The Big British Bucket List!
Vanessa asks today about the places in Britain you absolutely have to see before you die, plus plenipotionary is Word Of The Day and Beth Hardy in Derbyshire is V's birthday girl.
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Culture Club
Karma Chameleon
- Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artis.
- Columbia.
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Carly Simon
Why
- The Very Best Of Carly Simon.
- Global Television.
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Robbie Williams
Old Before I Die
- Now 37 (Various Artists).
- Now.
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Status Quo
Bula Bula Quo
- (CD Single).
- Fourth Chord Records.
- 1.
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Blondie
Denis
- Atomic: The Very Best Of Blondie.
- EMI.
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Kirsty MacColl
A New England
- From Croydon To Cuba... An Anthology.
- Virgin.
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Bastille
Laura Palmer
- (CD Single).
- Virgin Records.
- 1.
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Rod Stewart
Have I Told You Lately
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Hue and Cry
Labour Of Love
- Now 24 (Various Artists).
- Now.
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Stereophonics
Graffiti on the Train
- (CD Single).
- Stylus Records.
- 1.
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Donna Summer
Bad Girls
- Donna Summer - Summer Collection.
- Mercury.
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Daft Punk
Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams)
- (CD Single).
- Columbia.
- 1.
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Tegan and Sara
I Was A Fool
- (CD Single).
- Warner Bros.
- 1.
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Beth Hardy's birthday number 1
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Wet Wet Wet
With a Little Help From My Friends
- Wet Wet Wet - Greatest Hits & More.
- Precious Organisation.
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Pause For Thought
My wife and I moved into our first house together early last year.听 It is the first time either one of us has owned property outright 鈥� although the bank with whom we mortgage might say otherwise!听 The house had recently been renovated so there wasn鈥檛 much for us to do it, but still most of last summer and autumn was spent turning it into our home.听 Having made ourselves quite comfortable inside, our attention has now turned to the compact spaces that we are lucky enough to have at both the front and the rear.
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I grew up in a home with considerably large gardens in the World鈥檚 first garden city.听 My parents, who had lived as farmers in the Punjab before moving to the United Kingdom, tried for as long as they possibly could to maintain most of the outside space for agriculture.听 Bordered by flowers and plants, and within rudimentary channels for irrigation grew potatoes, carrots, parsnips, spinach, tomatoes, peas and cabbages.听 It was a sight to behold all year round!听 As my siblings and I grew older, our needs changed and my father鈥檚 desire for either my brother or I to become a professional footballer, steadily invaded the crop-space, replacing it with turf.
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Some twenty years on and I find myself turning back the hands of time and wanting to clear as much space as possible in our garden for cultivation.听 Like my parents, it is the Sikh within me that wants to work the soil.听 The founder of the Sikh way of life farmed for almost thirty years believing that it was good, hard work that would be rewarded with a bountiful harvest.听 Guru Nanak encouraged people to be more self-sufficient and to be more at one with the natural World around them to enhance their sense of self-awareness.听 Centuries have passed, but it is still the perfect way to produce something for your family, to exercise the body and to reflect on life.
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In my mind, I鈥檝e pictured all manner of vegetables and herbs sitting alongside plants and flowers in my back garden, even before my wife and I bought this house.听 Now I鈥檓 looking forward to making that picture a reality.
Word Of The Day
Broadcast
- Tue 21 May 2013 05:00大象传媒 Radio 2