Sir Michael Caine and Zoe Ball
Chris is joined by Sir Michael Caine who calls in to tell us about his new documentary My Generation and catches up with Zoe Ball after her Hardest Road Â鶹ԼÅÄ challenge.
Chris is joined by Sir Michael Caine who calls in to tell us about his new documentary My Generation, which explores his journey as a working class actor in 1960s London. Having cycled 352 miles, peddled over 170,000 times and burned over 50,000 calories, we catch up with Zoe Ball after her Hardest Road Â鶹ԼÅÄ challenge for Sport Relief and reveal her jaw-dropping final total. We dedicate this morning's Top Tenuous to the late great Ken Dodd and ask for your claims to the fame of this legendary comedian. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by talent agent Natalie Dunman and Rabbi Dr Harvey Belovski is pausing for thought.
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Music Played
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Stevie Wonder
Sir Duke
- Stevie Wonder - Song Review.
- Motown.
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George Ezra
Paradise
- (CD Single).
- Columbia.
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Matt Monro
On Days Like These
- Matt Monro Sings Don Black.
- EMI.
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Dire Straits
Lady Writer
- Sultans Of Swing - Best Of Dire Straits.
- Vertigo.
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Gnarls Barkley
Crazy
- (CD Single).
- Warner Bros.
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Phil Collins
You Can't Hurry Love
- Singles.
- Rhino.
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Meghan Trainor
No Excuses
- (CD Single).
- Epic.
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Britney Spears
Baby One More Time
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Miley Cyrus
Malibu
- (CD Single).
- RCA.
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Ken Dodd
Tears
- The Hits Of 1965 (Various Artists).
- MFP.
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Pete Tong & Heritage Orchestra
Killer (feat. Seal)
- Ibiza Classics.
- UMC.
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Coldplay
Hymn For The Weekend (feat. µþ±ð²â´Ç²Ô³¦Ã©)
- A Head Full Of Dreams.
- Parlophone.
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TLC
Way Back
- (CD Single).
- Cooking Vinyl.
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JoBoxers
Boxer Beat
- Young at Heart (Various Artists).
- Reader's Digest.
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Perry Como
Papa Loves Mambo
- The Best Of Cult Fiction (Various).
- Virgin.
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Toni Braxton
Long As I Live
- (CD Single).
- Def Jam.
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The Who
My Generation
- The Who Hits 50! (Deluxe Edition).
- Polydor.
- 004.
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Harpo
Movie Star
- Super 70's (Various Artists).
- Virgin.
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Joe Walsh
Life's Been Good
- Driving Rock (Various Artists).
- Global Records & Tapes.
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David Bowie
Heroes
- David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
- EMI.
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Madness
House Of Fun
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Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Two Tribes
- Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artis.
- Gut.
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Dead or Alive
You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)
- Wave Party (Various Artists).
- Columbia.
- 4.
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Liam Gallagher
Paper Crown
- As You Were.
- Warner Bros.
- 004.
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Ken Dodd
Happiness
- All The Songs I Love.
- EMI.
- 2.
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George McCrae
Rock Your Baby
- The Greatest Hits Of 1974 (Various).
- Premier.
Pause For Thought
Harvey Belovski, rabbi at Golders Green United Synagogue:
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On 12th March, 563 years ago, a man called Enea Silvio Piccolomini sent a letter describing something remarkable that happened in the previous year – 1454.Ìý The letter isn’t well known, but its subject was an invention that changed the world beyond recognition.
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Piccolomini – who would become Pope Pius II just four years later – wrote that a marvellous man in Frankfurt had been promoting the Bible.Ìý Apparently, Johann Gutenberg had produced a version of the Bible with such neat lettering that it was possible to read it without glasses.Ìý Every copy had been sold.
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Of course, Gutenberg had invented the printing press.Ìý Before Gutenberg, books were expensive and had to be duplicated by hand.Ìý To get a sense of what that meant, 200 years earlier, during a period of antisemitism in Paris, all known copies of the TalmudÌý – the major text of Jewish study – were burned.Ìý Today, a local Jewish college/yeshiva in this unfortunate position would just buy or download replacements, but back then in pre-printing Paris, the yeshiva simply closed, unable to function.
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Although there had been printing of sorts in China and Korea, Gutenberg pioneered moveable type, which allowed for mechanical, mass-production of books.Ìý His first and only full-scale publication was a Bible, printed in Latin, of which only 48 survive today.
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Gutenberg’s invention triggered a revolution of ideas and literacy, as books were distributed widely and cheaply.Ìý Ordinary people could access knowledge, which in turn empowered them in ways that altered the very fabric of society.
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Printing transformed the world – we can’t conceive of a school, library, church or synagogue before its invention.Ìý But perhaps we can: try just for a moment to imagine a world without the internet!
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It was a change that also benefitted the Jewish world in extraordinary ways.Ìý Jewish publishers sprung up across Europe, printing the great works of Jewish scholarship, ensuring that everyone could have access to them.Ìý Our morning prayers contain the line ‘learning Torah – Jewish religious texts – is equivalent to them all’.Ìý This means that study and the love of knowledge is deeply imprinted on our souls, and has always been central to Jewish identity.Ìý The invention of printing allowed the democratisation of knowledge to become a reality for whole communities, not just a privileged elite.Ìý We owe Gutenberg a huge debt of gratitude.
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