Bruce Springsteen On Broadway competition and Tom Hanks
Chris launches a competition in aid of 91Èȱ¬ Children in Need to win tickets to see Bruce Springsteen On Broadway and speaks to Tom Hanks about his new book Uncommon Type.
Chris launches 91Èȱ¬ Radio 2's Tenner Text In to see Bruce Springsteen On Broadway competition in aid of 91Èȱ¬ Children in Need. Plus we speak to Tom Hanks about his vast collection of typewriters and his new book Uncommon Type. We hear your desperate claims to competitions in today's Top Tenuous and Karthi Gnanasegaram is joined in the Sports Locker by Tour de France 2018 winner Geraint Thomas. Our daily Pause For Thought comes courtesy of Rabbi Dr Harvey Belovski.
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Where does Tom Hanks get his ideas from?
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Tom Hanks: For the love of typewriters
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Bruce Springsteen
Glory Days
- Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA.
- CBS.
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Ellie Goulding & Diplo
Close To Me (feat. Swae Lee)
- (CD Single).
- Polydor.
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T. Rex
Get It On
- Million Sellers Vol.19 - The Seventie.
- Disky.
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Silk City & Dua Lipa
Electricity
- (CD Single).
- Sony Music.
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The Cardigans
Lovefool
- The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
- Columbia/Sony Tv.
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Bruce Springsteen
Hungry Heart
- Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits.
- Columbia.
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Glenn Frey
The Heat Is On
- Above The Clouds: The Very Best Of.
- Universal.
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Take That
Out Of Our Heads
- Odyssey.
- Polydor.
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Blood, Sweat & Tears
You've Made Me So Very Happy
- 25 Years Of Rock'n'Roll 1969 (Vol 2).
- Connoisseur.
- 4.
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Jamie Cullum
Love Is In The Picture
- (CD Single).
- Island.
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Bruce Springsteen
Born In The USA
- Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA.
- CBS.
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Nina Simone
Ain't Got No, I Got Life
- (CD Single).
- Sony BMG.
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The Coral
Pass It On
- (CD Single).
- Deltasonic.
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Michael Bublé
It's A Beautiful Day
- (CD Single).
- Reprise.
- 1.
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Bruce Springsteen
Dancing In The Dark
- Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits.
- Columbia.
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Eurythmics
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
- Our Friends Electric (Various Artists.
- Telstar.
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Billy Idol
White Wedding
- Rip It Up (Various Artists).
- EMI.
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Bruce Springsteen
Radio Nowhere
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Zara Larsson
Ruin My Life
- (CD Single).
- Black Butter.
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Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Born To Run
- Born To Run.
- CBS.
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Meat Loaf
Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad
- No Greater Love (Various Artists).
- Global Records & Tapes.
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Jess Glynne
Thursday
- Always In Between.
- Atlantic.
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Spice Girls
Wannabe
- Bad Girls (Various Artists).
- Sony Music TV.
Pause For Thought
Harvey Belovski, rabbi at Golders Green United Synagogue:
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This weekend marks 100 years since the end of the First World War. It’s impossible not to agonise over the colossal loss of life and sacrifice of so many brave men and women.Ìý Known at the time as the Great War, it was supposed to be the ‘war to end all wars’, the final conflict of history.Ìý Yet just 20 years later, another conflict wreaked havoc across the globe.
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This weekend will also be the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, an organised pogrom against Jews across Nazi Germany.Ìý Jewish homes, schools and shops were ransacked, at least 90 Jews murdered, thousands beaten, and some 30,000 were sent to concentration camps.Ìý The shattered glass that gave the night its name came from more than 260 synagogues that were desecrated and destroyed.
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Kristallnacht also shattered any illusions about the Nazis’ real plan for the Jews.Ìý Harassment and prejudice quickly give way to physical violence.Ìý Kristallnacht is widely viewed as the beginning of Hitler’s final solution – the Holocaust that led to the brutal murder of millions.
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Eli Fachler was a remarkable man who passed away three years ago.Ìý He grew up in Berlin in the building adjacent to his family synagogue where his father was the Torah reader and where he had celebrated his bar mitzvah.Ìý He watched from the window as the Nazis destroyed his beloved synagogue.Ìý Frozen to the spot, he heard them shouting and was convinced they would find him and kill him.Ìý Eli Fachler fled Berlin when he was 15, but he never saw his parents again – they were murdered by the Nazis.Ìý Remarkably, Eli returned to Berlin soon before his passing to mark the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht.
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80 years on, it is chilling to think that just 10 days ago, a far-right extremist attacked a synagogue in Pittsburgh, murdering 11 worshippers and devasting a community.Ìý At synagogues all over the world – including mine – we gathered last Saturday to show solidarity with the victims and that like Eli Fachler, we will not be cowed by the blight of anti-Semitism.
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Sombre anniversaries – like the two coming this weekend – remind us that we have not yet learned the lessons of the 20th century.Ìý But they also give us hope that with the right resolve and inspiration from the past, we can build a hate-free, better world.
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