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Happy International Women's Day!

Chris celebrates International Women's Day by having a cup of tea with Radio 4's Jane Garvey, and Tom Kerridge answers listeners' pie questions.

Chris celebrates International Women's Day by having a cup of tea with Radio 4's Jane Garvey. Tom Kerridge opens his savoury surgery and answers your pie-lemma questions. Megan from Aberdeen tells us about being in an opera for the first time ever, and Leslie Griffiths provides a moving Pause For Thought...

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  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Hold On Tight

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Holly Johnson

    Ascension

    • Fly (Songs Inspired By Eddie The Eagle) O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • UMC.
    • 001.

  • The Crusaders

    Street Life

    • The Very Best Of Randy Crawford.
    • Dino.

  • Coldplay

    Paradise

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
    • 1.

  • Madness

    Madness (Is All In The Mind)

    • Madness - Complete Madness.
    • Virgin.
    • 14.

  • 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.

  • Todd Rundgren

    I Saw The Light

    • My Girl (Original 1992 Film S/Track).
    • Epic.

  • Walking on Cars

    Speeding Cars

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

  • Diana Ross

    Chain Reaction

    • Now That's What I Call Music '86.
    • Now.

  • Andy Williams

    Up, Up and Away

    • Honey.
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Lukas Graham

    7 Years

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Texas

    Summer Son

    • Texas - The Greatest Hits.
    • Mercury.

  • Madonna

    Vogue

    • Finally Enough Love (Deluxe Edition).
    • Rhino.

  • Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Iron Lion Zion

    • (CD Single).
    • Tuff Gong.

  • Paolo Nutini

    10/10

    • Sunny Side Up.
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • Dean Martin & Helen O鈥機onnell

    How D'Ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning?

    • Cool Couples (Various Artists).
    • Sanctuary.

  • Reef

    How I Got Over

    • (CD Single).
    • REEFBAND.
    • 1.

  • Four Tops

    I Can't Help Myself

    • The Singles Collection.
    • Polygram TV.

  • Pulp

    Common People

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 5.

  • Patti Smith Group

    Because the Night

    • Rock Of America (Various Artists).
    • Trax Label.

  • Sister Sledge

    We Are Family

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

  • Amy Winehouse

    Stronger Than Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Travis

    3 Miles High

    • (CD Single).
    • Red Telephone Box.
    • 001.

  • George Ezra

    Blame It On Me

    • Wanted On Voyage.
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Bee Gees

    You Win Again

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.

  • La Roux

    Bulletproof

  • James Bay

    Best Fake Smile (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2015)

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI.
    • 5.

  • Destiny鈥檚 Child

    Independent Women, Part I

    • Destiny's Child #1's.
    • Columbia.

  • The Four Seasons

    The Night

    • Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Ve.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 9.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Leslie Griffiths, Methodist Minister:听听听听听听听

Like Paul Kerensa last week, I also have been thinking about my old headmaster. He never raised his voice. He commanded a hall full of adolescent schoolboys by his simple presence. At the beginning of every school year, he鈥檇 get up in assembly, smile away the noise we were making, welcome us back and then read a passage from the Bible, always the same passage, a few words written by Saint Paul. Here鈥檚 my version of what he read:

听

Don鈥檛 go the way of the crowd. Be your own person. Don鈥檛 strut around the place as if you鈥檙e the most important guy on the block. Respect those who are different from you. If God鈥檚 given you an ounce of common sense, you鈥檒l realise that everyone鈥檚 important here, whatever their skills, however they鈥檙e made. It鈥檚 up to all of us to make a go of things.鈥�

听

It was a Punch and Judy show I was watching on the telly that had me wandering down memory lane like this. There they were, three characters in search of an insult, all looking to see how they could shout their way to a victory over the others. It was men behaving badly, school bullies roaming round the playground looking for kids wearing glasses. I couldn鈥檛 believe that these characters were seeking to become the next President of the United States of America. It was truly grotesque. I was actually watching this piece of reality TV stateside, in a room full of would be voters.

They were all groaning and holding their heads in their hands. The following day they were going to vote in their primary. And they didn鈥檛 have a clue what to do.

听

Without saying so, they were longing for someone like my old headmaster who could hold an audience by the power of his personality and spell out a few home truths without raising his voice. Do they make them like that any more? I really hope they do.

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