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Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick

Chris Evans is joined by supervet Noel Fitzpatrick, who tackles listeners' pet predicaments. Plus 'huge bands; tiny venues' in Top Tenuous.

Little Emilia gets today's fanfare for telling us all about her perfect pivoting playing netball for her school...

Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick joins Chris to tackle listeners pet predicaments and 'huge bands; tiny venues' is the subject for today's Top Tenuous.

Today's show is dedicated to anyone whose furry or feathered friend has been in the wars recently...
And today's show is entitled: do not fear the supervet is here!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Wed 15 Oct 2014 06:30

Music Played

  • Adam and the Ants

    Stand And Deliver

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.
  • Blondie

    Denis

    • Atomic: The Very Best Of Blondie.
    • EMI.
  • David Bowie

    Rebel Rebel

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.
  • Carpenters

    Please Mr Postman

    • The Carpenters - Yesterday Once More.
    • A&M.
  • Coldplay

    Clocks

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
  • The Coral

    Dreaming Of You

    • (CD Single).
    • Deltasonic.
  • Miley Cyrus

    Wrecking Ball

    • Bangerz.
    • RCA.
    • 6.
  • Neil Diamond

    Something Blue

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.
    • 001.
  • Heaven 17

    Temptation

    • A Kick Up The Eighties Vol. 5 (Various Artists).
    • Old Gold.
  • The Killers

    Mr Brightside

    • Grandmaster Party 12.
    • MUSIC FACTORY MASTERMIX.
    • 14.
  • Little Richard

    Good Golly Miss Molly

  • Manic Street Preachers

    Your Love Alone Is Not Enough (feat. Nina Persson)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
  • Paul McCartney & Wings

    Live And Let Die

    • The 7" Singles Box.
    • MPL.
  • Modern Romance

    Best Years Of Our Lives

    • The Platinum Collection.
    • Rhino.
  • The Script

    Drive

    • Sounds Of The 80s.
    • Warner Bros.
  • Blake Shelton & Barbra Streisand

    I'd Want It To Be You

    • Partners.
    • Columbia.
    • 006.
  • Spandau Ballet

    This Is The Love

    • The Very Best Of Spandau Ballet - The Story.
    • Rhino.
  • Lisa Stansfield

    The Real Thing

    • Huge Hits 1997 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.
  • Super Furry Animals

    Juxtaposed With U

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony.
  • Take That

    These Days

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
  • Tiffany

    I Think We're Alone Now

    • Now 12 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • The Trammps

    Hold Back The Night

    • The Best Of.
    • Rhino.
    • 14.
  • U2

    The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)

    • Songs Of Innocence.
    • Island.
  • Ward Thomas

    Way Back When

    • (CD Single).
    • WTW Music.
    • 1.
  • Brian Wilson & Various Artists

    God Only Knows

    • (CD Single).
    • 91Èȱ¬ Music.
    • 4.
  • ZZ Top

    Sharp Dressed Man

    • (Single).
    • Warner Bros.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Leslie Griffiths, Methodist Minister:

Stardom and celebrity must be difficult for their victims to manage. The paparazzi buzz around, the cameras and microphones follow their every movement, glitz and glamour, brilliance and scandal, - all feed the insatiable appetites of you and me. With all that PR, celebrities can easily be made to seem one dimensional figures. I end up wanting to know what they’re like at breakfast time, or with their kids, or hoovering the lounge.

Bernard Weatherill – known to his friends as Jack, was once Speaker of the House of Commons. He always looked wonderful in his glad rags, all toffed up, parading proudly at some State occasion or other. He was the son of a tailor and once told me how he always kept a thimble in his trouser pocket. This allowed him, on the grandest occasions, just by putting his hand in his pocket, to remember who he was and where he’d come from. It stopped all that other stuff going to his head.

And what about this? A friend of mine in deepest Cornwall has a neighbour called Sally Fleetwood. She’s the sister of Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac. They’re in the public eye just now because, all together again after years of difficulty, they’ve begun a huge US tour. Sally told my friend that her brother, surely one of the best drummers on the circuit, got interested in drums through his father who, of all things, played the spoons. I love the thought of father and son playing spoons together; it somehow makes a star like Mick Fleetwood so much more human.

Spoons and a thimble, tiny details, give us glimpses through the razzmatazz, deeper than the public image, of those who get into the news. And they remind us that all of us need to remember who we are, deep, deep down in our deepest selves, beyond the reach of cameras and microphones. That’s where God knows us. That’s where we’re really real.

Broadcast

  • Wed 15 Oct 2014 06:30

Farewell Chris Evans: The best bits from his last shows at Radio 2

After eight years of hosting the Breakfast Show, Chris Evans leaves Radio 2.

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91Èȱ¬ Radio 2's story-writing competition for kids.