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The Simple Things!

Vanessa asks about the simple childhood pleasures you've carried in to adulthood, plus she undertakes another vocal warm-up ahead of her 2Day presenter choir appearance. Greig McNeill is today's Jolly Good Fellow, with The Marcels Blue Moon his birthday number 1.

1 hour, 27 minutes

Last on

Wed 8 May 2013 05:00

Music Played

  • Cyndi Lauper

    Girls Just Want To Have Fun

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

    Sweet Talkin' Guy

    • Sweet Talkin' Guy - Sound Of 60's Gal.
    • Old Gold.
  • The Kinks

    Sunny Afternoon

    • The Journey - Part 2: Anthology.
    • BMG.
    • 13.
  • Rod Stewart

    It's Over

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol Records.
    • 1.
  • Paolo Nutini

    Pencil Full Of Lead

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.
  • Diana Ross

    I'm Coming Out

    • Diana Ross & The Supremes - 40 Motown.
    • Polygram Tv.
  • Gabrielle Aplin

    Panic Cord

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
    • 1.
  • Burt Bacharach, Jamie Cullum & Ö÷²¥´óÐã Concert Orchestra

    Make It Easy On Yourself (Live)

  • Lynn Anderson

    Rose Garden

    PAUSE FOR THOUGHT

    • Million Sellers Vol.15 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.
  • Phillip Phillips

    Ö÷²¥´óÐã

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 1.
  • Prince

    1999

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.
  • Stooshe

    Slip

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 1.

Pause For Thought with Dave Tomlinson - Glory

Pause For Thought with Dave Tomlinson - Glory

‘Glory, glory, Man United…’

Ìý

Excuse me…if I can’t muster much enthusiasm about that other red team winning the premiership yet again. I am a Liverpudlian, you see, still living on the memory of our glory days in the 70s and 80s – desperately hoping they’ll be back….next season…or the one after that….or the one after… you know how it is with football fans.

Ìý

One of my best glory moments was when I scored the winning goal for my school team. I was at the edge of the penalty area and walloped the ball for all I was worth. I completely mis-kicked but it shot straight into the top corner of the net. No one knew I sliced the ball – and I wasn’t about to tell them. Oh my! I bathed in the glory until the end of term. I swear my teacher upped my score in the Maths test as a result!

Ìý

Maybe I’m just a sad scouser, diverting attention away from another disappointing season, but I kinda think we’re missing our way when we shower glory on massively overpaid footballers and the like. The real stars in our world mostly go unnoticed because glory isn’t what they’re after.

Ìý

One of my real stars is Sam Murphy, our church gardener. He is certainly no glory-hunter – just potters away, rain or shine, making the garden smile. I got angry when I once heard a man say, ‘Oh look someone’s planted some new roses.’ ‘Someone?’, I thought. ‘Someone? They were planted by Sam!’ Then I remembered what Sam once said: ‘I just like being with the earth and watching God send the sun and the rain and then seeing how everything grows. Sometimes I just like to look at the roses and marvel.’

Ìý

Now that’s the way to live! ‘Glory, glory, Sammy Murphy…’

Orchestral Word Of The Day

Orchestral Word Of The Day

Scordatura – The retuning of a stringed instrument in order to play notes below the ordinary range of the instrument or to play an unusual tone colour.

Broadcast

  • Wed 8 May 2013 05:00