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With Nick Knowles and Martyn Lewis

Chris Evans is joined by Nick Knowles, who discusses a special DIY SOS edition, and rugby referee Martyn Lewis reflects on the game's quirkier laws.

DIY SOS presenter Nick Knowles reveals news of a special edition of the BBC1 programme. They're currently filming a show based around adapting homes for war veterans which will be aired next month. On the back of the excitement surrounding the explosive start to the Rugby World Cup, referee Martyn Lewis reflects on the game's quirkier laws.

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Tue 22 Sep 2015 06:30
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  • T. Rex

    Get It On

    • Million Sellers Vol.19 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Jamie Lawson

    Wasn't Expecting That

    • Jamie Lawson.
    • Gingerbread Man Records.
    • 001.

  • Neil Diamond

    America

    • Neil Diamond - The Jazz Singer.
    • Capitol.

  • Neil Diamond

    America

    • Neil Diamond - The Jazz Singer.
    • Capitol.

  • Jean Knight

    Mr Big Stuff

    • Stax Greatest Hits (Various Artists).
    • Stax.

  • Chris Isaak

    Wicked Games

    Remix Artist: Trentemøller.
    • Wild At Heart (Original S/Track).
    • London.

  • 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.

  • David Bowie

    Golden Years

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Jack Savoretti

    Back Where I Belong

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG Chrysalis.

  • Herman’s Hermits

    I'm Into Something Good

    • The Hits Of 1964 (Various Artists).
    • MFP.

  • Chic

    I'll Be There (feat. Nile Rodgers)

    • It's About Time.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • The Kingston Trio

    O Ken Karanga

  • Gipsy Kings

    Bamboleo

    • Mundo Latino (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Meghan Trainor

    Like I'm Gonna Lose You (feat. John Legend)

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony.

  • Nick Lowe

    So It Goes

    • The Best Punk Album In The World... Ever! Part 2 (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.
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  • Wheatus

    Teenage Dirtbag

    • Now 49 (Various Artists).
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  • Dean Martin & Helen O’Connell

    How D'Ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning?

    • Cool Couples (Various Artists).
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  • a‐ha

    The Wake

    • (CD Single).
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    • 001.

  • ABBA

    S.O.S.

    • Abba Gold.
    • Polydor.
    • 010.

  • Ed Sheeran

    Sing

    • (CD Single).
    • Asylum Records.
    • 001.

  • Elton John

    Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)

    • Diamonds.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • The Four Seasons

    The Night

    • Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Ve.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 9.

  • Ella Eyre

    Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Tony Momrelle

    Pick Me Up

    • (CD Single).
    • Reel People.
    • 001.

  • The Waterboys

    The Whole of the Moon

    • Now 1991 - The Millennium Series.
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  • Simple Minds

    Alive & Kicking

    • Now 1985 - The Millennium Series.
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  • Nell Bryden

    Wolves

    • (CD Single).
    • 157 Records.
    • 001.

  • The Housemartins

    Happy Hour

    • Now That's What I Call Quite Good.
    • Go! Discs.

  • The Housemartins

    Happy Hour

    • Now That's What I Call Quite Good.
    • Go! Discs.

  • Jack Johnson

    Better Together

    • (CD Single).
    • Brushfire Records.

Chris' Pause For Thought: Julia Neuberger

Chris' Pause For Thought: Julia Neuberger

From Julia Neuberger, Senior Rabbi at the west London Synagogue:

Tonight, Yom Kippur begins, the holiest day of the Jewish year. There’s a 25 hour fast, we stay in synagogue all day tomorrow, and we pray, think, pray again, repent, and confess our sins.

This year, the refugees crowding into Europe, and the many Syrians in makeshift camps in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan will be at the forefront of our minds. All Jews are descended from migrants or refugees, unless we converted to Judaism. There is a folk memory here, so the congregation will think what more we can do to help, especially now the wave of anger and guilt has dissipated after Aylan Kurdi’s little body was washed up on a Turkish beach.

We already run a monthly drop in for asylum seekers at my synagogue. Maybe we should run it more often, help them with their English and perhaps teach the children to play again.

We all know the situation is desperate, yet how to respond is less clear. Should voluntary and religious organisations volunteer to take some of the burden? Tomorrow morning, we’ll be reading the Hebrew prophet Isaiah’s stirring words: “Is this the fast I have chosen?”, as he berates the people for just observing the form of the ritual, rather than its meaning. Isaiah was probably a court prophet, and he saw how the rich and well connected behaved- and was appalled. These words tell them how to make sense of the holiest day of the year:

 Is not this the fast the fast that I have chosen?

To loosen the fetters of evil,

To untie the straps of the yoke,

To let the oppressed go free, and whatever the yoke to break it?

Is it not sharing your food with the hungry?

And bringing the homeless into your home……

We can clearly take this as a reference to asylum seekers and refugees. And so, this Yom Kippur, my congregation will pledge to take more action on behalf of refugees and asylum seekers. We can’t do much, but whoever saves a single life, it is as if he saved a whole world.

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