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Chris Evans reveals Zoe Ball is taking over The Breakfast Show

Chris Evans reveals that Zoe Ball’s taking over the Radio 2 Breakfast Show in January. We talk pigeons with Ian Evans from the Royal Pigeon Racing Association.

Chris Evans reveals that Zoe Ball’s taking over the Radio 2 Breakfast Show in January. Zoe joins Chris live in the studio and shares the advice her son Woody gave her that convinced her to take the job! We talk pigeons with Ian Evans from the Royal Pigeon Racing Association, finding out they are expensive to keep and surprisingly fast. After the rumour of there being a Dad’s Army TV comeback, we ask for your claims to the fame of the original iconic television series in today's Top Tenuous. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by Wigan rugby league player Sam Tompkins and Jim Harris has today’s Pause For Thought.

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Wed 3 Oct 2018 06:30
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  • Cher

    Believe

    • Love Songs - 39 All Time Love Classic.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Olly Murs

    Moves (feat. Snoop Dogg)

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • The Belle Stars

    Iko Iko

    • Rain Man O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Capitol.

  • Arcade Fire

    Everything Now

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Pretenders

    Don't Get Me Wrong

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Bruno Mars

    24K Magic

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Dancing

    • Golden.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Tom Robinson Band

    2-4-6-8 Motorway

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1977 (Various).
    • Premier.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Dreams

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 007.

  • The Cascades

    Rhythm Of The Rain

    • It's Cool (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Rita Ora

    Let You Love Me

    • Phoenix.
    • Atlantic.

  • The Police

    Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic

    • Ones On 1 (Radio 1 21st Birthday Albu.
    • Â鶹ԼÅÄ.

  • Sherbet

    Howzat

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

  • Wham!

    Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go

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

  • Nile Rodgers & Chic

    Sober (feat. Craig David & Stefflon Don)

    • It's About Time.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Cyndi Lauper

    Girls Just Want To Have Fun

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

  • Charlie Puth

    Done For Me (feat. Kehlani)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Eternal

    Power of a Woman

    • Eternal - Greatest Hits.
    • Chrysalis.

  • No Doubt

    Don't Speak

    • Huge Hits 1997 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Lenny Kravitz

    Fly Away

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

  • Tom Odell

    Half As Good As You (feat. Alice Merton)

  • Coldplay

    Don't Panic

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Music.

  • New Kids on the Block

    Hangin' Tough

    • Greatest Hits.
    • Columbia.

  • Levellers

    What a Beautiful Day

  • Cliff Richard

    Rise Up

    • Rise Up.
    • Rhino.

  • Bud Flanagan

    Dad's Army

  • Gabrielle

    Under My Skin

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.
    • 1.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Jim Harris, Art Historian:

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A couple of weeks ago I had to use up my last couple of days of annual leave so I went up to the Lake District to camp and walk by myself.

Ìý

There were two reasons for going. One was for the sublime pleasure of those hills in Autumn. But the other was that I just wanted to be alone, away from other people’s voices and away from other people’s demands.Ìý Really, I just wanted to be away from other people.

And so I was.Ìý And it was good.Ìý But on my second day's walk, I set off from Seathwaite in patchy clouds and occasional sunshine and made my way up Scafell Pike - straight into what can only be described as the Apocalypse.

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By the end of the first hour the sky was dark and lowering. By the end of the second there was steady rain and a strong wind. By the end of the third I was in a lashing torrent, driven by a gale with visibility of about forty feet. As I approached the summit I was practically on all fours. I was, to put it plainly, frightened.

Ìý

Now there was something about all this that was not just physically challenging though. It was also deeply, desperately lonely. And entirely alone on Scafell Pike, in cataclysmic weather, it felt as if the world was ending. Now I’d like to say something here from Psalm 23 about fearlessness, God’s comfort and green pastures. I’d like to say that in that apocalyptic moment God spoke to me and told me I was not alone at all. But God didn't.

Ìý

God just left me there.Ìý And because he didn’t speak comfort into the rain and the wind, I knew why I was up there.Ìý I was up there to come down again.Ìý And suddenly I wasn’t glad to be away but happy to be going home.

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I reckon pretty well everyone gets lonely. We miss the families we push away, the friends we have lost or who are far off, the lovers who are out of reach. And we are separated from them variously by our own fault, by their fault and by no-one’s fault. But the apocalypse, as I found out on Scafell Pike, comes quickly.Ìý So I suppose the question isn’t really ‘why are they so far away?’ but ‘How quickly can I walk back towards them?’

Broadcast

  • Wed 3 Oct 2018 06:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

Farewell Chris Evans: The best bits from his last shows at Radio 2

After eight years of hosting the Breakfast Show, Chris Evans leaves Radio 2.

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