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Scaling Heights with Alex Jones

Chris chats to Alex Jones about her challenge, climbing Moonlight Buttress in Utah for Sport Relief.

Little Evelyn spreads some warmth when she sings a bit of the Bare Necessities; a song she performed for the very first time at the Grantham Music Festival. She was so good we invited her back for an encore....

Things go a little chilled with our mystery guest who's on hand to help with some defrosting difficulties, she is one of the UK's leading food safety experts, it's Dr. Lisa Ackerley!

Alex Jones goes hot and cold when she tells us about taking to the Shard in preparation for her HUGE challenge climbing Utah's
Moonlight Buttress for Sport Relief...

And that leads us on to the challenge of the top tenuous and your desperate claims to famous climbers, Alex included!

Today's show is dedicated to anyone who woke up early but felt like they'd been asleep all night and then went back to sleep all night only to wake up feeling like they'd just gone to bed.

And today's show is entitled: Little madness keeps you sane!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Music Played

  • 10cc

    Good Morning Judge

    • The Very Best Of 10cc.
    • Mercury.

  • Paul Anka

    Diana

    • Paul Anka - The Greatest Hits Collect.
    • Telstar.

  • 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.

  • David Bowie

    Heroes

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Marlon Brando

    Luck Be A Lady Tonight

    • Brunswick.

  • Michael BublΓ©

    To Love Somebody

    • To Be Loved.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 001.

  • The Communards

    Don't Leave Me This Way (feat. Sarah Jane Morris)

    • Now 1986 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Cranberries

    Linger

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

  • Sammy Davis Jr.

    Gonna Build A Mountain

  • Duran Duran

    Hungry Like The Wolf

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

  • Elbow

    New York Morning

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

  • Sophie Ellis‐Bextor

    Runaway Daydreamer

    • (CD Single).
    • EBGB's.
    • 001.

  • Embrace

    Nature's Law

    • (CD Single).
    • Independiente.

  • Fairport Convention

    MEET ON THE LEDGE

    • ISLAND.

  • The Flaming Lips

    Do You Realize??

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Engelbert Humperdinck & Cliff Richard

    Since I Lost My Baby

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

  • Madonna

    Vogue

    • Finally Enough Love (Deluxe Edition).
    • Rhino.

  • The Maisonettes

    Heartache Avenue

    • History Of The 80's (Various Artists).
    • Br Music.

  • Dean Martin & Helen O’Connell

    How D'Ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning?

    • Cool Couples (Various Artists).
    • Sanctuary.

  • Bobby McFerrin

    Don't Worry, Be Happy

    • Now 13, Part 1 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakey

    Together In Electric Dreams

    • Our Friends Electric (Various Artists.
    • Telstar.

  • OutKast

    Hey Ya!

    • Outkast - Speakerboxxx.
    • Arista.

  • The Pierces

    Believe In Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • Lou Reed

    Walk On The Wild Side

    • Lou Reed - NYC Man.
    • BMG.

  • T. Rex

    Get It On

    • Million Sellers Vol.19 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • The Troggs

    Wild Thing

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1966.
    • Premier.

  • Barry White

    You're the First, the Last, My Everything

    • Barry White - The Collection.
    • Mercury.

  • Robbie Williams

    Shine My Shoes

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

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Rev Ruth Scott, Anglican Vicar in Richmond:

Μύ

Recently, I was in Belfast visiting the wonderful East Belfast Mission in Newtownnards Road. While I was there I heard several people expressing a sense of helplessness in the face of present increased tensions: How can they move forward into a better future when the past, in terms of divisive stories and unresolved fears and injustices, makes working things out in the present so difficult to do?Μύ As one person put it, β€œWe knew how to end the conflict, but we don’t know how to build the peace.” Getting into conflict is often so much easier, not to say speedier, than getting to grips with its legacy. Think of the people in the Ukraine. I wonder how many of them realised how quickly they’d progress from street protests to the brink of civil and international war. If we consider the way we deal with daily conflicts in our own lives most of us will have a sense of how hard it is to sort out these less far-reaching fallouts, let alone address the greater impact of civil strife. In the film, β€˜The Life of Brian’, a listener thinks Jesus says β€œBlessed are the cheese-makers,” when in fact he’s saying one of the most often quoted beatitudes, β€œBlessed are the peacemakers.”? The sentimental image of a peacemaker is of a calm, wise person who goes in and sorts out other people’s problems. In reality, the crucial peacemakers are those who have created the conflict in the first place. Unless they’re willing to change things there are limits to what anyone else can do. It’s a startling thought that those responsible for what’s gone wrong play a vital role in putting things right, and may not be the people we’d choose to bless. Then again, as my friends in Northern Ireland know, when it comes to conflict so many of our expectations are turned upside down. With that in mind, we shouldn’t be surprised to find unexpected people paving the way of peace.

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