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Caroline Quentin and Cruises

Chris speaks to Caroline Quentin about the amazing architecture in The World's Most Extraordinary Homes and talks cruises with Paul Chandler-Burns.

Chris is joined by Caroline Quentin who tells us about the amazing architecture in The World's Most Extraordinary Homes and talks about the various locations she's visited including the mountainous regions of South Carolina and forests of New Zealand. Chris speaks to Paul Chandler-Burns to find out what it's like to live and work on a cruise and where the most popular places are to visit. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by Jonnie Peacock and today's Pause For Thought comes from vicar Dave Tomlinson.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Tue 17 Jan 2017 06:30
麻豆社 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • New Order

    Regret

    • Glorious (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Lukas Graham

    You're Not There

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 010.

  • Eurythmics

    Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

    • NOW That's What I Call The 80s (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Adele

    Rumour Has It

    • 21.
    • XL.
    • 1.

  • The Beautiful South

    Perfect 10

    • (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.

  • Lenny Kravitz

    Are You Gonna Go My Way

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • Hifi Sean

    Testify (feat. Crystal Waters)

    • Ft..
    • Plastique Recordings.
    • 001.

  • Kate Bush

    Hounds Of Love

    • Remastered Part I.
    • Fish People.

  • Georgie Fame

    The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde

    • 30 Years Of Number Ones, Vol 5 (Var).
    • Connoisseur.

  • Ward Thomas

    Boomerang

    • Cartwheels.
    • Sony Music.
    • 009.

  • Texas

    Say What You Want

    • Woman (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv/Sony Tv.

  • Cilla Black

    Alfie

    • Cilla Black- The Best Of The EMI Year.
    • EMI.

  • Bryan Adams

    Don't Even Try

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • Judy Garland

    Get Happy

  • Rebecca Ferguson

    Superwoman

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Blur

    Country House

    • The Best Album In The World Ever!(Va).
    • Virgin.

  • Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

    Our House

    • Over The Years....
    • Rhino.
    • 011.

  • Free

    Wishing Well

    • The Boys Are Back In Town (Various).
    • Columbia.
    • 10.

  • Sister Sledge

    He's The Greatest Dancer

    • The Last Days Of Disco (Film Soundtra.
    • Columbia.

  • Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

    Sailing On The Seven Seas

    • OMD: The Singles.
    • Virgin.
    • 17.

  • Rick Astley

    Wish Away

    • 50.
    • BMG.
    • 003.

  • The Passions

    I'm In Love With A German Film Star

    • NOW - 80s Alternative (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Teardrop Explodes

    Reward

    • The Teardrop Explodes - Greatest Hits.
    • Mercury.

  • Melanie C

    Dear Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Red Girl Records.

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Born In The USA

    • Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA.
    • CBS.

  • U2

    I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

    • Rock The Planet (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

An epiphany is a flash of inspiration, a moment of enlightenment 鈥� like when I watched Roger Hunt score a hat trick for Liverpool in the 60s and I knew I would never-ever support another team as long as I lived.

In religious terms, I鈥檝e known people have some pretty amazing epiphanies 鈥� like Jean, an abused woman who climbed onto a tall building with a bottle of whisky and some pills intending to throw herself off. But lying semi-drunk on the roof she looked at the stars and suddenly felt enveloped, as if in this massive womb, about to be born. The experience changed her life. And today, she works with other abused women, offering them hope and a way out.

For most of us the light is less clear, the epiphanies more modest. The former poet laureate, Andrew Motion wrote, 鈥業鈥檝e seen the light. And it flickers on and off like a badly wired lamp.鈥� Now that鈥檚 my kind of epiphany! He went on to say this is probably the experience of millions of people who inhabit what he called 鈥榯he ambivalent middle ground in religion.鈥�

This year the band U2 are on tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of their ground-breaking album 鈥楾he Joshua Tree鈥�, my favourite U2 record. It includes the hit song 鈥業 still haven鈥檛 found what I鈥檓 looking for鈥�, which Bono described as a gospel song with a restless spirit.

Some people thought the song meant Bono had lost his faith. They believe that faith means feeling certain about something, finding a final answer to life鈥檚 questions. Well that鈥檚 not what my faith is like. I have plenty of doubts, plenty of unanswered questions. I haven鈥檛 arrived, haven鈥檛 found what I鈥檓 looking for. My bulb flickers on and off all the time. But as Pope Francis says, faith that doesn鈥檛 have doubt isn鈥檛 real faith. It鈥檚 certainty and that鈥檚 quite a different thing.

For me, faith, like life itself, is all about the journey. I can鈥檛 control the future, can鈥檛 have all the answers, can鈥檛 understand all the mysteries 鈥� even though I will keep asking, keep on looking. But I do have now鈥his moment鈥his day to live and to relish for all it鈥檚 worth.

And I鈥檒l keep on looking for some fresh epiphanies in red shirts鈥� Famino鈥� Llana鈥� Henderson鈥� Courtinio鈥�

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