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Anyone for baseball?

Chris's Mystery Guest is former Team GB catcher and current under-19s coach from the British Baseball Federation Will Linton.

Little Joshua from Little Hampton tells us all about his very first time at the Tower of London...

Our Mystery Guest is former Team GB catcher and current u19s coach from the British Baseball Federation, Will Linton...

And our Top Tenuous takes in your desperate claims to the fame of industrial appliances...

Today's show is dedicated to anyone who is in for an accidentally quiet or quieter day...
And today's show is entitled: Recognising your last bad decision, will only help you make your next new one.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Tue 2 Sep 201406:30
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • ABC

    When Smokey Sings

    • Now 1987 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • Adam and the Ants

    Prince Charming

    • Adam Ant - Hits.
    • CBS.

  • B. B. King

    B B Boogie

  • Bad Company

    Can't Get Enough

    • Driving Rock (Various Artists).
    • Global Records & Tapes.
    • 1.

  • Badly Drawn Boy

    All Possibilities

    • (CD Single).
    • Twisted Nerve.

  • 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.

  • Black Grape

    In The Name Of The Father

    • (CD Single).
    • Radioactive.

  • Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Buffalo Soldier

    • Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend.
    • Island.

  • Kate Bush

    Hounds Of Love

    • Remastered Part I.
    • Fish People.

  • Eagles

    One of These Nights

    • Singles & B-Sides.
    • Rhino.

  • George Ezra

    Blame It On Me

    • Wanted On Voyage.
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Fat and Frantic

    Last Night My Wife Hoovered My Head

  • George Harrison

    My Sweet Lord

    • All Things Must Pass.
    • EMI.
    • 4.

  • The Hues Corporation

    Rock The Boat

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

  • Jo Jo Gunne

    Run Run Run

    • The Sound Of The Seventies (Various Artists).
    • Warner Music TV.

  • Jack Johnson

    Better Together

    • (CD Single).
    • Brushfire Records.

  • The Killers

    Mr Brightside

    • Grandmaster Party 12.
    • MUSIC FACTORY MASTERMIX.
    • 14.

  • Lenny Kravitz

    The Chamber

    • Strut.
    • Roxie Records.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    Futurology

    • Futurology.
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Dean Martin & Helen O’Connell

    How D'Ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning?

    • Cool Couples (Various Artists).
    • Sanctuary.

  • Chantel McGregor

    Cat Song

  • Sérgio Mendes & Brasil '66

    Mas Que Nada

    • Mundo Latino (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Glenn Miller & Tex Beneke

    Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree

    • Glenn Miller - Moonlight Serenade.
    • Past Perfect.

  • New Order

    Regret

    • Glorious (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Paolo Nutini

    Iron Sky

    • Caustic Love.
    • Atlantic.

  • One Direction

    Story Of My Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco Music.

  • Orange Juice

    Rip It Up

    • Rip It Up (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters

    Rainbow

    • Lullaby and...The Ceaseless Roar.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 001.

  • Queen

    I Want To Break Free

    • The Works.
    • EMI.

  • Sam Smith

    I'm Not The Only One

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.
    • 5.

  • Strawbs

    Part Of The Union

    • Bursting At The Seams.
    • A&M.

  • The Supremes

    You Can't Hurry Love

    • Diana Ross & The Supremes - 40 Motown.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Tiffany

    I Think We're Alone Now

    • Now 12 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Turtles

    Happy Together

    • Heartbeat - The 60's Gold Collection.
    • Global Television.

Pause For Thought

With Leslie Griffiths, Methodist Minister

How close to greatness can you get? I was talking to one of the musicians at my church about his instrument. It’s a viola da gamba, it looks like a small cello, and I’d never seen one before. He told me that he’d bought it over thirty years ago from an instrument maker in South East London named Paddy Bush. This man turned out to be the brother of Kate Bush whose wonderful appearance at the Hammersmith Apollo last week has been so widely acclaimed. So there I was, two people and thirty years separating me from this astonishing singer. Not much to boast of but better than nothing, that’s what I say.

Being a literature man, I was always interested by Wuthering Heights, the hit single which brought Kate Bush so dramatically into public view. In Emily Bronte’s novel of that name, it’s the ghost of Catherine Earnshaw that knocks on the window of her one-time lover, a man called Heathcliff, begging to come in. She wants to be forgiven for letting him down in love and pleads to be allowed in. The song picks up on this theme – “Heathcliff, it’s me Cathy come home. I’m so cold. Let me in-a-your window.” As with so much good music, this song rises above the feelings of the singer and strikes a chord with the experience of all of us. We make ghastly mistakes and long for the opportunity to make up for them. With the title of Kate Bush’s Hammersmith concert in mind, we should do this Before the Dawn.

That’s exactly the advice Saint Paul gives: “Be angry if you like but don’t get carried away; don’t let the sun go down on your anger.” Do this and I’ll bet you’ll get a good night’s sleep and you’ll face the new day in a far better frame of mind.

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    BBC Radio 2

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