Story Surgery and Fish and Chips
Sara Cox is joined by award-winning children's author and 500 Words judge Frank Cottrell-Boyce for Story Surgery. Plus there's 30 minutes of back-to-back hits in the Half Wower.
Sara Cox sits in and is joined by award-winning children's author Frank Cottrell-Boyce for Story Surgery, to answer your writing queries ahead of the 500 Words deadline next week. Sara gets our mouths watering by telling us about her chippy tea saga and we find out how the listeners like their fish and chips. Plus there's 30 minutes of back-to-back hits in the Half Wower. Mike Williams is joined in the Sports Locker by Rugby Union reporter Chris Jones and today's Pause For Thought comes from Father Brian D'Arcy live from Enniskillen.
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Whitney Houston
How Will I Know
- The Best Of.
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Jack Savoretti
Only You
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The Jacksons
ABC
- The Best Michael Jackson & Jackson Fi.
- Polygram Tv.
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Sophie Ellis鈥怋extor
Come With Us
- Familia.
- Re/Essential.
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Justin Bieber
Love Yourself
- Purpose.
- Def Jam.
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Five
Keep On Movin'
- Hits 2000 (Various Artists).
- Sony Music TV.
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Amy Macdonald
Dream On
- Under Stars.
- Mercury.
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ABC
Viva Love
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Jamiroquai
Love Foolosophy
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The Coral
Pass It On
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The Beatles
Ticket to ride
- The Beatles - 1.
- Apple.
- 009.
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Ed Sheeran
Castle On The Hill
- 梅 Divide.
- Atlantic.
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Billy Joel
My Life
- Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Vol.2.
- CBS.
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Adele
Rumour Has It
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- XL.
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Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott
D.I.Y.
- What Have We Become.
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Toni Basil
Mickey
- Billboard #1 Hits Of The '80s (Various Artists).
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Pulp
Common People
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- Island.
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Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
Nowhere To Run
- Motown - The Hits Collection Vol.2.
- Motown.
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Florence + The Machine
Shake It Out
- Island.
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Mark Morrison
Return Of The Mack
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- WEA.
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Blondie
Fun
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- BMG.
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Jodie Abacus
She's In Love With The Weekend (麻豆社 Introducing Session, 8th Feb 2017)
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Michael Bolton
Old Time Rock & Roll
- Songs Of Cinema.
- Frontiers Records.
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One Direction
Story Of My Life
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- Syco Music.
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Frankie Valli
Grease
- Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Ve.
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Haircut One Hundred
Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)
- Pelican West - Deluxe Edition.
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Madness
One Step Beyond
- Greatest Hits Of The 70's (Various).
- EMI.
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Heaven 17
Temptation
- A Kick Up The Eighties Vol. 5 (Various Artists).
- Old Gold.
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Imelda May
Black Tears (feat. Jeff Beck)
- Life. Love. Flesh. Blood.
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Frank Sinatra
That's Life
- My Way - The Best Of Frank Sinatra.
- Reprise.
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Samuel E. Wright
Under The Sea
- Absolutely Disney (Various Artists).
- Walt Disney Records.
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Blossoms
Charlemagne
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- Virgin EMI.
Pause for Thought
From Father Brian D鈥橝rcy, a Catholic Passionist priest:
Who would ever imagine that a fixation with Disney films would provide the key to unlock a young boy鈥檚 autism? Yet that is precisely the theme of a riveting documentary 鈥淟ife, Animated,鈥� which tells the beautiful story of Owen Suskind鈥檚 life. This good news story is nominated for an Oscar at the end of the month.
Owen鈥檚 father, Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Suskind, explains: 鈥渢hat his son Owen has a deep connection to movies, especially cartoons.聽 He鈥檚 watched them countless times, in order to make sense of his bewildering world.鈥�
Owen seemed a perfectly ordinary, bright, baby until, mysteriously, at the age of three he succumbed, almost overnight, to a severe developmental disorder. He retreated into an unreachable world of silence and gibberish. His parents, Ron and Cornelia, and brother Walter, were distraught. When Owen was bullied at his special school, they knew their lives would never be the same again. Their perseverance, dedication, never ending hope and Disney films helped them rescue their precious son.
It was during a family viewing of 鈥淭he Little Mermaid鈥� that their Eureka moment came. Owen insisted on re-playing one particular scene repeatedly. That鈥檚 when they discovered that Owen had memorized the dialogue perfectly. Later they learned he had memorized the entire scripts of almost 50 films and cartoons.
On a whim, Ron used the glove puppet of Iago from Aladdin to speak to Owen. Using Iago鈥檚 cartoon voice Ron asked Owen how he felt. Miraculously Owen spoke back to Iago and replied that he was lonely. That was the breakthrough.
With their exaggerated emotions, the movies provided the building blocks for Owen to make sense of his hidden world. Owen used cartoon characters to communicate what he felt deep inside his own hidden world.
With wonderful therapy, and heroic patience from his family, Owen has become a talkative, high-functioning young adult who has found employment, a girlfriend and independent living. He even travelled with his parents to France to speak about his experiences.
In God鈥檚 creation, everyone is special and unique.
Ron summed up his son鈥檚 uniqueness. 聽鈥淲hen we shared Owen鈥檚 story we thought he was one in a million. Which he is. Now we know he鈥檚 also one among millions.鈥�
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