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Joanna Lumley and Organs

Joanna Lumley takes Chris on a tour of India ahead of her new ITV series and on Great Job Wednesday we meet Phil the Blackpool Tower organist who's been entertaining for 40 years.

Chris is joined by Joanna Lumley who takes Chris on a tailored tour of India ahead of her new 3-part series for ITV. On Great Job Wednesday we meet Phil Kelsall, the Blackpool Tower organist who's been entertaining the masses for forty years. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by Jim Carter, best known as Butler Carson in Downton Abbey, to talk about the Special Olympics. In today's Top Tenuous we ask for your tenuous links to garden parties and the mid-week Pause For Thought comes from Methodist minister Leslie Griffiths.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Wed 5 Jul 2017 06:30
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Music Played

  • Phil Collins

    (Love is Like a) Heatwave

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • Shania Twain

    Life's About To Get Good

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury Nashville.

  • The Rolling Stones

    Gimme Shelter

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.

  • Zara Larsson

    Lush Life

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

  • Sub Sub

    Ain't No Love (Ain't No Use) (feat. Melanie Williams)

    • (CD Single).
    • Rob's.

  • Toploader

    Dancing In The Moonlight

    • Onka's Big Moka - Toploader.
    • Sony Soho Square.

  • Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

    I Gotta Praise

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.

  • Michael Jackson

    Love Never Felt So Good (feat. Justin Timberlake) (feat. Justin Timberlake)

    • Xscape.
    • Sony Music.

  • Madness

    Baggy Trousers

    • More Greatest Hits Of 80's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • Jimmie Rodgers

    Kisses Sweeter Than Wine

    • Unforgettable Lovesongs (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Black Grape

    I Wanna Be Like You

  • The Killers

    Human

    • Day & Age.
    • Mercury.
    • 1.

  • Space

    Female Of The Species

    • Crush (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • The Whispers

    It's A Love Thing

    • The Greatest 80's Soul W/Ender (Va).
    • Warner Strategic Market.

  • Carly Rae Jepsen

    Cut To The Feeling

    • (CD Single).
    • School Boy/Interscope.

  • Sheryl Crow

    Soak Up The Sun

    • (CD Single).
    • A&M.

  • Ed Sheeran

    Shape Of You

    • ÷ Divide.
    • Atlantic.

  • Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes

    (I've Had) The Time Of My Life

    • The Hits Album 7 (Various Artists).
    • CBS.

  • King

    Love & Pride

    • The Ultimate Eighties (Various).
    • Hit Records.

  • Robbie Williams

    Let Me Entertain You

    • Now 39 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Martine McCutcheon

    Say I'm Not Alone

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

  • Joe Cocker

    With a Little Help From My Friends (Radio 1 Session, 7 Oct 1968)

    • Rediscover The 60's - With A Little H.
    • Old Gold.

  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience

    All Along The Watchtower

    • The Jimi Hendrix Collection.
    • Universal.

  • LeAnn Rimes

    LovE is LovE is LovE

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Zac Brown Band

    Jump Right In

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

  • The Beach Boys

    Surfin' Safari

Pause For Thought

From Leslie Griffiths, Methodist Minister:ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý

Ìý

I have a daughter, Ruth, and she’s the apple of my eye. We’re just back from Montpellier in the South of France where she lives. This time last year she got married – we have a French son-in-law, Nico, how special is that? It was a great ceremony, we had a lovely day but it was just family and that turned out to be not quite enough. She wanted a party that all her friends could come to. So, a year later, we did just that in a field far from the beaten track. It was wonderful –Ìý a day of distilled and uncomplicated happiness. How often does that happen in these bewildering times?Ìý

Ìý

Ruth is a very brave young woman. She has mental health issues and she’s always believed that such things need to be faced and addressed openly rather than hidden away in shame. At the heart of her wedding party, three of her friends read out the words of a song that topped the French charts three years ago, just at the time when Nico and Ruth got to meet. It’s sung by a co-operative group called Fauve and it’s called Blizzard. It’s all about someone with mental health issues. It’s powerful. ‘One day you can think you’re a saint and the next a wild animal’, a lover declares. ‘You hate yourself and you smash things. But believe me when I tell you how wonderful you are. Together we can push all this stuff back. Just put your arms around my neck. We can tell the blizzard and sadness to get lost. Together we can find dignity, discover love, rise to the very heights of the universe. Giving up on life is a crime, life is the deal of the century, it’s a red hot chili pepper.’

ÌýÌý

I shivered with excitement as I heard these words. I’m so proud of that girl and I love the boy who’s taken her as he found her and who’s such an anchor for her. I preach love from my pulpit. They prove it every day in the life they live.Ìý

Broadcast

  • Wed 5 Jul 2017 06:30
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