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Music Played
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The Rolling Stones Get Off Of My Cloud
The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks, Abkco
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fun. Some Nights
Some Nights, Atlantic
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a-ha The Living Daylights
The Best Of James Bond 30th Anniversa, EMI, 11
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The Police Don't Stand So Close To Me
The Very Best Of Sting & The Police, A&M
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The Who I Can't Explain
The Godfathers Of Britpop, Polygram Tv
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George Harrison My Sweet Lord
All Things Must Pass, EMI, 4
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Scouting for Girls Summertime In The City
(CD Single), Epic, 1
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Kylie Minogue I Should Be So Lucky
Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists), Sony Tv/Columbia
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Bad Company Can't Get Enough
Driving Rock (Various Artists), Global Records & Tapes, 1
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Peter Sarstedt Frozen Orange Juice
The Very Best Of Peter Sarstedt, The Collection
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Amy Macdonald Pride
Life In A Beautiful Light, Mercury, 2
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John Paul Young Love Is In The Air
20 Songs Of Love From The 70's (Vario, MFP
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OMC How Bizarre
Now 34 (Various Artists), Now
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Dean Martin & Helen O'Connell How D'Ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning?
Cool Couples (Various Artists), Sanctuary
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Emeli Sandé Read All About It (Part III)
(CD Single), EMI
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Take That Kidz
(CD Single), Polydor, 1
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Doris Day Pillow Talk
A Portrait Of Doris Day, Stylus
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Al Stewart Year Of The Cat
A Piece Of Yesterday: The Anthology, EMI
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The Killers Runaways
Battle Born, Mercury, 1
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The Flying Lizards Money (That's What I Want)
Hard 2 Get Hits - Various Artists, Disky
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Heaven 17 Temptation
Now 1983 - The Millennium Series, Now
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Bob Dylan Knockin' On Heaven's Door
The Best Of Bob Dylan, Columbia
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Bryan Adams Summer Of 69
Bryan Adams - The Best Of Me, Mercury
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Bryan Adams & Melanie C When You're Gone
Bryan Adams - The Best Of Me, Mercury
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Tom Jones (I Want To) Come Home
Spirit In The Room, Island
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Yvonne Elliman If I Can't Have You
And They Danced The Night Away, Debutante
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Pause for Thought
With Rabbi Pete Tobias.
I wrote this pause for thought script in a small tent in the middle of a field in the Kent countryside. Over the weekend an annual Jewish event called Limmud - which means learning - took place. And I was there.
Along with me were more than 500 members of the Jewish community. The field was filled with a variety of tents. The larger ones were for group sessions like discussions or study. There was an enormous one that had a stage with a full PA and was the venue for a variety of musical performances over the weekend. The biggest - and most important I suspect - is the food tent.
The weekend is filled with a variety of activities for young and old, ranging from nature walks and kite making to bible study and discussions led by rabbis. Some of the rabbis are orthodox, dissecting in minute detail an aspect of Jewish law from the Torah; others, like me, are Liberal, questioning the origins of that very document.
And everywhere there are tents. It feels like a scene from the bible, when the ancestors of all these Jews were travelling through the wilderness.
One of those ancestors, not from biblical times but a little later, would be most impressed with this event. Rabbi Hillel once emphasised the importance of study saying 'Never say that when I have spare time, I will study because you may never have spare time'. Here's a group of his descendants spending a whole weekend engaged in study. Whether it's children or adults, in a classroom, a tent, or the middle of a field, there is always an opportunity to learn.
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BBC Radio 2Tue 28 Aug 2012 06:30 BBC Radio 2
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Chris Evans - The Best Bits
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