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Sir James Dyson and World Conker Championships

Chris quizzes inventor and designer Sir James Dyson on his ideas and failures. We delve into the wonderful World Conker Championships with chairman Steve Kisby.

Chris quizzes inventor and designer Sir James Dyson on his ideas, innovations and failures. He gives us an insight on everything from the future of engineering with the Dyson Institute to farming and his favourite hardware shop shelf. We delve into the World Conker Championships with chairman Steve Kisby who tells us about leather laces, health and safety and the competitive heats for the upcoming tournament. We hear your Top Tenuous claims to the fame of bonkers world championships, including custard pies, nettle eating and pier crabbing. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by Barry Hearne who previews this weekend's Darts and Rev'd Kate Botley provides a mascara warning with the Daily Pause For Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Thu 14 Sep 2017 06:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Journey

    Don't Stop Believin'

    • Rock Of America (Various Artists).
    • Trax Label.

  • Steps

    Neon Blue

    • (CD Single).
    • Steps Music.

  • The Troggs

    Wild Thing

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1966.
    • Premier.

  • Just Jack

    Starz In Their Eyes

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.

  • Joni Mitchell

    Big Yellow Taxi

    • Joni Mitchell.
    • Reprise.

  • Kid Creole and the Coconuts

    Annie I'm Not Your Daddy

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • George Michael

    Fantasy (feat. Nile Rodgers)

    • (CD Single).
    • CMG.

  • Amy Winehouse

    Tears Dry On Their Own

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • The Four Seasons

    Let's Hang On!

    • Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Ve.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 5.

  • Jack Savoretti

    Whiskey Tango

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.

  • Shania Twain

    Still The One (Radio 2 Live In Hyde Park 2017)

  • CeCe Peniston

    Finally

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 1992 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Michael Bublé

    Nobody But Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Reprise.

  • Céline Dion

    It's All Coming Back To Me Now

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.

  • Liam Gallagher

    For What It's Worth

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Furniture

    Brilliant Mind

    • (Single).
    • Stiff.
    • 5.

  • New Order

    Regret

    • Glorious (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Five

    Keep On Movin'

    • Hits 2000 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.

  • Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

    It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • Harry Styles

    Two Ghosts

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Gnarls Barkley

    Crazy

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Tavares

    More Than A Woman

    • Disco Fever (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Grandmaster & Melle Mel

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

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

  • Van Morrison

    Transformation

    • Roll With The Punches.
    • Exile.
    • 001.

  • James Bay

    Hold Back The River

    • Hold Back The River EP.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

The Reverend Kate Bottley, a Church of England priest in North Nottinghamshire:

 Beauty comes in all sizes and bravery knows no age. My friends’ daughter Beau Matilda, was born a year ago, her name actually means Beautiful and Brave and it suited her well. Beau Matilda was born quite a lot too early and for the two short weeks that she blessed us with her presence little Beau made quite a big difference to the world.

This year on the anniversary of her amazing fortnight, her parents, rightly still missing her terribly, decided to turn the injustice of her short life into a celebration of the privilege of being her mum and dad and do something amazing planning gestures of kindness and courage, for every day that Beau Matilda was in the world. Fourteen days of living up to their daughter’s name, every act would be beautiful or brave or both. Her auntie, her cousins and her mum and Dad’s friends joined in too. Their mate Gareth took flowers to the neighbours he’d never got round to meeting, Jody had her hair cut to be made into wigs for children having chemo, and Alison met a snake. And finally on the anniversary of the day they said goodbye to their amazing little girl, Beau Matilda’s Mum and Dad went back to visit the neonatal unit where they’d shared her first and last cuddle, taking treats for the wonderful staff who still feel like family and some hand knitted hats to warm the other babies like Beau.

 The Bible says God will turn mourning into dancing and tears of sorrow into tears of joy. It doesn't mean Beau’s mum and dad don't have the right to feel angry or sad, they do and it doesn't mean that Beau’s death was part of some divine plan, I don’t believe it was, but what it does mean is that even in the bleakest and most desperate bits of this messy and difficult life, beauty and light can still be found, like a flower growing through a pavement crack, joy finds a way.

 So be courageous and gorgeous, intrepid and inspirational, be brave, be beautiful and be more Beau, inspiring others, facing challenges, celebrating life and searching for the joy. Little Beau Matilda managed to it in her two weeks, most of us have more time than that, imagine just how much more what we might do.

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