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The Show That Overtook Itself!

The show that overtakes itself, with talk of Hull, wool and a musical montage dedicated to girls with brilliant croaky voices!

It's the show that overtakes itself this morning, with themes flying and a marvellous musical montage.

Chris celebrates cousins and Hull, the newly appointed city of culture 2017!

Bonnie Tyler leads the pack in a montage of girl singers, with brilliant croaky voices.

Mystery Guest Tom Hainsworth spins a yarn about the history of wool, and military uniforms.

And today's Pause for Thought is delivered by the Rabbi Pete Tobias.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Wed 20 Nov 2013 06:30
91热爆 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Average White Band

    Pick Up The Pieces

    • The Best Of The Average White Band.
    • Hit Label.

  • Gary Barlow

    Let Me Go

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Big Brother & the Holding Company & Janis Joplin

    (Take A Little) Piece Of My Heart

    • The All Time Greatest Rock Songs ....
    • Columbia.

  • Blondie

    Hanging On The Telephone

    • Atomic: The Very Best Of Blondie.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • Boyzone

    Love Will Save The Day

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Music.
    • 1.

  • Elkie Brooks

    Pearl's A Singer

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Virgin EMI Records.
    • 001.

  • Nell Bryden

    What Does It Take

    • (CD Single).
    • 157 Records.
    • 1.

  • Jake Bugg

    There's a Beast and We All Feed It

    • Shangri-La.
    • Jake Bugg Records.
    • 001.

  • Kim Carnes

    Bette Davis Eyes

    • And The Road Goes On Forever Vol 1.
    • Debutante.

  • The Spencer Davis Group

    Keep On Running

    • Fifty Number Ones Of The 60's (Variou.
    • Global Television.
    • 1.

  • Dr. Hook

    When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman

    • Making Love & Music.
    • MFP.

  • Duffy

    Mercy

    • (CD Single).
    • A&M.

  • Everything but the Girl

    Each and Every One

    • Everything But The Girl - 91热爆 Movies.
    • Blanco Y Negro.

  • Fine Young Cannibals

    Suspicious Minds

    • Drive Time 2 (Various Artists).
    • Dino.

  • Ellie Goulding

    How Long Will I Love You

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • Macy Gray

    I Try

  • The Housemartins

    Happy Hour

    • Now That's What I Call Quite Good.
    • Go! Discs.

  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    Release Me

    • Acuff-Rose Opryland Music: 50th Anniv.
    • Acuff-Rose Opryland.

  • Chris Isaak

    Wicked Games

    Remix Artist: Trentem酶ller.
    • Wild At Heart (Original S/Track).
    • London.

  • Jessie J

    Thunder

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

  • Elton John

    Voyeur

    • The Diving Board.
    • Mercury.
    • 001.

  • Lene Lovich

    Lucky Number

    • Fantastic 70's (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • New Order

    Regret

    • Glorious (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Tom Petty

    Runnin' Down A Dream

    • Tom Petty - Greatest Hits.
    • MCA.

  • Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs

    Wooly Bully

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1965.
    • Premier.

  • Scissor Sisters

    I Don't Feel Like Dancin'

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Rod Stewart

    Can't Stop Me Now

    • Time.
    • Capitol Records.
    • 001.

  • Shania Twain

    Man! I Feel Like A Woman!

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.

  • Bonnie Tyler

    It's A Heartache

    • In The Summertime-Sound Of 70's, Part.
    • Old Gold.

  • Vanity Fare

    Hitchin' A Ride

    • I Live For The Sun: Complete Recordings 1966-76.
    • Cherry Red Records.

  • Al Wilson

    The Snake

    • The Best Northern Soul All-Nighter (V.
    • Virgin.

  • Frank Wilson

    Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)

    • The Best Northern Soul All-Nighter (V.
    • Virgin.

  • Stevie Wonder

    I Wish

    • Motown Party (Various Artists).
    • Motown.

  • John Paul Young

    Love Is In The Air

    • 20 Songs Of Love From The 70's (Vario.
    • MFP.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Rabbi Pete Tobias, of the Liberal Synagogue, Elstree:

听

Recently we鈥檝e seen some very frightening images on our TV screens of the destructive power of nature. A typhoon in the Philippines, tornadoes in the United States. It seems that we鈥檙e getting frequent reminders of nature鈥檚 power and our apparent human weakness in the face of it.

听

One particular 91热爆 News image intrigued me. It was mobile phone footage shot in the American mid-West, showing a view of a tornado just outside the window of a building while those inside recited a prayer. We don鈥檛 know what happened, but as the footage was shown, let鈥檚 assume the people survived. Is that because God listened to their prayer? And suppose they hadn鈥檛 survived? Would that mean that God didn鈥檛 listen? Or chose to ignore them?

听

Natural disasters raise lots of questions about God. We might ask how can a

compassionate God allow such dreadful things to happen to innocent human

beings? That鈥檚 a complicated theological question for a Wednesday morning鈥�

听

Remember the Boxing Day Tsunami nine years ago that affected so many different countries? Five years later a documentary crew interviewed three survivors of different faiths who鈥檇 seen their homes destroyed, their families washed away. Yet each of them, from completely different religious traditions, believed what had happened was a punishment from God.

听

Poor God. Whenever there鈥檚 a catastrophe that takes innocent lives, God always seems to get the blame. But I don鈥檛 think it鈥檚 God鈥檚 fault. Nature is an unbelievably powerful force that follows strict laws of physics. The entire universe is bound by those laws and they can鈥檛 be changed. Not by wishful thinking, not by prayer. Not even by God.

听

What God can 鈥� and does 鈥� do, I think, is encourage us to respond to such disasters. Our compassion is stirred and we do whatever we can to help those who are suffering. We rescue, we rebuild and we bring consolation and hope to those who seem to have lost everything. We鈥檝e seen it in the humanitarian responses to crises, to the generous donations of those wishing to help. That, I think, is where we find God in our sometimes frightening world.

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