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Chris Packham and Cornwall's Spaceport

Naturalist Chris Packham calls in to tell us how he's auditing Great Britain's wildlife. Plus, Cornwall Spaceport Director Miles Carden on how the county's entering the space race.

Naturalist Chris Packham calls in from Northern Ireland to tell us how he's auditing Great Britain's wildlife with his Bioblitz campaign. Plus, Cornwall Spaceport Director Miles Carden on how the county's entering the international space race. Chris gives his first-hand review of Springsteen On Broadway, Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by Â鶹ԼÅÄ sports correspondent Tom Fordyce, and our Top Tenuous takes in your desperate claims to the fame of rocket launches.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Mon 16 Jul 2018 06:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Hungry Heart

    • Columbia.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Golden

    • Golden.
    • BMG Rights Management.

  • ABBA

    Dancing Queen

    • Abba Gold (40th Anniversary Edition).
    • Polar.
    • 001.

  • Jess Glynne

    I'll Be There

    • Always In Between.
    • Atlantic.

  • Murray Head

    One Night In Bangkok

    • Heart Full Of Soul (Various Artists).
    • Knight Records.

  • ZZ Top

    Gimme All Your Lovin'

    • Top Gear 2 - Various Artists.
    • Columbia.

  • Cheat Codes & Little Mix

    Only You

    • (CD Single).
    • SYCO.

  • Soul II Soul

    Back to Life (However Do You Want Me) (feat. Caron Wheeler)

    • NOW 100 Hits 80s No.1s (Various Artists).
    • NOW.

  • Four Tops

    Reach Out I'll Be There

    • No Greater Love (Various Artists).
    • Global Records & Tapes.

  • Paul McCartney

    Come On To Me

    • Egypt Station.
    • Virgin EMI Records.
    • 2.

  • Bee Gees

    You Should Be Dancing

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.

  • Portugal. The Man

    Feel It Still

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Perry Como

    Papa Loves Mambo

    • The Best Of Cult Fiction (Various).
    • Virgin.

  • U2

    Love Is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way (Beck Remix)

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Cher

    The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.

  • Cher

    Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves

  • Sherbet

    Howzat

    • The No.1 70's Rock Album (Various).
    • Polygram TV.

  • Sweet

    Fox On The Run

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 20.

  • Elton John

    Rocket Man

    • Diamonds.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Snow Patrol

    Empress

    • Wildness.
    • Polydor.

  • DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince

    Summertime

    • (CD Single).
    • Jive.

  • Steve Arrington

    Feel So Real

    • The Greatest 80's Soul W/Ender (Va).
    • Warner Strategic Market.

  • Rick Astley

    Beautiful Life

    • Beautiful Life.
    • BMG Rights Management.

  • Lenny Kravitz

    Fly Away

    • 21st Century Rock (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • The Beatles

    Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

    • 1962-1966.
    • Apple.
    • 2.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Jim Harris, Art Historian:

Ìý

I’ve been feeling old.Ìý I went climbing yesterday with my son Silas.Ìý We’ve been climbing together for about five years and his fearlessness and strength have amazed me from the start, but the difference now is that he’s a professional.Ìý He works at the wall every weekend and he climbs at a higher standard than I could ever have dreamed of.Ìý And when I climb, he helps me.Ìý It’s a wonderful thing.Ìý And I feel old.

Ìý

Other amazing things have been happening recently too.Ìý Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been to the graduations of both my daughters, Miriam the theologian and Esther the meteorologist/mathematician.Ìý They are super smart.Ìý And I feel old.

Last week I went to the launch of a book that my godson has written.Ìý It is his fifth.Ìý This evening, I’m meeting up with another of my godsons, who has moved to Norway, set up a business and is bringing his new Norwegian son for me to meet for the first time - my first god-grandson. I’ve seldom felt so thrilled and delighted.Ìý Or so old.

Ìý

The point of all this is not that my children and godchildren are better than everyone else’s (although they are), it’s that as they’ve grown and learned and left me behind, I find myself, like thousands and thousands of parents, feeling pride, bemusement and approaching redundancy in equal measure.

Ìý

It’s natural, I suppose: Leonardo da Vinci wrote that it is a poor pupil that doesn’t surpass their teacher.

Ìý

And that’s all very well, but where does it leave the teacher, or the parent?Ìý Do we just let go and get old? St Paul had a friend, Timothy, who was a Christian leader at Ephesus in Greece.Ìý Paul trained him and taught him - but long after Timothy was running his own church, he kept on writing to him, encouraging him, helping him without getting in the way.

Ìý

And I reckon that’s the trick: to find a way to be a useful resource even when we’re no longer the only resource.Ìý So we write, perhaps, and talk; we advise when necessary and sometimes just stand back in amazement.Ìý Unbelievably, our children do outgrow our universal parental expertise. But sometimes, like Silas helping me at the wall, we get some of it back when the pupil surpasses the teacher.

Ìý

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