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Mary Berry gets everyone's mouths watering with her top tips for the best Beef Wellington, and Chris speaks to midwife Terri Coates, the inspiration behind Call the Midwife.

Culinary Queen Mary Berry gets our mouths watering with her top tips for the best Beef Wellington and new fool proof cooking programme! And with everyone going Call the Midwife crazy, Chris speaks to real life midwife and the inspiration behind the show, Terri Coates. Plus, today's Pause for Thought is a Robert Burns special from Canon Ann Easter.

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Mon 25 Jan 2016 06:30
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Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
From Canon Ann Easter, Chaplain to the Queen:

You might be surprised to hear that one of the highlights of the social calendar in the East London borough where I live is a celebration of the life and work of the Scottish poet Robert Burns 鈥� but we have an elected Mayor who鈥檚 a proud Scot and it was he who led us in the admittedly whisky-soaked event last Friday evening.聽

We had delicious food 鈥� with haggis of course 鈥� and some very moving and funny speeches 鈥� the Toast to the Lassies was really quite affectionate but I have to admit that the Lassies鈥� response was a bit robust and not nearly so complimentary about the Laddies! Then we danced and danced!

Robert Burns was born this day in 1795, the son of an Ayrshire farmer; 221 years on, and his poetry is still very much with us:聽 which New Year鈥檚 Eve party across the world did not include a rendition of his Auld Lang Syne? 鈥� though maybe only one of the fourteen or so verses! Michael Jackson was a fan apparently, and Bob Dylan reckoned that Burns鈥� 鈥楳y Love is like a Red, Red rose鈥� is the lyric which has had the greatest impact on his work. Amazing!

Robert Burns worked mainly in the local tax office but his real passions were women and poetry 鈥� he fell in love often and he had around 14 children by four different women with the last of his children born on the day of his funeral because he was only 37 when he died. But he translated that rich, hectic life into poetry which somehow communicates the essence of what it is to be human across time and place.

And at our Burns supper last Friday, we followed the traditional pattern but made it our own with East End knobs on!聽 My role was to recite the Selkirk Grace in a sort of Scockney accent which is the nearest I can get; it goes-

鈥楽ome hae meat and canna eat;
Some hae nane and want it!
We hae meat and we can eat
Sae, let the Lord be thanket!鈥�

And, the more I find out about Robbie Burns, the more I think that he鈥檚 God鈥檚 gift to Scotland and to the world.

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