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Chris Evans gets a bumpy ride in after a diesel disaster and chats to David Younger, author of the world's first ever PhD research project exploring theme park design.

Chris gets a bumpy ride in after a diesel disaster...

The ups 'n' downs continue as our mystery guest is David Younger - the world's first ever PhD student in Theme Park Design...

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

Today's show is dedicated to all bake off fans who've finally managed to calm down enough after last week's freezer gate....
And today's show is entitled: a problem's not a problem if you solve it before it becomes one (diesel into petrol definitely doesn't go).

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Wed 3 Sep 2014 06:30
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Music Played

  • Blondie

    Call Me

  • Blur

    Parklife

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • The Coasters

    Yakety Yak

    • Atlantic Soul (Various Artists).
    • Warner E.S.P..

  • Neil Diamond

    America

    • Neil Diamond - The Jazz Singer.
    • Capitol.

  • Donovan

    Sunshine Superman

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1966.
    • Premier.

  • The Doors

    Light My Fire

    • (CD Single).
    • Elektra.

  • Eddie & the Hot Rods

    Do Anything You Wanna Do

    • Beautiful Game (Various Artists).
    • Universal.

  • The Emotions

    Best Of My Love

    • Mellow Madness (Various Artists).
    • Epic.

  • Shaun Escoffery

    Nature's Call

    • Nature's Call.
    • Dome Records.
    • 001.

  • Shaun Escoffery

    Nature's Call

    • Nature's Call.
    • Dome Records.
    • 001.

  • Paloma Faith

    Only Love Can Hurt Like This

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

  • Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

    D.I.Y.

    • What Have We Become.
    • Virgin EMI.
    • 001.

  • Chrissie Hynde

    Down The Wrong Way

    • Stockholm.
    • Caroline.

  • The Jacksons

    Blame It On The Boogie

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

  • The Jacksons

    ABC

    • The Best Michael Jackson & Jackson Fi.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 1.

  • The Jacksons

    I Want You Back

    • The Best Michael Jackson & Jackson Five.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 1.

  • Billy Joel

    We Didn't Start The Fire

    • Billy Joel - The Ultimate Collection.
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Jerry Lee Lewis

    Great Balls of Fire

  • Ohio Players

    Love Rollercoaster

    • Supafunky II (Various Artists).
    • Universal.

  • The Pierces

    Creation

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Razorlight

    America

    • (CD Single).
    • Vertigo.

  • The Script

    Superheroes

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • The Searchers

    Sweets For My Sweet

    • The Searchers.
    • MFP.

  • Simon & Garfunkel

    America

    • The Definitive Simon & Garfunkel.
    • Columbia.

  • Frank Sinatra

    Strangers In The Night

    • Frank Sinatra - The Reprise Years.
    • Reprise.

  • The Specials

    A Message To You, Rudy (feat. Rico Rodriguez)

    • Greatest Hits Of The 70's (Various).
    • EMI.

  • Steely Dan

    Do It Again

    • Air America O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • MCA.
    • 6.

  • Thin Lizzy

    Dancing in the Moonlight (It's Caught Me In Its Spotlight)

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1977 (Various).
    • Premier.

  • X鈥怭ress 2

    Lazy (feat. David Byrne)

    • (CD Single).
    • Skint.

Pause for Thought

From Canon Ann Easter, Chief Executive of a Charity and Chaplain to the Queen

听

I never realised that today, September 3rd is what used to be called a 'Dismal Day'! It all goes back to the Romans, who believed the Egyptian astrologers when they told them that, every month, there'd be two days when it would be unlucky to get married, to begin a business arrangement and so on. Sometimes they were actual dates, sometimes the first Monday or whatever.

The name comes from the Latin - dies mali 鈥� bad days, from which we get the word dismal.

听

And we all know that sort of day! I don't mean serious depression, which is a different thing altogether听 - just one of those days that gets off to a bad start and goes downhill from there. My hair won't go right; someone phones about PPI while I'm in the shower and after three increasingly desperate changes of clothes, I still look fat and ugly. Then I'm late. And that's the way it goes all day.

听But what to do?

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Some Christians are encouraged to ask themselves 'What would Jesus do' in a situation and the Bible says that there were times that Jesus would take off on his own 鈥� the first century version of a duvet day, and sometimes that's a solution for our melancholy too. A听 little treat, a lot of chocolate and some time out, no phones or iPad, proper rest and recuperation, that's a good way to love ourselves. And we have to learn to do that. Jesus said 'Love God and love others 鈥� as you love yourself'.

听

We might phone a friend, either to get them to cheer us up or better still, to do something nice with or for them; another idea is to look at photos of happier times and cultivate the听 attitude of gratitude 鈥� there have been good days.

听

Or we can imagine ourselves in 'Gone with the Wind' in a big swirly dress and say 'Tomorrow is another day' and all shall be well.

Broadcast

  • Wed 3 Sep 2014 06:30
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Farewell Chris Evans: The best bits from his last shows at Radio 2

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