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Chris talks about the inner chimp with our Mystery Guest, Dr Steve Peters, who is the brilliant brain behind the book - The Chimp Paradox.

Budding broadcaster Alice Lilley gets a fanfare for telling us all about her very first time presenting at her school radio club...

We delve deeper into the amazing world of Ospreys with the RSPB's Gemma Hogg, then swap tweeting for chimping with our Mystery Guest, Dr. Steve Peters, who is the brilliant brain behind the book - The Chimp Paradox...

And our Top Tenuous deals with your desperate claims to the fame of chimps!

Today's show is dedicated to Stanley Turner, the bravest little boy we know,

And today's show is entitled: if it's not terminal or illegal, it's fixable!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Tue 29 Apr 2014 06:30
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Music Played

  • 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

    Wouldn't It Be Nice

    • The Best Of The Beach Boys (CD 1).
    • EMI.
    • 3.

  • Black Eyed Peas

    Where Is The Love?

    • Now 56 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Bon Jovi

    You Give Love A Bad Name

    • Slippery When Wet.
    • Mercury.
    • 2.

  • Paul Carrack

    I'm Losing You

    • (CD Single).
    • Carrack-UK.
    • 001.

  • Johnny Cash

    A Thing Called Love

    • Country Moods (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • The Corrs

    Breathless

    • (CD Single).
    • 143 Records.

  • Dire Straits

    Sultans Of Swing

    • (Single).
    • Vertigo.
    • 5.

  • The Drifters

    Saturday Night At The Movies

    • Very Best Of Ben E.King & The Drifters.
    • Global Television.

  • Paloma Faith

    Only Love Can Hurt Like This

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.
    • 004.

  • The Goons

    The Ying Tong Song

  • The Goons

    The Ying Tong Song

  • Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

    D.I.Y.

    • What Have We Become.
    • Virgin EMI.
    • 001.

  • The Housemartins

    Happy Hour

  • Elton John

    I'm Still Standing

    • Diamonds.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • KC and the Sunshine Band

    That's the Way (I Like It)

    • Disco Fever (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • The Kinks

    Apeman

    • The Kinks - The Definitive Collection.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Manfred Mann

    Oh No Not My Baby

    • Ages Of Mann.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Dean Martin & Helen O’Connell

    How D'Ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning?

    • Cool Couples (Various Artists).
    • Sanctuary.

  • Kylie Minogue

    I Was Gonna Cancel

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
    • 003.

  • The Mock Turtles

    Can You Dig It?

    • Drivetime 3 (Various Artists).
    • Dino.

  • Rita Ora

    I Will Never Let You Down

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Gerry Rafferty

    Baker Street

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

  • Rodriguez

    Sugar Man

    • Sugarman.
    • Mercury.
    • 1.

  • Roxette

    Joyride

  • Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs

    Wooly Bully

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1965.
    • Premier.

  • Lisa Stansfield

    So Be It

    • (CD Single).
    • Edel.
    • 001.

  • Status Quo

    Whatever You Want

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Rod Stewart

    The Killing Of Georgie, Part I and II

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Toots & The Maytals

    Monkey Man

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

  • The Trashmen

    Surfin' Bird

    • Surfin' Hits.
    • Rhino.
    • 7.

  • Paul Young

    Everytime You Go Away

    • Paul Young - From Time To Time.
    • Columbia.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Rabbi Pete Tobias of the Liberal Synagogue, Elstree:

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Many of us are still reeling from yesterday's awful news of a teacher being stabbed to death by a pupil. According to reports and quotes from pupils at the Corpus Christi school in Leeds, Anne Maguire, who had taught at the school for 40 years, was greatly loved, a friend to everyone. One ex-pupil said 'she was a hugger, back in the days when you didn't get in trouble for that sort of thing.’ Many who came to pay tribute to her described her as a 'mother-figure'.

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Schools are an integral part of our formative years. Many of us, I am sure, have a memory of a favourite teacher who inspired or guided us at critical stages of our lives. And even those who, perhaps, don't stand out in our memories were also responsible for helping to make us the people we have become.

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The idea of a teacher as a parent figure is one with which I am familiar. Several times during my teaching career children have inadvertently referred to me as 'dad'. I took it as a compliment but gently reminded them who I actually was.

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I left teaching almost 30 years ago to become a rabbi. Although the word 'rabbi' actually means 'teacher', there are still elements of teaching in schools that I miss. Not the record keeping and the paperwork, that's for sure. But there are so many wonderful things that go on in schools, thanks to teachers who dedicate their lives to children's well-being. Education is about so much more than teaching children information. It's about nurturing them and preparing them for life.

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One of my favourite memories from 35 years ago is a card I received from a boy called Darren at the end of the school year. He wrote in it: 'Dear Sir, Thank you for being my friend.'

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Anne Maguire was a mother figure, a friend to so many young people for four decades. Her death is shocking, and the world of education is poorer both because she is no longer in it and because of the way she was taken from it. If there is a way to honour her memory and give some kind of positive meaning to this horrific event, let it be that teachers are valued and respected by all those whose lives they affect.

Broadcast

  • Tue 29 Apr 2014 06:30
    Â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.