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Anastasia Martin from Lanarkshire is starting to read a new book. The Mystery Guest was Britain's first female self-made billionaire and founder of Specsavers, Dame Mary Perkins.

Today's show was dedicated to anyone who recently came second! The show was entitled: "Is learning to lose part and parcel of knowng how to win?"

Anastasia Martin from Lanarkshire is going to start reading a book given to her by her mum and she will return tomorrow to mark it out of ten!

Today's Mystery Guest was Britain's first female self-made billionaire and founder of Specsavers, Dame Mary Perkins.

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Tue 10 May 201106:30
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Music Played

  • Wax

    Bridge To Your Heart

    • American English.
    • Lemon Recordings.
    • 5.

  • Blondie

    Mother

    • Phasm 8.

  • Big Screen Belter

    • Sting

      Shape Of My Heart

      • A&M.

  • Turin Brakes

    Pain Killer

    • (CD Single).
    • Source Records.

  • Nell Bryden

    Second Time Around

    • (CD Single).
    • 157 Records.
    • 1.

  • Snow Patrol

    Spitting Games

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Train

    Marry Me

    • Save Me, San Francisco.
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Frank Sinatra

    My Way

    • Frank Sinatra - The Reprise Years.
    • Reprise.

  • Elvis Costello

    Veronica

    • Elvis Costello - Extreme Honey.
    • Warner Bros.

  • The Hoosiers

    Choices

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.
    • 1.

  • Golden Oldie

    • Bobby Vinton

      Blue Velvet

      • Swingers (Various Artists).
      • Telstar.

  • Brooke Fraser

    Something In The Water

    • Flags.
    • Wood & Done.
    • 1.

  • Paul McCartney & Wings

    Live And Let Die

    • The 7" Singles Box.
    • MPL.

  • The Rolling Stones

    Not Fade Away

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.

  • Hue and Cry

    Labour Of Love

    • Now 24 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Elbow

    Open Arms

    • (CD Single).
    • Fiction.
    • 1.

  • Johnny Nash

    I Can See Clearly Now

    • I Believe.
    • Telstar.

  • Katy Perry

    California Gurls (feat. Snoop Dogg)

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
    • 1.

  • Carpenters

    (They Long To Be) Close To You

    • The Carpenters - Yesterday Once More.
    • A&M.

  • Michael Franti & Spearhead

    The Sound Of Sunshine

    • The Sound Of Sunshine.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • Gobsmackers

    • Simon & Garfunkel

      Homeward Bound

      • The Definitive Simon & Garfunkel.
      • Columbia.

    • Slade

      Cum On Feel The Noize

      • (CD Single).
      • Columbia.

  • Franz Ferdinand

    Walk Away

    • (CD Single).
    • Domino.

  • Duran Duran

    Rio

    • Duran Duran - Greatest.
    • EMI.

  • Hurts

    Illuminated

    • Happiness.

  • Duke Special

    Last Night I Nearly Died (But I Woke Up Just In Time)

    • (CD Single).
    • V2.

  • The Searchers

    Needles and Pins

    • (Single).
    • Pye.

Broadcast

  • Tue 10 May 201106:30
    BBC Radio 2

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

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500 Words

500 Words

BBC Radio 2's story-writing competition for kids.