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Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber, Professor Brian Cox and Dental Hygiene

Chris is joined by Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber and reflects on the life of Stephen Hawking with Professor Brian Cox. Plus we get a lesson in dental hygiene with listener Angie.

Chris is joined by Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber ahead of his 70th birthday to talk about Unmasked, his new memoir and CD compilation and tells us why he could never be the new Rodgers and Hammerstein with his friend Sir Tim Rice. Professor Brian Cox calls us live from Iceland to reflect on the life of Stephen Hawking and why he thought he was one of the greatest scientists of all time. Plus we get a lesson in dental hygiene with listener Angie Webster whose been cleaning teeth for 32 years. We ask for your claims to the fame of the late great Stephen Hawking for today's Top Tenuous and Dr Jim Harris has a mid-week Pause For Thought.

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Wed 14 Mar 2018 06:30
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  • Elvis Presley vs Junkie XL

    A Little Less Conversation

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG/RCA.

  • Sigala

    Lullaby (feat. Paloma Faith)

    • (CD Single).
    • Ministry Of Sound.

  • House of Pain

    Jump Around

    • (CD Single).
    • Ruffness.

  • Climie Fisher

    Love Changes (Everything)

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 12 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Pretenders

    Talk Of The Town

    • The Pretenders - The Singles.
    • WEA.

  • Steve Miller Band

    Abracadabra

    • The Very Best Of The Steve Miller Ban.
    • Arcade Records.

  • Pete Tong & Heritage Orchestra

    Killer (feat. Seal)

    • Ibiza Classics.
    • UMC.

  • Bon Jovi

    Keep The Faith

    • (CD Single).
    • Jambco.
    • 11.

  • Simon & Garfunkel

    Â鶹ԼÅÄward Bound

    • The Definitive Simon & Garfunkel.
    • Columbia.

  • Liam Gallagher

    Paper Crown

    • As You Were.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 004.

  • David Bowie

    Starman

  • Avicii

    Wake Me Up

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 86 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 1.

  • Daryl Hall & John Oates

    Private Eyes

    • Single Mixes.
    • RCA.

  • The Beatles

    Across The Universe

  • Gregory Porter

    Light At The End Of The Tunnel

    • Unmasked: The Platinum Collection.
    • UMC.
    • 13.

  • The Lightning Seeds

    Lucky You

    • Lightning Seeds - Jollification.
    • Epic.

  • Jimmy Nail

    Ain't No Doubt

    • Now That's What I Call Music Vol.22.
    • Now.

  • Lily Allen

    Smile

    • (CD Single).
    • Regal.

  • George Ezra

    Paradise

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Mark Ronson

    Valerie (feat. Amy Winehouse)

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony BMG.

  • Prince

    Guitar

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Meghan Trainor

    No Excuses

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.

  • Pink Floyd

    Keep Talking

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.
    • 4.

  • Rozalla

    Everybody's Free (To Feel Good)

    • Rozalla - Everybody's Free.
    • Epic.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Jim Harris, Art Historian:


My bike is important to me, despite the fact that I occasionally hobble in here in various states of dishevelment after falling off it. It’s never been to Selsey Bill but I have been up to Muswell Hill.


For more than a decade, the best bit of my bike has been my saddle.  My parents gave it to me and its scarred leather moulded itself to my….er… shape, comfortable like a second skin.


Now, the other day I left my bike locked up outside the Museum and all was well until I went to retrieve it, only to find it without the saddle. I was discombobulated. I stared at the saddle-less frame.  And then I stormed down the street, looking wildly for a culprit, muttering vengeful thoughts darkly under my breath.


After all, stealing is something we just don’t do. Thou shalt not steal.  Part of my indignation came from exactly that.  But part of it came from feeling as if something had been done not to my bike but to me. And that set me thinking about what stealing is.  Stealing isn’t just about taking someone’s possessions – it can be about taking a piece of them. I say this because that same day I’d been overheard making a less than generous comment about a colleague, and I was ashamed because the minute I said it I knew I’d stolen something of theirs.


And it occurred to me that one of the reasons the Ten Commandments in the Bible are so short is that they cover so much ground.  Thou shalt not steal isn’t just about respecting property – it’s also about respecting people, about treating people right. The happy ending for me here is that my friends Jeremy and Alixe had a spare saddle, also beautiful, and gave it to me.  And when they did, because I was hurt more than my bike, their kindness mended not just the bike but me.


So I’m revising my idea of the significance of the saddle heist, because things can be replaced - but I still have work to do to give back the piece of someone’s dignity that I took.  And I hope I can be kind enough to do it, because that, not the gift of a new saddle, is what it means not to steal.

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