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With Chris preparing for a date night watching Miss Saigon with Mrs Evans, the Top Tenuous takes in listeners' desperate claims to the fame of that very musical.

Little Harry in Essex gets today's fanfare for telling us how he came first sailing single-handedly in his Turtles costume...

Our Mystery Guest was the ventriloquist behind the popular TV puppet Nookie Bear, Roger De Courcey...

As Chris prepares for a date night with Mrs Evans to see the show Miss Saigon, the Top Tenuous takes in your desperate claims to the fame of that very musical...

We Pause For Thought with Sarah Joseph, Brian Matthew provides us with another brace of 60s belters and Moira Stuart returns with another Golden Oldie.

Today's show is dedicated to anyone who has already left for work with inappropriate layers because it's a wee bit colder than of late...
And today's show is entitled: we've had the first ice of the season this morning on a spider's web in Essex and windscreen in Bakewell.

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Mon 22 Sep 2014 06:30
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  • The Beatles

    Lady Madonna

    • The Beatles - 1.
    • Apple.
    • 020.

  • Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

    Anything Goes

    • Cheek To Cheek.
    • Interscope.

  • The Boomtown Rats

    I Don't Like Mondays

    • 25 Years Of Rock'NRoll: 1979 (Various Artists).
    • Connoisseur Collection.
    • 15.

  • The Crickets

    Oh Boy!

    • That's Rock'n'Roll (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Dario G

    Sunchyme

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

  • Eagles

    Life In The Fast Lane

    • The Best Of Eagles.
    • Asylum.

  • David Essex

    Gonna Make You A Star

    • 70's Number Ones Vol 3.
    • Old Gold.

  • George Ezra

    Blame It On Me

    • Wanted On Voyage.
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Four Tops

    Reach Out I'll Be There

    • No Greater Love (Various Artists).
    • Global Records & Tapes.

  • Genesis

    Land Of Confusion

    • Genesis - Turn It On Again.
    • Virgin.

  • Gnarls Barkley

    Crazy

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Herman’s Hermits

    I'm Into Something Good

    • The Hits Of 1964 (Various Artists).
    • MFP.

  • Michael Jackson & Queen

    There Must Be More To Life Than This

    • Queen Forever.
    • Virgin EMI.

  • Billy Joel

    Goodnight SaigonΜύ

    • Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Vol.2.
    • CBS.

  • Lenny Kravitz

    The Chamber

    • Strut.
    • Roxie Records.

  • The La’s

    There She Goes

    • Love - 38 All Time Love Classics.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Lorde

    Royals

    • Pure Heroine.
    • Republic.

  • M

    Pop Muzik

    • Million Sellers Vol.16 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • The Move

    Flowers In The Rain

    • Move.
    • Esoteric Recordings.
    • 010.

  • The Pointer Sisters

    Slow Hand

    • Greatest Hits.
    • BBR.
    • 006.

  • Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

    Nowhere To Run

    • Motown - The Hits Collection Vol.2.
    • Motown.

  • The Rembrandts

    I'll Be There For You

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

  • The Rolling Stones

    Start Me Up

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.
    • 7.

  • La Roux

    Kiss And Not Tell

    • Trouble In Paradise.
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • Al Stewart

    Year Of The Cat

    • 25 Years Of Rock 'N' Roll 1977 (Various Artists).
    • Connoisseur Collection.

  • Taylor Swift

    Shake It Off

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

  • Sylvester

    You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)

    • Sylvester - The Original Hits.
    • Fantasy.

  • Meghan Trainor

    All About That Bass

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

  • Meghan Trainor

    All About That Bass

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

  • KT Tunstall

    Black Horse and the Cherry Tree

    • (CD Single).
    • Relentless Records.

  • Johnnie Walker

    Good Morning Vietnam

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Sarah Joseph, Editor of Emel, the Muslim lifestyle magazine:

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My son starts university today.


In between the enormous pride and happiness at the fact that he is going to an amazing institution to study an exciting subject, I feel a certain melancholy.

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It seems but a moment ago that we were standing by the front door taking photos of him in his shorts and blazer on his first day of school.

Where did the time go?


Years just seemed to slip through our fingers.

And whilst we have done so many fun and amazing things in the intervening years, there is always that feeling that we could have done more, that we wasted precious moments.


Time management gurus help us manage our time: β€œwrite lists, schedule, prioritise, multi-task, plan!” they tell us.


Yet even the most capable time manager cannot actually create more time for themselves.


Time is a finite resource, and unlike other resources at our disposal we have no idea how much of it we each have left.

If we had diamonds in our hand, I can bet we would all take care of them, yet we are pretty careless with the years, months, days, hours, minutes and seconds which are the only true reality we have.

We seem so able to waste the time for productive work in jobs we hate, or by procrastinating.

We seem so able to waste our opportunities to do more, to learn more, to love more.

In Islam we believe that literally every second of our lives is recorded and will be given back to us for us to analyse. I dread to look at all my wasted time – especially the time I could have better spent with those whom I care about.

​I am excited for my son as he embarks on his new journey. His course will take seven years. And yet – whilst that sounds like such a long time – once it is over, I will be sitting there, slightly melancholic, pondering how the years went by so very fast.Μύ

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Maybe we can't get away from these feelings. Maybe it is the human experience that there is never enough time. I remember on my grandmother's 100th birthday she exclaimed "100 years! They have gone so fast."

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  • Mon 22 Sep 2014 06:30
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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.

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