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Susie Dent and Vintage Sewing Machines

Chris is joined by Countdown's Susie Dent to talk about the 90th anniversary of the Oxford English Dictionary and gets nostalgic over sewing machines with collector Rachel Walden.

Chris is joined by Countdown's Susie Dent, who reflects on 90 years of the Oxford English Dictionary and tells us about their Words Where You Are campaign, to get the nation adding regional words into the dictionary. We get nostalgic over vintage sewing machines with collector Rachel Walden from the Vintage Nostalgia Festival. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by Pointless presenter and self-confessed Fulham FC fan, Richard Osman. Thursday's Pause For Thought comes from writer and vicar Dave Tomlinson.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Thu 26 Apr 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • Mark Ronson

    Valerie (feat. Amy Winehouse)

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony BMG.

  • John Newman

    Fire In Me

    • Revolve.
    • Island.

  • Ram Jam

    Black Betty

    • 25 Years Of Rock 'N' Roll: 1977 (Various Artists).
    • Connoisseur Collection.
    • 2.

  • Aloe Blacc

    I Need A Dollar

    • Good Things.
    • Stones Throw Records.
    • 1.

  • T. Rex

    Children of the Revolution

    • Tanx + Zinc Alloy.
    • Edsel.
    • 006.

  • Stevie Wonder

    Part-Time Lover

    • Stevie Wonder - Song Review.
    • Motown.

  • Sting & Shaggy

    Don't Make Me Wait

    • 44/876.
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • Destiny’s Child

    Survivor

    • Now 49 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Beatles

    Across The Universe

  • Dead or Alive

    You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)

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

  • Paloma Faith

    Make Your Own Kind Of Music

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Supertramp

    Breakfast In America

    • The Very Best Of Supertramp.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Genesis

    Mama

    • Genesis - Turn It On Again.
    • Virgin.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Stop Me From Falling (feat. Gente de Zona)

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Natasha Bedingfield

    These Words

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.

  • Maroon 5

    This Love

    • (CD Single).
    • J.

  • Duffy

    Mercy

  • Tears for Fears

    Sowing The Seeds Of Love

    • The Best Of Drive Time (Various Artists).
    • Polygram TV.
    • 7.

  • Kim Wilde

    Kandy Krush

    • Here Come The Aliens.
    • Wildeflower Records.

  • Derek and the Dominos

    Layla

    • Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs.
    • Polydor.

  • The Rolling Stones

    Paint It Black

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.

  • Matt Cardle

    Desire

    • Time To Be Alive.
    • Sony Music.
    • 3.

  • Barrington Pheloung

    Inspector Morse Theme

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Dave Tomlinson,Ìýwriter and Vicar of St Luke’s Holloway in London:

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One of my friends has a fridge magnet which states, ‘Live to the Point of Tears.’ It’s a quote from the French philosopher (and bizarrely also professional goalie) Albert Camus. I read somewhere that Camus frequently whispered this to himself – like his internal fridge magnet.

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Camus wasn’t inviting suffering – or mushy sentimentality – into his life; he was talking about living full out with courage, passion and a commitment to engage with all that life brings: sadness, joy, anger, frustration.

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I recently took the funeral of a 54-year-old. In the service, through teary eyes, his wife said, ‘Richard always lived with a massive YES! to life. I think he’d want us to live that way too. Even now, with our grief.’

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Apparently, Richard found it very difficult to pass a homeless person selling The Big Issue without buying a copy – even when he already had five copies of that edition! ‘I used to laugh at him’, his wife told us, ‘but he’d say that in different circumstances he could have been homeless.’

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Albert Camus also wrote, ‘If there is any sin against life, it consists not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.’

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People may be surprised to hear a vicar endorsing an apparent dismissal of a hereafter. But here’s the thing: none of us knows what happens next. That’s a matter of faith, not of fact which can be proven. What we do know for certain is that we have the incredible gift of life here and now. And that’s what I want to concentrate on, leaving the future to look after itself.

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Jesus himself spoke much less about the hereafter than he did about this life. His overwhelming concern in the gospels is about how we live now – the way we treat people, what we do with our money, the life-choices we make, our commitment to seeking justice and reconciliation. Religion, I reckon, gets distorted when it becomes preoccupied with the next world instead of focusing on transforming this world…this life.

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For me, faith is just another way of talking about courage: the courage to engage with all that life brings, bitter and sweet – to live to the point of tears and of hilarious laughter.

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