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The Simple Things!

Vanessa asks about the simple childhood pleasures you've carried in to adulthood, plus she undertakes another vocal warm-up ahead of her 2Day presenter choir appearance. Greig McNeill is today's Jolly Good Fellow, with The Marcels Blue Moon his birthday number 1.

1 hour, 27 minutes

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Wed 8 May 2013 05:00
麻豆社 Radio 2

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  • Cyndi Lauper

    Girls Just Want To Have Fun

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • The Chiffons

    Sweet Talkin' Guy

    • NOW That's What I Call 60s Soul (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Kinks

    Sunny Afternoon

    • The Journey - Part 2: Anthology.
    • BMG.
    • 13.

  • Rod Stewart

    It's Over

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

  • Paolo Nutini

    Pencil Full Of Lead

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • Diana Ross

    I'm Coming Out

    • Diana Ross & The Supremes - 40 Motown.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Gabrielle Aplin

    Panic Cord

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
    • 1.

  • Burt Bacharach, Jamie Cullum & 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra

    Make It Easy On Yourself (Live)

  • Lynn Anderson

    Rose Garden

    PAUSE FOR THOUGHT

    • Disky.

  • Phillip Phillips

    Home

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 1.

  • Prince

    1999

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Stooshe

    Slip

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 1.

Pause For Thought with Dave Tomlinson - Glory

Pause For Thought with Dave Tomlinson - Glory

鈥楪lory, glory, Man United鈥︹��

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Excuse me鈥f I can鈥檛 muster much enthusiasm about that other red team winning the premiership yet again. I am a Liverpudlian, you see, still living on the memory of our glory days in the 70s and 80s 鈥� desperately hoping they鈥檒l be back鈥�.next season鈥r the one after that鈥�.or the one after鈥� you know how it is with football fans.

听

One of my best glory moments was when I scored the winning goal for my school team. I was at the edge of the penalty area and walloped the ball for all I was worth. I completely mis-kicked but it shot straight into the top corner of the net. No one knew I sliced the ball 鈥� and I wasn鈥檛 about to tell them. Oh my! I bathed in the glory until the end of term. I swear my teacher upped my score in the Maths test as a result!

听

Maybe I鈥檓 just a sad scouser, diverting attention away from another disappointing season, but I kinda think we鈥檙e missing our way when we shower glory on massively overpaid footballers and the like. The real stars in our world mostly go unnoticed because glory isn鈥檛 what they鈥檙e after.

听

One of my real stars is Sam Murphy, our church gardener. He is certainly no glory-hunter 鈥� just potters away, rain or shine, making the garden smile. I got angry when I once heard a man say, 鈥極h look someone鈥檚 planted some new roses.鈥� 鈥楽omeone?鈥�, I thought. 鈥楽omeone? They were planted by Sam!鈥� Then I remembered what Sam once said: 鈥業 just like being with the earth and watching God send the sun and the rain and then seeing how everything grows. Sometimes I just like to look at the roses and marvel.鈥�

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Now that鈥檚 the way to live! 鈥楪lory, glory, Sammy Murphy鈥︹��

Orchestral Word Of The Day

Orchestral Word Of The Day

Scordatura 鈥� The retuning of a stringed instrument in order to play notes below the ordinary range of the instrument or to play an unusual tone colour.

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  • Wed 8 May 2013 05:00
    麻豆社 Radio 2