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Britain's perfect pancake tossing champ Dean Gould tells Chris about how he fabulously flipped a pancake 399 times in two minutes to become a record-breaker.

Our mystery guest is the 2012 World Cornish Pasty Making Champion, Graham Cornish. That's his real name, and it's a family affair as his sons have won the last two years!!!

Britain's perfect pancake tossing champ Dean Gould tells us about how he fabulously flipped a pancake 399 times in two minutes to become a record-breaker...

And that takes us nicely on to the top tenuous and your desperate claims to the fame of World records....

Today's show is dedicated to anyone who is having to invest in a brand new special pan to cope with the predicted clamour of pancake day later on this afternoon...

And today's show is entitled: We have Shrove Tuesday, which the Americans call Fat Tuesday - to go with their fat Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays!

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Tue 4 Mar 2014 06:30
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Music Played

  • ABBA

    I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do

    • Abba.
    • Polydor.

  • Adele

    Rolling In The Deep

    • (CD Single).
    • XL.
    • 1.

  • The Banana Splits

    The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)

    • Television's Greatest Hits Vol. 5: In Living Color (Various Artists).
    • TVT Records.

  • The Beach Boys

    Good Vibrations

    • Smiley Smile (Stereo Version).
    • EMI.

  • James Blunt

    Wisemen

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Bruce Hornsby & the Range

    The Way It Is

    • Life In The Fast Lane (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • Canned Heat

    Let's Work Together

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1970 (Various).
    • Premier.

  • Roy Castle

    Record Breakers

    • The TV Sets - Episode 3.
    • Music Factory Entertainment Group Ltd..
    • 11.

  • Climax Blues Band

    Couldn't Get It Right

    • Top Gear 3 - Various Artists.
    • Sony.

  • CΓ©line Dion

    Water & A Flame

    • Loved Me Back To Life.
    • Sony Music.
    • 001.

  • The Divine Comedy

    National Express

    • New Hits 99 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.

  • Kian Egan

    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ

    • (CD Single).
    • Rhino.
    • 001.

  • Marvin Gaye

    I Heard It Through The Grapevine

    • Songs Of The Century (Disc 2).
    • Global Records & Tapes.

  • Gotye

    Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra)

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • HAIM

    If I Could Change Your Mind

  • Engelbert Humperdinck & Cliff Richard

    Since I Lost My Baby

    • (CD Single).
    • Cone Head.
    • 001.

  • Elton John

    I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues

    • Diamonds.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Huey Lewis and the News

    Hip To Be Square

    • Greatest Hits Of The 80's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • Madness

    Baggy Trousers

    • More Greatest Hits Of 80's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • Dean Martin & Helen O’Connell

    How D'Ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning?

    • Cool Couples (Various Artists).
    • Sanctuary.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Into The Blue

  • The Mock Turtles

    Can You Dig It?

    • Drivetime 3 (Various Artists).
    • Dino.

  • The Monkees

    I'm A Believer

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

  • Noah and the Whale

    5 Years Time

  • Christina Perri

    Human

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 001.

  • Sly & the Family Stone

    Family Affair

    • Shades Of Soul (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Status Quo

    Down Down

    • Whatever You Want - V.Best Of Status.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • The Sutherland Brothers Band & Quiver

    Arms Of Mary

    • The Greatest Love Of All (Various).
    • Old Gold.

  • Texas

    When We Are Together

    • Texas - The Hush.
    • Mercury.

  • UB40

    Red Red Wine

    • Now 1983 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Rev Ruth Scott, Anglican Vicar in Richmond:

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Back in the 1980’s I was a midwife so you won’t be surprised to hear I enjoy watching Call the Midwife. Usually with a box of tissues at hand! The reaction of new parents to a baby I’d just delivered always brought a tear to my eye. When those arrivals are set in poignant, often painful stories of East End post-war community spirit and struggle I well up very easily. While the basic techniques of delivering a baby remain much the same now as then, advances in maternity care and medical technology and treatment mean that maternal and neonatal mortality rates have improved significantly across the decades. It’s unlikely my daughter, Freya, and possibly myself would have survived had I not had access to an emergency caesarean section when my labour developed complications. As it was Freya was fine, albeit looking like a lump of flaky pastry during her first few days. Apart from the anaesthetic making me a little loopy – apparently my first words as I came round were, β€œHave we had a cow?” – I made a full recovery. Sadly, deaths of mothers and babies remain tragically high in countries where access to trained midwives and well-equipped maternity units are limited.Μύ Vaccinations and immunisations have eradicated the risk of many diseases that Jenny, Trixie, Patsy, Chummy and the Sisters dealt with 60 years ago, but preventable illnesses still wreak havoc elsewhere in the world. So however difficult the ethical dilemmas with which medical advances confront us, I’m deeply thankful for them. We shouldn’t take their benefits for granted, nor fail in our responsibility to make them available to all who need them. Call the Midwife also reminds me of the extraordinary strength of spirit and depth of compassion that people can and do draw on in dire circumstances, often because they themselves have known similar difficulties. And isn’t it wonderful when, in the messiness of human life, we see writ large the profoundly spiritual themes of courage, perseverance, self-sacrifice, and redemptive transforming love.

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