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Dippy the Diplodocus and Christmas Trees

Chris speaks to Lorraine Cornish from The Natural History Museum about Dippy the Diplodocus heading on tour and meets Harry Brightwell from the Christmas Tree Growers Association.

Chris is joined by Lorraine Cornish from The Natural History Museum who tells us about Dippy the Diplodocus, the prehistoric giant that lived between 156 and 145 million years ago, and who is now heading out on tour. With 5 weeks to go until Christmas we have our Christmas tree queries answered by Harry Brightwell from the British Christmas Tree Growers Association. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by courageous British yachtsman Alex Thomson and the Pause For Thought comes from Canon Ann Easter.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Mon 21 Nov 2016 06:30
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Music Played

  • The Doobie Brothers

    China Grove

    • The Very Best Of The Doobie Brothers.
    • Warner Bros.

  • John Legend

    Love Me Now

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Tears for Fears

    Head Over Heels

    • Rule The World: The Greatest Hits.
    • Virgin EMI Records.
    • 5.

  • Tom Odell

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

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

  • Kings of Leon

    Use Somebody

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.
    • 2.

  • Jo Jo Gunne

    Run Run Run

    • The Sound Of The Seventies (Various Artists).
    • Warner Music TV.

  • Blossoms

    Blown Rose

    • Blossoms.
    • Virgin EMI.
    • 007.

  • Aerosmith

    Dude (Looks Like A Lady)

    • Greatest Hits.
    • UMC.

  • Sam Smith

    Like I Can

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.
    • 007.

  • The Platters

    The Great Pretender

    • The Platters Golden Hits.
    • Phonogram.
    • 5.

  • Little Mix

    Shout Out To My Ex

    • (CD Single).
    • SYCO.

  • The Lightning Seeds

    Lucky You

    • Lightning Seeds - Jollification.
    • Epic.

  • Strawberry Switchblade

    Since Yesterday

    • Strawberry Switchblade.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Del Amitri

    Roll To Me

    • Twisted.
    • A&M.
    • 007.

  • Harry Belafonte

    Jump In The Line

    • The Best Of.
    • Camden.
    • 16.

  • Michael Bublé

    I Believe In You

    • Nobody But Me.
    • Reprise.

  • Was (Not Was)

    Walk The Dinosaur

    • (Single).
    • Fontana.

  • Zac Brown Band

    Jump Right In

    • (CD Single).
    • Southern Ground.
    • 1.

  • Four Tops

    Reach Out I'll Be There

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

  • Jimmy Cliff

    Wonderful World, Beautiful People

    • Jukebox 70's Hits -I Got The Music In.
    • Old Gold.

  • The Shires

    A Thousand Hallelujahs

    • My Universe.
    • Decca.
    • 010.

  • Rose Royce

    Wishing On A Star

    • In Full Bloom.
    • BBR.
    • 011.

  • Gregory Porter

    Don't Lose Your Steam

    • Take Me To The Alley.
    • Decca.
    • 001.

  • The Boomtown Rats

    I Don't Like Mondays

    • 25 Years Of Rock'NRoll: 1979 (Various Artists).
    • Connoisseur Collection.
    • 15.

  • Skids

    Into The Valley

  • Ward Thomas

    Cartwheels

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony.
    • 001.

  • Noah and the Whale

    L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.
    • 1.

  • The Doors

    Hello I Love You

    • The Doors - Greatest Hits.
    • Elektra.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Canon Ann Easter, Chaplain to the Queen:

One of the treats of being a chaplain to Her Majesty the Queen is that Christopher and I get invited to a Royal Garden Party each year. They are such lovely, happy occasions with everyone dressed up in beautiful clothes and gorgeous hats and the highlight is when Her Majesty and her family come into the garden; they spend hours talking to people, taking a real interest in their stories. I always feel that it’s as if fairy dust has been sprinkled above people’s heads as the Queen moves through the crowd and they smile broadly and glow with delight at being that close!

Each day she’s working, our Queen must greet hundreds of people and I thought of that when I discovered that today is World Hello Day. For the past 44 years, the idea has spread throughout the world that today, each of us might try to say hello to ten new people, mainly to encourage communication between people of different races and cultures – even Brexiters and Remainers! The hope is that we’ll have contributed to a huge wave of peace because, as Winston Churchill said, Jaw, Jaw is always better than War, War.

But I thought too of my friend Bill, who was a similar vintage to the Queen but a widower, with no children and few relatives or friends near, who kept phoning me for various inconsequential reasons on Saturday afternoons. ‘Have you chosen the hymns for tomorrow?’ he would say, or ‘I saw that actor you like on the One Show’. It took a few weeks before I realised that Bill had spoken to no-one that day and had called because he needed a little human contact. There are so many lonely people like Bill.

The bible talks more about greetings than hello; Jesus greeted people all around him and would often ask quite searching questions; he asked a blind man ‘What do you want me to do for you?’ and so got straight to the heart of the matter. We British people might not want to be quite so direct but a simple ‘hello’ today could change someone’s world for the better.

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