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Chris Evans goes potty for props and looks at coverage of Beyonce in the papers.

We go potty for props... and get celebrity savy with Beyonce in the papers!

Outstanding Oliver shares his-s-s-s special snake news and is serenaded with our Fanfare.

Our gallant groundsman mystery guest, Alan Ferguson sheds light on magical mowing and pristine pitches!

Today's show is dedicated to anyone who regularly exchanges the odd wave with someone they don't really know... (We've all be there!)

Today's show is entitled "It's not about the wine yous erve, but the company you offer!".

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Music Played

  • The Beach Boys

    Wouldn't It Be Nice

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

  • The Beatles

    Twist and Shout

    • Please Please Me.
    • Parlophone.
    • 14.

  • Blur

    Coffee & TV

    • Now 43 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Buggles

    Video Killed The Radio Star

    • Our Friends Electric (Various Artist.
    • Telstar.

  • Roy Castle

    Record Breakers

    • The TV Sets - Episode 3.
    • Music Factory Entertainment Group Ltd..
    • 11.

  • Cher

    Love & Understanding

    • (CD Single).
    • Geffen.

  • Petula Clark

    The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Universal.
    • 1.

  • Julian Cope

    World Shut Your Mouth

    • Now 1986 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.

  • Dodgy

    Good Enough

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 34 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Bob Dylan

    Knockin' On Heaven's Door

    • The Best Of Bob Dylan.
    • Columbia.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Rock 'n' Roll Is King (Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park 2014)

  • Embrace

    Gravity

    • (CD Single).
    • Independiente.

  • The Feeling

    Love It When You Call

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal.

  • Sterling Holloway

    Trust in Me

  • Brian Hyland

    Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka-dot Bikini

    • NFM.

  • INXS

    New Sensation

    • INXS - Kick.
    • Mercury.

  • Michael Jackson

    Thriller

    • Thriller 25th Anniversary Edition.
    • Epic.

  • Kaiser Chiefs

    My Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Fiction.

  • Lenny Kravitz

    The Chamber

    • Strut.
    • Roxie Records.

  • Gregory Porter

    The In Crowd

    • Liquid Spirit.
    • Decca.

  • Queen

    We Will Rock You

    • News Of The World.
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • Scritti Politti

    Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)

    • Now 1984 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.

  • Taylor Swift

    Shake It Off

    • (CD Single).
    • Big Machine.
    • 1.

  • The Teardrop Explodes

    Reward

    • The Teardrop Explodes - Greatest Hits.
    • Mercury.

  • Meghan Trainor

    All About That Bass

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

  • U2

    The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)

    • Songs Of Innocence.
    • Island.

  • Voice of the Beehive

    Don't Call Me Baby

    • Now 12 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Dennis Waterman

    I Could Be So Good For You

    • Drivetime 3 (Various Artists).
    • Dino.

  • Meri Wilson

    Telephone Man

    • Have A Nice Day Vol.21.
    • Rhino.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Julia Neuberger, Senior Rabbi at the West London Synagogue

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We celebrated our 41st wedding anniversary yesterday, which means we’re getting on in years. And it made me think, as we looked back, of that wonderful poem by Laurence Binyon, ‘The Fallen’, written because he was so upset by the huge number of casualties at the beginning of World War I. Next Sunday marks 100 years since The Times first published it, and most of us will have heard it at a Remembrance Day service or seen it on war memorials worldwide:

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‘They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.

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Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

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ÌýAt the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.’

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Those lines remind us all too clearly of the benefits of the life we’ve had- many years undisturbed by being called up to fight. Binyon himself was too old to fight, so he volunteered as a Red Cross Orderly instead and went to the Western Front in 1915. A Quaker, he might have been a conscientious objector. In fact, he was anything but. He survived the war, lived a normal life afterwards, and his three daughters grew old in their turn, and could look back over the years, unlike the men he wrote about.

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This Saturday night in our synagogues, we hold a service for the start of the penitential season. Though the prayers mainly ask for forgiveness, there is a theme, repeated throughout the High Holy Days, of being inscribed by God into the Book of Life for another year. Of course it’s not to be taken literally. But it’s about looking back over the past year and looking forward to the next, having tried to do better than before. Those men Laurence Binyon wrote about never had the chance to look back or forward. So, as we say our prayers on Saturday night, and throughout the High Holy Days in this centenary year after World War I, I will be remembering them, for their sacrifice, of course, but also for the opportunities they never had, the reflection they never managed. May they rest in peace.

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