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Mark Goodier sits in... and speaks to Benedict Cumberbatch

Mark Goodier sits in for Chris Evans. He speaks to Benedict Cumberbatch about his new film Dr Strange. Plus listeners' top tips for half term and the Half Wower.

Mark Goodier sits in for Chris. Today he speaks to Benedict Cumberbatch about the new Dr Strange film. We hear your top tips for half term and there's thirty minutes of upbeat anthems with the Half Wower. Plus Mike Williams speaks to former Formula 1 racing driver John Watson and Father Brian D'Arcy provides us with a Pause For Thought.

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Mon 24 Oct 2016 06:30
麻豆社 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • The Knack

    My Sharona

    • Fantastic 70's (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Pretenders

    Holy Commotion

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.

  • INXS

    New Sensation

    • INXS - Kick.
    • Mercury.

  • The Feeling

    Never Be Lonely

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • The Emotions

    Best Of My Love

    • Mellow Madness (Various Artists).
    • Epic.

  • Train

    50 Ways To Say Goodbye

    • Cailfornia 37.
    • Sony.
    • 5.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Everywhere

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 008.

  • Robbie Williams

    Party Like A Russian

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Peter Gabriel

    Solsbury Hill

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • Olly Murs

    You Don鈥檛 Know Love

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Level 42

    Running In The Family

    • The Complete Polydor Years: Volume 2 (1985-1989).
    • Cherry Red Records.

  • Del Amitri

    Roll To Me

    • Twisted.
    • A&M.
    • 007.

  • Disco Tex & The Sex鈥怬鈥怢ettes

    Get Dancin'

  • Emeli Sand茅

    Hurts

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin Records.

  • Bud Flanagan & The Band of the Coldstream Guards

    Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Mr Hitler?

  • Estelle

    American Boy (feat. Ye)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 3.

  • Genesis

    Jesus He Knows Me

    • Genesis - Turn It On Again.
    • Virgin.

  • Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers

    Got To Get You Into My Life

    • The Hits Of 1966 (Various Artists).
    • MFP.

  • Years & Years

    Shine

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Cornershop

    Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook Remix)

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

  • Belinda Carlisle

    Heaven Is A Place On Earth

    • A Place On Earth - Greatest Hits.
    • Virgin.

  • The Pointer Sisters

    I'm So Excited

    • Greatest Hits.
    • BBR.
    • 020.

  • Bastille

    Good Grief

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Music.

  • Ultra Nat茅

    Free

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

  • Sting

    I Can't Stop Thinking About You

    • (CD Single).
    • A&M.
    • 1.

  • Sandie Shaw

    (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me

    • Sandie Shaw - The Collection.
    • Castle.

  • Andy Williams

    Can't Take My Eyes Off You

    • Heartbeat: Love Me Tender (Various).
    • Global Television.

  • Madness

    Mr Apples (Glastonbury 2016)

    • (CD Single).
    • Daw Bell.

  • The Doors

    People Are Strange

    • The Doors - The Best Of The Doors.
    • Elektra.

  • Pink Floyd

    Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2

    • Pink Floyd.
    • Harvest.

  • Depeche Mode

    People Are People

    • Depeche Mode - The Singles 1981-1985.
    • Mute Records.

  • Lady Gaga

    Born This Way

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.
    • 11.

  • Tom Chaplin

    Quicksand

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 001.

  • Earth, Wind & Fire

    Saturday Nite

    • Earth Wind & Fire:Ultimate Collection.
    • Columbia.
    • 7.

  • Craig David

    7 Days

    • Now 47 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

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

I love rags to riches stories. But rags to riches, isn鈥檛 a story I want to hear until after it鈥檚 done.

Before she became the best-selling novelist of our time, J. K. Rowling鈥檚 life was a mess. Seven years after completing University, her marriage imploded, leaving her a lone parent, jobless and close to being homeless.

What drove the author to success was her positive approach to poverty. Eight years ago she delivered a Commencement address at Harvard University. She bravely pointed out that with hindsight there were precious lessons to be learned from personal failure. The wisdom she absorbed from facing her hopelessness helped her make to appreciate success when it came.

She told the students-: 鈥淔ailure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.鈥�

She鈥檚 convinced that had she succeeded at earlier projects, she would never have found the determination to succeed on the one stage she knew she belonged. Failure taught her lessons about herself she could have learned no other way. After her life unravelled, she realised she was still alive, had overcome her greatest fear and still had a daughter whom she adored, but most of all, an old type-writer and a big idea.

In one Gospel story the disciples, who were expert fishermen, worked all night and caught nothing. Jesus, who was a carpenter and knew nothing about fishing, told them they were fishing out of the wrong side of the boat. They changed sides and netted an avalanche of fish. He then told them to give up fishing for fish and start fishing for people in need of hope. That鈥檚 one reason we have so many Christians today.

In everyone鈥檚 life there comes a time to look at things differently; to face the fear of failure and overcome it; to direct all our energies at what we really want to achieve. As a tweet advised me this week-: 鈥淲hen your life doesn鈥檛 add up, start subtracting.鈥�

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