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Internet Icon Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Chris dedicates the show to Sir Tim Berners-Lee on the 25th anniversary of his idea for the internet.

On the subject of internet icon Sir Tim Berners-Lee, we talk to cloud computing expert and Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Dragons' Den Investor, Piers Linney who tries to explain the difference between the internet and the world wide web...

And the experts keep on coming, as we catch up with Sleep School sensation Dr Guy Meadows...who pulls back the sheets to reveal why you should keep your mobile out of the bedroom.

We get a dose of full fat facts on the mastery of milking as we talk to our mystery guest... Head of Food Innovation at Reaseheath College, Toni-Anne Harrison...

And that takes us on to the udderly-brilliant top tenuous and your desperate claims to the fame of milk!

Today's show is dedicated to Sir Tim Berner's-Lee who submitted an idea for something called the internet 25 years ago today...

And today's show is entitled: how this modest genius has changed the world with his paper, which was entitled 'Information Management. A proposal'.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Wed 12 Mar 2014 06:30
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Music Played

  • Billy Bragg

    The Milkman of Human Kindness

    • Go Discs.

  • Cast of Out On The Town

    New York New York

  • The Chordettes

    Mister Sandman

    • Christmas Memories Are Made Of This.
    • Virgin.

  • Elvis Costello & The Attractions

    Accidents Will Happen

    • Elvis Costello & Attractions- The Man.
    • Imp Records.
    • 4.

  • Dr. Feelgood

    Milk And Alcohol

    • Greatest Hits Of The 70's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    All Over The World

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.

  • Herman’s Hermits

    No Milk Today

    • The Hits Of 1966 (Various Artists).
    • MFP.

  • Benny Hill

    Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West)

    • Chegger's Choice (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Pee Wee Hunt

    Twelfth Street Rag

    • Top 20 Hits USA - 1948.
    • EMI.

  • Kelis

    Milkshake

    • Virgin.

  • Nik Kershaw

    Wouldn't It Be Good

    • Now 1984 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • The Kinks

    Waterloo Sunset

    • The Journey - Part 1.
    • BMG.
    • 13.

  • Kraftwerk

    Computer Love

  • Kula Shaker

    Hush

    • Kula Shaker - Kollected: The Best Of.
    • Columbia.

  • John Legend

    All Of Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • John Lennon

    Nobody Told Me

    • GIMME SOME TRUTH. (Deluxe).
    • Calderstone.

  • Paul McCartney & Wings

    Live And Let Die

    • The 7" Singles Box.
    • MPL.

  • George Michael

    Let Her Down Easy

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Into The Blue

  • Paolo Nutini

    Scream (Funk My Life Up)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Brad Paisley

    The Mona Lisa

    • Wheelhouse.
    • Arista.
    • 001.

  • R.E.M.

    Losing My Religion

    • R.E.M. - Out Of Time.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band

    Born To Run

  • Starship

    We Built This City

    • Now 1985 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 1.

  • Strawbs

    Part Of The Union

    • Bursting At The Seams.
    • A&M.

  • Texas

    Halo

    • Texas - The Greatest Hits.
    • Mercury.

  • U2

    Invisible

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

  • The Walker Brothers

    No Regrets

    • Best Of Scott Walker & The Walker Bro.
    • Fontana.

  • Jackie Wilson

    (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher

    • Midnight Soul (Various Artists).
    • Music Club.

  • Amy Winehouse

    Tears Dry On Their Own

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From: Nick Baines, Bishop of Bradford

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You know what it's like when you keep telling people some story about when you were younger, but after a while you begin to wonder if it every really happened? I have to admit that as I get older this does happen a bit.

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One of my abiding memories of secondary school - a big comprehensive in Liverpool - was an English teacher called Mr Burrows passing a school exercise book around the class one day when I was about fourteen or fifteen. We just glanced at it, flipped the pages and passed it on. Old Mr Burrows kept telling us to keep scribbling, keep writing things down, keep doodling, keep being creative. I think we were just bored teenagers.

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The reason it has stuck in my memory is that the book he passed round had belonged to John Lennon and was full of his scribblings. Mr Burrows had taught him English.

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Now, I think I started to doubt whether this ever happened simply because nobody really believed me. But, then I read an epic biography of John Lennon and there it was in black and white. All true.

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Of course, now I wish I'd paid more attention. Or, at least, nicked the book. But, Mr Burrows' point was well made and I never forgot it. Being creative is something some of us have to practise - it sort of doesn't come naturally.

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And yet, we are born to be creative. This is partly what is meant way back in the book of Genesis in the Bible when, in that great poetic account of what made human beings be human, it says that we are "made in the image of God" - who can't help creating and to loving what is created.

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This actually lies at the heart of a Christian response to things like the disappearance of the Malaysian aircraft and the human tragedy of it all. Every person matters because they are made this way and loved infinitely for no other reason.

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So, I am with John Lennon and Mr Burrows. Keep on doodling. We're made for it.

Broadcast

  • Wed 12 Mar 2014 06:30
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