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Chris Evans announces he's leaving Radio 2

Chris announces he's leaving Radio 2 after 13 years here. We talk books with David Baddiel and vintage cars with the owner of the Goodwood estate Charles Gordon-Lennox.

Chris announces he's leaving Radio 2 after 13 years here and 8 years on the Breakfast Show. Comedian turned children's author David Baddiel tells us about his new book Head Kid and about embarking on the Australian leg of his My Family: Not the Sitcom tour. We talk vintage cars with the owner of the Goodwood estate Charles Gordon-Lennox and find out how they'll be celebrating its 20th anniversary. Ahead of the Goodwood Revival, we ask for your claims to the fame of this prestigious car festival in today's Top Tenuous. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by retired Scottish footballer Pat Nevin and Father Brian D'Arcy has the first Pause For Thought of the week.

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Mon 3 Sep 2018 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Earth, Wind & Fire

    September

    • Greatest Hits Of 1978 (Various Artis.
    • Premier.
    • 3.

  • Lenny Kravitz

    5 More Days Til Summer

    • Raise Vibration.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Tom Jones

    She's A Lady

    • Take A Break (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • David Guetta

    Don't Leave Me Alone (feat. Anne-Marie)

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • The Cranberries

    Linger

    • Emerald Rock (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Michael Jackson

    Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough

    • Michael Jackson - History.
    • Epic.

  • Seasick Steve

    Down on the Farm

    • Hubcap Music.
    • Polydor Records.
    • 1.

  • The Police

    Roxanne

    • The Very Best Of Sting & The Police.
    • A&M.

  • Dr. Hook

    Sylvia's Mother

    • Completely Hooked.
    • Capitol.

  • Boy George & Culture Club

    Let Somebody Love You

    • Life.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • The Lightning Seeds

    Change

  • Ian Dury & the Blockheads

    Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick

    • Fantastic 70's (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Perry Como

    Papa Loves Mambo

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

  • The Beatles

    Twist and Shout

    • Please Please Me.
    • Parlophone.
    • 14.

  • Jess Glynne

    All I Am

    • Always In Between.
    • Atlantic.

  • Prefab Sprout

    Cars And Girls

    • Top Gear 2 - Various Artists.
    • Columbia.

  • KC and the Sunshine Band

    That's the Way (I Like It)

    • Disco Fever (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Mott the Hoople

    All The Young Dudes

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1972 (Various).
    • Premier.

  • Pink Floyd

    Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2

    • Pink Floyd.
    • Harvest.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    People Give In

    • Resistance Is Futile.
    • Columbia.

  • The Chainsmokers

    Side Effects (feat. Emily Warren)

    • (CD Single).
    • Disruptor Records.

  • Happy Mondays

    Step On

    • Now 17, Part 1 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Stone Roses

    Fools Gold

    • Precious - Various Artists.
    • Dino.

  • Cher, Meryl Streep, Christine Baranski, Julie Walters, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsg氓rd, Andy Garc铆a, Amanda Seyfried, Dominic Cooper, Lily James, Jessica Keenan Wynn, Alexa Davies, Josh Dylan, Jeremy Irvine & Hugh Skinner

    Super Trouper

    • Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Polydor.
    • 017.

  • R.E.M.

    Nightswimming

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Father Brian D鈥橝rcy, a Catholic Passionist priest:

They say a happy life is spent learning, earning and yearning.

This week I鈥檝e noticed colder days, shorter evenings and more traffic, so it must be back-to-school time. Personally I hated school with all its pressures of passing exams, homework and being afraid of cross teachers. Education then was based on the principle that children should be seen but not heard.

It鈥檚 different now. Children are individuals in their own right. Nelson Mandela believed that history will judge us by the difference we make in the lives of our children. When education gives the young both roots and wings they blossom and bloom.

Education is not something you complete; it goes on forever. If you鈥檙e not willing to learn, no one can make you; if you are willing to learn no one can stop you. The Book of Proverbs advised 鈥淭each your child in the skills of life and even in old age they will never forget it.鈥� (22:6)

Schools can determine how we turn out in life. I was raised in a small rural area. At that time the secret to an educated future was determined by the infamous 11-plus tests. Pass that exam and you got a free grammar school education; fail it and you quit school at the first opportunity.

聽My father knew that if I continued at our local school I鈥檇 fail. So, as an 8 year-old, he sent me to live with an aunt 40 miles away to make sure I got the best opportunity. I didn鈥檛 appreciate it at the time but I couldn鈥檛 have been a priest without my father鈥檚 foresight.

Ever since, I try to encourage young adults to persevere in education. Learning is an easy load to carry. Both failure and mistakes are essential parts of the University of Life. You can never learn from your mistakes, though, if you keep denying them.

Learning opens up new worlds to us. Read a book and you learn to live in someone else鈥檚 world. If you don鈥檛 try, you鈥檒l never win; If you don鈥檛 ask, the answers is always no. If you don鈥檛 step forward you鈥檒l always be stuck in the same place. That鈥檚 life!

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  • Mon 3 Sep 2018 06:30
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