Keeping Up with the Pace
Chris talks to 95-year-old Dr Charles Eugster, who has set the world record for the indoor 200 metres in the 95-plus age group.
Wednesday's show rockets off to a start with Charlotte who tells us how she touched down on one of Jupiter's moons in a simulated landing at the Science Museum for the first time...
From the stars in space to the stars of Strictly, judge Anton Du Beke chats to Chris about all the glitter and gossip of 'The People's Strictly For Comic Relief' on Â鶹ԼÅÄ One...
And we keep up the pace with Dr Charles Eugster, who at the age of 95 has set the World record for the indoor 200 metres in the 95+ age group!
Today's show is dedicated to anyone who had a ticket for the recording of Top Gear that they've waited years for, and were going today but aren't any more...
And today's show is entitled: Be yourself, everyone else is taken!
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You Shook Me All Night Long
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Hold Back The River
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Man on the Moon
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Good People
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Day Tripper
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Beryl
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Don't Worry, Be Happy
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Highway To Hell
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Barry White
Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe
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The Right Time
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You Shook Me All Night Long
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Desmond Dekker
You Can Get It If You Really Want
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Girls Aloud
The Promise
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Faces
Stay with Me
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Gregory Porter
Liquid Spirit
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Dance To The Music
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Altered Images
Don't Talk to Me About Love
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Xanadu
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Eagles
Life In The Fast Lane
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Win
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Back In Black
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Groove Is In The Heart
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Opposites Attract
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Young At Heart
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Pause For Thought: Pete Tobias
From Rabbi Pete Tobias of the Liberal Synagogue, Elstree:
In the wake of recent attacks and incidents, I’ve been asked lately if I ever personally experienced anti-Semitism. I said that I didn’t think I had. I remembered some school playground incidents, however. The first was when my National Health spectacles had led to me being called four eyes and another, a few years later, came when I was on a French exchange. I can’t recall how it started, but I suddenly found myself, aged about fifteen, in the middle of a circle of around forty French teenagers, all chanting ‘la France, la France!’ It started off quite light-hearted but it did feel rather menacing. It was 1973, and we’d just joined the European Union. So with a smile, I simply said ‘marché commun’ and joined the circle to a round of applause and pats on the back.
I think those two childhood incidents taught me something about human nature. I think there’s something inherent in human nature that prompts us to look for whatever is different in others, to regard that difference as some kind of weakness and then use it as a way of asserting a need to feel superior. We’re really not very good at dealing with people who are other, who are different from what we are taught is ‘normal’. That’s school playground behaviour, but it’s part of the wider world as well. In order to define who we are, it seems, we need something or someone to which or whom we can be opposed, to be ‘anti’.
Of course I know that many Jews today whose attachment to their religious heritage is more openly visible than mine, and millions down the ages, have experienced anti-Semitism. It’s one of humanity’s more enduring prejudices and sometimes, in more fearful moments, I wonder whether it will ever disappear. But other minority groups have experienced racism; women have experienced sexism and so on. The challenge, it seems to me, is not so much about introducing legislation to outlaw these different expressions of hostility to other groups of human beings based on religion, race, ideology or gender but rather to become more tolerant of human diversity. Let’s leave our apparent need to be anti-whatever in the school playground, and learn to celebrate our differences and rejoice in our shared humanity.
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- Wed 11 Mar 2015 06:30Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2
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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Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2's story-writing competition for kids.