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The wisdom of Winston Churchill

Chris Evans hosts a Mystery Guest connected with Winston Churchill and asks for listeners' claims to the former prime minister's fame in the Top Tenuous.

Little Isabel gets our tummies rumbling when she tells us how she served up a tasty treat in her school cooking competition...

Our Mystery Guest wows us with his wisdom on Sir Winston Churchill as he is the dedicated director of the Churchill War Rooms, Phil Reed OBE...

This leads us nicely on to the Top Tenuous with your desperate claims to the former Prime Minister's fame...

And, Canon Ann Easter joins us to provide our Pause For Thought...

Today's show is dedicated to anyone heading face first into this evil wind...
And today's show is entitled: it's not about how many days you've been given, but what you do with them that counts!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Tue 21 Oct 2014 06:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Badly Drawn Boy

    All Possibilities

    • (CD Single).
    • Twisted Nerve.

  • 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.

  • Blur

    Country House

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

  • Boston

    More Than A Feeling

    • Rock Of America (Various Artists).
    • Trax Label.

  • Paul Carrack

    Stepping Stone (Single Remix)

    • (CD Single).
    • Carrack-UK.
    • 1.

  • Cornershop

    Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook Remix)

    Remix Artist: Norman Cook.
    • The 1999 Brit Awards (Various Artists.
    • Columbia.

  • The Spencer Davis Group

    Keep On Running

    • Fifty Number Ones Of The 60's (Variou.
    • Global Television.
    • 1.

  • Neil Diamond

    Something Blue

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.
    • 001.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Ma-Ma-Ma-Belle

    • Light Years: The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra.
    • Sony.
    • 4.

  • Guns N’ Roses

    Sweet Child O' Mine

    • The Hits Album 10 (Various Artists).
    • Hits Album.

  • Billy Idol

    Can't Break Me Down

    • (CD Single).
    • BFI Records.
    • 001.

  • Jefferson Airplane

    White Rabbit

    • Million Sellers Vol.9 - The Sixties.
    • Disky.

  • Jo Jo Gunne

    Run Run Run

    • The Sound Of The Seventies (Various Artists).
    • Warner Music TV.

  • KC and the Sunshine Band

    That's the Way (I Like It)

    • Disco Fever (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Pink Floyd

    Louder Than Words

  • Public Service Broadcasting

    Spitfire

    • Test Card Recordings.

  • Gerry Rafferty

    Baker Street

    • Boots Rock Collection Vol.4 (Variou.
    • Boots.

  • Lionel Richie

    All Night Long (All Night)

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

  • Diana Ross

    Chain Reaction

    • Now That's What I Call Music '86.
    • Now.

  • Spice Girls

    Stop

    • Spice Girls - Spiceworld.
    • Virgin.

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Hungry Heart

    • Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits.
    • Columbia.

  • Status Quo

    Whatever You Want

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Talking Heads

    And She Was

    • More Greatest Hits Of 80's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • U2

    Cedarwood Road

    • Songs Of Innocence.
    • Island.
    • 008.

  • Paul Weller

    That Dangerous Age

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

  • The Who

    Be Lucky!

    • Who Hits 50.
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • Wilson Phillips

    Hold On

    • The Female Touch 2 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Canon Ann Easter, Chief Executive of a Charity and Chaplain to the Queen:

I feel a bit weird today because, as I sit here with you, about 10 miles down the road, there’s some people waiting to be interviewed for the job of Chief Executive of the Renewal Programme. My job! The candidates will be looking at my chair—that nice blue one with the inflatable back rest  - and imagining themselves sitting there, or maybe moving it, nearer to the window.

Why? Well, earlier this year, when a number of things I’d been working on reached  their various conclusions, the thought came to me that, after 20 years, maybe it was time to move on. It’s all seemed  pleasantly vague up to now but suddenly,  I’m here, they’re there and it’s real.

All change!

Of course, there are some brilliant things that I’m looking forward to; loads of community activities and the hope that I can be at church sometimes during the week as well as on Sundays; my four grandchildren  are being encouraged by their parents to tell me how nice it will be to do more things with me,  not to mention lots of books to read and the piano to play—but I’m going to do it properly now, with lessons, I hope, cos I gave those up some years ago when other things attracted my attention—boys mainly! And I’ll need to come up here to tell you all about it.

But I think that all change, even the nicest change, means loss of some sort. The most longed for house move means leaving behind the neighbours we know and the shed that we painted all those years ago. I shall miss so much about my job but especially the sense of satisfaction I have had to see the work that our charity has done with so very many  of the disadvantaged people in Newham—and the laughs we’ve had, of course.  So many laughs.

But it’s time for the charity and me to move on and see what else God has in store for us.

Life will change and  we have to be ready to change with it and that’s scary.

I will have to let go of the job—ultimately, we have to let go of everything  - but God never lets go of us.

Broadcast

  • Tue 21 Oct 2014 06:30
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