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Louise Minchin, Danny Baker, James Martin and Reef

James Martin tells us about his foody adventures, Louise Minchin shares the story behind her new book Dare To Tri & Danny Baker has news of his farewell tour, plus Reef play live!

Super Chef James Martin shares tales from his foody adventures ahead of hitting the road with his live show 'On The Road Again'! He also gives his best BBQ Top tips as we head into the bank holiday. Louise Minchin has stories from her first book Dare to Tri: My Journey from the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Breakfast Sofa to GB Team Triathlete. Witty writer and broadcaster Danny Baker brings us details of his farewell UK tour Good Time Charlie's Back! And bringing us bags of rock 'n' roll; Reef perform live in the studio on the day their new album Revelation is released! They get us into the weekend spirit with a cover of Sheryl Crow's 1994 hit All I Wanna Do. Today's Pause For Thought comes from Rev'd Richard Coles.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Fri 4 May 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • Michael Sembello

    Maniac

    • Flashdance O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • VIRGIN.

  • John Newman

    Fire In Me

    • Revolve.
    • Island.

  • Blue Swede

    Hooked On A Feeling

    • Tarantino's Favourites (Various Artists).
    • Disky.
    • 7.

  • Madison Avenue

    Don't Call Me Baby (Motez Vicious21 Remix)

    Remix Artist: Motez.
    • Holiday Hits: Non Stop Euro Pop (Var).
    • Virgin.

  • Lenny Kravitz

    California

    • Lenny Kravitz - Baptism.
    • Parlophone.

  • Cyndi Lauper

    Girls Just Want To Have Fun

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

  • Kodaline

    Follow Your Fire

    • (CD Single).
    • B-Unique.
    • 1.

  • Alanis Morissette

    Ironic

  • Quincy Jones

    Soul Bossa Nova

    • Mundo Latino (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Deep Purple

    Strange Kind Of Woman

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1971 (Various).
    • Premier.

  • Iron Maiden

    Run To The Hills

    • Edward The Great - Iron Maiden's Greatest Hits.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • Aerosmith

    Love In An Elevator

    • Aerosmith - Big Ones.
    • Geffen.

  • Def Leppard

    Animal

    • Def Leppard - Hysteria.
    • Phonogram.

  • Anne-Marie

    2002

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Pratt & McClain

    Happy Days

    • Television's Greatest Hits Volume 3 70s & 80s.
    • Silva Screen Records Ltd.

  • Pharrell Williams

    Happy

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Blossoms

    I Can't Stand It

  • Reef

    Place Your Hands (Radio 2 Session, 04 May 2018)

  • UB40 featuring Ali Campbell & Astro

    How Could I Leave

    • A Real Labour Of Love.
    • Universal.

  • Reef

    My Sweet Love (Radio 2 Session, 04 May 2018)

  • Ariana Grande

    no tears left to cry

    • (CD Single).
    • Republic Records.

  • Reef

    How I Got Over (Radio 2 Session, 04 May 2018)

  • Sheryl Crow

    All I Wanna Do (Radio 2 Session, 04 May 2018)

    Performer: Reef.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From the Reverend Richard Coles:

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You must have seen on the internet those two men reunited in Africa with the lion they had kept as a cub in London? Someone caught on camera the moment they renewed their acquaintance in Kenya. Full grown, the lion comes padding over the rocks towards them and breaks into a run. Most would flinch, but they don’t, and fortunately when he leaps it is to lick them, rather than eat them. Years after he loped off into the bush, he recognises his humans, and delights to see them again. Not a dry eye in the house.


Same thing happened to me on Wednesday, only instead of a lion in Kenya, it was a sausage dog in Telford. I was in passing through town, and called in to see Frankie, born in the Vicarage three years ago to our sausage dogs Audrey and Horatio.

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Would he still remember me? Yes he would; as soon as I came in he hurtled towards me, tail wagging in a transport of delight, and with commendable disregard for bourgeois convention, thrust his snout energetically into my unmentionables. β€œMore tea, Vicar?” asked my host, in the traditional fashion, as I winced. In spite of the indignity, I was overjoyed that after all these years he still knew me and delighted to see me again. Good boy!


What’s that about? Confirmation, I guess, that love can transcend time and space and even species; and although we may wander halfway across the world, and further and further from home, there are still moments of recognition, when we know who we are, and what we are about, because we are loved.


I think of Mary Magdalene in the garden at dawn on Easter day, suddenly realising the man in front of her is not the gardener, as she thought, but Jesus, whose love has transcended time and space and even the grave. So she reaches out to embrace him - but he says, β€œdon’t cling to me”, because there’s no holding on to something like that. It’s the treasure that loses all its value when you try put it in a safe.


For the proof of love is the letting go - which Frankie finally, thankfully, did, and scampered off to play with the other dogs in the garden without a backward glance. Good boy.

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