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David Dimbleby and new 拢1 coin

Chris is joined in the studio by David Dimbleby who pops by ahead of hosting a special Question Time from Birmingham and finds out all you need to know about the new 拢1 coin.

Chris is joined in the studio by David Dimbleby who pops by ahead of hosting a special Question Time tonight from Birmingham and tells us what it's like to be the middle man during these challenging conversations. Chris finds out everything you need to know about the new 拢1 coin, which goes into circulation tomorrow with Gordon Summers, the Chief Engraver from the Royal Mint. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by Kat Clifton from the FA People's Cup. We hear your tenuous link to anything better than flying a spitfire in the Top Tenuous and the Pause For Thought comes from Rabbi Dr Harvey Belovski.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Mon 27 Mar 2017 06:30
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Music Played

  • Robbie Williams

    Rock DJ

    • (CD Single).
    • Chrysalis.

  • Steps

    Scared Of The Dark

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

  • DEVO

    Bread And Butter

    • Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: 9 1/2 Weeks.
    • 7.

  • Tom Robinson Band

    2-4-6-8 Motorway

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1977 (Various).
    • Premier.

  • Blossoms

    Charlemagne

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI.

  • Duran Duran

    Hungry Like The Wolf

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

  • Ed Sheeran

    Galway Girl

    • 梅 Divide.
    • Atlantic.

  • Ian Dury & the Blockheads

    Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick

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

  • CeeLo Green

    Music To My Soul

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Reparata & The Delrons

    Captain Of Your Ship

    • (Single).
    • Bell.

  • Maren Morris

    My Church

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Sweet Talkin' Woman

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.

  • Hifi Sean

    Testify (feat. Crystal Waters)

    • Ft..
    • Plastique Recordings.
    • 001.

  • The Coral

    In The Morning

    • (CD Single).
    • Deltasonic.

  • Harry Belafonte

    Jump In The Line

    • The Best Of.
    • Camden.
    • 16.

  • Take That

    Giants

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Texas

    Let's Work It Out

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

  • Sub Sub

    Ain't No Love (Ain't No Use) (feat. Melanie Williams)

  • The Ronettes

    Baby, I Love You

    • The Best Of The Ronettes.
    • Phil Spector Int.

  • The Temptations

    Ain't Too Proud To Beg

    • The Temptations - The Ultimate Collec.
    • Motown.

  • New Kids on the Block

    Hangin' Tough

    • Greatest Hits.
    • Columbia.

  • Zac Brown Band

    Jump Right In

    • (CD Single).
    • Southern Ground.
    • 1.

  • Lorde

    Green Light

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI.

  • Radiohead

    Creep

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Pulp

    Common People

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 5.

  • Mike + the Mechanics

    Don't Know What Came Over Me

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

  • CeCe Peniston

    Finally

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 1992 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Clean Bandit

    Rockabye (feat. Sean Paul & Anne-Marie)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Rabbi Dr Harvey Belovski, rabbi of Golders Green Synagogue and CEO of University Jewish Chaplaincy:

Tonight is the start of the Jewish calendar year, the first day of the month of聽spring, known as Nisan. When I was studying for the rabbinate, it was a聽standing joke that the start of Nisan is always a good time to buy a Japanese聽car. Of course, the word Nisan isn鈥檛 Japanese at all, but related to the聽Hebrew word 鈥榥es鈥� 鈥� miracle.聽

The Jewish calendar is very much attuned to the seasons. It鈥檚 by design聽that the start of the calendar year 鈥� a moment for renewal and opportunity聽鈥� coincides with the start of spring. But if spring is just a phase in a natural聽cycle, why is the month called Nisan 鈥� miracle?

I鈥檓 inspired by a great Jewish teacher called Professor A.J. Heschel, who聽died in the early 70s. Heschel was a restless soul. While his colleagues sat聽quietly at prayer, he annoyed them by pacing up and down. He was a civil聽rights activist who marched side-by- side with Martin Luther King at Selma聽in 1965, convinced, in his own words that 鈥榟is legs were praying鈥�.

Heschel often spoke about how religious life had become sterile and had聽lost mystery and grandeur, which he experienced through activism but also聽through nature. He wrote that as 鈥榗ivilisation advances, the sense of聽wonder declines鈥�. He meant that many who live in cities have lost our聽direct connection with nature 鈥� concrete covers the ground, buildings block聽natural scenery, there are no animals, trees are manicured to fit our needs聽and there barely a difference between night and day.

For Professor Heschel, the world is now a gigantic tool box for the聽satisfaction of our needs, into which nature must fit. 聽But the advent of spring can allow us to remember nature; to feel the wind聽on our faces, experience trees, plants, animals directly, not on a screen.

When we sense the mystery and grandeur of nature, we regain the ability聽to look beyond the world into the unknown. This is the miracle of Nisan聽and the wonder of spring.

An early Jewish teaching captures the importance of spring in a few words:聽鈥榠f you have a sapling in your hand and someone tells you that the messiah聽has arrived, first plant the sapling and then go out to greet him鈥�.

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