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The Great British Rake Off

We meet Rachel De Thame, one of the presenters of The Great British Garden Revival, and go intergalactic with our Top Tenuous claims to the fame of space travel...

We meet Rachel De Thame, one of the presenters of The Great British Garden Revival (or the Rake Off as we call it!)

We go intergalactic with our Top Tenuous claims to the fame of space travel...

William Dempsey is our Mystery Guest, the Toastmaster who won an award from his speech about scotch whisky...

Little Fern Lily from South Shields tells us about the camels in her local nativity play....

Jean-Christoph Novelli is our French Hen in our 12 Shows 'Til Christmas On This Day Special...

And Sarah Joseph makes us Pause For Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Mon 9 Dec 2013 06:30
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Music Played

  • The Bangles

    Hazy Shade Of Winter

    • Bangles Greatest Hits.
    • CBS.

  • The Beatles

    You're Going to Lose That Girl

    • Help!.
    • Parlophone.
    • 6.

  • Mary J. Blige

    This Christmas

    • A Mary Christmas.
    • Decca.

  • David Bowie

    Starman

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Nell Bryden

    All You Had

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

  • Michael BublĂ©

    You Make Me Feel So Young

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 001.

  • Carpenters

    Top Of The World

    • The Carpenters - Yesterday Once More.
    • A&M.

  • Nat King Cole

    The Christmas Song

    • That's Christmas (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Perry Como

    Christmas Dream

    • The Odessa File (Soundtrack).
    • MCA.

  • The Coral

    Dreaming Of You

    • (CD Single).
    • Deltasonic.

  • Cream

    Sunshine Of Your Love

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1968.
    • Premier.

  • Culture Club

    Church Of The Poison Mind

    • More Greatest Hits Of 80's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • Dario G

    Sunchyme

    • Huge Hits 1997 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Last Train To London

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

  • The Feeling

    Boy Cried Wolf

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.
    • 001.

  • Peter Gabriel

    Solsbury Hill

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • Keane

    Silenced By The Night

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • Madness

    House Of Fun

    • Madness - Divine Madness.
    • Virgin.

  • Paul McCartney

    Queenie Eye

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
    • 001.

  • George Michael

    Faith

    • George Michael - Ladies & Gentlemen.
    • Epic.

  • New Radicals

    Get What You Give

    • (CD Single).
    • MCA.

  • Prince & The Revolution

    Raspberry Beret

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.

  • The Ronettes

    Frosty The Snowman

    • A Christmas Gift For You (Phil Spect.
    • Phil Spector Int.

  • Sister Sledge

    We Are Family

    • Disco Fever (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Donna Summer

    Winter Melody

  • Robbie Williams

    Dream A Little Dream Of Me (feat. Lily Allen)

    • Swings Both Ways.
    • Island.
    • 006.

  • Amy Winehouse

    Rehab

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • The Wombles

    Wombling Merry Christmas

    • (CD Single).
    • Dramatico.
    • 1.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Sarah Joseph, Editor of Emel, the Muslim lifestyle magazine:

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Our daughter was rushed into hospital six weeks ago. A long standing health condition suddenly deteriorated, and so I found myself sitting by her bedside with her hooked up to the tubes, wires and monitoring machines of modern medicine.

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Never have I been more grateful – grateful for the hospital facilities, for the doctors and nurses, for the health of our other children, for the love and care of friends and family, and grateful for a faith that teaches that God will never burden a soul greater with more than it can bear, and that with every hardship there is ease.

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She looked so fragile lying there that I was transported back to when she was a baby – indeed transported back to the gloriously happy moment of her birth in the self same hospital in which she now was. I cursed every moment I had missed of her life. Every moment I was too tired to read her a bed time story, every second I was less than patient, every long hour that work had kept me from her. I pondered her life and wondered if there was anything I could have done that would have averted this situation. A mother’s guilt is a powerful emotion. But I took comfort from the Qur’anic verse that not a leaf falls without God’s permission, and I knew I had to accept the situation before us as His Divine Plan.

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We are on a journey with her illness – whether we are yet on the road to recovery we just do not know. It’s feels like we are in a very long, very dark corridor which we are slowly walking down. We do not know, and we cannot see the length of, the journey ahead, nor the potential pitfalls, yet we have no choice but to keep walking forward—patiently persevering in the face of adversity.

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In this darkness I think of the Qur’anic verse where those in difficulty call out “When will the help of God come?” And He replies, “Surely God’s help is near.”

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We can't change our destinies, but we can change how we react to destiny revealing itself.

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