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Lucy Hawking and UK Sausage Week

Chris is joined by Stephen Hawking's daughter Lucy Hawking who tells us about her dad's last book Brief Answers to the Big Questions and celebrates UK Sausage Week with Tom Parker.

Chris is joined by Stephen Hawking's daughter Lucy Hawking who tells us about her dad's last book Brief Answers to the Big Questions and shares her memories of her fascinating father. We celebrate UK Sausage Week with hot dog Tom Parker from Frank Parker's Butchers and find out how to make the official supreme sausage. We asked for your claims to the fame of secret ingredients in today's Top Tenuous. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by professional rugby player James Graham and today's Pause For Thought comes from writer and vicar Dave Tomlinson.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Tue 30 Oct 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • Texas

    Black Eyed Boy

    • Hits Zone - The Best Of 97 (Various).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Train

    Call Me Sir (feat. Cam)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Aretha Franklin

    Think

    • Aretha Franklin - Queen Of Soul.
    • Atlantic.

  • Years & Years

    If You're Over Me

    • Palo Santo.
    • Polydor.

  • The Boo Radleys

    Wake Up Boo!

    • Various Artists - Untitled.
    • Global Records & Tapes.

  • The Banana Splits

    The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)

    • Television's Greatest Hits Vol. 5: In Living Color (Various Artists).
    • TVT Records.

  • Eurythmics

    There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)

    • The Female Touch 2 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Take That

    Out Of Our Heads

    • Odyssey.
    • Polydor.

  • Billy Joel

    Uptown Girl

    • An Innocent Man.
    • CBS.

  • Elton John

    Daniel

    • Diamonds.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Boyzone

    Love

    • Thank You & Goodnight.
    • Rhino.

  • Room 5

    Make Luv (feat. Oliver Cheatham)

    • New Woman 2003 (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • T. Rex

    Metal Guru

    • Can The Glam! (Various Artists).
    • Cherry Red Records.

  • Gregory Porter

    Liquid Spirit

    • Liquid Spirit.
    • Blue Note.
    • 001.

  • µþ±ð²â´Ç²Ô³¦Ã©

    Crazy in Love (feat. JAY-Z)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 3.

  • Michael Bublé

    Love You Anymore

    • Love (Deluxe Edition).
    • Reprise.

  • The Beatles

    Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

    • 1967-1970.
    • Apple.
    • 3.

  • Original Dodger & Romina Johnson

    Movin' Too Fast

    • Huge Hits 2000 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Feargal Sharkey

    A Good Heart

    • The Love Album (CD 2) (Various Artist.
    • Virgin.

  • Soft Cell

    Tainted Love

    • Hits & Pieces - The Best of Marc Almond & Soft Cell.
    • UMC.

  • Las Ketchup

    Aserejé (The Ketchup Song)

    • Now 53 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Paul Weller

    Gravity

    • True Meanings.
    • Parlophone.

  • Elvis Presley vs Junkie XL

    A Little Less Conversation

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG/RCA.

  • ZZ Top

    Viva Las Vegas

    • American Dream (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Barbra Streisand

    Don't Lie To Me

    • Walls.
    • Columbia.

  • Urban Cookie Collective

    The Key: The Secret

    • (CD Single).
    • Peermusic.

  • Leonard Cohen

    Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Dave Tomlinson,Ìýwriter and vicar:

Ìý

I’d like to tell you something weird – about a cottage we rented for nearly thirty years in the wilds of Yorkshire. With no gas or electricity, the cottage stood about a mile from the nearest road – accessible only on a rough track through five gates. We loved it. And forged so many memories there.

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However, it was hours from London, so reluctantly, we decided it was time to give it up. On our final visit, my wife Pat noticed that someone had written something on a tree next to the cottage. It was lines from Leonard Cohen’s song ‘Hey that’s no way to say goodbye’, written in felt tip. Apart from the question: Who on earth writes song lyrics on a tree in remotest Yorkshire (if you’re listening, please get in touch), the fact is, we are massive Cohen fans and the song was unbelievably appropriate and did actually help me (tearfully) to say goodbye to our beloved bolthole.

Ìý

Goodbyes are often difficult and painful, and life is full of them – some more painful than others. I always feel that autumn is a ‘goodbye’ season, when warm summer days are snatched from us and we take refuge in sweaters and overcoats, and huddle round a fire (or remind ourselves where the central heating button is located!)

Ìý

For me, autumn with its glorious pageant of colour (especially in the bright sunshine) is a natural recurring reminder that nothing lasts forever, but that even goodbyes can be beautiful. And ultimately, autumn’s goodbye isn’t really goodbye, but au revoir, a hello waiting to happen.

Ìý

This week, Pat and I had a walk in Queens Wood in north London where the entire woodland floor was covered with acorns – such that I skidded down the hillside, lost my footing and landed on my backside, with Pat bursting her seams, laughing.

Ìý

I find it breath-taking that nature’s response to the farewell of autumn is to scatter the seeds of spring with such utterly preposterous abundance. As if to say, nothing lasts forever, but hang on: something else is always about to appear.

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I don’t know who our tree graffiti artist is, but I’m grateful for them injecting some beauty, mystery and hope into an otherwise sad event, for turning my teary goodbye into a smiling au revoir.

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  • Tue 30 Oct 2018 06:30
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