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Little Theo tells us about taking on the Chilly Challenge and his time first in a teepee, plus skiing supremo Graham Bell tells us about the Winter Olympics.

Little Theo tells us about taking on the Chilly Challenge and his time first in a tee-pee...

We dig deep with Independent Housing expert Henry Pryor, who helps us unearth the story of fracking freely under your house; asking the question "what exactly do we own when we buy a house?"...

Our mystery guest - the Sensational Ski'ing supremo Graham Bell - tells us about his chilly travels and gets us going about the Winter Olympics...

And today's top tenuous takes us to your desperate claims to national secrets (that you can talk about...sort of!)

Today's show is dedicated to anyone who over the weekend finally prised a secret out of the family vault...
And today's show is entitled: At last my mum has shared with us the secret of her World War II instant pastry recipe.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Mon 27 Jan 2014 06:30

Music Played

  • ABBA

    Waterloo

    • Abba Gold (40th Anniversary Edition).
    • Polar.
    • 019.
  • The Beatles

    And Your Bird Can Sing

    • Revolver.
    • Parlophone.
    • 9.
  • The Beatles

    Help!

    • The Beatles - 1.
    • Apple.
    • 010.
  • Bee Gees

    Night Fever

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.
  • Boyzone

    Light Up The Night

    • BZ20.
    • Rhino.
    • 001.
  • Jake Bugg

    Lightning Bolt

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.
    • 1.
  • Ray Charles

    Mess Around

  • Coldplay

    Trouble

  • Dario G

    Sunchyme

    • Huge Hits 1997 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.
  • Dr. Feelgood

    Milk And Alcohol

    • Greatest Hits Of The 70's (Various).
    • Disky.
  • Sophie Ellisâ€Bextor

    Young Blood

    • (CD Single).
    • EBGB's.
    • 001.
  • The J. Geils Band

    Centrefold

    • And The Road Goes On Forever Vol 1.
    • Debutante.
  • Golden Earring

    Radar Love

    • Hot Love - Sounds Of The 70's, Part 1.
    • Old Gold.
  • Al Green

    Let's Stay Together

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.
  • Imagine Dragons

    Demons

    • Night Visions.
    • Polydor.
  • Joe Jackson

    Steppin' Out

  • The Killers

    Read My Mind

    • (CD Single).
    • Vertigo.
  • Lee Marvin

    Wand'rin' Star

    • (Single).
    • Paramount.
    • 9.
  • Steve Miller Band

    The Joker

    • Steve Miller Band Greatest Hits 1974-.
    • Mercury.
  • The Mock Turtles

    Can You Dig It? (Remix)

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
  • New Radicals

    Get What You Give

    • (CD Single).
    • MCA.
  • OneRepublic

    If I Lose Myself

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.
    • 001.
  • Freda Payne

    Band Of Gold

    • Heartbeat: Love Me Tender (Various).
    • Global Television.
  • Gregory Porter

    Liquid Spirit

    • Liquid Spirit.
    • Blue Note.
    • 001.
  • Frank Sinatra

    Come Fly With Me

    • The Capitol Years.
    • Capitol Records.
    • 28.
  • Rod Stewart

    Beautiful Morning

    • Time.
    • Decca.
    • 001.
  • Tom Robinson Band

    2-4-6-8 Motorway

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1977 (Various).
    • Premier.
  • Travis

    Driftwood

    • (CD Single).
    • Independiente.
  • Van Halen

    Jump

    • The All Time Greatest Rock Songs ....
    • Columbia.
  • Andy Williams

    It's So Easy

    • The Very Best Of Andy Williams.
    • Pickwick.

Pause for Thought: Julia Neuberger

Pause for Thought: Julia Neuberger

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

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On 27th January 1995, my mother was watching the news, as she always did, and burst into tears. It was the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp. And she simply couldn’t stop crying. Now, my mother came to this country in 1937 as a young refugee from Nazi Germany. She encountered huge kindness, as did her younger brother and her parents. But almost all the rest of her family perished in the camps. Despite talking about her family on many occasions, my mother had never wept like that before. She was not alone. That fiftieth anniversary opened a flood of memories, of memoirs, of people desperate to tell their stories before they died. By 1995, my mother was about to be 80.. She hadn’t got long left. So, as we mark Holocaust Memorial Day today, we need to listen to those stories. Not only from those people, now sadly dying out, who survived the Holocaust of 1939-45, but those who survived in Rwanda, where peace and reconciliation deals hold, but people still have dreadful memories of brutal and senseless ethnic slaughter. Similarly people have dreadful memories of the Bosnian slaughter, and even now we hear the horrors of what has been happening in South Sudan, where the brutality is unimaginable. ‘Why remember the horrors?’ you might well ask. There are two reasons. One is to allow those who have experienced them the dignity of giving their personal testimony, part of world history. And those testimonies matter, because that’s how we learn. But the other- related- reason is that only by hearing these stories, and remembering, will we work concertedly to stop genocide happening again. We haven’t been successful yet- modern conflicts with ethnic violence and attempted genocide bear witness to that. But remembering, seeing the pictures, hearing the stories, might stop some of us, just some of us, in our tracks, and make us committed to helping to end genocide, the killing of whole peoples different from us.

Broadcast

  • Mon 27 Jan 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.

500 Words

Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2's story-writing competition for kids.