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Blue Planet II and the greatest story... EVER

Chris is introduced to the underwater wonders on offer in Blue Planet II. Plus, hear the story of a fighter pilot whose day could not get any worse!

Chris calls exec producer James Honeyborne to hear about the underwater wonders we'll be meeting in the new series of Blue Planet II on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ One. On Great Job Wednesday we meet Andrew Tyrrell who flies around in his Cessna 404 mapping Great Britain for Ordnance Survey. Chris shares the greatest story in the world...EVER about the man who rode thunder and there's a top tenuous on duelling. Vassos speaks to Jonny Bairstow in the Sports Locker about his new book A Clear Blue Sky, before he heads off to the Ashes in Australia and Leslie Griffiths provides the daily Pause for Thought.

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Wed 25 Oct 2017 06:30
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    Sharp Dressed Man

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    Spent The Day In Bed

    • Low In High School.
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  • Marvin Gaye

    You're A Wonderful One

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    Maneater

    • Looking Back - The Best Of Hall & Oat.
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    Domino

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    I Can Make You Feel Good

    • Friends - Deluxe Edition.
    • Big Break Records.
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  • Roy Orbison & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    I Drove All Night (feat. Ward Thomas)

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

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    Spice Up Your Life

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    I'm Telling You Now

    • The Hits Of 1963 (Various Artists).
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    Mad World

    • Tears For Fears - Tears Roll Down.
    • Fontana.

  • Original Dodger & Romina Johnson

    Movin' Too Fast

    • Huge Hits 2000 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • U2

    Desire

    • U2 - The Best Of 1980-1990.
    • Island.

  • MC Hammer

    U Can't Touch This

    • Fast Forward (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

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    Rising Cost Of Love

    • Pearls: The Very Best Of Elkie Brooks.
    • A&M.

  • Samuel E. Wright

    Under The Sea

    • Absolutely Disney (Various Artists).
    • Walt Disney Records.

  • The Beatles

    Yellow submarine

    • The Beatles - 1.
    • Apple.
    • 015.

  • Aretha Franklin & George Michael

    I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)

    • George Michael - Ladies & Gentlemen.
    • Epic.

  • Depeche Mode

    Just Can't Get Enough

    • Me Without You O.S.T. - Various.
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  • The Who

    I Can See For Miles

    • The Who Hits 50! (Deluxe Edition).
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    • 012.

  • Bryan Adams

    Please Stay

    • Ultimate.
    • Polydor.

  • XTC

    Senses Working Overtime

    • Power Pop Anthems (Various Artists).
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    Party Fears Two

    • Generation 80's (Various Artists).
    • Ocho/Union Square.

  • Jessie Ware

    Alone

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Jean‐Michel Jarre

    Oxygène Part IV

  • Mike Oldfield

    Tubular Bells, Part One

    • Greatest Hits Of The 70's (Various).
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Pause for Thought: 'I'd gone to help people. They ended up helping me.'

From Leslie Griffiths, Methodist Minister: Β  Β  Β Β 

This is Faith in the world Week on Radio Two and the question everyone’s asking is β€œWho is my neighbour?” I have absolutely no doubt how to answer that question for myself.

I began my life as a Methodist minister in Haiti, a desperately poor country right in the middle of the Caribbean, the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. I’d been sent there because I spoke French, the official language of Haiti. My intentions were simple – I was going to raise them out of their poverty and find solutions for all their problems.Β 

There was one difficulty. I had forty eight churches to care for, some hours away by horse or boat, and no one in any of those remote communities spoke French. I was literally speechless, useless and pointless. I could do nothing, nothing at all. I fell into a deep, self-pitying depression.

But only for a while. The simple people in the mountains of Haiti, peasant folk described by one anthropologist as β€œthe wretched of the earth,” rallied to the cause. They must have sensed my need. They took me into their homes, shared their simple meals, made me an honorary member of their families, taught me their language, their culture, their sense of humour, their survival skills and so much more. I heard calypso singing where it had been invented. I’d gone to Haiti to help the people there. They ended up helping me.

And healing me too. I’d grown up in poverty and destitution but my education had made me cocky and, if I’m honest, more than a touch arrogant. Being looked after by the poor people of Haiti had put me back in touch with my deepest self. The peasant people of Haiti did for me what all the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t do for Humpty Dumpty – they put me back together again.

The depth of my Christian faith and my life as a preacher of good news can easily be put down to these folk who were neighbours to me in my hour of need and I’m glad to have this opportunity to say so.

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