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Zoe Ball and Behaviour Therapy

Chris catches up with Zoe Ball on Day 3 of her Hardest Road Home challenge for Sport Relief and speaks to behaviour therapist Colin Blowers about how to overcome our fears.

Chris catches up with Zoe Ball on Day 3 of her Hardest Road Home challenge for Sport Relief and finds out if she's received any pies along the way on this British Pie Week! We speak to Cognitive Behaviour Therapist, Colin Blowers about how to overcome phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorders and panic attacks by offering his helpful tips. Chris asks the listeners for the suggestions on a brand new lifestyle festival after reading Michael Walker's book Why We Sleep. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by England Hockey Coach Bobby Crutchley who is live from Malaysia ahead of their game against Argentina and the Bishop of Leeds Nick Baines has the mid-week Pause For Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Wed 7 Mar 2018 06:30
麻豆社 Radio 2

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  • Wham!

    The Edge Of Heaven

    • Wham - The Best Of Wham!.
    • Epic.

  • George Ezra

    Paradise

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Foo Fighters

    My Hero

    • Foo Fighters: Greatest Hits.
    • 5.

  • Foo Fighters

    Long Road To Ruin

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 3.

  • The Housemartins

    Happy Hour

    • Now That's What I Call Quite Good.
    • Go! Discs.

  • Living in a Box

    Living In A Box

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

  • The Royal Doulton Band

    We Wish You A Merry Christmas

    • Brass Christmas.
    • Music Club.

  • Janelle Mon谩e

    Make Me Feel

    • Dirty Computer.
    • Bad Boy Records.

  • David Bowie

    Fame

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Thunderclap Newman

    Something In The Air

    • Fifty Number Ones Of The 60's (Variou.
    • X-Phonics Records.

  • Kim Wilde & Ricky Wilde

    Pop Don't Stop

    • Here Come The Aliens.
    • Wildeflower Records.

  • Arcade Fire

    Everything Now

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • PJ & Duncan

    Let's Get Ready To Rhumble

    • Let's Get Ready To Rhumble.
    • Telstar.
    • 1.

  • Martha and the Muffins

    Echo Beach

    • The Best Summer Ever (Various Artist.
    • Virgin.

  • Lulu & The Luvvers

    Shout

    • It's Party Time (Various Artists).
    • Magic.
    • 8.

  • The Knack

    My Sharona

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

  • Pete Tong & Heritage Orchestra

    Killer (feat. Seal)

    • Ibiza Classics.
    • UMC.

  • Survivor

    Eye Of The Tiger

    • The No.1 Movies Album (Various Artist.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Paula Cole

    Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Lenny Kravitz

    Fly Away

    • 21st Century Rock (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Tears for Fears

    Sowing The Seeds Of Love

    • The Best Of Drive Time (Various Artists).
    • Polygram TV.
    • 7.

  • Kelsea Ballerini

    I Hate Love Songs

    • (CD Single).
    • Black River Entertainment.

  • Adventures of Stevie V

    Dirty Cash (Money Talks)

    • Now 18 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Kaiser Chiefs

    Ruby

    • (CD Single).
    • B-Unique.

  • The Goo Goo Dolls

    Iris

    • (CD Single).
    • Hollywood Records.

  • Bebe Rexha

    Meant To Be (feat. Florida Georgia Line)

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Mott the Hoople

    Roll Away The Stone

    • Mott The Hoople - Greatest Hits.
    • CBS.

  • Culture Club

    Karma Chameleon

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

  • Billy Ocean

    When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going

    • Billy Ocean - Love Is For Ever (L.I.F.
    • Jive.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Nick Baines, the Bishop of Leeds:

I was getting off a bus in London late last night when a bloke standing outside a shop asked me the time. I told him. And he said: 鈥淭hat鈥檚 funny. I鈥檝e been asking the same question all day and I keep getting different answers.鈥�

I walked on quickly.

But, it did scratch away at the back of my head. It鈥檚 simple, really, isn鈥檛 it? The answer you get depends on the question you ask. Put the right answer to the wrong question and you get a mess.

I鈥檝e had to live with this for years. Christians often get caricatured as naive people living in alternative universes. As a TV presenter commented just this week in response to an accusation of religious stupidity: 鈥淥f course I believe in dinosaurs. I am a Christian, not a Creationist.鈥�

Well, both the Christian and the Creationist have to live in the real world.

Faith is not the same as fantasy. Fantasy avoids reality; faith inhabits the real world in all its complexity.

For example, the problem many people have with the book of Genesis and the creation stories is that they ask of it the wrong question. The early chapters of Genesis don鈥檛 pretend to ask the question 鈥淗ow did the universe come to be? - in terms of mechanics. Rather, the Hebrew poetry sets up really interesting questions about why life is as it is - why human beings get so messed up and, consequently, mess the world up. Now that鈥檚 a question of how to read, not a problem between science and religion.

And for me it鈥檚 a much more interesting question. Why am I the way I am? Why is the world the way it is? What is it at the heart of our humanity that is capable of cosmic beauty and generosity on the one hand and utterly corrupt cruelty on the other?

As Billy Ocean didn鈥檛 say: 鈥淲hen the going gets tough the tough write poetry.鈥� But the job of the poet or the songwriter is to go beyond facts and play around with the 鈥榳hys鈥� of life. As the Psalmist famously put it: 鈥淲hen I look at the heavens, the work of your fingers, who are we that you are mindful of us?鈥�

Good question.

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