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A guitar telephone tutorial with Johnny Marr!

Chris chats to gifted guitarist Johnny Marr live from Tokyo, who gives him a tutorial over the telephone.

Chris chats to gifted guitarist Johnny Marr live from Tokyo, who gives him a tutorial over the telephone...

We have the World Exclusive first play of Richard Hawley's brand new single, and for our green-fingered, flowery friends, the baroness of botanics Carol Klein tells us about new 麻豆约拍 show along with some top tips about roses.

We head back to the marvellous Johnny Marr with the Top Tenuous and your desperate claims to his fame, plus Father Brian D'Arcy delivers another perfect Pause For Thought.

Today's show is dedicated to anyone who is coming or going, holiday-wise...
And today's show is entitled: life either squeezes the best or the worst out of us, but we get to decide which!

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Mon 27 Jul 2015 06:30
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Music Played

  • New Order

    Blue Monday

    • (CD Single).
    • Factory Records.

  • Hurts

    Some Kind Of Heaven

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Sheryl Crow

    Tomorrow Never Dies

    • Simply The Best Movie Album (Various).
    • Warner Strategic Market.

  • James Morrison

    Wonderful World

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Simon & Garfunkel

    Keep The Customer Satisfied

    • Bridge Over Troubled Water.
    • Columbia.

  • Dexys Midnight Runners

    Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When you Smile

    • Very Best Of Dexy's Midnight Runners.
    • Mercury.

  • The Maccabees

    Something Like Happiness

    • (CD Single).
    • Fiction.

  • Queen

    Hammer To Fall

    • Queen - Greatest Hits II.
    • Parlophone.

  • The Maccabees

    Toothpaste Kisses

    • CD SINGLE.
    • FICTION.

  • Louis Jordan

    Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens

    • Louis Jordan Golden Greats.
    • MCA.

  • Richard Hawley

    Heart of Oak

  • Richard Hawley

    Heart of Oak

  • Kansas

    Carry On Wayward Son

    • American Dreams II (Various Artists).
    • Solitaire Collection.
    • 3.

  • Robbie Williams

    Angels

    • The Best 90's Album In The World...Ev.
    • Virgin.

  • Donovan

    Sunshine Superman

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1966.
    • Premier.

  • The Shires

    All Over Again

    • Brave.
    • Decca.
    • 006.

  • Lynn Anderson

    Rose Garden

    PAUSE FOR THOUGHT

    • Million Sellers Vol.15 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • The Move

    Flowers In The Rain

    • Move.
    • Esoteric Recordings.
    • 010.

  • Chris Isaak

    Live It Up

    • Beyond The Sun.
    • Rhino.
    • 1.

  • Pink Floyd

    See Emily Play

    • Echoes - The Best Of Pink Floyd.
    • EMI.

  • The Lovin鈥� Spoonful

    Summer In The City

    • The Lovin' Spoonful Collection.
    • Castle Communications.

  • Johnny Marr

    Easy Money

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • The Smiths

    This Charming Man

    • The Smiths - The Very Best Of.
    • WEA.
    • 2.

  • Rod Stewart

    Love Is

    • Another Country.
    • Capitol Records.

  • The Smiths

    William, It Was Really Nothing

    • The Very Best Of The Smiths.
    • WEA.
    • 6.

  • Freak Power

    Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out

    • 100% Acid Jazz (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • Elbow

    One Day Like This

    • (CD Single).
    • Fiction.
    • 1.

  • 补鈥恏补

    Under The Makeup

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal.

  • Electronic

    Getting Away With It...

    • (CD Single).
    • Factory Records.

  • Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

    Jimmy Mack

    • Leaders Of The Pack (Various Artists.
    • Polygram Tv.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

The summers I remember most fondly were times of holidays, holy days and happy days. 鈥淲e鈥檙e all going on our summer holidays鈥� sang Cliff, 鈥淓at, drink and enjoy the fruit of your work for these are gifts from God鈥� said the Bible (Ecclesiastes 3;12).

Everyone should take a break even if it鈥檚 only for a day. That break becomes a line in the sand separating the past from the future.

This summer I鈥檝e begun to realise what a fool I am. I get so involved trying to do good that I convince myself the world would grind to a halt if I stopped. That鈥檚 complete nonsense and it is arrogant too.聽 The truth is that if I died today the world wouldn鈥檛 miss a beat.

聽It鈥檚 not that I or you don鈥檛 matter; we do. It鈥檚 just that our jobs, our families, our friends need us when we are around but learn to thrive even more when we鈥檙e not.

I should be sensible enough to know I need a break, a time when I neither think of problems nor search for solutions.

On these summer days forget about buying things and instead buy experiences. You have enough new clothes already and you don鈥檛 really need a new telly. Far better to buy a ticket for a show or enjoy a good meal with your family instead. By all means do what you have to but then do what you like to do.

Spend more time in the company of people you like. Take a break from computers and phones. Help others. As most self-help programmes tell us: you have to give it away to keep it.

Summer is when you realise that friendships are precious. The friend who sits with us and doesn鈥檛 feel compelled to fix us, to cure us or even ask what鈥檚 wrong, is worth their weight in gold.

Holidays are when the time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time at all.

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