Unpleasant Pheasant
Chris's mystery guest is award-winning actor John Lloyd Young and our top tenuous takes us to a story from the papers about an unpleasant pheasant.
Taking centre stage is little 5 year old Grace Ellison who tells us all about her very first time getting a gold medal in a ballet exam...
Award winning actor and Fab Frankie Valli performer - John Lloyd Young from Jersey Boys - joins us to give a memorable performance as our mystery guest....
And it's a standing ovation for our top tenuous, as we pick up from a story in the papers about an unpleasant pheasant, and ask for your desperate claims to the fame of pheasants!
Today's show is dedicated to anyone who has recently celebrated not buying something...
And today's show is entitled: everyone wants happiness, no one wants pain, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.
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The Banana Splits
The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)
- Television's Greatest Hits Vol. 5: In Living Color (Various Artists).
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Gary Barlow
Since I Saw You Last
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Crazy in Love (feat. JAY-Z)
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James Blunt
Heart to Heart
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Boyzone
Who We Are
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Michael Bublé
To Love Somebody
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Jake Bugg
Lightning Bolt
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Chic
Le Freak
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Coldplay
Fix You
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Dion
The Wanderer
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Fleetwood Mac
Never Going Back Again
- Fleetwood Mac - Rumours.
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The Hoosiers
Goodbye Mr A
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Incognito
Always There (feat. Jocelyn Brown)
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Michael Jackson
Rockin' Robin
- The Best Michael Jackson & Jackson Fi.
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Lenny Kravitz
Are You Gonna Go My Way
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Lynyrd Skynyrd
Free Bird
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Dean Martin & Helen O’Connell
How D'Ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning?
- Cool Couples (Various Artists).
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Paul McCartney
Save Us
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OMC
How Bizarre
- Now 34 (Various Artists).
- Now.
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Original Broadway Cast of Jersey Boys
Beggin (Original Broadway Cast)
- The Jersey Boys Original Broadway Cast Recording.
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Christina Perri
Human
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Gregory Porter
Hey Laura
- Liquid Spirit.
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Prince & The Revolution
Purple Rain
- The Love Songs Album (Various).
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The Real Thing
You To Me Are Everything
- In The Summertime-Sound Of 70's, Part.
- Old Gold.
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Rod Stewart
Baby Jane
- The Best Of Rod Stewart.
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They Might Be Giants
Birdhouse In Your Soul
- Snap It Up! (Various Artists).
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The Turtles
Happy Together
- Heartbeat - The 60's Gold Collection.
- Global Television.
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Voice of the Beehive
Don't Call Me Baby
- Now 12 (Various Artists).
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Wilson Phillips
Hold On
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- Global Television.
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Bill Withers
Lean On Me
- Nightlife II (Various Artists).
- Solitaire Collection.
Pause for Thought
From Julia Neuberger, Senior Rabbi at the west London Synagogue:
I’ve just come back from visiting the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam. Now, Holland was a wonderful country for Jews fleeing the Spanish Inquisition. Amsterdam was a hugely tolerant place in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and Jews became traders and printers, doctors and lawyers. They built magnificent synagogues, and the general atmosphere was one of generosity. Roll forward to the end of the nineteenth century, and many more Jews, desperately poor and persecuted, reached the Netherlands from Russia and Poland, escaping pogroms. In 1940 the Nazis invaded. Dutch Jews were deported in large numbers, and most were murdered. The museum contains short accounts from people who returned from the concentration camps. Many stayed in Holland and tried to rebuild their lives. But many left- for Israel or for the United States- because they could not face their neighbours, and, as we were told on Saturday night by someone who had stayed on with his family as a small child, because their neighbours could not face them. The neighbours had all too often done nothing to help. The same city where brave people sheltered Anne Frank and her family, and many others, also housed people who betrayed their neighbours, and looted their houses. We often talk of how hard it is to forgive. On Saturday night we heard that in many cases the people concerned did forgive- a small percentage of Dutch Jews had at least survived- but they could neither forget nor rebuild trust. We often hear how trust in our doctors, our politicians is at an all-time low. But imagine being people who, after their experiences, couldn’t ever trust their neighbours again. ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself’, the Bible teaches us, which means treating your neighbours as you’d expect to be treated. But sometimes the neighbours don’t behave as they should. So that Biblical message isn’t just some obvious moral truism. It’s telling us life isn’t always like that, but our duty is to make a supreme effort to be neighbourly in its true sense, and be the protectors, not the looters, so we can always face each other, neighbour to neighbour, with affection and respect.
Broadcast
- Tue 25 Mar 2014 06:30Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2
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.