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Great British Butter!

Chris shares his delight for British dairy with the chairman of Coombe Caste in Wiltshire and boss of butter, Glyn Woolley.

After Chris made some gorgeous sizzling sausage sarnies with lashings of butter for the team before the show, we decide to delve deeper into why the dairy delight is the perfect accompaniment with the Chairman of Coombe Caste in Wiltshire, Glyn Woolley...

Taking us from the dairy to the farm is our mystery guest who runs an exceptional educational tool for school kids, she is the UK owner of double deckered farm Gill Rivers...

And our Top Tenuous takes us to your desperate claims to the fame of ventriloquists...why? Because...today's show is dedicated to the grasshopper warbler, apparently a very gifted ventriloquist...

And today's download is entitled: positive energy and ambition is the fuel to success!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Wed 9 Apr 2014 06:30
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Music Played

  • Paula Abdul

    Straight Up

    • Choose 80's Dance (Various Artists).
    • BMG.

  • Bryan Adams

    Can't Stop This Thing We Started

    • Bryan Adams - The Best Of Me.
    • Mercury.

  • Gary Barlow

    Since I Saw You Last

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • David Bowie

    Sorrow

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Kate Bush

    The Man With The Child In His Eyes

    • Remastered Part I.
    • Fish People.

  • Chicory Tip

    Son Of My Father

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

  • Coldplay

    Magic

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Cream

    I Feel Free

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1966.
    • Premier.

  • The Cure

    In Between Days

    • The Cure - Staring At The Sea.
    • Fiction.

  • The Doors

    Break on Through

    • The All Time Greatest Rock Songs ....
    • Columbia.

  • Sophie Ellis鈥怋extor

    Runaway Daydreamer

    • (CD Single).
    • EBGB's.
    • 001.

  • Paloma Faith

    Only Love Can Hurt Like This

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.
    • 004.

  • Peter Gabriel

    Sledgehammer

    • Now 1986 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Go West

    King Of Wishful Thinking

    • Pretty Woman - Soundtrack.
    • EMI.

  • Ian Dury & the Blockheads

    Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick

    • Fantastic 70's (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Josh Record

    For Your Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal.
    • 001.

  • Paul McCartney

    Another Day

    • The 7" Singles Box.
    • MPL.

  • Kylie Minogue

    I Was Gonna Cancel

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
    • 003.

  • The Newbeats

    Bread & Butter

    • Acuff-Rose Opryland Music: 50th Anniv.
    • Acuff-Rose Opryland.

  • Pet Shop Boys

    Heart

    • Pet Shop Boys - Discography.
    • EMI.

  • Tom Petty

    I Won't Back Down

    • Tom Petty - Anthology.
    • MCA.

  • The Pierces

    Believe In Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • Shed Seven

    Chasing Rainbows

    • Polydor.

  • Rod Stewart

    Beautiful Morning

    • Time.
    • Decca.
    • 001.

  • Toto

    Africa

    • The All Time Greatest Rock Songs ....
    • Columbia.

  • Steve Tyrell

    The Way You Look

  • Jackie Wilson

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

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

  • Nancy Wilson

    (You Don't Know) How Glad I Am

    • (Single).
    • Capitol.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From writer Abdul-Rehman Malik:

听

As unfashionable as it may be to admit these days, I believe in miracles 鈥� those moments when reason reaches its limit and remarkable, inexplicable things happen.

听

I went to state schools all my life. They had no religious affiliation, but it was before Toronto became a truly cosmopolitan city and school still reflected the presumed faith of the majority.听 In our school library, there was a picture book which told the story of the life of Jesus. It told about how Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, gave sight to the blind and turned water into wine.

听

Being from a teetotal faith, I鈥檓 not sure the water into wine incident appears on our list of Jesus鈥檚 miracles, but much of the rest of the story fits. Jesus was no stranger to me. While the Muslim tradition doesn鈥檛 accept the divinity of Christ, it speaks of Jesus as a prophet, the messiah and bringer of goodness. His mother Mary had an entire chapter of the Qur鈥檃n dedicated to her.

听

The trouble was that the pictures of Jesus I saw never looked right. It seemed he always had long brown-blonde hair, blue eyes, and looked like a surfer who鈥檇 taken a wrong turn and ended up in the Holy Land.

听

The Quran tells us that Jesus said, 鈥淕od has made me blessed wherever I may be, and has enjoined on me prayer and听charity as long as I live. God has made me kind to my mother, and has not made me overbearing or miserable.鈥�

听

The historical Jesus was after all a Jewish man from Palestine.听 Far from the anodyne images I was used to, the Jesus that has emerged for me over the years is a man who served without care for his own comfort; a rebel who upended the tables of the moneylenders and championed the poor.听听

听

As my Christians friends prepare for Easter, I join with them in celebrating the Jesus I love. If ever there was miracle, it is that a poor carpenter from Galilee continues to stir the devotion of billions of people 鈥� Christian, Muslim and many more 鈥� over 2000 years after his birth. May it be a devotion which causes us to be rebels for virtue, not fonts of hate.

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  • Wed 9 Apr 2014 06:30
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