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Patrick Kielty sits in

Patrick Kielty continues to sit in for Mr Evans. As part of Radio 2's Living Alone Well Season, he speaks to rugby-star-turned-solo adventurer Richard Parks.

Patrick Kielty continues his week sitting in for Mr Evans. With news, travel, and marvellous music that includes the listener-nominated Power Play track to wake the nation, and two linked Kielty's Crackers.

All this week, as part of Radio 2's Living Alone Well season, our sports presenter Caroline Baker will be exploring the successes and achievements of solo sportsmen and sportswomen.

Today's guest is the former rugby star-turned-solo adventurer, Richard Parks. He recently visited three poles and climbed seven peaks in as many months.

He has also completed the world's highest mountain bike race in Nepal, the Jungle Ultra in Peru and the Double Brutal (double Iron Man) in Snowdonia as preparation for his next record breaking attempt - to record the fastest solo, unsupported and unassisted journey to the South Pole.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Tue 22 Oct 2013 06:30

Music Played

  • Edwyn Collins

    A Girl Like You

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.
  • Gary Barlow

    Let Me Go

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
  • The Jam

    A Town Called Malice

    • Jam Story.
    • Universal.
  • Bill Withers

    Lovely Day

    • It's Cool (Various Artists).
    • Parlophone.
  • Shocking Blue

    Venus

    • Dance Hits Of The '60's & '70's.
    • Old Gold.
  • Oasis

    Songbird

    • (CD Single).
    • Big Brother Records.
  • Blondie

    Call Me

    • Atomic: The Very Best Of Blondie.
    • EMI.
  • Robbie Williams

    Go Gentle

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
  • Simple Minds

    Alive & Kicking

    • Now 1985 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.
  • Ocean Colour Scene

    The Day We Caught The Train

    • Fresh Hits 96 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.
  • The Kooks

    She Moves In Her Own Way

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
  • Buddy Holly

    True Love Ways

    • Heartbeat: Love Me Tender (Various).
    • Global Television.
  • Fleetwood Mac

    Everywhere

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 008.
  • Matt Cardle

    When You Were My Girl

    • (CD Single).
    • Absolute.
  • Hothouse Flowers

    Don't Go

    • Emerald Rock (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.
  • Nell Bryden

    Second Time Around

    • (CD Single).
    • 157 Records.
    • 1.
  • David Bowie

    Suffragette City

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.
  • Lisa Stansfield

    Can't Dance

    • (CD Single).
    • Monkeynatra.
    • 001.
  • Snow Patrol

    Chocolate

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
  • Gnarls Barkley

    Crazy

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.
  • Sheryl Crow

    Soak Up The Sun

    • (CD Single).
    • A&M.
  • ²¹â€h²¹

    Take On Me

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

    (Feels Like) Heaven

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.
  • Céline Dion

    Loved Me Back To Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
  • Labelle

    Lady Marmalade

    • Soul Chartbusters (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.
  • Faces

    Ooh La La

    • Driving Rock Ballads (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.
  • They Might Be Giants

    Birdhouse In Your Soul

    • Snap It Up! (Various Artists).
    • CBS.
  • Slade

    Coz I Luv You

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1971 (Various).
    • Premier.
  • Noel Harrison

    Windmills Of Your Mind

    • The Thomas Crown Affair - Original S/.
    • United Artists.
  • Pet Shop Boys

    Thursday (feat. Example)

    • (CD Single).
    • x2 Recordings.
    • 001.
  • Elvis Presley

    (Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame

    • Presley - The All Time Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.
  • James Brown

    Living in America

    • 40th Anniversary Collection.
    • Polydor.
    • 4.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

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

Last Thursday, we dedicated two memorial plaques in London. One was in memory of Eleanor Rathbone, the independent MP who did so much to help refugees fleeing Nazi atrocities in Germany and Austria. The other was for Robert Smallbones, British consul general in Frankfurt in Germany during the 1930s, and his deputy Arthur Dowden.

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After Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass in November 1938, when synagogues were burned, and Jewish businesses looted and smashed up, with hundreds of Jewish men being beaten up and sent to concentration camps, these men provided comfort and help to desperate Jews. They worked tirelessly to process as many entry visas as possible. Smallbones wrote, 'The longest stretch I remember was from early in the morning until midnight when I fell asleep for a few minutes on my desk. After two hours sleep my conscience pricked me. The feeling was horrible that there were people in a concentration camp whom I could get out and that I was comfortable in bed.'

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It’s estimated that by their actions in persuading the British government to accept people who had post-dated visas for other countries, as well as going to concentration camps to get people out, Smallbones and Dowden saved some 48,000 people! Yet their work is barely known. So on Thursday morning, before the ceremony, I searched amongst the many boxes I still have of my mother’s papers for my German refugee grandparents’ visas. I had a hunch! And, bizarrely, the first box I looked in contained my grandparents’ 1930s Nazi regime passports, hardly battered at all. Inside was that precious permission to stay in Britain for three months, signed by Arthur Dowden. Without him, they would not have survived.

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So on Thursday we were not only commemorating these people who helped so many Jews, left wingers and others, but I was marking a personal debt- without these men, my grandparents would not have survived. Without them, I might never have been born. ÌýI owe them so much, even my life, and their story deserves to be better known.

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  • Tue 22 Oct 2013 06:30

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