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Angus Deayton and The Frequency Illusion

Angus Deayton reminisces about his 1980s sitcom Radio Active ahead of a spring tour. Psychologist Bradley Busch explains how we all have cognitive biases, even if we don't know it.

Angus Deayton reminisces about his 1980s sitcom Radio Active ahead of taking the show on tour this spring. Psychologist Bradley Busch explains why Chris is suddenly seeing twins everywhere as a result of the frequency illusion and how we all have cognitive biases, even if we don't know it. You tell us about sharing power tools with friends and neighbours which inspires the Top Tenuous with claims to the fame of power tools in movies! Vassos chats to Claire Lomas in the Sports Locker, who recently finished the Manchester Marathon after eight days of walking with the help of a robotic suit. Plus Senior Rabbi Julia Neuberger provides the daily Pause For Thought.

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Tue 17 Apr 2018 06:30
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  • Journey

    Don't Stop Believin'

    • Rock Of America (Various Artists).
    • Trax Label.

  • Roger Daltrey

    As Long As I Have You

  • Robert Palmer

    Simply Irresistible

    • The Very Best Of Robert Palmer.
    • EMI.

  • Dodgy

    Good Enough

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 34 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Them

    Gloria

    • The Very Best Of Van Morrison.
    • Polydor.

  • The Banana Splits

    The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)

    • Television's Greatest Hits Vol. 5: In Living Color (Various Artists).
    • TVT Records.

  • Tavares

    Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel

    • 20 Songs Of Love From The 70's (Vario.
    • MFP.

  • Kacey Musgraves

    High Horse

    • Golden Hour.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Razorlight

    Somewhere Else

    • (CD Single).
    • Vertigo.

  • Corona

    The Rhythm Of The Night

    • Now 29 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Walker Brothers

    Make It Easy On Yourself

    • Best Of Scott Walker & The Walker Bro.
    • Fontana.

  • Zac Efron & Zendaya

    Rewrite The Stars

    • The Greatest Showman O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Atlantic.

  • Charles & Eddie

    Would I Lie To You?

    • Duets - 36 Of The World's Greatest Ev.
    • Telstar.

  • Snow Patrol

    Spitting Games

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Coldplay

    Don't Panic

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Music.

  • Cher

    Believe

  • Sting & Shaggy

    Don't Make Me Wait

    • 44/876.
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • Buggles

    Video Killed The Radio Star

    • Our Friends Electric (Various Artist.
    • Telstar.

  • Bryan Adams

    You Belong To Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • New Edition

    Candy Girl

    • Now 1983 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • Ray Parker Jr.

    Ghostbusters

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

  • Imagination

    Just An Illusion

    • Heart Full Of Soul 2 (Various Artist.
    • Global Television.

  • Lisa Stansfield

    Billionaire

    • Deeper.
    • earMUSIC.

  • Jamiroquai

    Cosmic Girl

    • Simply The Best Radio Hits (Various).
    • Warner E.S.P..

  • Spandau Ballet

    Gold

    • The Gold Album (Various Artists).
    • The Hit Label Ltd.

  • Kodaline

    Follow Your Fire

    • (CD Single).
    • B-Unique.
    • 1.

  • Shirley Bassey

    Goldfinger

  • Grace

    You Don't Own Me (feat. 骋鈥怑补锄测)

    • Memo E.P..
    • Columbia.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Julia Neuberger Senior Rabbi at the west London Synagogue:

I think, Chris, you know that I鈥檓 really interested in sewers and drains, and things we can do to improve people鈥檚 health without involving doctors and nurses. So I loved our Torah reading last Sabbath morning, from the Bible book Leviticus, about priests examining houses that had a problem. It鈥檚 called tza鈥檙a鈥檃t in Hebrew, usually translated- incorrectly - as leprosy. Houses don鈥檛 get leprosy, and the stuff they describe, reddish or greenish stains on the wall, is more like what we know as dry rot! Whatever, it was some nasty fungus that could spread, it was dangerous, and the priests had to make a decision about whether a particular case was serious enough to take harsh measures. If so, they closed the house for a week, and re-examined it. If things were the same or worse, they tore it down, removed the stones from the settlement, and burnt everything inside- pretty disastrous for the inhabitants!

This must be one of the earliest public health measures we know about, along with the sections about skin conditions which the priests examine. The priests were trusted authorities who could decide what was going to endanger the wider community and what wasn鈥檛.

There are very few parallels until the last 160 years or so. But there is one- bubonic plague in Eyam, Derbyshire, in 1665-6. The rector, William Mompesson, persuaded the village to quarantine themselves even though it would mean death for many of them. He buried his own family in the churchyard, and by the end 260 out of 350 villagers had died. Their sacrifice probably saved thousands of lives. Another brilliant priest!

We think of big public health measures as driven by doctors and politicians. They fought for sewers along the Thames, drains, or even taking the handle off the pump in Broad Street Soho, because a local doctor, John Snow, thought cholera was water borne. He saved many lives that way.

These days, we think about our health all the time, yet the Biblical roots of public health measures are hardly known, nor is the role of church leaders. I think those old priests deserve a few compliments - they probably saved lives and villages in their day, but we tend to think they were irrelevant. They weren鈥檛, and we should remember them for their saving of lives, as much as their ritual observances.

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