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Zoe Ball and Thank a Teacher Week

Chris catches up with Zoe Ball during her Hardest Road Â鶹ԼÅÄ challenge for Sport Relief. And Teacher of the Year Luisa Martin-Thomas tells us about Thank A Teacher week.

Chris catches up with Zoe Ball on Day Two of her Hardest Road Â鶹ԼÅÄ challenge for Sports Relief, to find out just how many toots she's received and pies she has eaten since reaching Widnes. Teacher of the Year Luisa Martin-Thomas tells Chris all about how the Thank A Teacher campaign changed her life and how we can nominate a top teacher we know before Friday's deadline. Following on from this, we ask for your claims to the fame of famous teachers in today's Top Tenuous. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by former England cricketer James Taylor and Reverend Kate Bottley has this morning's Pause For Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Tue 6 Mar 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • Meat Loaf

    You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth

    • The Very Best Of Meatloaf.
    • Virgin.

  • UB40 featuring Ali Campbell & Astro

    She Loves Me Now

    • A Real Labour Of Love.
    • Universal.

  • Aaliyah

    Try Again

  • µþ±ð²â´Ç²Ô³¦Ã©

    Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)

    • I Am.. Sasha Fierce.
    • Music World Music.
    • 1.

  • Culture Club

    I'll Tumble 4 Ya

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

  • 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.

  • Billy Joel

    Uptown Girl

    • An Innocent Man.
    • CBS.

  • Meghan Trainor

    No Excuses

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.

  • Ed Sheeran

    Castle On The Hill

    • ÷ Divide.
    • Atlantic.

  • Edwin Starr

    Time

    • Edwin Starr: The Essential Collection.

  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    It's A Beautiful World

    • Who Built The Moon?.
    • Sour Mash.

  • Go West

    We Close Our Eyes

    • Now 1985 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • Stevie Wonder

    Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours

    • You've Got Mail (Film S/Track).
    • Warner Sunset/Atlantic.

  • The Coral

    In The Morning

    • (CD Single).
    • Deltasonic.

  • Peter Gabriel

    Sledgehammer

    • Now 1986 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Marshmello & Anne-Marie

    Friends

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Eagles

    Life In The Fast Lane

    • The Best Of Eagles.
    • Asylum.

  • Johnny Hates Jazz

    Shattered Dreams

    • Now 1987 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • Eddy Grant

    I Don't Wanna Dance

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • Andrew Gold

    Thank You For Being A Friend

    • Jukebox 70's Hits -I Got The Music In.
    • Old Gold.

  • Alexandra Burke

    Shadow

    • The Truth Is.
    • Decca.

  • Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Jamming

    • Jammin' (Various Artists).
    • Mango.

  • Janet Jackson

    What Have You Done For Me Lately

    • Janet Jackson - Design Of A Decade.
    • A&M.
    • 6.

  • The Beatles

    Let It Be

    • The Beatles - 1.
    • Apple.
    • 026.

  • Queen

    Somebody To Love

    • A Day At The Races.
    • Island.
    • 6.

  • Rae Morris

    Someone Out There

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Dire Straits

    Money For Nothing

    • Sultans Of Swing - Best Of Dire Straits.
    • Vertigo.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From the Reverend Kate Bottley:

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When we moved 18 months ago to the house we now call home, I confidently told my children, ‘It never snows in Retford.’ At the end of last week I found myself having to eat my own bobble hat. Snow up to our knees, roads impassable and the holy grail of every teenager, school closed until further notice.

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There was nothing else for it but to wrap up warm get to the park for snow day shenanigans. We found gloves and scarves and wellies, that barely still fitted and I went off to the garage to look for another bit of essential wintry kit. My sledge. Tucked away in a corner, cobweb covered, waiting for its moment. You see over the years we have destroyed various plastic toboggans but my sledge is different, my sledge has seen off those plastic imposters and has stayed the course.

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My Dad made it for me on a quiet night shift at the factory where he used to work. A wooden seat and a solid welded metal frame, it’s built like a tank and goes like the clappers. And it didn’t let us down. After the teenagers had nearly taken out a couple of toddlers on the maiden run on the nursery slopes, I had a go, Graham had a go and it was like the old days, when my Dad took me out to the biggest hill and I had the best sledge going.

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The bible has nothing to say about sledging but much to say about the importance of the stuff we pass onto the next generation, not sledges but treasure of a different sort, the sharing of wisdom and the value of good teaching, the book of proverbs says ‘Train up a child in the way he should go and even when he is old he will not depart from it.’ Reminding us that a solid frame provides a lasting legacy.

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And now my sledge is no longer just my sledge, it’s my kids sledge too and in time, who knows maybe it’ll end up being my grandkids sledge as well, passed down like a treasure from one generation to the next, gathering stories of snowy fun with every passing passenger. I just hope it won’t be too long before it gets it’s next outing.

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