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Charlotte Dujardin

Chris talks about growing potatoes in tyres, and Great Britain's dressage world title-winner Charlotte Dujardin joins the show as today's Mystery Guest.

Little Davina from the Isle of Sheppey tells us all about her very first time at secondary school...

Great Britain's Dressage World Title winner Charlotte Dujardin is today's Mystery Guest...

And our Top Tenuous takes in your desperate claims to the fame of ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4's - The Reunion...

Today's show is dedicated to anyone who has a recognised forgetting position...
And today's show is entitled: well begun is still only half done!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Mon 1 Sep 2014 06:30
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Music Played

  • The Animals

    We Gotta Get Out Of This Place

  • The Beatles

    Hello, Goodbye

    • The Beatles - 1.
    • Apple.
    • 019.

  • The Beatles

    Magical Mystery Tour

    • Magical Mystery Tour.
    • Parlophone.
    • 1.

  • Berlin

    Take My Breath Away

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.

  • James Blunt

    Wisemen

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Buggles

    Video Killed The Radio Star

    • Our Friends Electric (Various Artist.
    • Telstar.

  • Johnny Cash

    Ring Of Fire

    • Johnny Cash - Man In Black.
    • Columbia.

  • Coldplay

    Clocks

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • The Coral

    In The Morning

    • (CD Single).
    • Deltasonic.

  • Daft Punk

    Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Dario G

    Sunchyme

    • Huge Hits 1997 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Deacon Blue

    A New House

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

  • Jimmy Durante

    Make Someone Happy

    • Sleepless In Seattle (Soundtrack-1993.
    • Epic.

  • The Honeycombs

    Have I The Right?

    • 20 Golden Number Ones.
    • MFP.

  • Chrissie Hynde

    Down The Wrong Way

    • Stockholm.
    • Caroline.

  • Jamiroquai

    Virtual Insanity

    • Walk On - Hits From The Last 2 Decade.
    • Columbia.

  • Keane

    Everybody's Changing

    • (CD Single).
    • Transcopic Records.

  • Kenny Loggins

    Danger Zone

    • Top Gun O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • CBS.

  • The Mamas & the Papas

    California Dreamin'

    • The Best Of.
    • MCA.
    • 2.

  • Maroon 5

    Maps

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

  • The Motors

    Airport

    • Fantastic 70's (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Ray Parker Jr.

    Ghostbusters

    • Young at Heart (Various Artists).
    • Reader's Digest.

  • Wilson Pickett

    In The Midnight Hour

  • The Pierces

    Creation

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Scouting for Girls

    I Wish I Was James Bond

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
    • 1.

  • The Script

    Superheroes

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Train

    Angel In Blue Jeans

    • Bulletproof Picasso.
    • Columbia.

  • U2

    Angel Of Harlem

    • U2 - The Best Of 1980-1990.
    • Island.
    • 12.

  • Matthew Wilder

    Break My Stride

    • Love & Pride - A Kick Up The 80's: Vo.
    • Old Gold.

  • Andy Williams

    It's So Easy

    • The Very Best Of Andy Williams.
    • Pickwick.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

With Father Brian D’Arcy, a Catholic Passionist priest


The new school year is an emotional time for parents and pupils alike. For children starting school for the first time this is probably the most exciting event in their lives so far. For parents it is a cruel reminder of how quickly childhood passes.


Commuters like me face a different problem; back to school means more traffic on the roads, as well as a reminder to check the lights on my car now that both the mornings and evenings are closing in.


β€œEducation is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught” was Oscar Wilde’s cynical view of school days.


There’s a modicum of truth in what he says. In school we are taught lessons and then given tests to discover what we learned. In life it’s the other way round – it’s the tests we face in life which teach us the most valuable lessons.


At school I soaked up information but it was the University of Life which completed my education. It was experience which convinced me that the most valuable possessions are not material things we seek and hoard. It’s the gifts I can take with me when life is over that matter most – Love, generosity, faith, hope,Β fulfillment. Β Incidentally the scriptures tell me that as well.


There is a difference between what looks good and being good.Β  Education needs both an enthusiastic teacher and a willing pupil. Teachers can teach only those who are teachable. The world is never made different by indifferent people.


It was a long time before I realised that my toughest lesson was to learn to accept myself as I am.Β  I’m a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I love and I hate, I feel bad about feeling good, I feel guilty about not feeling guilty, I’m good and God loves me no matter what.

In short a good education helps in this world and leads me to the next.

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