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The Hairy Bikers and Clocks

Chris speaks to The Hairy Bikers live from the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show and talks clocks with expert Robert Loomes.

Chris finds out what's cooking with Si and Dave, aka The Hairy Bikers, who are live from the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show for Â鶹ԼÅÄ One's Kitchen Garden Live. We find out about the intricate task of clock making with Robert Loomes. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by Wheelchair Basketball player Gregg Warburton and in today's Top Tenuous we ask for your tenuous links to famous clocks. Dr Jim Harris has Tuesday's Pause For Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Tue 4 Jul 2017 06:30
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Music Played

  • Eurythmics

    Thorn In My Side

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

  • Ariana Grande

    One Last Time

    • My Everything.
    • Republic Records.

  • Ramones

    Blitzkrieg Bop

    • Ramones.
    • Bleu-Disque-Music Co Inc/Warner Bros Inc/Warner/Chappell North America Limited.

  • Take That

    These Days

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Aswad

    Shine

    • Now 1994 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • 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.

  • Roman Holliday

    Don't Try To Stop It

    • Back To The Eighties (Various).
    • Music Club.

  • Texas

    Midnight

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

  • Gabrielle

    Dreams

    • Now 1993 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • Donny Osmond

    Puppy Love

    • The Very Best Of The Osmonds.
    • Polydor.
    • 1.

  • Liam Gallagher

    Wall Of Glass

  • Kool & the Gang

    Fresh

    • Soul (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Pretenders

    Kid

    • The Pretenders - The Singles.
    • WEA.

  • Coldplay

    A Sky Full Of Stars

    • Â鶹ԼÅÄ Music Awards (Various Artists).
    • UMOD.

  • Judy Garland

    Get Happy

    • Musical Wonderland (Various Artists).
    • Warner Strategic Marketi.

  • Spandau Ballet

    True

    • The Ultmate 80's Ballads (Various).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Gregory Porter

    Don't Lose Your Steam

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

  • Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie

    Red Sun

    • (CD Single).
    • East West.

  • America

    Ventura Highway

    • Country Roads (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Lynyrd Skynyrd

    Sweet Â鶹ԼÅÄ Alabama

    • The All Time Greatest Rock Songs ....
    • Columbia.

  • Cher

    If I Could Turn Back Time

    • Cher - The Greatest Hits.
    • WEA/Universal.

  • Darius Rucker

    Life’s Too Short

    • (CD Single).
    • Humphead Records.

  • Duran Duran

    Hungry Like The Wolf

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

  • Grandmaster & Melle Mel

    White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)

    • Best Of Sugar Hill Records (Various Artists).
    • Rhino Records.

  • Radiohead

    I Promise

    • (CD Single).
    • XL Recordings.
    • 1.

  • Huey Lewis and the News

    The Power Of Love

    • Huey Lewis & The News - Fore!.
    • Chrysalis.

  • The Kinks

    You Really Got Me

    • The Journey - Part 1.
    • BMG.
    • 7.

Pause For Thought

Art Historian, Dr Jim Harris

Ìý

Ìý

Dear Chris,

Ìý

This is a difficult letter to write.Ìý Indeed, I’ve never written a ‘Dear Chris’ letter before but believe me when I say that it’s not you, it’s me. The thing is, I came in here a few weeks ago, as I occasionally do – but this time it was not to see you.Ìý I wish it had been, because since that morning, everything has changed and nothing between us can ever be the same again.Ìý You see, Chris, it was a Saturday.Ìý And it was the day I met Dermot.

Ìý

Dermot and I hit it off straight away.Ìý We chatted about anything and everything; running, cycling, Ernest Shackleton, cauliflower, you name it.Ìý It was special.Ìý It was as if we’d known each other forever.

Ìý

The thing is, Chris, my head is easily turned. I'd like to say I'll always be here for you, but … well, I’m human. And it’s not just you I let down.Ìý Earlier this term I failed to show up for a class because I thought I’d done with teaching for the day.Ìý Last week I forgot my niece Elsa’s birthday (sorry, Elsa). To paraphrase Hamlet, ‘Frailty, thy name is Jim’.

Ìý

I’m not alone in this ‘being human’ business.Ìý We’re all pretty much the same, reliably unreliable.Ìý So how do we learn to be better at it? In the bible, St John gives an amazingly simple piece of advice: do not imitate what is evil but imitate what is good.Ìý No kidding. But what is good? Who is totally reliable?Ìý Well, the Letter to the Hebrews teaches that only one human person has ever been perfectly consistent – the man who Christians believe was also God: ‘Jesus Christ - the same yesterday, today and tomorrow’.

Ìý

Finding reliability like that is an amazingly reassuring thing. It gives us a model, something to aspire to, someone to emulate.Ìý And I reckon that’s as good a starting point as any if I’m going to clean up my act.

So, Chris, I’m sorry to be so human, so frail and so fickle, but I am working on it.Ìý And I hope that when the call next comes for a Saturday Pause for Thought, I’ll say, ‘No Dermot – my Pause belongs on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Thursday, Friday.Ìý My Pause belongs to Chris’.

Broadcast

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