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David Walliams' 500 Words Story Surgery

Bestselling children's author David Walliams opens the 500 Words Story Surgery, taking calls from kids and sharing tips ahead of the deadline on Thursday 22nd February at 7pm.

Bestselling children's author David Walliams opens the 500 Words Story Surgery, taking calls from kids and sharing tips ahead of the 500 Words deadline on Thursday 22nd February at 7pm. Former British skeleton racer and Olympic gold medallist Amy Williams joins Vassos in the sports locker, there's your desperate claims to the fame of famous authors in the Top Tenuous and a Pause For Thought with Dr. Jim Harris.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Mon 19 Feb 2018 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Manic Street Preachers

    A Design For Life

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

  • Toto

    Spanish Sea

    • 40 Trips Around The Sun.
    • Sony Legacy.

  • James Brown

    I Got You (I Feel Good)

    • Hits Of ... 65 & 66 (Vol.1).
    • Polydor.

  • John Newman

    Come And Get It

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 001.

  • Lenny Kravitz

    California

    • Lenny Kravitz - Baptism.
    • Parlophone.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Go Your Own Way

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 006.

  • Dua Lipa

    IDGAF

    • Dua Lipa.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Alanis Morissette

    Ironic

  • The Supremes

    Baby Love

    • Diana Ross & The Supremes - 40 Motown.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Kim Wilde & Ricky Wilde

    Pop Don't Stop

    • Here Come The Aliens.
    • Wildeflower Records.

  • Manfred Mann鈥檚 Earth Band

    Blinded By The Light

    • Drivetime 3 (Various Artists).
    • Dino.

  • Erasure

    Blue Savannah

    • (CD Single).
    • Mute Records.

  • Perry Como

    Papa Loves Mambo

    • The Best Of Cult Fiction (Various).
    • Virgin.

  • Liam Payne & Rita Ora

    For You (Fifty Shades Freed)

    • Fifty Shades Freed O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Island.

  • AC/DC

    Back In Black

    • Back In Black.
    • Epic.
    • 6.

  • 10cc

    Art For Art's Sake

    • The Very Best Of 10cc.
    • Mercury.

  • Gladys Knight & the Pips

    Come Back and Finish What You Started

    • Gladys Knight & The Pips - Singles Al.
    • Pro-Tv.

  • Rudimental

    These Days (feat. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Tom Jones

    It's Not Unusual

    • Fifty Number Ones Of The 60's (Variou.
    • Global Television.

  • Ricky Martin

    She Bangs

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Toploader

    Dancing In The Moonlight

    • Onka's Big Moka - Toploader.
    • Sony Soho Square.

  • Liam Gallagher

    Paper Crown

    • As You Were.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 004.

  • Elvis Presley

    Hound Dog

    • Presley - The All Time Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.

  • Crowded House

    Fall At Your Feet

    • Mixed Emotions III (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Jim Harris, Art Historian:

听

It鈥檚 Monday and the week stretches before us, unknown and exciting, full of optimism and hope, full of possibility, potential and the thrill of discovery. Or, if you鈥檙e anything like me, full of things you鈥檙e not quite ready for, things that aren鈥檛 properly thought out, things that bring with them the dread horror of failure, disgrace and public humiliation.

听

Ok, perhaps that鈥檚 a little strong but the start of the week always comes bearing the likelihood of situations in which we might just have to busk. I used to play trumpet in a band and every so often I鈥檇 have to play a solo. We had a great bassist, Tuffie, who鈥檇 say 鈥淛ust play. Make something up鈥�, implying that literally anyone could improvise eight bars.听 But I was terrified of improvising. It鈥檚 risky.听 If I was going to play a solo, I wanted notes. I wanted to be secure, to be prepared.

听

Preparation is important. Practice, rehearsal, chords, a script.听 So we prepare. We check our diaries and make a plan, an agenda, a PowerPoint. But what happens if the thing you鈥檙e preparing for doesn鈥檛 work out? In the Bible, John the Baptist cried out, 鈥楶repare the way of the Lord鈥�.听 So people prepared.听 The Jews had been preparing for a thousand years.听 Trouble was, when Jesus arrived, he wasn鈥檛 what they expected.

听

Instead of being a king, he was poor; instead of going to the off-licence, he turned water into wine; instead of staying dead, he came back to life. Preparing the way of the Lord was a nightmare. How can you prepare for something that is almost certain to surprise you?

Well, the answer is to improvise.听 So Jesus鈥� friends improvised, took risks, changed the plan. Peter stopped being a fisherman and started being a leader.听 Paul stopped being a bigot and started to love his enemies.

听

Whenever I finally took a risk on eight bars of unwritten trumpet, the song changed; not always for the better, but usually. So this week, I鈥檒l prepare, and maybe I鈥檒l follow the plan.听 But maybe, occasionally, I鈥檒l give a little, listen, respond.听 Improvise. And I don鈥檛 know, but I reckon that might not just get me through the week but actually get me somewhere; somewhere more vulnerable and less secure, certainly, but also somewhere kinder, more exciting.听 Somewhere that just sounds better.

听

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