Today I want to talk to you about neuroscience. That, and there’s a Big Jewish Festival coming up. Happy Hanukkah everybody. By an absolutely amazing coincidence, Hanukkah is all about something that was nearly in the news.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aQT5Saap6qozmF7kJkcfotHSSy6ARynX/view?usp=sharing

And in the Big News today from a Faith Perspective, wasn’t the 1986 film “Clockwise” brilliant. One of the lines includes the word “hope”. Which brings me to Advent, Christianity, hope, dreaming.

Hope may seem futile with the unremittingly awful state of things today. But Jesus. Now that’s some realistic hope.

There is no other news today.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17Fc_fgoF7WpeGfHhTNV29aTc8iajVBTk/view?usp=sharing

I’ll bet you no one has ever drawn a comparison between football and religion. I’m so excited about this. This is going to be so original. No one, absolutely no one, ever, on Thought for the Day, has ever thought to compare the tribal loyalty of football with religion. And they certainly can’t complain that we don’t treat the news seriously. Thirty seconds’ mention of football, followed by 3 minutes about Jesus. It’s just perfect. Wait ’till the listeners hear this.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jO2QUd3ZisJvdb2sTpOtvRyaqJWHDZ5Y/view?usp=sharing

And in the Big News today from a Faith Perspective, aren’t Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Alan Ayckbourn, Jesus and me, just brilliant.

There is no other news today.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Oo0IJQs3Nnfg8VCk1p1vKV1xgamm2Ibk/view?usp=sharing

England is out of the world cup. A reminder of all our lives’ failures. Islam says keep going. Some women have kept going. After yet another failure, pick yourself up and keep going.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o6Ob0sVq3diQ6MpzVvSvXZyf6a2C0EYl/view?usp=sharing