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Chris chats to Strictly Come Dancing's Anton Du Beke about the weekend's musicals-themed quarter-finals and answers your questions about the show live on air.

Chris chats to Strictly Come Dancing's Anton Du Beke about the weekend's Musicals-themed quarter-final, highlighting outstanding performances such as Faye Tozer's Charleston and Stacey Dooley's American Smooth. Plus he answers your questions live on-air. After talking about Shirley Ballas' iconic French Ballroom World Final performance decades ago, we hear your desperate claims to fame for the Strictly head judge in today's Top Tenuous.
Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker netball World Cup ambassador Jade Clark. Pause For Thought comes courtesy of Senior Rabbi Harvey Belovski, on the first day of Hannukah.

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    Step Into Christmas

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    Pennies From Heaven

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    Two Can Play That Game

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    • Columbia.

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  • Rick Astley

    She Makes Me

    • Beautiful Life.
    • BMG Rights Management.

  • Daniel Bedingfield

    Gotta Get Thru This

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    Manic Monday

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
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  • Tom Odell

    Piano Man

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  • The Waterboys

    How Long Will I Love You?

    • The Waterboys - Room To Roam.
    • Ensign.

  • MIKA

    Grace Kelly

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    • Casablanca.

  • P!nk

    A Million Dreams

    • The Greatest Showman: Reimagined (Various Artists).
    • Atlantic.

  • Sammy Davis Jr.

    Rhythm Of Life

    • Sweet Charity S'track.
    • MCA.

  • The Four Seasons

    December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night)

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 11.

  • Odyssey

    Native New Yorker

    • Million Sellers Vol.17 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • James Arthur & Anne-Marie

    Rewrite The Stars

    • The Greatest Showman: Reimagined (Various Artists).
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  • Savage Garden

    Affirmation

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  • Daryl Hall & John Oates

    She's Gone

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    • Columbia.

  • Lady Gaga

    Always Remember Us This Way

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    • 17.

  • Liquid Gold

    Dance Yourself Dizzy

    • NOW Yearbook 1980 (Various Artists).
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  • Andy Burrows

    Light The Night

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Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Harvey Belovski, rabbi at Golders Green United Synagogue:

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It鈥檚 the first day of Chanukah today.听 If you鈥檝e ever been in a Jewish area around dusk at this time of the year, you鈥檒l see Chanukah menorah-lamps peeking through the windows of homes and shops.

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Chanukah celebrates the end of a threat to Jewish religion and culture many centuries ago.听 The lamp recalls the original oil candelabrum in the Jerusalem Temple, which was relit once the danger had passed.听 It was a moment of defiance, turning the lights back on after years of darkness and oppression.听 Tradition has it that when the rebels re-entered the Temple, the tiny phial of oil they found in the rubble burned for eight days rather than one.听 We replay that miracle each year as Chanukah progresses: we light one candle on the first evening and eight on the final evening.听 To give you an idea 鈥� imagine if your mobile phone was at 10%, but lasted for eight days without recharging!

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Chanukah is a favourite time of year. The candles brighten up the long, dark evenings, the kids receive Chanukah gelt 鈥� cash, or gifts. There are delicious seasonal foods - doughnuts and latkes, potato pancakes, all fried to recall that miracle of the oil long ago. And it鈥檚 a chance to think about another miracle - the very existence of the Jewish people despite repeated attempts - like the Chanukah story - to wipe us from the history books.

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At our home - at least on the days when we can get everyone together at the same time - we light our menorahs, sing Chanukah songs and eat those fried treats.听 But we also just sit and look at the flickering lights for a few moments and think about what they mean to us and how they connect our family to past generations and to the future.

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Jewish sources teach that the Chanukah lights are for 鈥榣ooking鈥� but not 鈥榰sing鈥� 鈥� a line that actually appears in one of the songs we sing around our menorah.听 It鈥檚 a profound idea 鈥� we are often so busy that we forget to stop to think about what we are experiencing.听 Chanukah is too important to let the moment pass without contemplating a few big, important ideas.听 Sometime, I believe we need to be able to just stop, look and allow ourselves pause for thought.

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