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Elizabeth Hurley and Who Cares Wins Health Awards

Chris is joined by Elizabeth Hurley to help raise awareness for Breast Cancer Awareness month and we meet Nicola, Cat and Michael from the Who Cares Wins Health Awards.

Chris is joined by Elizabeth Hurley about visiting research centres and turning the Empire State Building pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. After the Who Cares Wins Awards last night, we meet Best Midwife award winner Nicola Taylor, and Cat and Michael, the wonderful parents, who she helped through child bereavement. Today's Pause For Thought comes from vicar Dave Tomlinson.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Music Played

  • The J. Geils Band

    Centrefold

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

    Loyal To Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Cooking Vinyl.
  • Jackie Wilson

    (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher

    • Midnight Soul (Various Artists).
    • Music Club.
  • Coldplay

    Hymn For The Weekend (feat. µþ±ð²â´Ç²Ô³¦Ã©)

    • A Head Full Of Dreams.
    • Parlophone.
  • Shania Twain

    Man! I Feel Like A Woman!

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.
  • The Banana Splits

    The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)

    • Television's Greatest Hits Vol. 5: In Living Color (Various Artists).
    • TVT Records.
  • Daryl Hall & John Oates

    You Make My Dreams

    • Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.
    • 5.
  • Tom Odell

    Piano Man (Radio 2 Session, 5th Oct 2018)

  • Take That

    Relight My Fire (feat. Lulu)

    • Simply The Best Radio Hits (Various).
    • Warner E.S.P..
  • Marvin Gaye

    How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)

    • The Very Best Of Marvin Gaye.
    • Motown.
  • Boy George & Culture Club

    Life

    • Life.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).
  • Kylie Minogue

    Can't Get You Out Of My Head

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
  • Oasis

    Wonderwall

    • What's The Story Morning Glory -Oasis.
    • Creation Records.
  • The Lightning Seeds

    The Life Of Riley

    • Sense - The Lightning Seeds.
    • Virgin.
  • Macy Gray

    Over You

    • Ruby.
    • Mack Avenue Records.
  • P!nk

    What About Us

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.
  • Billy Ocean

    Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)

    • Billy Ocean - Love Is For Ever (L.I.F.
    • Jive.
  • Tiffany

    I Think We're Alone Now

    • Now 12 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • David Bowie

    Heroes

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.
  • Tom Odell

    Half As Good As You (feat. Alice Merton)

  • Paul Weller

    You Do Something To Me

    • Love Songs - 39 All Time Love Classic.
    • Polygram Tv.
  • Nat King Cole

    L-O-V-E

    • Born Romantic O.S.T.(Various Artists).
    • Columbia.
  • Barbra Streisand

    Don't Lie To Me

    • Walls.
    • Columbia.
  • LeAnn Rimes

    LovE is LovE is LovE

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Dave Tomlinson,Ìýwriter and Vicar of St Luke’s Holloway in London:

Ìý

Last year, Canada lost one of its most beloved radio broadcasters, Stuart McLean, known for his enthralling short stories. Probably his best known character was Dave, owner of The Vinyl Café, the smallest record store in the world, with the crazy strapline: ‘We may not be big…but we’re small’. I know it sounds daft but I reckon that’s the kind of riddle Jesus might have used to say: ‘Don’t think the only way to change the world is by being powerful… you can make a difference even if you feel little and insignificant.’

Ìý

One of my pleasures in life is going into schools, talking to young people. In one class I introduced the grand idea of a ‘global ethic’ – how different religious communities could join together to affirm a common set of principles to tackle the world’s problems. One young man asked, ‘But what can we do to make a difference?’ A fellow student replied that we can do small things to help: support humane causes through online campaigns, do sponsorships for charitable projects, stand up to bullies, help elderly neighbours, look after the wild life in the garden, buy things that are fairly-traded, stop using unnecessary plastic.

Ìý

Next thing, the whole class was buzzing with questions and suggestions. And I went home, impressed, as I mostly am after such encounters, by the way young people are prepared to engage seriously with such issues. Most of all, I felt inspired by their eagerness to make modest, practical changes.

Ìý

As adults we often succumb to a culture of resignation – to a sense of helplessness that we can make a difference in the world. But it’s young people who restore my hope for the future: who remind me that I can alter things a bit if I am only willing to make the effort instead of simply handing the responsibility to those I see as more powerful. This is especially poignant in light of yesterday’s report calling on all of us to make urgent changes (small and great) to limit global warming. Jesus said the way to change the world is by planting tiny seeds of goodness in the soil of everyday life – not worrying about immediate ‘results’ but trusting that little actions eventually have big consequences. Sometimes, little things achieve more than big things. Or, as Dave so fabulously put it: We may not be big…but we’re small!’

Broadcast

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