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Sara Cox sits in and is joined in the studio by Anita Rani, who reveals she’ll be the on-tour narrator for Blue Planet II – Live in Concert. Plus there's the Half Wower.

Sara Cox sits in and is joined in the studio by Anita Rani who reveals she’ll be the on-tour narrator for Blue Planet II – Live in Concert which heads to an arena near you next year. We heard from 3 fabulous Early Achievers including Mrs Amner who was up doing some last minute packing before taking 42 children to Iceland on a school trip. Plus there’s the Half Wower with tunes including Janet Jackson, Nile Rodgers & Chic and Indeep. Karthi Gnanasegaram is joined in the Sports Locker by sports pundit and former American Football player Osi Umenyiora. Rabbi Julia Neuberger has Thursday’s Pause For Thought.

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Thu 18 Oct 2018 06:30
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  • Michael McDonald

    Sweet Freedom

    • Michael McDonald - Sweet Freedom.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Olly Murs

    Moves (feat. Snoop Dogg)

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Texas

    Summer Son

    • Texas - The Greatest Hits.
    • Mercury.

  • Bon Jovi

    Livin' On A Prayer

    • Music Of The Millennium (Various).
    • Universal Music Tv.
    • 1.

  • Travis

    Why Does It Always Rain On Me?

    • (CD Single).
    • Independiente.

  • Spiller

    Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) (feat. Sophie Ellis‐Bextor)

    • (CD Single).
    • Positiva.

  • Years & Years

    All For You

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Holly Valance

    Kiss Kiss

    • (CD Single).
    • London.
    • 4.

  • Calvin Harris & Sam Smith

    Promises (feat. Jessie Reyez)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Lonnie Donegan

    My Old Man's a Dustman

    • 60's Number Ones Vol 1.
    • Old Gold.

  • Nile Rodgers & Chic

    Sober (feat. Craig David & Stefflon Don)

    • It's About Time.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • The Marcels

    Blue Moon

    • 60's Number Ones Vol 1.
    • Old Gold.

  • Jamelia

    Superstar

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

    I Love Rock 'n' Roll

    • Joan Jett - I Love Rock 'n' Roll.
    • Blackheart.

  • Janet Jackson

    What Have You Done For Me Lately

    • Janet Jackson - Design Of A Decade.
    • A&M.
    • 6.

  • The Gap Band

    Oops Up Side Your Head

    • Soul Years 1980 (Various Artists).
    • Knight Records.

  • Indeep

    Last Night A DJ Saved My Life

    • Soul Weekender (Various Artists).
    • Crimson.

  • David Guetta

    Without You (feat. Usher)

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 80 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • M|A|R|R|S

    Pump Up The Volume

    • Now 10, Part 1 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 4.

  • Kevin Lyttle

    Turn Me On (feat. Spragga Benz)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Ariana Grande

    breathin

  • The Kooks

    She Moves In Her Own Way

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • Bananarama

    Robert De Niro's Waiting

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

  • Samuel E. Wright

    Under The Sea

    • Absolutely Disney (Various Artists).
    • Walt Disney Records.

  • Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper

    Shallow

    • A Star Is Born O.S.T..
    • Interscope.

  • Todd Rundgren

    I Saw The Light

    • My Girl (Original 1992 Film S/Track).
    • Epic.

  • Rush

    The Spirit Of Radio

    • (Single).
    • Mercury.
    • 3.

  • Sting & Shaggy

    Don't Make Me Wait

    • 44/876.
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • Sheridan Smith

    Priceless

    • A Northern Soul.
    • East West Records.

  • Cliff Richard

    Wired For Sound

    • Cliff Richard - Private Collection.
    • EMI.

  • Taylor Swift

    22

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.
    • 1.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Julia Neuberger Senior Rabbi at the west London Synagogue:

Last weekend, the section of Torah for the week was all about Noah and his ark, a wonderful story almost everyone knows, about the flood. But the end bit is less well known- the story of the Tower of Babel, where the people decided to build a huge tower, a ziggurat, a Babylonian style temple. God got worried that all they did, when communication was easy for them, was to show a terrifying sense of their own self-importance. God said: β€œCome, let us go down, and… confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech…..” For before this, their single language suggests the world was a single community. But their great tower showed their ambition for greatness, forgetting their human need for connectedness. The result was fitting. For not understanding each other causes loneliness. Lines of communication are totally severed, and the story makes it clear that grandiose schemes are not what life is about. We don’t necessarily need theΜύ great projects politicians come up with. But we do need emotional and physical closeness, and the ability to communicate, with other human beings. We probably need a community, even if we don’t like all the features of it. It makes us feel less isolated in an age when people look at screens rather than each other, and people have Facebook friends more than real ones.

This current storm of loneliness we hear about on the news is not a wholly new phenomenon, though the scale of it is new. But we are less good at dealing with it as we live further from parents and children, spend more time on screens and less chatting over garden fences, and as our connections are more online than physical. The Tower of Babel story is an awful warning. If we get too hooked on great ideas, new technology, more ways of doing exciting things, we may end up unable to understand each other. The word β€˜babble in English comes from the Tower of Babel….Μύ Let’s heed the warning and avoid the babble, instead visiting each other, noticing if people are lonely, and doing something about it.

Μύ

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