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Chris Evans chats to Mystery Guest motorbike racer Guy Martin. Plus a Pause for Thought from anglican priest Ruth Scott.

Little Tiggy tells us all about her very first time searching for the harmful hazards and dangers at the Safety Centre in Milton Keynes...

Our Mystery Guest is motorbike master and speed demon, Guy Martin, which leads us nicely on to today's Top Tenuous with your desperate claims to the fame of prototypes...

And our Pause For Thought comes courtesy of Anglican Priest Ruth Scott...

Today's show is dedicated to anyone who's ever bought 'one of the pair'...
And today's show is entitled: "a hundred percent of opportunities not taken don't come off".

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Thu 16 Oct 2014 06:30
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Music Played

  • 10cc

    Wall Street Shuffle

    • Million Sellers Vol.13 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • James Blunt

    When I Find Love Again

    • Moon Landing: Apollo Edition.
    • Atlantic.

  • James Brown

    I Got You (I Feel Good)

    • Hits Of ... 65 & 66 (Vol.1).
    • Polydor.

  • Jamie Cullum

    Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (feat. Gregory Porter)

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • Lonnie Donegan

    Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On The Bedpost Over Night)

    • The Best Of Lonnie Donegan.
    • Real Gone Music.
    • 17.

  • Dr. Feelgood

    Milk And Alcohol

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

  • Shaun Escoffery

    People

    • People.
    • Dome Records.
    • 001.

  • Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston

    It Takes Two

    • Duets - 36 Of The World's Greatest Ev.
    • Telstar.

  • Go West

    King Of Wishful Thinking

    • Pretty Woman - Soundtrack.
    • EMI.

  • INXS

    Need You Tonight

    • The All Time Greatest Rock Songs ....
    • Columbia.

  • Billy Joel

    Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)

    • The Stranger.
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Led Zeppelin

    When The Levee Breaks

    • Led Zeppelin - Early Days.
    • Atlantic.

  • Huey Lewis and the News

    The Power Of Love

    • Huey Lewis & The News - Fore!.
    • Chrysalis.

  • Meco

    Star Wars Theme

    • RCA.

  • Daniel Merriweather

    Red

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

  • George Michael

    Faith

    • George Michael - Ladies & Gentlemen.
    • Epic.

  • Pink Floyd

    Louder Than Words

  • The Psychedelic Furs

    Pretty In Pink

    • Teenage Kicks (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • The Rolling Stones

    Start Me Up

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

  • Linda Ronstadt

    (Love Is Like A) Heatwave

    • GREATEST HITS.
    • Asylum.

  • Simple Minds

    Honest Town

    • (CD Single).
    • Caroline International.
    • 1.

  • Status Quo

    And It's Better Now (Aquostic Version)

    • Aquostic (Stripped Bare).
    • Rhino.
    • 1.

  • Steely Dan

    Peg

    • A Decade Of Steely Dan.
    • MCA.

  • Train

    Drive By

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 12.

  • U2

    Angel Of Harlem

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

  • Van Halen

    Jump

    • The All Time Greatest Rock Songs ....
    • Columbia.

  • Mary Wells

    My Guy

    • Dancing In The Street (Various Artis.
    • Universal Music Tv.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Rev Ruth Scott, Anglican Vicar in Richmond:

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Today is the birthday of one Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde. That’s a name to live up to, if ever there was one! Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. He became one of London’s most popular playwrights. Some of his plays and poems continue to delight and move audiences today. He’s also famous for being sent to prison as a sexually active gay man in a time when homosexuality was illegal. Perhaps it’s fitting, if coincidental, that the opening film in this month’s London Film Festival has been ‘The Imitation Game,’ starring Benedict Cumberbatch. It tells the story of Alan Turing, the extraordinary mathematician who deciphered the Enigma code, helping to save thousands of lives and end the war earlier than might otherwise have happened. Turing was in a gay relationship and, like Wilde, was prosecuted because of his sexuality. He avoided imprisonment by agreeing to appalling hormone treatment that drove him to suicide, sadly making real Wilde’s words, ‘If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.’Ìý The lives of both Wilde and Turing were cut short by the ignorance and prejudice of the times in which they lived. Thankfully, since then our society has developed greater understanding about human sexuality. In my lifetime homosexuality has been decriminalised. In my case, on-going biblical study and the people I met through my work when I left home at 18 moved me from condemning homosexuality to celebrating deep love wherever I see it expressed. In turn my own children challenge the homophobic attitudes and actions they encounter in others. I’m glad of that: It’s far too easy for prejudice to become persecution. Oscar Wilde once said, ‘Some [people] cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.’ For my part, I’d like to live a life that lifts those I meet rather than laying them low.

Broadcast

  • Thu 16 Oct 2014 06:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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