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Strictly Jeremy Vine!

Chris Evans presents a fully interactive show for all the family, and reveals Jeremy Vine as the very first contestant of Strictly Come Dancing 2015!

Chris reveals Jeremy Vine as the very first contestant of Strictly Come Dancing 2015...

Paul Weller's sister, Nicky, is our Not-So-Mystery-Guest with news about The Jam's exciting new exhibition....

And our Top Tenuous takes us back to the dance floor with your desperate claims to the fame of Jeremy Vine!

Today's show is dedicated to anyone who has vowed to ditch the negative within their vernacular...

And today's show is entitled: shift your language; change your life!

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Mon 10 Aug 2015 06:30
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Music Played

  • Aztec Camera

    Somewhere in My Heart

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

  • David Gilmour

    Rattle That Lock

    • Rattle That Lock.
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Badfinger

    Baby Blue

    • Straight Up.
    • Apple.

  • Simon & Garfunkel

    Mrs. Robinson

    • Old Friends.
    • Columbia.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Monday Morning

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 001.

  • T. Rex

    Children of the Revolution

    • Tanx + Zinc Alloy.
    • Edsel.
    • 006.

  • Rod Stewart

    Love Is

    • Another Country.
    • Capitol Records.

  • Tom Jones

    Delilah

    • Delilah - Jukebox 60's Hits.
    • Old Gold.

  • Madonna

    Vogue

    • Finally Enough Love (Deluxe Edition).
    • Rhino.

  • The Honeycombs

    Have I The Right?

    • 20 Golden Number Ones.
    • MFP.

  • Gerry and the Pacemakers

    I Like It

    • The Hits Of 1963 (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Cliff Richard & The Drifters

    Move It

  • The Maccabees

    Something Like Happiness

    • (CD Single).
    • Fiction.

  • Talk Talk

    It's My Life

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

  • Manic Street Preachers

    A Design For Life

    • Everything Must Go - 20th Anniversary Edition.
    • Columbia.
    • 16.

  • Donovan

    Sunshine Superman

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1966.
    • Premier.

  • Jess Glynne

    Don't Be So Hard On Yourself

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 001.

  • Chris Montez

    Let's Dance

    • And The Beat Goes On Vol 3 (Various).
    • Debutante.

  • Four Tops

    Reach Out I'll Be There

    • No Greater Love (Various Artists).
    • Global Records & Tapes.

  • The 5th Dimension

    Aquarius / Let The Sunshine In

    • 25 Years Of Rock 'N' Roll 1969.
    • Connoisseur Collection.

  • The Jam

    A Town Called Malice

    • Jam Story.
    • Universal.

  • The Jam

    Going Underground

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • Lemar

    The Letter

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.
    • 001.

  • Andrew Gold

    Lonely Boy

    • Super Hits Of The '70s - Have A Nice Day, Vol. 19 (Various Artists).
    • Rhino Records.
    • 1.

  • Rupert Holmes

    Escape (The Pina Colada Song)

    • Various Artists - Open Top Cars.
    • Temple Records.

  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    Lock All The Doors

    • (CD Single).
    • Sour Mash Records.

  • Arcade Fire

    Keep The Car Running

    • Mercury.

  • Mott the Hoople

    Roll Away The Stone

    • Mott The Hoople - Greatest Hits.
    • CBS.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Art Historian, Dr Jim Harris

While Ben Stokes and Mark Wood were polishing off the Australian tail at Trent Bridge on Saturday morning, I was in the cellar.

There are three things to take from that.

First, that in the forty-one years since I first went to a test match I’ve seen very little that was as thrillingly unexpected or as clinically executed as what England achieved in those three days in Nottingham.

Second, that only in cricket could polishing off the Australian tail be a thing.

And third, that I was in the cellar.

Don’t get grand ideas about my cellar.  It is not a cavernous, candlelit, brick-vaulted space filled with exquisite wines.  That’s my imagination.  No, it is a sort of low tunnel full of junk, just high enough for me to stand up in because I am short. In it is the accumulated detritus of family life.  Camping equipment. Tools.  Offcuts of MDF. Tins of paint. Wire.  The washing machine.  A drumkit. Two ladders. A bicycle frame I will never build into a bicycle.

But every couple of years the cellar needs attention.  So this weekend I cleared it. I cleared it through the Ashes triumph.  I cleared it through the analysis of the Ashes triumph.  I cleared it through Dulwich Hamlet’s season-opening, 3-0 victory over Canvey Island.

To be honest, I struggled to see the upside of clearing the cellar through these sporting milestones and I performed my task, frankly, grumpily. We all struggle to see the upside of the dull, prosaic things we have to do every day.

As Jesus went about his work, teaching and healing, one of the comments made about him, in Mark’s Gospel, was, ‘He has done everything well’.  Not, ‘He’s astonishing’, or ‘What a triumph’.  Just, ‘He has done everything well’.

He put the effort in.

Perhaps, then, doing things well is worthwhile in itself, even when those things seem unimportant and tedious.  I reckon it is - it makes even tidying the cellar a tiny victory.

This week, we’ll all have to do more of those things - hopefully more effectively and less crabbily than me clearing the junk under the house.

Jeremy is going to have to start learning to dance, for heaven’s sake.  I can’t imagine anything worse.  But if they do it well, who knows what the next triumph will be?

Broadcast

  • Mon 10 Aug 2015 06:30
    Â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.

500 Words

Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2's story-writing competition for kids.