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Banarama and CiN marathon runners

Bananarama are back and tell Chris about their first ever tour as a trio. The Children In Need marathon runners are with us and we're serenaded by mandolin player Frances Taylor.

Bananarama are back after 29 years away from the spotlight and chat to Chris about getting their eighties hits ready for their first ever tour as a trio. Chris is joined by the Children In Need magnificent marathon runners after their 26.2 mile challenge and we're serenaded by master mandolin player Frances Taylor from The British Mandolin and Guitar Federation. In the Sports Locker, Vassos is joined by amateur runner Josh Griffiths, who is Team GB's newest superstar by being the fastest Briton to finish the London Marathon this year. Plus, Father Brian D'Arcy reads today's Pause For Thought live from Enniskillen.

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Mon 24 Apr 2017 06:30
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Music Played

  • Cornershop

    Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook Remix)

    Remix Artist: Norman Cook.
    • The 1999 Brit Awards (Various Artists.
    • Columbia.

  • James Blunt

    Bartender

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • ABBA

    I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do

    • Abba.
    • Polydor.

  • JoBoxers

    Boxer Beat

    • Young at Heart (Various Artists).
    • Reader's Digest.

  • Oasis

    Songbird

    • (CD Single).
    • Big Brother Records.

  • Bruno Mars

    Treasure

    • Unorthodox Jukebox.
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • LP

    Lost On You

    • (CD Single).
    • Vagrant Records.
    • 002.

  • Coldplay

    Clocks

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Foxes

    Amazing

    • (CD Single).
    • Sign Of The Times.

  • Gladys Knight & the Pips

    Midnight Train To Georgia

    • 25 Years Of Rock `n' Roll - 1976.
    • Connoisseur Collection.
    • 9.

  • Imelda May

    Should've Been You

    • (CD Single).
    • Decca.

  • James

    Sit Down

    • True Brit (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Culture Club

    I'll Tumble 4 Ya

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

  • Harry Belafonte

    Jump In The Line

    • The Best Of.
    • Camden.
    • 16.

  • Bananarama

    Venus

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Bananarama

    Cruel Summer

    • Now 1983 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • Bananarama

    Love In The First Degree

    • The Very Best Of Bananarama.
    • Warner Strategic Market.

  • Bananarama

    Robert De Niro's Waiting

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Harry Styles

    Sign Of The Times

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Love Affair

    Everlasting Love

    • This Hasn't Changed Us.
    • RPM Records.
    • 001.

  • The Kinks

    Waterloo Sunset

    • The Journey - Part 1.
    • BMG.
    • 13.

  • R.E.M.

    Losing My Religion

    • R.E.M. - Out Of Time.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Dire Straits

    Sultans Of Swing

    • (Single).
    • Vertigo.
    • 5.

  • Charlie Puth

    One Call Away

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie

    In My World

    • Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie.
    • East West.

  • Bananarama

    Shy Boy

    • The Very Best Of Bananarama.
    • Warner Strategic Market.

  • Sabrina Johnston

    Peace

    • Awesome 2 - Various Artists.
    • EMI.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Father Brian D鈥橝rcy, a Catholic Passionist priest:

They say that religion is for those who fear hell; spirituality is for those who鈥檝e already been there. To put it another way, when fear governs everything I do, life is miserable; when I choose the right thing simply because it鈥檚 the right to do, my life is filled with joy. Attitude is everything.

I鈥檝e always seen myself as being of average ability at best. I realised early on that hard work would be necessary. Hard work became a habit for me and remains so to this day. Now I鈥檓 convinced that hard work will always beat talent when talent refuses to work hard. I see hard work as a precious gift which helps me achieve what I once thought impossible.

The secret is to be content with small steps.

Many years ago a wise teacher gave me the most valuable mantra of all. He said-: 鈥渂y the yard it鈥檚 hard; by the inch it鈥檚 a cinch.鈥� That simple statement allowed me to see that it is better to take one small step in the right direction than to make a huge leap in the wrong direction. I was content to take small steps on the journey of life without getting caught up in destination addiction. When I got tired I learned to rest, not to quit.

As the poet John Dryden wrote-:鈥漌e first make our habits and then our habits make us.鈥� Little things make big things happen.

In our Christian churches we are still in Easter mode. What strikes me, reading about the events of that first Easter, is how Jesus greets those he meets with the salutation 鈥淧eace be with you.鈥� That greeting is repeated over and over again. It tells me making peace is hard work and comes about after a multitude of small difficult steps of forgiveness.

I believe making peace starts today and it starts with you and me. The hard work of peace transforms and renews us through the daily grind of respecting difference. I shouldn鈥檛 allow cynicism to destroy my spirit. Be-Big听 and don鈥檛 be-Little.

听

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