Five Live Drive Wants Your Christmas Messages
This festive season Five Live Drive is looking for your help over Christmas
It's one of the staples of Christmas: the Queen's Christmas message but this year Five Live Drive would like you to send us your messages to play on the radio too. Tell us about your family's year, the ups and downs and your hopes for the future.
There are various ways that you can contribute. By telephone: you can leave a message on our phone line 08700 100 500 (and press option 5) or if you are feeling more ambitious and you have a microphone or webcam and broadband internet you can leave a message via this BBC webpage.
If you have the means to record and edit audio you can email an mp3 to drive@bbc.co.uk There are some tips on recording mp3's here and here. If you don't have audio editing software you could try this free software.
Keep your messages short (less than 2 minutes) and avoid too much politics. When you send us a message you are consenting to our playing it on the radio you can read the full disclaimer at the end of this page.
I've slugged this entry Citizen Journalism, that might be a bit of a stretch, but it sounds like good fun I think.
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Happy Christmas to BBC especially BBC Five Live from Miami Florida
BBC please use you privileged position to promote Peace,Understanding Forgiveness & Kindness to fellow mankind.
Violence breeds violence,particularly to the young & easily influenced.
Life is violent,the less it is promoted the better.
There are many thousands of good projects going on around the World,we tend to see only the bad,particularly on the non stop News merrigoround. For every bad story please promote a good story. I know good news is not so "newsworthy", but it would give a more balanced view of the real World.
There are many more good people in the World than bad,the BBC is highly thought of throughout the World. Please promote in everyway possible, goodness & not badness.
Please ask yourselves,what sort of mind finds unprovoked violence as entertainment? Every Law of the land is put inplace to punish violent behaviour! So why do so many programmes promote violence.
Dear BBC please do not take this as a violent criticism,because overall you are World leaders in your field. I only wish for the very best for everybody,violence does not help.
Tough year for spirituality. Let's hope that the decency and honesty of the individual shines through over those expodents of the the largely dogmatic religious sideshow.
The strength of the one has always shone above that of the many. May it ever be so.
God bless man.
Judge his self appointed agents accordingly.
u chaps are doing a great job on bbc five live.please join me in wishing the "gunners" Arsenal fc the best of luck as they hold their own in the English premiership.Take it or leave it,they play the finest football in the world.Arsene Wenger is the best manager.Thiery Henry,the best striker.Thanx.Wills,Lagos,Nigeria.
Well, it's that time again...
A look around the media shows the usual oddball mishmash - goodwill sitting uncomfortably next door to crass consumerism. A few, more enlightened editors are looking for a message for or in Christmas - well here's my twopennorth...
December 25th, 1914
The first Christmas of The Great War (and, IMHO, the high-water mark of human civilisation so far)
Soldiers, who'd been blowing each other to Kingdom Come just 24 hours previously, crossed no man's land to meet their enemies and found that they were more alike than their leaders would have them believe.
Meetings were cautious, but good-humoured and humourous - there's a story that a German greeting, shouted across the shell-holes and frozen mud " Gott mit uns!" (God is with us) was returned by an unknown British lad, replying "Yeah - we've got mittens too!"
Ordinary men, taken from home and placed in extraordinary circumstances by the failures of their leaders, ate and drank with one another, shared cigarettes and chatted, played football, compared family pictures and stories: for one day they were just ordinary men, talking to other, ordinary, men. Politics wasn't important, the colour of a uniform didn't matter, the language you spoke and who was right, who was wrong was immaterial.
Eventually, the two sides drifted back to their own trenches and sang carols to one another.
The next day, the business of war carried on as usual.
The Message in all of this is that, whatever our creed, our politics, colour, dietary requirements, sexual preferences, bad habits, good deeds, height, shoe size, hair colour or belief system - we all carry the same genetic marker from one small family that walked out of Africa two-odd million years ago.
We are, all of us, children of creation (in whatever form we believe that 'creation' manifests itself). The things we have in common are far more precious than the things that set us apart.
The men of 1914 remembered that, and lived it, for one day.
If we can remember it a little longer and learn to live with it - well, there may just be hope for us all.
Happy Christmas folks - peace out!!
Our church (All Saints Kesgrave) in Ipswich was packed out for the two crib services at 4pm and 6pm. People are wanting something real for their lives and Jesus offers them that. On the first retreat I went on the words given were: God made me; God knows me;God loves me. Once you realize you are known all the details of ordinary life become important. My Christmas message would be: "Take time to be still and pray and listen; God hears prayer; God answers prayer."
Happy Christ - mas!