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Rick Stein and Great Job Wednesday

Chris speaks to the king of catch-up Rick Stein, who talks about the places he's travelled in Â鶹ԼÅÄ Two's Long Weekends, and meets Swap Shop owner Phil Malkin on Great Job Wednesday.

Chris is joined by the current king of catch up TV, Rick Stein who tells us about his first series of Long Weekends for Â鶹ԼÅÄ Two and tells us about some of the incredible European destinations he's been to including Bologna, Palermo, Cadiz and Bordeaux. Great Job Wednesday is back and our first contender is super Swap Shop owner Phil Malkin, who's been running it for over 12 years in the village of Little Port. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by darts player Adam 'Wolfie' Adams and the Pause For Thought comes from Dr Jim Harris.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Wed 11 Jan 2017 06:30
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Music Played

  • Cheap Trick

    I Want You To Want Me

    • Epic.

  • Rag’n’Bone Man

    Human

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

  • Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin

    Style

  • Ryan Paris

    Dolce Vita

    • The Holiday CD - Various Artists.
    • CBS.

  • Elastica

    Connection

    • Crash! Indie Anthems 1982-2004 (Var).
    • BMG.

  • Elmer Bernstein

    The Magnificent Seven

    • The Best Of Cult Fiction (Various).
    • Virgin.

  • Kaiser Chiefs

    Ruby

    • (CD Single).
    • B-Unique.

  • Rebecca Ferguson

    Superwoman

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Pet Shop Boys

    West End Girls

    • Now That's What I Call Music '86.
    • Now.

  • Petula Clark

    My Friend the Sea

    • The Most of Petula Clark.
    • Sanctuary Records Group.
    • 3.

  • Ed Sheeran

    Castle On The Hill

    • ÷ Divide.
    • Atlantic.

  • Right Said Fred

    Deeply Dippy

    • Now 1992 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Will Young

    Love Revolution

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

  • Florence + The Machine

    Queen Of Peace

    • How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful.
    • Island.
    • 004.

  • OutKast

    Hey Ya!

    • Outkast - Speakerboxxx.
    • Arista.

  • Hifi Sean

    Testify (feat. Crystal Waters)

    • Ft..
    • Plastique Recordings.
    • 001.

  • Matt Monro

    On Days Like These

    • Matt Monro Sings Don Black.
    • EMI.

  • Yes

    Owner Of A Lonely Heart

    • Top Gear 2 - Various Artists.
    • Columbia.

  • The Look

    I Am The Beat

    • Now 100 Hits Even More Forgotten 80s (Various Artists).
    • NOW.

  • Roachford

    Cuddly Toy

    • Walk On - Hits From The Last 2 Decade.
    • Columbia.

  • KT Tunstall

    It Took Me So Long To Get Here, But Here I Am

    • KIN.
    • Virgin.

  • Dire Straits

    Romeo and Juliet

    • The No.1 Love Album (Various Artists.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Squeeze

    Up The Junction

    • Big Squeeze: The Very Best Of Squeeze.
    • Universal/A&M.

  • Joseph

    White Flag

    • (CD Single).
    • ATO Records.

  • Noah and the Whale

    5 Years Time

  • DEVO

    Whip It

    • Absolute One Hit Wonders (Various Artists).
    • EVA Records.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Art Historian, Dr Jim Harris:

Last Friday, I got up in the dark at 4.30 as I usually do. I wasn’t happy.  I don’t like getting up in the dark.  But as I rooted around for socks (I know my socks by touch) I felt the socks I most love: cashmere, grey with blue toes and heels and soft as clouds, and when I found them I knew all was well.

After that, it was a day marked by other tiny happinesses. I was late leaving the house, but instead of having to run all the way to the station, a bus pulled in at the top of the road just as I got to the stop.

At the museum the new lights in my room had been fixed and no longer switched off if I failed to move around often enough.

In the evening I celebrated Twelfth Night with my friends, and when I got home, the house was warm, I was welcome and the part I needed for my broken bike saddle had arrived.

And yet somehow, I went through the whole day thinking mostly about how tired I was and how much work there was to do without once realising how those many mercies - bus, lights, friends, home, bike parts, even the socks - had made it better, from beginning to end.

In the Bible, when Jacob, the father of Joseph, came to the end of his life, he blessed his son and reminded him of, ‘the Almighty who blesses you

with blessings of the skies above, blessings of the deep springs below, blessings of the breast and womb.’

Now of all people, after such an amazing life, you might think that Joseph wouldn’t need reminding of God’s mercy - but he did.  And I do too.

Perhaps it’s because some of my blessings seem insignificant that, even though they are many, I forget them.  But if I’d stopped to think last week, I’d have seen that in ways I don’t even recognise I am very greatly blessed.

And I reckon that even among the great joys of family and friends, the small mercy is often the best one, because at any given moment, at 4.30 in the morning, it's almost certainly the one we need.

Broadcast

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