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2017 Chelsea Flower Show Announcement

RHS director Sue Biggs tells Chris about Radio 2's 50th anniversary celebrations at this year's Chelsea Flower Show. For Great Job Wednesday Chris meets gin judge Felicity Murray.

Chris talks to RHS Director Sue Biggs about how Radio 2 is celebrating its 50th anniversary at this year's Chelsea Flower Show with the 麻豆约拍 Radio 2 Feel Good Gardens and reveals that the Breakfast Show will be live from the gardens on the 22nd May. For Great Job Wednesday we keep the botanical theme running and speak to Gin enthusiast Felicity Murray who is a judge for the World Gin Awards and tells Chris how to make the perfect G&T. Chris asks the listeners for their double-lettered words after noticing granddad has two d's. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by British racing driver Jason Plato. For today's Top Tenuous we ask for your 'Better than a Gin Judge' suggestions and the Pause For Thought comes from Dr Jim Harris.

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Wed 29 Mar 2017 06:30
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Music Played

  • Queen

    Another One Bites The Dust

    • The Game.
    • Island.
    • 3.

  • LP

    Lost On You

    • (CD Single).
    • Vagrant Records.
    • 002.

  • P.P. Arnold

    Electric Dreams

  • Nick Lowe

    So It Goes

    • The Best Punk Album In The World... Ever! Part 2 (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.
    • 2.

  • Blossoms

    Blown Rose

    • Blossoms.
    • Virgin EMI.
    • 007.

  • Fun Boy Three

    Our Lips Are Sealed

    • Now 1983 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • Steps

    Scared Of The Dark

    • (CD Single).
    • Steps Music.
    • 1.

  • Rihanna

    Umbrella (feat. JAY-Z)

    • (CD Single).
    • Def Jam.

  • The Supremes

    Up The Ladder To The Roof

    • Diana Ross & The Supremes - 40 Motown.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Maren Morris

    My Church

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Ed Sheeran

    Dive

    • Divide (Deluxe Edition).
    • Asylum.
    • 3.

  • Ed Sheeran & Rudimental

    Bloodstream

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 002.

  • Paul Weller

    That Dangerous Age

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

  • The Rolling Stones

    Let's Spend The Night Together

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.

  • Lorde

    Green Light

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI.

  • Tears for Fears

    Sowing The Seeds Of Love

    • The Best Of Drive Time (Various Artists).
    • Polygram TV.
    • 7.

  • Bananarama

    Venus

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

  • Dolly Parton

    9 to 5

    • Dolly Parton: The Ultimate Collection.
    • BMG/RCA.

  • Cream

    Strange Brew聽

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1967 (Various).
    • EMI.

  • Mike + the Mechanics

    Don't Know What Came Over Me

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Dua Lipa

    Be The One

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Maroon 5

    Cold

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope Records.

  • 10cc

    Good Morning Judge

    • The Very Best Of 10cc.
    • Mercury.

  • Todd Rundgren

    I Saw The Light

    • My Girl (Original 1992 Film S/Track).
    • Epic.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Art Historian, Dr Jim Harris:

When I was small, I didn鈥檛 like the dark. It wasn鈥檛 that I thought there聽were monsters lurking. It was a physical thing. I didn鈥檛 like the thickness of it,聽the feeling of it closing around me. I didn鈥檛 like the silence of it, the quietness聽into which my own heartbeat might come clamouring. The dark seemed to聽me unutterably lonely and I would lie there, blanketed in it, cut off and crushed聽by the weight of it.

If it was to be dark, I at least wanted sound. I had a radio from a scout聽jumble sale that I listened to with an earpiece. Frankly though, if it was to be聽dark, I wanted the landing light on.

These days, the dark means other things to me. I鈥檓 not afraid of it but it聽weighs me down differently because, now I鈥檓 older, I鈥檓 familiar with other聽sorts of darkness: grief and loss, pain, fear, worry and anger.

Now, whether or not we consider the current state of the world to be聽dark depends largely on our viewpoint, but it certainly the case that things聽look pretty murky and unknowable. There鈥檚 a fog around and wherever you聽look, it鈥檚 hard to see what might happen next.

Christians believe that God hates darkness too. But God isn鈥檛 afraid of聽it. In the Bible, the first thing God does is turn on the lights. And in a聽remarkably modern twist, they鈥檙e voice activated: 鈥淟et there be light鈥�.聽

And when God made light, he saw it was good. And it is. In the light,聽we can see how beautiful we are. In the light we cannot hide our intentions.聽In the light we see we are loved. Light grows confidence and light grows trust.聽Light draws us together because we can see further.

The other thing about the light that God makes is that it shines on and聽on and on. No matter what kinds of darkness it encounters, no matter how聽bleak and cold and lonely, corrupt and dispiriting, 鈥渢he light shines in the聽darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it鈥�.

So, next time it seems dark, look around. Look hard. Because聽somewhere, out there in all that murkiness, I reckon you鈥檒l see that the landing聽light is already on.

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