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Sir Lenny Henry and End of Treatment Bells

Chris is joined by comedian Sir Lenny Henry, who celebrates his 60th Birthday with a special TV show, and he meets Tracey Peyton, founder of the End of Treatment Bells in the UK

Chris is joined by comedian Sir Lenny Henry who celebrates his 60th Birthday with a special Â鶹Éç One show with Sir Trevor MacDonald and tells us about being approached for an anniversary tour. We meet Tracey Peyton, the founder of End of Treatment Bells in the UK, she shares the story of her daughter Emma whose battle with cancer and trip to America inspired them to bring bell-ringing for cancer-free patients to the UK. Mike Williams is joined in the Sports Locker by the head coach of the Warrington Wolves Steve Price and Vicar Dave Tomlinson has the mid-week Pause For Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Wed 22 Aug 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • Paloma Faith

    Warrior

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • The Beatles

    I Should Have Known Better

    • A Hard Day's Night.
    • Parlophone.
    • 2.

  • Rita Ora

    Anywhere

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Blur

    Parklife

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Bryan Adams

    When You're Gone (feat. Melanie C)

    • Bryan Adams - The Best Of Me.
    • Mercury.

  • Mary J. Blige

    Only Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Republic Records.

  • Adam and the Ants

    Antmusic

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

  • Girls Aloud

    Sound Of The Underground

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • The Crickets

    Oh Boy!

    • That's Rock'n'Roll (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • The Chainsmokers

    Side Effects (feat. Emily Warren)

    • (CD Single).
    • Disruptor Records.

  • Chris Montez

    The More I See You

    • This Is Easy (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Matt Monro

    On Days Like These

    • Matt Monro Sings Don Black.
    • EMI.

  • Frank Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim

    The Girl From Ipanema

    • My Way - The Best Of Frank Sinatra.
    • Reprise.

  • José Feliciano

    Light My Fire

    • The Ultimate 60s Collection (Various Artists).
    • Castle Communications.

  • Dusty Springfield

    Spooky

    • All Time Greatest Movie Songs Vol. II.
    • Columbia.

  • Noel Harrison

    Windmills Of Your Mind

    • The Thomas Crown Affair - Original S/.
    • United Artists.

  • ABBA

    Mamma Mia

    • Abba Gold (40th Anniversary Edition).
    • Polar.
    • 004.

  • Tom Odell

    If You Wanna Love Somebody

    • Jubilee Road.
    • Columbia.

  • Stevie Wonder

    Happy Birthday

    • Stevie Wonder - Song Review.
    • Universal.

  • The Verve

    Bitter Sweet Symphony

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 37 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Reef

    Place Your Hands

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

  • Coldplay

    Fix You

  • Gabrielle

    Shine

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.
    • 1.

  • Elbow

    One Day Like This

    • (CD Single).
    • Fiction.
    • 1.

  • Florence + The Machine

    You've Got The Love

  • Lisa Stansfield

    Never Ever

    • (CD Single).
    • Edel.

  • Michael Jackson

    Beat It

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.

  • Wings

    Let 'Em In

    • The 7" Singles Box.
    • MPL.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Dave Tomlinson,Ìýwriter and Vicar of St Luke’s Holloway in London:

Ìý

For the past twenty years, my life has revolved around two round tables. The first, our large dining table: a beautiful piece of pine furniture crafted by a woman carpenter in Yorkshire.

Ìý

My greatest joy is hosting a gang of friends around this table, eating and drinking, swapping new ideas and telling stories that make us laugh or cry. I especially love it when there’s too many to fit and we become a glorious scrum of bodies, food, drink and conversation that rollick and fuse in fun and friendship.

Ìý

I can’t imagine how many unrepeatable nights we’ve shared around that table with friends at Christmas, New Year and dozens of ordinary days. A highlight was when I cooked scouse (Liverpool’s signature dish) for a host of pals on Global Scouse Day!

Ìý

The other table is the round altar at St Luke’s where, as the erstwhile vicar, over a thousand times I invited all and sundry to a feast of God’s unconditional love: women and men, black and white, gay and straight, Christians, doubters and atheists. One Holocaust Memorial Day, a group of Jewish friends joined us around the table. Muslims and Buddhists have stood there, pagans too, all in recognition that our most fundamental identity is as fellow humans.

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Such inclusion may be unconventional, but I base it on the practice of Jesus who vexed the establishment by eating and drinking with the wrong people – those who didn’t belong to the respectable religious club but who he treated as friends.

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I believe the image of a round table symbolises brilliantly the sort of faith required in the 21st century, the kind of society most people want too: that of generosity, companionship, equality and dialogue. Surely our world needs more collaboration, more shared imagination.ÌýÌý

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In my so-called ‘retirement’, among other things, in pubs, cafes, churches and other public places, I hope to help facilitate further round table conversations about faith in a changing world – maybe cook up the odd pan of scouse to help the process along. At its best, communion is a way of life, not just a religious ritual.

Broadcast

  • Wed 22 Aug 2018 06:30
    Â鶹Éç Radio 2

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