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Chris Evans discusses the delights of doughnuts with TV baker Paul Hollywood.

Little Carys from Cheshire tells us all about her amazing mission visiting the National Space Centre in Leicester for the very first time...

Chris talks about the delights of doughnuts with TV's top baking boy, Paul Hollywood ahead of the Great British Bake Off...

We hit the right note with our Mystery Guest, who is one of the worldâ€TMs most in demand drummers, percussionist and professor at the Royal College of Music, Ralph Salmins...

This leads us nicely on to the Top Tenuous and your desperate claims to the fame of drum sticks...

And finally, Sharon Grenham-Toze provides a harvest-themed Pause For Thought.

Today's show is dedicated to anyone has recently sent something back because whoever's had our usual September weather seems to have finally stumped up for the postage...
And today's show is entitled: time you enjoy wasting is not time wasted.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Wed 24 Sep 2014 06:30
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Music Played

  • Bryan Adams

    She Knows Me

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

  • America

    A Horse With No Name

    • America's Greatest Hits - History.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Adam Ant

    Goody Two Shoes

    • Wave Party (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.
    • 15.

  • Philip Bailey & Phil Collins

    Easy Lover

    • Singles.
    • Rhino.

  • The Bangles

    Walk Like An Egyptian

    • Take A Break (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

    Anything Goes

    • Cheek To Cheek.
    • Interscope.

  • µþÂáö°ù°ì

    It's Oh So Quiet

    • The Best Album In The World Ever!(Va).
    • Virgin.

  • Blue Mink

    Good Morning Freedom

    • The Best Of.
    • Music Club.

  • James Blunt

    1973

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • David Bowie

    The Jean Genie

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Phil Collins

    In the Air Tonight

    • Phil Collins - Face Value.
    • Virgin.

  • George Ezra

    Blame It On Me

    • Wanted On Voyage.
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • First Aid Kit

    Stay Gold

    • Stay Gold.
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience

    Foxy Lady

    • Are You Experienced?.
    • Polydor.
    • 13.

  • It’s Immaterial

    Driving Away From Â鶹ԼÅÄ

    • Now 8 (Various Artists).
    • Siren.
    • 7.

  • Jean Knight

    Mr Big Stuff

    • Stax Greatest Hits (Various Artists).
    • Stax.

  • Lenny Kravitz

    The Chamber

    • Strut.
    • Roxie Records.

  • Roy Orbison

    You Got It

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • La Roux

    Kiss And Not Tell

    • Trouble In Paradise.
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • Roxy Music

    Love Is the Drug

    • Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music - Street Life.
    • Eg.

  • Simon & Garfunkel

    Keep The Customer Satisfied

    • Bridge Over Troubled Water.
    • Columbia.

  • Frank Sinatra

    Summer Wind

    • My Way - The Best Of Frank Sinatra.
    • Reprise.

  • Ronnie Spector & The E Street Band

    Say Goodbye To Hollywood

    • It Takes Two (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Status Quo

    Dear John

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

  • Taylor Swift

    Shake It Off

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

  • T. Rex

    Ride a White Swan

    • Telstar.

  • XTC

    Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me)

    • XTC - Compact XTC:The Singles 1978-85.
    • Virgin.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Reverend Sharon Grenham-Toze, Anglican Priest and Prison Chaplain:

Ìý

We’ve just passed the autumn equinox, the official start to the ‘season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.’ There’s certainly a sense of the turning season in the air - we heard about Sarah’s son going off to university this week, Strictly starts this coming weekend (yay!)Ìýand we’ve also got schools and churches getting ready to celebrate their Harvest festivals. I’m organising one in the prison as well, we’re having an African theme, and we hope to raise some money for charity too.

Ìý

Harvest Festival’s all about being thankful of course - realising we have food to eat, clean water for drinking and washing - and about remembering the needs of those who don’t have easy access to these basics of life. But it’s also a time of recognising the rhythm of life, the cycle that has all of us, farmers or not, sowing and reaping and sowing again.

Ìý

There’s a saying of Jesus from the Gospel of John that goes ‘a grain of wheat is no more than a single grain unless it is dropped into the ground and dies. If it does die, then it produces many grains.’ For a seed to grow into a crop it has to be completely transformed, even split in two, for the green shoot to grow. And the seed doesn’t have much choice about it either - it falls, it breaks, its life as a seed comes to an end, all outside of its control. Hmm - ever felt like that? I know I have.

Ìý

But the glorious sight of a field of golden wheat, all those lovely juicy apples and pears on the trees, even all the tins of beans that the kids bring as their harvest gifts - they’re all a sign of how life and beauty can grow from something that’s been broken apart, even if it seems to take a very long time. The seasons turn, and a time of hope will come again.

Ìý

Well, I’m not quite in the Autumn of life, but the season’s certainly turned for me, in a way I never thought it would - I just got engaged, so I’m not only celebrating Harvest Festival, I’ve got my sights set on a wedding next year!Ìý

Broadcast

  • Wed 24 Sep 2014 06:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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After eight years of hosting the Breakfast Show, Chris Evans leaves Radio 2.

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