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Sir Roger Bannister

On the 60th anniversary of Sir Roger Bannister's sub-four minute mile, Chris marks the amazing man's achievements.

On the 60th anniversary of Sir Roger Bannister's sub-four minute mile, Chris marks the amazing man's achievements...

Little Owen keeps the perfect performances coming as he tells us all about playing his cornet in the Frome Town Band for the very first time...

Our Mystery Guest leaves us buzzing about how Manuka honey can help keep your vocal chords velvety and sounding super as she is the keeper of the only beneficial bees in Britain to manufacture Manuka nectar - Alice Margett...

And the Top Tenuous takes us back to Sir Roger Bannister with your desperate claims to his fame...

Today's show is dedicated to all Liverpool fans...

And today's show is entitled: 3-0 with 11 minutes to go at Selhurst Park evidently is not enough to avoid a draw!

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Tue 6 May 2014 06:30
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Music Played

  • ABBA

    Knowing Me, Knowing You

    • Abba Gold (40th Anniversary Edition).
    • Polar.
    • 002.

  • 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.

  • The Beach Boys

    Wild Honey

    • The Best Of The Beach Boys (CD 2).
    • EMI.

  • Michael Bolton & Leona Lewis

    Ain't No Mountain High Enough

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.
    • 001.

  • David Bowie

    Life On Mars?

  • Coldplay

    Magic

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • The Spencer Davis Group

    Keep On Running

    • Fifty Number Ones Of The 60's (Variou.
    • Global Television.
    • 1.

  • Embrace

    Follow You Home

    • (CD Single).
    • Cooking Vinyl.
    • 001.

  • Glenn Frey

    The Heat Is On

    • Above The Clouds: The Very Best Of.
    • Universal.

  • Gallagher & Lyle

    I Wanna Stay With You

    • Gallagher & Lyle - Breakaway.
    • River Records.

  • Hockey

    Song Away

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

  • The Human League

    (Keep Feeling) Fascination

    • Now 1983 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

    I Love Rock 'n' Roll

    • Joan Jett - I Love Rock 'n' Roll.
    • Blackheart.

  • JoBoxers

    Boxer Beat

    • Young at Heart (Various Artists).
    • Reader's Digest.

  • Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey

    Going Back Home

    • Going Back Home.
    • Universal Music.
    • 001.

  • KISS

    ROCK AND ROLL ALL NIGHT

    • MEDICINE.

  • Lindisfarne

    Run For Home

    • Lindisfarne - On Tap.
    • Essential.

  • Lorde

    Royals

    • Pure Heroine.
    • Republic.

  • Madonna

    Beautiful Stranger

    • Madonna - Greatest Hits Volume 2.
    • Maverick.
    • 13.

  • Dean Martin & Helen O鈥機onnell

    How D'Ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning?

    • Cool Couples (Various Artists).
    • Sanctuary.

  • Meat Loaf

    You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth

    • The Very Best Of Meatloaf.
    • Virgin.

  • Idina Menzel

    Let It Go

    • Frozen O.S.T..
    • Walt Disney Records.
    • 005.

  • George Michael

    Going To A Town (Live at Air Studios)

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

  • Prince

    1999

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Lisa Stansfield

    So Be It

    • (CD Single).
    • Edel.
    • 001.

  • Tavares

    More Than A Woman

    • Disco Fever (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Tears for Fears

    Everybody Wants To Rule The World

    • Rule The World: The Greatest Hits.
    • Virgin EMI Records.
    • 4.

  • The Verve

    Bitter Sweet Symphony

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 37 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Andy Williams

    Moon River

    • The Best Of Andy Williams.
    • Dino.

Pause for Thought

From writer Abdul-Rehman Malik:

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I鈥檝e been thinking a lot about my grandmother this week 鈥� and I know why. Growing up we were lucky enough to see her every few years during our visits to Pakistan, but she was only able to visit us once.听 When I was little, and trying to get to sleep she鈥檇 often lie down next to me. Before we鈥檇 both drift off, we鈥檇 say a prayer together.听

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I recall my grandmother telling my parents years later that that I would add an extra supplication. 鈥淒ear God,鈥� I鈥檇 implore, 鈥済ive me life until I鈥檓 at least 65.鈥�

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When you鈥檙e 5 years old, 65 seems like a long way off. Today I turn 39 and 65 seems uncomfortably close.

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I'm anxious about turning 40 next year. Many of my friends who've already crossed that threshold give a little laugh when I tell them this. Everybody gets a bit anxious, but it鈥檚 better than you think, they say. I'm not entirely convinced.

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Ever since I was young, I aspired to live a life less ordinary. "Most men", Henry David Thoreau mused, "live lives of quiet desperation." The image frightened me.听

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As I look back over these 39 years, I am not sure if I have achieved the extraordinary, but my most intense memories do remind me of something else.

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Kissing my wife for the first time. The smile my newborn son flashed me moments after he was born. The joy my parents feel when all their children and grandchildren gather together in their home. These are the blessed moments that have made my life nothing short of exceptional.

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"By the flight of time," the Qur鈥檃n advises, "humanity is indeed at a loss, except those who have faith and do good works, and enjoin upon one another truth and justice; and enjoin upon one another patience."

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I sat next to my grandmother when she passed away. After her funeral, I met dozens of people of people who spoke of her kindness, remembered her generosity and missed her wise counsel.

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I hope God gives me more than 65 years, but whatever time I have left, I hope I can make it count. It is after all the way we spend our lives, rather than the length of them, that determines whether or not our lives have been truly meaningful.

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