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Going Giddy for Gliding!

Chris goes giddy for gliding with Pete Stratten from the British Gliding Association, plus to celebrate 30 years of EastEnders, Tamzin Outhwaite reads a special On This Day.

We give a star grade to awesome Emmett who gives us a rendition of Baker Street on his super sax...

We celebrate the 30th anniversary of Eastenders with a special On This Day courtesy of the excellent actress who played Melanie Owen between 1998-2002, it's the terrific Tamzin Outhwaite...

Chris goes giddy for gliding with Pete Stratten from the British Gliding Association, and our Top Tenuous takes in your desperate claims to the fame of 'Radio One Roadshows'...

Today's show is dedicated to anyone who is so close to being able to tell someone something but just not quite there yet...

And today's show is entitled: everything will be OK in the end, and if it's not OK, it's not the end!

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Mon 16 Feb 2015 06:30
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Music Played

  • Prince & The Revolution

    Kiss

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Ellie Goulding

    Love Me Like You Do

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Ray Charles & Blues Brothers

    Shake A Tail Feather

    • The Blues Brothers OST.
    • Atlantic.
    • 360.

  • Lily Allen

    The Fear

    • (CD Single).
    • Regal.
    • 1.

  • The Rembrandts

    I'll Be There For You

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

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Glory Days

  • The Shires

    Friday Night

    • (CD Single).
    • Decca.
    • 001.

  • The Jam

    A Town Called Malice

    • Jam Story.
    • Universal.

  • Cilla Black

    Step Inside Love

    • Cilla Black- The Best Of The EMI Year.
    • EMI.

  • Buzzcocks

    Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)

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

  • First Aid Kit

    Master Pretender

    • Stay Gold.
    • Sony BMG.
    • 001.

  • The Boomtown Rats

    Rat Trap

    • Greatest Hits Of 1978 (Various Artis.
    • Premier.

  • Ed Sheeran

    Sing

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

  • The Bees

    A Minha Menina

    • Crash! Indie Anthems 1982-2004 (Var).
    • BMG.

  • George Ezra

    Cassy O'

    • Wanted On Voyage.
    • Columbia.

  • The Bluebells

    Young At Heart

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • The Coral

    Pass It On

    • (CD Single).
    • Deltasonic.

  • The Monkees

    Daydream Believer

    • The Definitive Monkees.
    • Warner Strategic Marketing.
    • 5.

  • The Four Seasons

    Let's Hang On!

    • Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Ve.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 5.

  • Steve Miller Band

    Fly Like An Eagle

    • The Steve Miller Band - Greatest Hits 1974-78.
    • Capitol Records.

  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    Ballad Of The Mighty I

    • (CD Single).
    • Sour Mash Records.

  • ABBA

    Waterloo

    • Abba Gold (40th Anniversary Edition).
    • Polar.
    • 019.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Wild West Hero

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.

  • Randy Newman

    You've Got A Friend In Me

    • Toy Story O.S.T..
    • Walt Disney Records.

  • Queen

    Love Kills

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • The Undertones

    My Perfect Cousin

    • The Undertones - Teenage Kicks.
    • Castle.

  • Bruno Mars

    Treasure

    • Unorthodox Jukebox.
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

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

Well, we must prepare ourselves for the excitement and suspense of those ‘doof-doof’ moments because this week I reckon there’ll be several when East Enders celebrates 30 years of continuing drama! Fantastic! I remember the very first episode and I’ve watched it on and off over all those years; it has good stories and believable characters but of course, I love it because I’m actually an East Ender! The real Albert Square is just 10 minutes’ walk from my home; the pub on the corner’s a block of flats now but you’ll still find a nice local not far from here – and there are posh coffee shops and wine bars too.

All human life is there in East Enders; at the moment, they’re dealing with issues of assisted dying, teenage pregnancy and drug abuse and of course, because it’s television, it’s all happening at once -  but I could take you right now to families just like the Carters and the Mitchells and the Masoods who have very similar problems.

Wittgenstein (I think he used to go in the Vic when Den and Angie were there) said that we read the books whose stories we already know, and I guess we watch the programmes whose stories of love and loss somehow ring bells with us; we recognise the essence of eternal truth in them.  

Since time began, people have used stories in that way; the Bible is full of tales of banquets and bullies and it says that the crowds absolutely flocked to hear Jesus’s stories of everyday happenings - they loved them, just like we love the soaps now. The stories give us a chance to hold a situation up to the light and reflect on it.

Then we talk about it at the school gate or round the water cooler, and that way, East Enders gives us ideas of how we might cope if and when those things happen to us because somehow the characters usually find a way through and manage to live to fight – sometimes literally! – another day.

I think that East Enders is lively, witty and exciting – just like the real thing! Long may it continue!

Broadcast

  • Mon 16 Feb 2015 06:30
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