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Borrowing Boyfriends

Chris Evans chats to Mariella Frostrup about borrowing boyfriends and ponders the best collective nouns... A flange of baboons?

It's mid-week mayhem as Chris chats to Mariella Frostrup about borrowing boyfriends, plus he ponders the best collective nouns...flange of baboons anyone?

Our Mystery Guest knows more about muscles than Arnold Schwarzenegger, except his expertise actually refers to the seafood type - it's Dave Bartram, aka The Cockle Man, who has been selling seafood from his basket in Nottingham pubs for 50 years!

The Top Tenuous takes in your desperate claims to the fame of your best friends, boyfriends or husbands, and the wonderful Rabbi Pete Tobias Pauses For Thought...

Today's show is dedicated to anyone who is on a roll...
And today's show is entitled "It's often not about the roll you're on, but where the roll you're on gets you to once it's gone.".

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Wed 20 Aug 2014 06:30
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Music Played

  • 10cc

    Dreadlock Holiday

    • The Very Best Of 10cc.
    • Mercury.
    • 15.

  • Julie Andrews

    The Lonely Goatherd

    • The Sound Of Music.
    • Sony.
    • 9.

  • Belle and Sebastian

    I'm a Cuckoo

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • David Bowie

    The Jean Genie

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Deacon Blue

    A New House

    • (CD Single).
    • Medium Wave.
    • 1.

  • Eliza Doolittle

    Pack Up

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • Shaun Escoffery

    Nature's Call

    • Nature's Call.
    • Dome Records.
    • 001.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Little Lies

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 007.

  • Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

    D.I.Y.

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

  • Frank Ifield

    She Taught Me How To Yodel

  • Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

    I Love Rock 'n' Roll

    • Joan Jett - I Love Rock 'n' Roll.
    • Blackheart.

  • Howard Jones

    New Song

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Parlophone.

  • The Kinks

    All Day And All Of The Night

    • The Journey - Part 1.
    • BMG.
    • 23.

  • The Kinks

    You Really Got Me

    • The Journey - Part 1.
    • BMG.
    • 7.

  • Lenny Kravitz

    California

    • Lenny Kravitz - Baptism.
    • Parlophone.

  • Mamas Gun

    Red Cassette

    • (CD Single).
    • Candelion.

  • McFadden & Whitehead

    Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now

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

  • Prefab Sprout

    The King of Rock 'N' Roll

    • Hits Album 8, Part 2 (Various Artist.
    • Hits Album.

  • Elvis Presley

    Always On My Mind

    • Presley - The All Time Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.

  • Queen

    Fat Bottomed Girls

    • Queen - Greatest Hits.
    • Parlophone.

  • The Rembrandts

    I'll Be There For You

    • The Love Songs Album (Various).
    • Universal.

  • The Script

    Superheroes

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Simple Minds

    Waterfront

    • Glittering Prize - Best Of Simple Min.
    • Virgin.

  • Sam Smith

    I'm Not The Only One

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.
    • 5.

  • Starship

    We Built This City

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

  • Status Quo

    Paper Plane

    • Whatever You Want - V.Best Of Status.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Sweet

    Block Buster!

    • Blockbuster! Sensational 70's (Va).
    • Castle.

  • Grover Washington, Jr. & Bill Withers

    Just The Two Of Us

    • Grover Washington Jr: In The Name Of Love - The Elektra Years (1979-1984).
    • SoulMusic Records.

  • Paul Weller

    That Dangerous Age

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • Slim Whitman

    Rose Marie

    • Rose Marie.
    • Bear Family.
    • 4.

  • Within Temptation & Dave Pirner

    Whole World Is Watching

    • (CD Single).
    • Dramatico.
    • 2.

  • John Paul Young

    Love Is In The Air

    • 20 Songs Of Love From The 70's (Vario.
    • MFP.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Rabbi Pete Tobias of the Liberal Synagogue, Elstree

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A few days ago I flew back from Prague to the UK. On the flight were two very young girls, aged perhaps 7 and 4. They travelled alone, as unaccompanied minors. The younger one chatted incessantly to the amusement of those around her and the airline staff charged with her care, while her older sister sat calmly, holding her sister's hand while she whimpered quietly during landing.

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The voice of the younger one could still be heard resounding around Heathrow as I went through passport control, where a machine recognised my nationality and granted me entry to my home.

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How remarkable, I thought, that this young child could be so trusting as to talk so cheerfully to anyone, and that she and her sister could be safely delivered over a thousand miles in the company of caring strangers.

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And how tragic that the world which will one day be theirs is so bereft of trust, is so filled with distinctions and divisions that lead to enmity and hatred. Like the airline staff on that flight, we must accept our responsibility for the vulnerable of our world, and repay their unwavering faith in us by seeing them safely through their childhood years with that trust intact, delivering them into a future built not on fear and hate, but on hope and love.

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There is a quote in the Liberal Jewish prayerbook from Pablo Casals, the famous Spanish cellist. He says: ‘We should say to each of our children: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the world there is no other child exactly like you… And when you grow up, can you harm another who is, like you, a marvel?’ Casals ends by saying: ‘You must work – we must all work – to make this world worthy of its children.’

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  • Wed 20 Aug 2014 06:30
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After eight years of hosting the Breakfast Show, Chris Evans leaves Radio 2.

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