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Sara Cox chats to Melanie Sykes about her week in the wild for 成人快手 Two, trekking through the Copper Canyon in Mexico.

Sara Cox chats to Melanie Sykes about her week in the wild for 成人快手 Two, trekking through the Copper Canyon in Mexico with comedian Henning Wehn and Boris Johnson's dad, Stanley! Plus, we hear about your gangster wasp encounters, play 30 minutes of top tunes in the Half-Wower and Father Christopher Jamison provides us with a Pause For Thought.

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Wed 31 Aug 2016 06:30
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Music Played

  • Go West

    We Close Our Eyes

    • Now 1985 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • The Shires

    Beats To Your Rhythm

    • (CD Single).
    • Decca.
    • 001.

  • Marvin Gaye

    Got To Give It Up

    • Marvin Gaye - The Love Songs.
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • Olly Murs

    You Don鈥檛 Know Love

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Taylor Swift

    22

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.
    • 1.

  • Basement Jaxx

    Do Your Thing

  • KT Tunstall

    Maybe It's A Good Thing

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • T. Rex

    Ride a White Swan

    • Million Sellers Vol.18 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Bastille

    Good Grief

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Music.

  • Ollie & Jerry

    Breakin'... There's No Stopping Us

    • Classic 80s Movie Songs (Various Artists).
    • Universal Music Enterprises.

  • MAGIC!

    Red Dress

    • Primary Colours.
    • RCA.

  • Snow Patrol

    Spitting Games

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Imelda May

    Big Bad Handsome Man

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Music Classics & Jazz.
    • 1.

  • The Zombies

    She's Not There

    • The Godfathers Of Britpop.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Cyndi Lauper

    Girls Just Want To Have Fun

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

  • The Strokes

    Last Nite

    • The Strokes - Is This It.
    • Rough Trade Records.

  • The Beatles

    A Hard Day's Night

    • The Beatles - 1.
    • Apple.
    • 006.

  • Original Dodger & Romina Johnson

    Movin' Too Fast

    • Huge Hits 2000 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Betsy

    Lost & Found

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

  • Diana Ross

    I'm Coming Out

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

  • Bill Withers

    Lovely Day

    • It's Cool (Various Artists).
    • Parlophone.

  • Seth Lakeman & Wildwood Kin

    Meet Me In The Twilight

    • (CD Single).
    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • Joni Mitchell

    Big Yellow Taxi

    • Joni Mitchell.
    • Reprise.

  • The Troggs

    Wild Thing

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1966.
    • Premier.

  • Sophie Ellis鈥怋extor

    Come With Us

    • Familia.
    • Re/Essential.
    • 001.

  • OneRepublic

    Wherever I Go

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.

  • Rainbow

    I Surrender

    • Purple Rainbows.
    • EMI.

  • Coldplay

    Viva La Vida

    • Viva La Vida Or Death & All His Friends.
    • Parlophone.
    • 1.

  • Charles Bradley

    You Think I Don't Know (But I Know)

    • (CD Single).
    • Daptone Records.

  • Toto

    Africa

    • The All Time Greatest Rock Songs ....
    • Columbia.

  • Stereo MC鈥檚

    Step It Up

    • Stereo Mc's - Connected.
    • 4th And Broadway.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Father Christopher Jamison, Benedictine Monk:

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After a summer break, many of us will have started back at work. The alarm may have a snooze function but eventually we have to get up and get going. Some years ago, however, a psychiatrist came to see me to tell me he just couldn鈥檛 get going. He had a happy family but his life had lost all meaning. We discussed how he might handle this depression and I gingerly asked why he hadn鈥檛 consulted a psychiatrist. His reply was that he knew what a psychiatrist would say and that wasn鈥檛 what he wanted. He did agree to see his GP to receive some medication which made our subsequent meetings easier and he began to see that what his life lacked was any sense of hope. I could see that he was deeply affected by the modern assumption that human life is a random product of natural selection and that the world is a hostile environment threatening our lives with natural disasters. With this attitude, there are plenty of reasons to ignore the alarm and stay in bed. But the mystery of life is that most people don鈥檛 do that. Somewhere inside everybody there is a hope function that gets us up and running every day in spite of all the potential disasters. Hope is a natural belief in the goodness of life that overcomes anxiety. The psychiatrist knew that medication alone would not restore hope so he came on retreat to our monastery. Reconnecting with God is, I believe, the same as reconnecting with hope. Our rhythm of prayer and community life acted like a gateway back into hope for him and he left a different man. So I invite people to ignore the snooze function and reconnect with their hope function; it鈥檒l get you out of bed more effectively than any alarm clock.

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