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Peter Crouch & Race Walking

Chris chats to Stoke City footballer Peter Crouch about his new book How To Be A Footballer. Plus we talk to 76 year old race walker Ron Penfold.

Chris chats to Stoke City footballer Peter Crouch who shares some secrets from the world of top-flight football which feature in his new book How To Be A Footballer. The tales include his lucky pants bought by his wife Abbey Clancy which inspires today’s Top Tenuous as we hear you claims to the famous to lucky charms. Today’s Not-So-Mystery Guest is 76 year old race walker Ron Penfold, who tells us how he can walk 5K in just over 30 minutes! Vassos is chats to British Olympic Rowing legend James Cracknell about his returning to university and the recent 2018 Rowing World Championships in Bulgaria. Pause For Thought comes courtesy of Senior Rabbi Julia Neuberger.

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Tue 18 Sep 2018 06:30
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Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Julia Neuberger Senior Rabbi at the west London Synagogue:

The holiest day of the year for us Jews starts tonight- Kol Nidrei, the beginning of the Day of Atonement. The synagogue will be full, and hushed, and Oleg will play the cello, the choir will join, and then the congregation will sing Kol Nidrei, the traditional melody which captures us and tears at the heart strings. Jews are, by and large, a talkative lot- but tonight there will be quiet, and contemplation, and tomorrow people will be back, some in and out, many staying all day, to pray, contemplate, resolve to do better.

It’s an almost timeless day. At the end, the shofar, the ram’s horn, sound of the New Year which summoned us to prayer and repentance ten days earlier, is sounded once again to mark the end of the penitential season. It gives us permission to go home, break the fast, and go back to normal.

But this day of contemplation ties in with much modern thinking about decluttering one’s mind and sorting oneself out. Unlike psychotherapy or cognitive behavioural therapy, you do it for yourself. You’re on your own, yet surrounded by others doing the same thing. But it does serve some of the same purpose. You can’t really escape, unless you decide to walk out. You can’t pretend you’re spending a normal day at the office- you’re not, you’re huddled and fasting and thirsty and the air gets more and more foul as the day goes on. It is different. A day for accounting for yourself to God. And, the older I get, the more I am convinced that it’s a healthy process, and that people from other faiths and none could do something similar, getting people to take a day out, where nothing normal happens. The very strangeness of the day- no mealtimes, no computer screen- forces you to look inwards. The very repetition of prayers allows boredom to morph into deep inner soul searching. So, though no-one could say it’s a pleasant or comfortable day, I think Yom Kippur serves a truly useful purpose. And I’m looking forward to next week, and being spiritually refreshed!

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