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The Surprising Marathon Man!

Chris returns to the breakfast show in one piece following his surprise run in the London Marathon.

Chris returns to the breakfast show in one piece following his surprise run in the London Marathon....

Pilot and chief engineer at the Aircraft Restoration Company, John Romain talks to Chris about the two newly-restored Mark 1 Spitfires from World War 2 that are up for auction...

Paul Daniels is our 'Not-So-Mystery-Guest', Rabbi Julia Neuberger provides our Pause For Thought and the Top Tenuous takes in your desperate claims to the fame of 'I didn't watch Poldark'.

Today's show is dedicated to anyone who Chris met yesterday at the London Marathon...
And today's show is entitled: if you set your mind to something, it's amazing how a little bit of focus and effort here and there, and secrecy, can get you to your goal!

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Mon 27 Apr 2015 06:30
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Music Played

  • The Spencer Davis Group

    Keep On Running

    • Fifty Number Ones Of The 60's (Variou.
    • Global Television.
    • 1.

  • Hozier

    Someone New

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Rupert Holmes

    Escape (The Pina Colada Song)

    • Various Artists - Open Top Cars.
    • Temple Records.

  • Sheryl Crow

    All I Wanna Do

    • The No.1 Acoustic Rock Album (Variou.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Elton John

    Island Girl

    • Diamonds.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Phil Collins

    You Can't Hurry Love

    • Singles.
    • Rhino.

  • George Ezra

    Did You Hear The Rain?

    • Wanted On Voyage.
    • Sony BMG.
    • 001.

  • Sandie Shaw

    Puppet on a String

    • Sandie Shaw - The Collection.
    • Castle.

  • Altered Images

    Don't Talk to Me About Love

    • Wave Party (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Paloma Faith

    Only Love Can Hurt Like This

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.
    • 004.

  • Neil Diamond

    Cracklin' Rosie

    • Neil Diamond - The Ultimate Collectio.
    • Columbia/Mca.

  • Elbow

    What Time Do You Call This

  • Kid Creole and the Coconuts

    Annie I'm Not Your Daddy

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

  • Will Young

    Love Revolution

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 001.

  • The Feeling

    Never Be Lonely

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Chuck Berry

    No Particular Place To Go

    • The Best Of Chuck Berry.
    • Music Club.

  • The Bees

    A Minha Menina

    • Crash! Indie Anthems 1982-2004 (Var).
    • BMG.

  • The Shires

    State Lines

    • Brave.
    • Decca.
    • 008.

  • Lenny Kravitz

    Fly Away

    • 21st Century Rock (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Olly Murs

    Dear Darlin'

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony BMG.
    • 1.

  • Bob Dylan

    Positively 4th Street

    • Bob Dylan - Greatest Hits.
    • Columbia.

  • The Monkees

    I'm A Believer

    • Rediscover The 60's-With A Little Hel.
    • Old Gold.
    • 7.

  • Steve Miller Band

    Abracadabra

    • The Very Best Of The Steve Miller Ban.
    • Arcade Records.

  • Brandon Flowers

    Can't Deny My Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI.

  • Rick Springfield

    Jessie's Girl

    • Rock Of America (Various Artists).
    • Trax Label.

  • Wham!

    Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go

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

  • Rae Morris

    Love Again

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Alice Cooper

    No More Mr Nice Guy

    • Millennium Classic Rock Party (Various Artists).
    • Rhino.

  • Take That

    Shine

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

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

In the depths of winter, I always bring in the amaryllis bulbs that have been languishing on a windowsill since last year, clean off their pots, and give them a bit of water and fertiliser. Just this last week, they鈥檝e been rewarding me with the most spectacular display of salmon pink blooms, and they make me smile as I walk into my kitchen. The bulbs were given to me some seven or eight years ago. And yet back they come every year. These amaryllis coming back again, or the few orchids I get to bloom again, or the clivia that repays constant neglect with flame orange flowers every spring, give me enormous pleasure. My children tell me, as I tell them about my few gardening successes, 鈥楳um, you鈥檙e just getting old鈥�.

But it鈥檚 not just an older person鈥檚 pleasure. The emphasis on planting gardens goes back to the Bible. The prophet Jeremiah told the Israelite exiles in Babylon to 鈥淏uild houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce.鈥欌�� The prophet Isaiah used the example of a metaphorical vineyard that God had nurtured, which didn鈥檛 reward him with lavish grapes, but with wild bitter ones- and then asks what he should do with that vineyard but uproot it. King Ahab took Naboth鈥檚 vineyard and used it as a vegetable garden, even though he鈥檇 refused to sell it. Gardens are everywhere in the Bible and ancient literature. They鈥檙e deeply rooted in our thinking, whether we鈥檙e young or old. And at this time of year they make us all smile, with the feeling that everything is going to be plentiful once again. I think we should treasure that wonder at burgeoning nature, for we human beings need that sense of renewal each year. It gives us hope, and a cause for gratitude, which we don鈥檛 acknowledge often enough. My flowering bulbs make me say thankyou. My neglected clivia fill me with joy. And, each year, as everything starts flowering once again, I am just grateful to be alive. We could all share that gratitude, and perhaps even show it, by planting more, giving more plants, and celebrating being alive, as spring is in the air.

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