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Pitching perfect pancakes

Chris Evans invites three purveyors of pancakes to give their top tips to help listeners better their batter on Shrove Tuesday.

Awesome Oliver gets a fanfare for telling us a fascinating fact about fish from his first ever trip to a sea life centre...

Chris invites three purveyors of pancakes to give their top tips to help listeners better their batter on Shrove Tuesday...

With many of the team and listeners taking to the treadmill and going on outdoor activities, we look into the science of stretching with fitness fanatic Laura Dilloway...

And our Top Tenuous takes us back to sugary delights with your desperate claims to the fame of 'Pancake Glory'.

Today's show is dedicated to anyone whose kitchen table will be adorned at some point with pancakes!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Tue 17 Feb 2015 06:30
大象传媒 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • T. Rex

    Metal Guru

    • Can The Glam! (Various Artists).
    • Cherry Red Records.

  • Si Cranstoun

    Never Gonna Let You Go

    • (CD Single).
    • EastWest.
    • 001.

  • Roxette

    The Look

    • Now 15 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Jamiroquai

    Cosmic Girl

    • Simply The Best Radio Hits (Various).
    • Warner E.S.P..

  • KC and the Sunshine Band

    Boogie Shoes

    • Very Best Of KC & The Sunshine Band.
    • Chrysalis.

  • 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.

  • George Harrison

    Got My Mind Set on You

    • George Harrison - Cloud Nine.
    • Dark Horse.
    • 1.

  • Shaun Escoffery

    Nobody Knows

    • In The Red Room.
    • Dome Records.
    • 3.

  • Nancy Sinatra

    These Boots Are Made for Walkin'

    • The Greatest Hits Of Nancy Sinatra.
    • Boulevard.

  • The Pierces

    Kissing You Goodbye

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 1.

  • Jim Reeves

    I Love You Because

    • That's Country (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Bachman鈥揟urner Overdrive

    You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet

    • And The Road Goes On Forever Vol 1.
    • Debutante.

  • Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra

    I Wish (feat. Melanie C)

    • Sirens Of Song.
    • EastWest.

  • Blondie

    The Tide Is High

    • Atomic: The Very Best Of Blondie.
    • EMI.

  • Taylor Swift

    Shake It Off

    • (CD Single).
    • Big Machine.
    • 1.

  • Dean Martin & Helen O鈥機onnell

    How D'Ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning?

    • Cool Couples (Various Artists).
    • Sanctuary.

  • Maroon 5

    Sugar

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.

  • The Archies

    Sugar, Sugar

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

  • ABBA

    Honey, Honey

    • Abba.
    • Polydor.

  • The Searchers

    Sugar and Spice

    • The Searchers.
    • MFP.

  • Def Leppard

    Pour Some Sugar On Me

    • More Monkey Business From Catalogue Marketing (Various Artists).
    • Universal.

  • David Bowie

    Sound And Vision

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Tavares

    Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel

    • 20 Songs Of Love From The 70's (Vario.
    • MFP.

  • Lindisfarne

    Run For Home

    • Lindisfarne - On Tap.
    • Essential.

  • Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

    Nowhere To Run

    • Motown - The Hits Collection Vol.2.
    • Motown.

  • Spandau Ballet

    Musclebound

    • Spandau Ballet - Singles Collection.
    • Chrysalis.

  • Status Quo

    Paper Plane

    • Aquostic (Stripped Bare).
    • Universal.
    • 4.

  • Led Zeppelin

    Ramble On

    • Led Zeppelin - Remasters.
    • Atlantic.

  • Black Star Riders

    The Killer Instinct

    • The Killer Instinct.
    • Universal.
    • 001.

  • 厂鈥椭虫辫谤别蝉蝉

    Theme From S-Express

    • Now 12 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Ohio Express

    Yummy Yummy Yummy

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Rabbi Pete Tobias of the Liberal Synagogue, Elstree:

I鈥檓 feeling very smug, Chris. I鈥檝e been dieting and today I reached my target weight and am back in my 30鈥� waist skinny jeans. I got to this point (where I was a year ago and also three years ago, as I recall), by sticking to a strict diet, which meant giving up all kinds of food that I love. The fact that my weight keeps yo-yoing shows how difficult it is for me to abstain from things that are bad for me.

Today is Shrove Tuesday, which means that in Christian tradition, many people are on the verge of entering a forty-day period of abstinence. It鈥檚 the day when,聽in this and many other countries, people are encouraged to put whatever remains of the foods they intend to give up for Lent in pancakes 鈥� Dutch or otherwise, the traditional food for today.
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My faith has many dietary requirements, and restricting certain foods is a feature of many other religions too. I recall a member of my congregation once telling me of an experience in hospital where a nurse looked at her patient information and said 鈥極h you鈥檙e Jewish. That means you eat different food鈥︹��

It struck me as rather disappointing that a four thousand year-old religion with its history of ideas and beliefs, with traditions and customs intended to foster those beliefs should be reduced to a comment about what we eat. Of course, there鈥檚 a level of self-discipline that people can cultivate by paying careful attention to what they consume, but I like to think that there鈥檚 more to religion than that.

I believe that the purpose of any religion is to encourage its followers to think about themselves, their community and their relationships to others within that community. So I think the connection between food and faith should be seen as a means to an end. Religion shouldn鈥檛 be so much about what goes into one鈥檚 mouth as what comes out of it: in words that foster kindness, respect and compassion for one鈥檚 fellow human beings.

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