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Kevin McCloud and Foraging

Chris speaks to Grand Designs Guru Kevin McCloud ahead of the sixteenth series, and professional forager Caroline Davey tells us how to pick nature's delights the right way.

Chris speaks to Grand Designs guru Kevin McCloud ahead of the sixteenth series and persuades him to turn on the Christmas lights in a town near you. Professional forager Caroline Davey tells us how to pick nature's delights the right way and what kinds of berries we can get our hands on, from bilberries to elderberries! Plus, Reverend Sharon Grenham-Thompson has a mid-week Pause For Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Wed 21 Sep 2016 06:30
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  • David Bowie

    The Jean Genie

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Disclosure

    Holding On (feat. Gregory Porter)

    • Take Me To The Alley.
    • Blue Note Records.

  • Carly Simon

    Let The River Run

    • The Very Best Of Carly Simon.
    • Global Television.

  • U2

    Sweetest Thing

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • John Newman

    Come And Get It

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 001.

  • The Supermen Lovers

    Starlight (feat. Mani Hoffman)

    • Now 50 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Michael BublΓ©

    Nobody But Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Reprise.

  • R.E.M.

    It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

    • R.E.M. Singles Collected.
    • Chrysalis.

  • Sigma

    Cry (feat. Take That)

    • (CD Single).
    • 3Beat.
    • 001.

  • Cat Stevens

    Matthew & Son

    • The Very Best Of Cat Stevens.
    • Island.

  • Gavin James

    Nervous

    • (CD Single).
    • GS Believe.

  • Andrew Gold

    Lonely Boy

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

  • Soft Cell

    Tainted Love

    • Hits & Pieces - The Best of Marc Almond & Soft Cell.
    • UMC.

  • Zak Abel

    Everybody Needs Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Sheryl Crow

    Everyday Is A Winding Road

    • Top Gear Anthems (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Sia

    The Greatest (feat. Kendrick Lamar)

    • This Is Acting.
    • Monkey Puzzle Records.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    A Design For Life

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

  • The Human League

    Love Action (I Believe In Love)

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

  • Gary Numan

    We Are Glass

    • Polygram TV.

  • The Move

    Blackberry Way

    • Shazam.
    • Esoteric Recordings.
    • 009.

  • Scissor Sisters

    I Don't Feel Like Dancin'

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Jenn Bostic

    What Love Feels Like

    • Faithful.
    • Absolute.

  • The Who

    Baba O'Riley

    • The Who Hits 50! (Deluxe Edition).
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • The White Stripes

    Seven Nation Army

    • (CD Single).
    • Xls.

  • Artists of Then, Now & Forever

    Forever Country

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI Nashville.

  • Eric Prydz

    Call On Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Data Records.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Reverend Sharon Grenham-Thompson, vicar in Milton Keynes:

I made the most of the sunshine over the weekend, by taking to the country lanes around where I live and picking blackberries, sloes and apples. The bushes were weighed down with ripe, juicy berries, and the rosy red apples bobbed cheerfully atop swaying branches. Several industrious hours later my kitchen was more like a chemistry lab, with apple wine fermenting, sloe gin steeping and blackberry jam boiling on the stove. Treats laid up for the autumn months ahead, summer preserved for a little longer in a jar.

All this fruitfulness could only come at the end of the summer - for the berries and apples to ripen there needed to be the rain and the sunshine, the growth and the waiting, that the past months contained.

The Christian writer Henri Nouwen wrote that in our lives there is a difference between successfulness and fruitfulness. Success, he said, often comes from energy, and is about strength, control and respectability. Well, success, as we know, can bring great rewards, like money or status or recognition. But fruitfulness tends to come from a more mixed experience - from the sunshine and the rain of life, from times of growth and times of seemingly pointless waiting. As hard as it can be when our life seems not to be moving on, I believe it’s worth reminding ourselves that it’s simply taking a little time for the fruit to ripen.

Fruitfulness in our lives can come as we grow toward personal and spiritual maturity, or as we help to build up our country, community or family. A fruitful person shows characteristics like humility, humour and hope. Fruitfulness is a blessing shared amongst others. But most importantly, I reckon whilst a successful life may indeed be fruitful, a fruitful life doesn’t have to be a success in the eyes of the world.

Well, my wine and jam will never win awards, and it won’t bring me fame and fortune - but I’m OK with that. Because I hope it will make my family and friends happy when I share it with them - a little bit of the summer, and a big chunk of love, preserved in a jar. 

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