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Debbie McGee, Poached Eggs and Tiny Islands

Chris gets the Strictly Come Dancing gossip with Debbie McGee, talks listener Hayley through Delia Smith's poached eggs recipe and discovers the UK's tiny islands with Dixe Wills.

Strictly Come Dancing contestant Debbie McGee reveals what it was like to perform the standing splits during Saturday's cha cha performance and tells us how she makes her poached eggs. Chris talks listener Hayley through Delia Smith's perfect poached egg recipe with mixed results. After discovering Mersea Island last week, Chris speaks to writer and explorer Dixe Wills who has visited over a hundred islands around the UK for his book Tiny Islands: 60 Remarkable Little Worlds Around Britain. We ask for your claims to the fame of the teeny tiny in today's Top Tenuous. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by jockey Frankie Dettori and Father Brian D'Arcy is live in the studio with Monday's Pause For Thought.

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Mon 16 Oct 2017 06:30
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Music Played

  • The Mock Turtles

    Can You Dig It? (Remix)

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • Roy Orbison & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    I Drove All Night (feat. Ward Thomas)

    • A Love So Beautiful: Roy Orbison & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Legacy Recordings.

  • Simple Minds

    Don't You (Forget About Me)

    • Glittering Prize - Best Of Simple Min.
    • Virgin.

  • Paula Cole

    Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Cat Stevens

    Can't Keep It In

    • The Very Best Of Cat Stevens.
    • Island.

  • ABBA

    Dancing Queen

    • Abba Gold (40th Anniversary Edition).
    • Polar.
    • 001.

  • Jools Holland & Jos茅 Feliciano

    Let's Find Each Other Tonight

    • (CD Single).
    • East West Records.

  • Stevie Wonder

    Isn't She Lovely

    • Songs In The Key Of Life Vol.2.
    • Hitsville.

  • Zara Larsson

    Lush Life

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

  • Harpers Bizarre

    Anything Goes

    • The Complete Singles Collection.
    • Now Sounds.
    • 009.

  • Jessie Ware

    Alone

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • 补鈥恏补

    The Living Daylights

    • The Best Of James Bond 30th Anniversa.
    • EMI.
    • 11.

  • Del Amitri

    Always The Last To Know

    • Now 1992 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Zac Brown Band

    Jump Right In

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

  • Harry Belafonte

    Jump In The Line

    • The Best Of.
    • Camden.
    • 16.

  • Morrissey

    Spent The Day In Bed

    • Low In High School.
    • BMG.

  • Cher

    The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.

  • Little Eva

    The Loco-Motion

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1962.
    • Premier.

  • Chubby Checker

    Let's Twist Again

    • Cameo Parkway 1957 - 1967 (Various Artists).
    • ABKCO Records.

  • Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton

    Islands In The Stream

    • The Greatest Love (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • George Ezra

    Budapest

    • Wanted On Voyage.
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Glory Days

  • AC/DC

    Back In Black

    • Back In Black.
    • Epic.
    • 6.

  • Charlie Puth

    How Long

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • blink-182

    All The Small Things

    • Now 45 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Taylor Swift

    Shake It Off

    • (CD Single).
    • Big Machine.
    • 1.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Father Brian D鈥橝rcy, a Catholic Passionist priest:

There鈥檚 a famous writer I like to learn from. He鈥檒l never make the best sellers so you鈥檒l never have heard of him. Many centuries ago Meister Eckhart wrote: 鈥淚f the only prayer you ever said in your life was 鈥榯hank you鈥� that would be enough.鈥�

I get that. Gratitude goes a long way. I believe religion that isn鈥檛 shot through with gratitude is false. My whole life, my existence, is a miracle I don鈥檛 deserve.

I鈥檓 going to seek the help of a donkey to make my next point. Don鈥檛 laugh -聽 donkeys appear in many bible stories.聽 A young donkey once asked his Grandpa 鈥� How can I grow up to be just like you?鈥澛� 鈥淭hat鈥檚 easy!鈥� Grandpa Donkey answered 鈥淎ll you have to do is to remember to shake it off and step it up.鈥�

Let me explain.

聽鈥淲hen I was your age. I went walking one day. I wasn鈥檛 looking where I was going and so I fell into an old, deep, abandoned well. I was hurt, trapped and frightened and began to bray loudly.鈥�

鈥淭he Farmer came by, looked in, saw me and left me there. The next morning he came around with his friends. I thought they鈥檇 rescue me but I heard him say the well was useless and I wasn鈥檛 worth saving so we鈥檒l fill the hole in and let him die.鈥�

鈥淭hey began to shovel clay in on top of me. I was sure I would be buried alive. But in the panic I realised that as they clay came down, I could shake it off and step up. They kept shovelling and I kept shaking it off and stepping up. When evening came they had the well filled but they also helped me to step out of the well grateful, exhausted and free.鈥�

鈥淪o no matter how bad things get, no matter how much dirt gets dumped on you, just remember to shake it off and step up.鈥� Grandpa Donkey reminds me that courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying: 鈥渓et me try again tomorrow.鈥�

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how we use them.聽

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