

As the 13th century mystic, Meister Eckhart said, if the only prayer we know in our entire life is 鈥榯hank you鈥�, that will be enough.

Broadcast

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    麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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