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Seasick Steve and Dee Adams

Chris chats to Dee Adams, mum of boxing champ Nicola who's defending her title in Rio today, and Seasick Steve joins us on the phone with news of his new single Grass is Greener.

Chris chats to Dee Adams, mum of boxing champ Nicola who is in the ring defending her gold in Rio today. Seasick Steve joins us on the phone with news of his new single Grass is Greener and how he's missing Carfest. We hear what's making the headlines in your day with your breaking news stories. Plus it's an Olympic Mum and Dad Top Tenuous and Canon Ann Easter provides the daily Pause For Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Tue 16 Aug 2016 06:30
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Music Played

  • Sylvester

    You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)

    • Sylvester - The Original Hits.
    • Fantasy.

  • Deacon Blue

    The Believers

    • (CD Single).
    • Ear Music.
    • 001.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Albatross

  • Toto

    Rosanna

    • Walk On - Hits From The Last 2 Decade.
    • Columbia.

  • One Direction

    Drag Me Down

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco Music.

  • 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.

  • Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

    Heat Wave

    • Originals 2 (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Sophie Ellis‐Bextor

    Come With Us

    • Familia.
    • Re/Essential.
    • 001.

  • KISS

    Crazy Crazy Nights

    • Now 10, Part 1 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • CeeLo Green

    Music To My Soul

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Lou Rawls

    Lady Love

    • Million Sellers Vol.17 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Kelvin Jones

    Closer

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.

  • Florence + The Machine

    Queen Of Peace

    • How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful.
    • Island.
    • 004.

  • Stereophonics

    Have a Nice Day

    • Now 49 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Meghan Trainor

    Lips Are Movin

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
    • 001.

  • Dean Martin & Helen O’Connell

    How D'Ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning?

    • Cool Couples (Various Artists).
    • Sanctuary.

  • Ladyhawke

    The River

    • (CD Single).
    • Mid Century Records.
    • 2.

  • The Rolling Stones

    Start Me Up

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.
    • 7.

  • Zak Abel

    Everybody Needs Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Boz Scaggs

    Lido Shuffle

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

  • First Class

    Beach Baby

    • Dance Hits Of The '60's & '70's.
    • Old Gold.

  • Blossoms

    Charlemagne

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI.

  • Coldplay

    A Sky Full Of Stars

    • ±«Óătv Music Awards (Various Artists).
    • UMOD.

  • Dobie Gray

    Out On The Floor

    • The Best Northern Soul All-Nighter (V.
    • Virgin.

  • Grandmaster & Melle Mel

    White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)

    • Best Of Sugar Hill Records (Various Artists).
    • Rhino Records.

  • White Lies

    Take It Out On Me

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.

  • The Hues Corporation

    Rock The Boat

    • Million Sellers Vol.14 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Wow

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Canon Ann Easter, Chaplain to the Queen:

Family holidays these days are often sophisticated trips to farflung places with lots of sunshine and exotic food and wine. It’s a bit different from my childhood when many of our neighbours in the east end of London spent their holidays hopping – picking hops and fruit in Kent and they’d have to take their whole home with them.

One family decided that what they really needed to liven up the shack where they were going to spend the next month was a couple of paraffin lamps so their ten year old son was sent to (erm) “borrow” some from the local road works. Ronnie set off on his scooter with an old cycle cape draped over him to hide the spoils; he hung a lamp over each arm and started for home – but he hadn’t thought to turn off the lamps and so reached home only moments before he expired from the heat! That one became part of our local folk history, as you can imagine!

We often walked to school with Ronnie and he would regale us with stories of the marvellous times they had in the hopfields, filling enormous containers with the fragile flowers and the singsongs round the fire every night. He made it sound such fun that my sister and I begged our parents to let us go hopping instead of our usual holiday camp – but we were never allowed! With his innocent enthusiasm, Ronnie transformed the relentless, back- breaking tedium of the hopfields into some sort of Paradise. What a gift.

The gift to look at things in a different way and see the best in them is something that my Christian faith encourages, challenges and inspires me do -  it helps me to catch a glimpse of Heaven in the ordinary..... to see that there’s always some joy in our lives, even if not happiness; that the most difficult and challenging tasks can be accomplished, especially if there are others around to keep you going; that yesterday’s forgiven and tomorrow’s a fresh start.

I do hope that Heaven’s more like a holiday camp than a hopfield though
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