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Will Young, Dick and Dom and Chocolate!

Chris reads out an exclusive text message from Will Young. Dick and Dom tell us how they're celebrating 20 years at CΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ and we meet real life British Willy Wonka, Duffy Sheardown.

With the news of Will Young quitting Strictly Come Dancing, Chris reads out an exclusive text message from the pop star. Dick and Dom tell Chris how they're celebrating 20 years on CΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ. Plus, Chris speaks to north Lincolnshire's answer to Willy Wonka, Duffy Sheardown, who went from motor racing to making award-winning chocolate. Today's Top Tenuous is your tenuous links to the classic TV show 'Sale of the Century' and Leslie Griffiths has a mid-week Pause For Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Wed 12 Oct 2016 06:30
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  • Earth, Wind & Fire

    September

    • Greatest Hits Of 1978 (Various Artis.
    • Premier.
    • 3.

  • Robbie Williams

    Party Like A Russian

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Coldplay

    Yellow

    • Glorious (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Paloma Faith

    Upside Down

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
    • 1.

  • Aztec Camera

    Oblivious

    • The Best Of Aztec Camera.
    • Warner E.S.P..

  • Duran Duran

    Hungry Like The Wolf

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

  • Tom Odell

    Here I Am (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2016)

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

  • Backstreet Boys

    Everybody (Backstreet's Back)

    • Huge Hits 1997 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Owl City

    Fireflies

    • (CD Single).
    • Island Records.
    • 1.

  • Kyu Sakamoto

    Sukiyaki

    • One Hit Wonders (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Maroon 5

    Don't Wanna Know

    • Interscope.

  • Will Young

    Leave Right Now

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG/19.

  • Pulp

    Disco 2000

    • Hits.
    • Island.
    • 6.

  • Primal Scream

    Movin' On Up

    • The Best Album In The World Ever!(Va).
    • Virgin.

  • Michael BublΓ©

    Nobody But Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Reprise.

  • John Travolta & Olivia Newton‐John

    We Go Together

    • Grease (Original Movie Soundtrack).
    • Polydor.

  • WALK THE MOON

    Work This Body

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.

  • Bonnie Tyler

    Holding Out For A Hero

    • The No.1 Movies Album (Various Artist.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Simply Red

    A New Flame

    • Simply Red Greatest Hits.
    • East West Records.

  • Gene Wilder

    Pure Imagination

    • Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory.
    • 14.

  • Pretenders

    Holy Commotion

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Mr. Blue Sky

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Frontiers Records.
    • T1.

  • Oasis

    Don't Look Back In Anger

    • This Year's Love (Various Artists) C.
    • Global Television.

  • Smoove & Turrell

    You Could've Been A Lady

    • (CD Single).
    • Jalapeno Records.
    • 1.

  • Noah and the Whale

    5 Years Time

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Leslie Griffiths, Methodist Minister:Β Β Β Β Β Β Β 

Like most Welshmen, I love talking. As a boy I was sometimes nicknamed β€œGriffiths the Gab.” I don’t know how to describe it – all I know is that I feel this urge to talk to anyone, anywhere, and at any time. I don’t often find myself reduced to silence.

But that’s precisely what happened once when I attended a posh dinner and found myself sitting next to Sir Alex Ferguson. It was awesome. The back pages of our newspapers had charted his sporting deeds and analysed the play of his beloved Manchester United for decades. But he was regularly on the front pages too as reporters chronicled the various scrapes he kept getting himself into. So there I was, sitting alongside a living legend. And this loquacious lad from the valleys who’s never stuck for a word was struck dumb. It might have been embarrassing and would have been but for the kindness of the great man himself. He just opened up subjects for us to talk about; soon conviviality set in and the crisis was over.

When Sir Alex got up to give his after-dinner speech, he fished out of his pocket a battered copy of the New Testament. He told us it had been given to him as a boy in the Boys’ Brigade. He’d grown up in Govan, on Clydeside, where his dad worked in the shipyards. There were two things he lived for he told us – football and the Brigade. It was the Brigade that gave a structure to his life and taught him the importance of always striving to do his best.Β  He told us that he reads a few verses from that little volume and says a short prayer every day before he leaves home. He seemed adamant that this is what’s taught him where his inner strength comes from.Β 

And so the living legend I’d been in awe of turned out to be a man for all that. Though he’d won every honour known to the game of football, the self-knowledge he’d shown that day suggested a trophy in a league of its own.

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