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Frankie Dettori and Butchers

Chris checks in with jockey Frankie Dettori ahead of this year's Cheltenham Festival and speaks to Richard Balson, the owner of the 502-year-old butchers in Dorset.

Chris checks in with jockey Frankie Dettori ahead of this year's Cheltenham Festival and tells us the difference between flat racing and jumping! On National Butchers Week, we hear from Richard Balson, the owner of the 502-year-old butchers in Dorset and Chris tastes some of his award-winning sausages. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ local commentator Ian Stringer ahead of today's Leicester and Sevilla football match and today's Pause For Thought comes from Methodist Minister Leslie Griffiths.

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Tue 14 Mar 2017 06:30
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    A View To A Kill

    • The Best Of James Bond 30th Anniversa.
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  • Maren Morris

    My Church

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  • Kym Mazelle

    Young Hearts Run Free

  • Vic Reeves & The Wonder Stuff

    Dizzy

    • Mad For The 90's (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Stevie Wonder

    Faith (feat. Ariana Grande)

    • Sing O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Island.

  • The Banana Splits

    The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)

    • Television's Greatest Hits Vol. 5: In Living Color (Various Artists).
    • TVT Records.

  • Britney Spears

    Baby One More Time

  • Blondie

    Fun

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.

  • Bon Jovi

    You Give Love A Bad Name

    • Slippery When Wet.
    • Mercury.
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  • Buzz Clifford

    Baby Sittin' Boogie

    • Rediscover The 60's - Sealed With A K.
    • Old Gold.

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    Something Just Like This

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  • Fleetwood Mac

    Everywhere

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 008.

  • Daryl Hall & John Oates

    Rich Girl

    • Looking Back - The Best Of Hall & Oat.
    • BMG.

  • OneRepublic

    Wherever I Go

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  • Judy Garland

    Get Happy

    • Musical Wonderland (Various Artists).
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    Love Me Better

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  • Echo & the Bunnymen

    Bring On The Dancing Horses

    • Echo & The Bunnymen - Ballyhoo.
    • Korova.

  • The Isley Brothers

    That Lady (Part 1)

    • Blues And Soul: The Soul Years 1966-1999: Vol.3 1972-1973 (Various Artists).
    • Connoisseur.
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  • Van Morrison

    Moondance

    • The Very Best Of Van Morrison.
    • Polydor.

  • Sheryl Crow

    The First Cut Is The Deepest

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  • Saint Motel

    Move

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  • The Cure

    Friday I'm In Love

    • True Brit (Various Artists).
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  • Faith No More

    Epic

    • NOW - Yearbook 1990 (Various Artists).
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  • Cam

    My Mistake

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    • Sony Music Entertainment.
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  • Nelly Furtado

    I'm Like A Bird

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  • The Lovin’ Spoonful

    Daydream

    • The Lovin' Spoonful Collection.
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Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

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

I’m just back from Haiti, my umpteenth visit; I lived there through the seventies and have been going back ever since. I guess I’d have to confess that I’m head over heels in love with the place. It’s been ravaged by floods, earthquakes and hurricanes; its people are desperately poor. So how exactly do I explain my infatuation?

There are many ways of answering that question but one thing stands out above all others. The Haitian people, knocked about by one tragedy after another, all walk tall. It’s as if their early independence has conferred a dose of nobility and pride on them – after all, they defeated the armies of Napoleon twelve years before the Duke of Wellington managed it. And so, despite two hundred years of struggle for survival, they’ve never lost this gritty, stubborn, fantastically-inspiring will to live.

That spirit can be seen at this time of the year in an unusual way. You see it across the towns and villages of Haiti; it’s loud, it’s in your face, it’s music and it’s called Rara. Groups of people, up to twenty strong, process through the streets singing loudly and rhythmically. In a typical Rara group you’ll find a collision of instruments -bamboo pipes, trumpets made from recycled metal, drums, maracas, bells, and long sticks. Someone described the music of these groups as β€œanarchic folk-meets-punk.” 

Rara is an ancient form of music that emanates from an oppressive past. It’s full of allusions to the people’s tribal religion. It serves as a vehicle of protest against all forms of slavery, ancient and modern. It manages to proclaim a message with which I, as a Christian, can readily identify.Β  Jesus himself, riding a donkey and accompanied by his very own Rara group, rode into Jerusalem to face all the hostility that would lead to his death. All of which speaks of the triumph of the human spirit, the capacity of men and women to rise above all that demeans them and drags them down. I marvel at the capacity of a battered people to display such courage in adversity, and to sing and show it on the streets for everyone to hear.

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