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Sir Ben Ainslie Rules the Airwaves!

Chris chats to the coolest cat, with the deepest voice, Mr Chris Difford from Squeeze, plus Sir Ben Ainslie talks about cracking comebacks and ruling the waves.

Today's Mystery Guest is the coolest cat, with the deepest voice, it's Mr Chris Difford from Squeeze.

We're joined by an Olympic Knight of the Realm, Sir Ben Ainslie, who talks about cracking comebacks and ruling the waves.

We devote our midweek Breaking News to the best of your texts - the last ones you sent or received. And you share them in their hundreds, after someone mixes their numbers, and asks Chris to switch on their washing machine.

Molly Goddard fills us her adventures on Jimmy's Farm. And today's Pause for Thoughter is Sarah Joseph.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Wed 30 Oct 2013 06:30
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Music Played

  • The Clash

    Should I Stay Or Should I Go

    • Now 19 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Gary Barlow

    Let Me Go

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Roy Orbison

    A Love So Beautiful

    • Indecent Proposal (Original S/Track).
    • MCA.

  • Sugar Ray

    Every Morning

    • (CD Single).
    • Lava/Atlantic.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.

  • Steely Dan

    Reelin' In The Years

    • A Decade Of Steely Dan.
    • MCA.

  • James Blunt

    Bonfire Heart

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • Lionel Richie

    All Night Long (All Night)

    • Dancing In The Street (Various Artis.
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • Andy Burrows

    Because I Know That I Can

    • (CD Single).
    • Play It Again Sam UK.
    • 1.

  • Kay Starr

    Rock And Roll Waltz

    • Housewives Choice (Various Artists).
    • Music & Memories.

  • Texas

    Dry Your Eyes

    • The Conversation.
    • Pias Recordings.
    • 001.

  • Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Jamming

    • Jammin' (Various Artists).
    • Mango.

  • Siouxsie and the Banshees

    Dear Prudence

    • Now 1983 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • The Cure

    Boys Don't Cry

    • Staring At The Sea: The Singles.
    • Fiction.

  • David Bowie

    Space Oddity

    • Space Oddity.
    • RCA.

  • Keane

    Higher Than The Sun

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

  • Billy Joel

    Scenes From An Italian Restaurant

    • The Stranger.
    • Columbia.
    • 4.

  • Billy Joel

    It's Still Rock and Roll To Me

    • Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Vol.2.
    • CBS.

  • Billy Joel

    Tell Her About It

    • Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Vol.2.
    • CBS.

  • Billy Joel

    The Longest Time

    • An Innocent Man.
    • CBS.

  • Billy Joel

    Scenes From An Italian Restaurant

    • The Stranger.
    • Columbia.
    • 4.

  • Roxy Music

    Love Is the Drug

    • Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music - Street Life.
    • Eg.

  • Nick Lowe

    Cruel To Be Kind

    • Fantastic 70's (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.
    • 9.

  • Squeeze

    Take Me I'm Yours

    • Big Squeeze: The Very Best Of Squeeze.
    • Universal/A&M.

  • Roger Taylor

    Sunny Day

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • Elvis Presley

    I Just Can't Help Believing

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

  • U2

    Pride (In The Name Of Love)

    • U2 - The Best Of 1980-1990.
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • Cher

    I Hope You Find It

    • Closer To The Truth.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 001.

  • Cass Elliot

    It's Getting Better

    • The Singles+.
    • BR Music.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Sarah Joseph Editor of Emel, the Muslim lifestyle magazine:

Μύ

Today is International Orthopaedic Nurses Day. Now there’s an awareness day you may not have heard of. I have - as my mum is currently in hospital on an orthopaedic ward suffering with a broken leg. She’d like to say that she got the injury whilst sky-diving, abseiling, or even keeping up with her older roller skating brother. But no! Mum broke her leg whilst straightening her bed. She’s has no idea how it happened, but the break is in such a difficult place that she’s in a total leg cast, and will be for up to six months.

Μύ

We just have to put it down to the vagaries of life. And life has a funny way of pulling those little stunts... They are the Yorkers or Googlys of cricket – the unexpected balls that get you out.

Μύ

Having witnessed a fair few of these incidents in my own life and the lives of others, I have to conclude that life is far from stable. Whilst we entertain an illusion of control, in fact we are always totally vulnerable. The storm in Britain this week showed us what so many in the developing world know on a daily basis – we are at the mercy of natural disasters, but the vagaries of life are more personal than that: A cancer diagnosis. A heart attack. A road traffic accident. A broken leg whilst making the bed... All these things and more, can strike at any moment. Loved ones can be taken from us at any time; health and wealth can vanish; our world can be turned upside down.

Μύ

Pondering such vulnerability has the potential to make us feel incredibly unstable, so we can brush over things with the illusion of control, yet over time I have learnt to find strength in such vulnerability. For whilst I am fragile, God is constant, unchanging and permanent, and He, as the Qur’an reminds, β€œknows what is on the land and in the sea.ΜύNot a leaf falls but that God knows it.” There’s a plan to all of this. I often have trouble working out what that plan is, but acceptance in the face of adversity gives me unimaginable strength – it is a strength to be found in vulnerability.

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