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Chris is joined by Netmum co-founder Siobhan Freegard and Bitcoin boffin Professor Jem Bendell. Plus, Horrible Histories author Terry Deary joins us as part of World Book Day.

As it's World Book Day, Horrible Histories author Terry Deary joins us for a special On This Day...

Little Samuel tells us about his very time playing hockey for his school and scoring 8 goals along the way!

Our Mystery Guest is Bitcoin Boffin 'Professor Jem Bendell'....

And our top tenuous is your desperate claims to the fame of real-life Capones!

Today's show is dedicated to all Jeff's as we sit here on the eve of the first ever National Jeff Day...

And, today's show is entitled: that's because tomorrow we have double Jeffordy on the breakfast show when both Jeff Lynne and Jeff Beck join us LIVE !!!

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Music Played

  • Badfinger

    Baby Blue

    • Straight Up.
    • Apple.

  • Zac Brown Band

    All Alright

    • (CD Single).
    • Southern Ground Artists.
    • 001.

  • Jake Bugg

    Lightning Bolt

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

  • Chic

    Good Times

    • The Last Days Of Disco (Film Soundtra.
    • Columbia.

  • The Cure

    Boys Don't Cry

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

  • Dexys Midnight Runners

    Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When you Smile

    • Very Best Of Dexy's Midnight Runners.
    • Mercury.

  • Céline Dion

    Water & A Flame

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

  • Elbow

    New York Morning

    • The Take Off & Landing Of Everything.
    • Fiction.
    • 001.

  • The Flying Lizards

    Money

    • Hard 2 Get Hits - Various Artists.
    • Disky.

  • Engelbert Humperdinck & Cliff Richard

    Since I Lost My Baby

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

  • Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey

    I Keep It To Myself

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal.
    • 001.

  • Tom Jones

    She's A Lady

    • Take A Break (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Into The Blue

  • Elvis Presley

    Welcome To My World

    • The King.
    • RCA.

  • Prince Buster & The All Stars

    Al Capone

    • Young Gifted & Black (Various).
    • Trojan.

  • Marty Robbins

    El Paso

    • 25 Years Of Rock `n' Roll - 1960.
    • Connoisseur Collection.

  • The Rolling Stones

    Paint It Black

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.

  • Rose Royce

    Car Wash

    • Now 12 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Santana

    Smooth (feat. Rob Thomas)

    • (CD Single).
    • Arista.

  • Scissor Sisters

    Laura

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Patti Smith Group

    Because the Night

    • Rock Of America (Various Artists).
    • Trax Label.

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Just Like Fire Would

    • High Hopes.
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Steely Dan

    Rikki Don't Lose That Number

    • A Decade Of Steely Dan.
    • MCA.

  • Stereophonics

    Have a Nice Day

    • Now 49 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Betty Wright

    Clean Up Woman

    • Night Moves (Various Artists).
    • Double Gold.

  • XTC

    Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me)

    • XTC - Compact XTC:The Singles 1978-85.
    • Virgin.

  • The Yardbirds

    Heart Full Of Soul

    • Million Sellers Vol.11 - The Sixties.
    • Disky.

  • Yazoo

    Don't Go

    • Electronic 80's (Various Artists).
    • EMM.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

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

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We recently found some old videos that our children had made when they were small. The movies are a wonderful narrative on their young life, as they were created carefree with no adult supervision. There are re-enactments of Disney movies, of singing and dancing, short plays they had made up themselves, with hilarious commentary from whoever was filming.

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I am grateful that I obviously gave them so much unsupervised play time, as their own creativity is fantastic and far more engaging than anything I could have produced or directed. However there is one film I appear in, and the me of ten years ago really annoys the me of today.

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The film starts with piano playing, before switching to a rendition of "You've Got to Move it Move it" from the film Madagascar with an accompanying dance by my son and nephew. My daughter is filming and a wonderful commentary can be heard as she goes about capturing home life. She starts walking up the stairs in search of more material when she bumps into me. I look at her, and without missing a beat, or enquiring what she is filming, say to her, "Don't waste the battery my love" and she switches the camera off!

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I want to scream at me "Nooooo! What are you doing?!" But I can't, and the recording ends without me knowing what other joyous things she would have discovered.

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That incident did not – thankfully – end their film making, as we have many more clips that follow, but it was such a pompous interjection that I now cringe!

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If I could go back to that me on the stairs I'd tell myself - "Don't Ìýstress about the small stuff. It's not worth it. Don't always be practical. Well done on providing them space and a camera, but heh! If you're worried about the battery – then buy them a second one, because Ìýthese are geniuses at work here! Enjoy these years, they'll be gone in a flash."

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But I cannot go back.

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What I can do however is imagine myself ten years from now, and try and capture the advice I would give the me of today. ÌýAnd I have a feeling I would be saying, "Don't Ìýstress about the small stuff. It's not worth it. Enjoy these years, they'll be gone in a flash."

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