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With Olympian Greg Rutherford

Olympian Greg Rutherford joins Shaun. It's real radio gold. Plus the day's silliest news comes wrapped in a snuggly duvet of kicking alternative tunes old and new.

Long jumper and "self-styled Ginger Wizard" Greg Rutherford became an overnight sensation when he long-jumped his way to a gold medal in the Olympic Games this summer. He's also the 2010 Commonwealth Games silver medallist & 2006 European Championship silver medallist in the long jump. He joins Shaun to chat about his amazing year.

Greg won his Olympic Gold with a jump of 8.31metres. He won on the same night that Mo Farah won the 10,000m and Jess Ennis got Gold in Heptathlon - Super Saturday 4th August 2012. After he won he said: "This is what I have dreamed of my whole life and to do it in London is just incredible, I might wake up in a minute." He was featured on a Royal Mail postage stamp, and two post boxes in Milton Keynes were painted gold in his honour!

There's all the usual much-loved features too...

Has a song wiggled its way into your tired brain overnight? Don't fret! It's only an Earworm. Shaun can provide immediate relief and release from that little beastie of a tune rattling around your head and, who knows, he just might pick yours to play if you share it with him this morning.

You can also nominate a tune for Shaun's ever-popular Song of Praise which invites a listener to evangelise about something they find wonderful.

Plus, Up-to-the minute music news comes courtesy of news horse (and former Menswear drummer) Matt Everitt, while Shaun keeps listeners apprised of the day's lighter news stories and occasional ridiculousness.

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Tue 18 Dec 2012 07:00
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Doves

    There Goes The Fear

    • Heavenly.

  • Grizzly Bear

    A Simple Answer

    • Warp Records.

  • John Lennon, Yoko Ono & Plastic Ono Band

    Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (feat. The Harlem Community Choir)

    • That's Christmas (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Public Enemy

    Don't Believe The Hype

    • Def Jam.

  • Edwyn Collins

    A Girl Like You

    • Setanta.

  • Bobby Womack

    Stupid

    • XL Recordings.

  • Lykke Li

    Get Some

    • CD SINGLE.
    • LL RECORDINGS / Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • Soundcity (Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear)

    Cut Me Some Slack

    • Columbia Records UK.

  • The Rolling Stones

    She's A Rainbow

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.

  • The Cure

    Close To Me

    • Fiction.

  • ²Ή±τ³Ω‐J

    Matilda

    • Infectious Records.

  • Veruca Salt

    Seether

    • Scared Hitless.

  • The Stranglers

    No More Heroes

    • Virgin.

  • Muse

    Follow Me

    • Warners Music.

  • Roxy Music

    Editions Of You

    • EG.

  • Foals

    Inhaler

    • Transgressive Records.

  • Jessie Ware

    Swan Song

    • Devotion.
    • Island Records.
    • 007.

  • Bill Withers

    Who Is He (And What Is He To You)

    • CBS.

  • Dexys Midnight Runners

    The Celtic Soul Brothers (More, Please, Thank You)

    • Mercury.

  • Jake Bugg

    Trouble Town

    • Jake Bugg.
    • MERCURY RECORDS.
    • 8.

  • The Specials

    Too Much Too Young Live from Maida Vale (12th December 2012)

  • The Who

    Substitute

    • Polydor.

  • Peace

    Wraith

    • Columbia.

  • FIDLAR

    Wait For The Man

    • Wichita.

  • Siouxsie and the Banshees

    Peek-A-Boo

    • Polydor.

Broadcast

  • Tue 18 Dec 2012 07:00
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 6 Music