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We talk toad in the hole with top TV chefs Mark Sargeant, Tom Kerridge and James Martin, when we accidentally declare it a National week!

Top TV chefs Mark Sargeant, Tom Kerridge and James Martin make us yearn for the Yorkshire Pudding and salivate over sausages as we accidentally declare it 'National Toad in the hole week'...

Our little helpful hero Ellie Yeoman tells us about her very first time as a school mentor...

And, our mystery guest creates a hive of activity as British bee boffin Martin Smith leaves us buzzing when he tells us how you help a chilly bee...

Today's show is dedicated to anyone who passes something every day but has no idea what it is...
And today's show is entitled: Do you want the answer or do you prefer having the question?

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Wed 29 Jan 201406:30
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • America

    Ventura Highway

    • Country Roads (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • B. Bumble & the Stingers

    Nut Rocker

    • The 1962 British Hit Parade Pt. 1: Jan.-May, Vol. 2 (Various Artists).
    • Acrobat.

  • Boyzone

    Light Up The Night

    • BZ20.
    • Rhino.
    • 001.

  • Toni Braxton

    Hurt You (feat. Babyface)

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
    • 001.

  • Lindsey Buckingham

    Holiday Road

    • National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • WEA.
    • 1.

  • Andy Burrows

    Because I Know That I Can

    • (CD Single).
    • Play It Again Sam UK.
    • 1.

  • Sheryl Crow

    Easy

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 001.

  • Detroit Emeralds

    Feel The Need In Me

    • Heart Full Of Soul (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Dodgy

    Good Enough

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 34 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Eurythmics

    Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

    • NOW That's What I Call The 80s (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Farm

    Groovy Train

    • True Brit (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience

    Crosstown Traffic

    • The Jimi Hendrix Collection.
    • Universal.

  • Lenny Kravitz

    California

    • Lenny Kravitz - Baptism.
    • Parlophone.

  • John Lennon

    Stand By Me (Live on OGWT, 1975)

  • Little Richard

    Long Tall Sally

    • Little Richard - British Hit Singles.
    • Ace.

  • Madonna

    Vogue

    • Finally Enough Love (Deluxe Edition).
    • Rhino.

  • Oasis

    The Importance Of Being Idle

    • (CD Single).
    • Big Brother Records.

  • One Direction

    Story Of My Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco Music.

  • OneRepublic

    If I Lose Myself

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.
    • 001.

  • Plastic Bertrand

    Ca Plane Pour Moi

    • VirginMegaMusic Totally 80's (Var).
    • Rhino.

  • Gregory Porter

    Liquid Spirit

    • Liquid Spirit.
    • Blue Note.
    • 001.

  • Elvis Presley

    Crying In The Chapel

    • Presley - The All Time Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.

  • Gerry Rafferty

    Baker Street

    • Boots Rock Collection Vol.4 (Variou.
    • Boots.

  • Mark Ronson

    Valerie (feat. Amy Winehouse)

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony BMG.

  • Scissor Sisters

    I Don't Feel Like Dancin'

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Rod Stewart

    Beautiful Morning

    • Time.
    • Decca.
    • 001.

  • Traveling Wilburys

    End Of The Line

    • Traveling Wilburys Vol.1.
    • Wilbury.

  • The Who

    Love, Reign O'er Me

    • Then and Now.
    • SME.
    • 15.

  • Jackie Wilson

    Reet Petite (The Finest Girl You Ever Want To Meet)

    • That's Rock'n'Roll (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

Pause for Thought: Leslie Griffiths

Pause for Thought: Leslie Griffiths

From Leslie Griffiths, Methodist Minister:

I have two sons and a daughter and music is the love of their life. By music I mean popular music; they have vast numbers of downloads that feed into their ear plugs and radio sets day after day. And they all get at me to switch on, to connect, to find the joys of the music they love. Words are the love of my life and I confess that I just can’t get pop music, it doesn’t do much for me. “Oh dad,” I can hear their sigh right now. It seems that, at least on this matter, we live on different planets.

And yet. There was one day when our worlds did meet. My oldest son’s best pal Chris is the son of John Entwistle, the late and lamented bass guitarist of the WHO. In the mid-1990s, Chris offered my wife and me a couple of tickets for a massive concert the WHO were doing in Hyde Park. I’d been attending the Methodist Conference in Blackpool. The moment it finished I was away, straight down the M6, arriving just in time to join the vast crowd who’d turned up for the concert. I shall never forget the performance of Quadrophenia – a work about the search for identity in times when our inner selves are fragmented by the pressures of life. A young boy’s mind was split into four, it was schizophrenia times two. “I’ve had enough of dying, living, sleeping, crying, childhood, pain“, the young man screamed. He knew he was on a path to despair. “All I really want,” he cried, “is to belong.” The piece ends with what was called “a spiritual epiphany” with a hint of healing as Pete Townsend sang “Love reign/rain on me”. Love is identified as the missing quality, the X factor, that could heal the wounded soul. And that’s the message that touched my heart. The last thing we’d sung at the Methodist Conference before I left for London was a hymn by Charles Wesley which concludes with the assurance that we will always be “As far from danger as from fear while love, almighty love, is near.” All you really need is love.

Two worlds met that day. They touched and kissed and lit a flame of love.

Broadcast

  • Wed 29 Jan 201406:30
    BBC Radio 2

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