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Polls and Spin-offs

Little Daniel Grey tells us all about being a Viking at the Yorkshire Museum of Farming...
Super statistician and president of YouGov Peter Kellner sets out the truth behind polls...
Chris Packham tells us what wasps are good for...
And today's Top Tenuous uncovers your links to TV's great spinoffs!

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Tue 9 Sep 2014 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • AC/DC

    Back In Black

    • Back In Black.
    • Epic.
    • 6.

  • Alice Cooper

    Elected

    • The Best Glam Rock Album In The World...Ever! (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Augustines

    Weary Eyes

    • (CD Single).
    • Caroline.

  • Bad Company

    Feel Like Makin' Love

    • (Single).
    • Island.
    • 3.

  • 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.

  • Bananarama & Fun Boy Three

    Really Saying Something

    • Bananarama - Deep Sea Skiving.
    • London.

  • The Beautiful South

    Song For Whoever

    • Beautiful South - Carry On Up The Cha.
    • Go! Discs.

  • Andy Burrows

    As Good As Gone

    • Fall Together Again.
    • Play It Again Sam UK.
    • 001.

  • Buzzcocks

    Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)

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

  • Petula Clark

    Don't Sleep In The Subway

    • Million Sellers Vol.6 - The Sixties.
    • Disky.

  • Petula Clark

    Downtown

    • The Ivor Novello Winners.
    • EMI.

  • Elbow

    One Day Like This

    • (CD Single).
    • Fiction.
    • 1.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Rockaria!

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

  • Shaun Escoffery

    Nature's Call

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

  • Fun Boy Three

    Our Lips Are Sealed

    • Now 1983 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • The Go鈥怗o鈥檚

    Our Lips Are Sealed

    • Go-Go's - Greatest.
    • Irs.

  • Kings of Leon

    Use Somebody

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.
    • 2.

  • The Kooks

    She Moves In Her Own Way

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • Lipps, Inc.

    Funkytown

    • And They Danced All Night.
    • Debutante.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    Futurology

    • Futurology.
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Dean Martin & Helen O鈥機onnell

    How D'Ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning?

    • Cool Couples (Various Artists).
    • Sanctuary.

  • Mike + the Mechanics

    Over My Shoulder

    • Mike & The Mechanics Hits.
    • Virgin.

  • Pink Floyd

    Wish You Were Here

    • Echoes - The Best Of Pink Floyd.
    • EMI.

  • Iggy Pop

    Real Wild Child (Wild One)

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1987, Pt.2 (Var).
    • Telstar.

  • Gregory Porter

    The In Crowd

    • Liquid Spirit.
    • Decca.

  • Mike Post

    Hill Street Blues Theme

    • 100 Greatest TV Themes.
    • EMI.

  • The Script

    Superheroes

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Paul Simon

    Graceland

    • The Paul Simon Anthology (Disc 2).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 1.

  • Thin Lizzy

    The Boys Are Back In Town

    • (Single).
    • Vertigo.
    • 10.

  • The Who

    I Can't Explain

    • The Who Hits 50! (Deluxe Edition).
    • Polydor.
    • 002.

Pause for Thought

From Vicky Beeching Theologian, Writer and Broadcaster:

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Every year in America a unique competition takes place. It鈥檚 organized by a magazine called Vetinary Practice News. They ask vets from across the country to send in X-rays of the strangest things pets have swallowed that year.

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The winners of the 2014 鈥淭hey Ate What?!鈥� competition have been announced. First prize went to a frog named Kermit. His owner had decorated the tank with ornamental rocks. But rather than looking at their beauty, Kermit decided to swallow them 鈥� and not just one, but over 30. Thankfully after surgery he hopped away to a full recovery.

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One runner-up prize went to a Great Dane who loved eating socks. This habit made him very ill, but no one was prepared for just how many socks he鈥檇 swallowed: the grand total was 43 and a half.

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Reading about this made me wonder whether all my missing socks have been eaten by dogs over the years, as I rarely seem able to find a matching pair. It also made me think about deeper themes like discipline and self control.

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These aren鈥檛 very trendy concepts; the opposite is painted as the ultimate lifestyle 鈥� that we鈥檒l be happy if we can do whatever we please. But often that boundary-less life is as harmful for us as Kermit鈥檚 rock eating marathon, or the Great Dane with huge ball of socks in his stomach.

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In the Bible St Paul used what 2000 years on still sounds like a useful analogy. As he put it: 鈥淎thletes exercise self control and in all things in order to win the prize鈥�. Most of us aren鈥檛 athletes - I鈥檓 certainly not - but most of us do have goals and dreams we鈥檇 love to reach. Often what holds us back is discipline that鈥檚 tough to commit to or habits that seem to tough too break.

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The author H. Jackson Brown, Jr. expressed it brilliantly: 鈥淭alent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There鈥檚 plenty of movement, but you never know if it鈥檚 going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.鈥� Discipline may sound like an unpleasant word, but it鈥檚 the magic ingredient to turn distant goals into reachable realities.

Broadcast

  • Tue 9 Sep 2014 06:30
    麻豆约拍 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

麻豆约拍 Radio 2's story-writing competition for kids.