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Victoria Pendleton, Candice Brown and Lighthouses

Chris is joined by Olympic gold cyclist Victoria Pendleton who tells us about turning her hand to jousting and on Great Job Wednesday we meet lighthouse engineer Craig Pake.

Chris is joined by Olympic gold cyclist Victoria Pendleton who tells us about turning her hand to jousting for the English Heritage's Medieval Knights season. On Great Job Wednesday we meet Craig Pake, the lighthouse keeper who looks after over one hundred lighthouses in Scotland and the Isle of Man, which leads to today's Top Tenuous. Chris calls Bake Off queen Candice Brown and finds out what made her send in her chocolate, peanut butter and hazelnut brownies. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by English former football goalkeeper Rachel Brown and Dr Jim Harris has the Pause For Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Wed 19 Jul 2017 06:30
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Music Played

  • Stereophonics

    Have a Nice Day

    • Now 49 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Rudimental

    Sun Comes Up (feat. James Arthur)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • The Cardigans

    Erase/Rewind

    • Glorious (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Cliff Richard

    Wired For Sound

    • Cliff Richard - Private Collection.
    • EMI.

  • Rita Ora

    Your Song

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • P!nk

    Get The Party Started

    • The Very Best Of All Woman 2003 (Var).
    • BMG.

  • Arcade Fire

    Everything Now

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Genesis

    Invisible Touch

    • Genesis - Turn It On Again.
    • Virgin.

  • The Undertones

    Here Comes The Summer

    • The Anthology.
    • Sanctuary.

  • Ricky Nelson

    Hello Mary Lou

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.

  • Coldplay & Big Sean

    Miracles (Someone Special)

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Mark Ronson

    Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Strawberry Switchblade

    Since Yesterday

    • Strawberry Switchblade.
    • Warner Bros.

  • The Smiths

    This Charming Man

    • The Smiths - The Very Best Of.
    • WEA.
    • 2.

  • Luis Fonsi

    Despacito (Remix) (feat. Daddy Yankee & Justin Bieber)

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Carly Rae Jepsen

    Cut To The Feeling

    • (CD Single).
    • School Boy/Interscope.

  • Bee Gees

    Night Fever

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.

  • U2

    Sweetest Thing

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

    Souvenir

    • The Best Of O.M.D..
    • Virgin.
    • 4.

  • Odyssey

    Use It Up & Wear It Out

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

  • Lighthouse Family

    Ocean Drive

    • Lighthouse Family - Ocean Drive.
    • Polydor.

  • Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

    I Gotta Praise

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.

  • The Primitives

    Crash

    • Into The Eighties - Various Artists.
    • Global Television.

  • 顿别别别鈥怢颈迟别

    Groove Is In The Heart

    • The Best Of 100% Dance (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • The B鈥�52s

    Love Shack

    • Now 1990 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.
    • 3.

  • Liam Gallagher

    Wall Of Glass

  • Erica Eigen

    I Want To Marry A Lighthouse Keeper

    • A Clockwork Orange O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Warner.
    • 11.

  • Chris de Burgh

    Ship To Shore

    • Chris De Burgh - Spark To A Flame.
    • River Records.

  • Jack Johnson

    Sitting, Waiting, Wishing

    • (CD Single).
    • Brushfire Records.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Art Historian, Dr Jim Harris:

The end of term comes in dribs and drabs in our house.聽 Miriam and Esther finished ages ago because they鈥檙e at University.聽 I鈥檓 still in Oxford, but all the students have gone.聽 Sam has been taking exams so he finished before Silas and Linus, whose schools drag on till the end of this week.聽 And Susie is on research leave and so term has no meaning for her and she lives in a semi-permanent state of bliss.

The thing is, though, we鈥檙e all looking forward to the summer like thirsty desert travellers who鈥檝e just spotted an oasis.聽 We鈥檙e all tired.聽 We鈥檙e all a little tetchy. In my case, if you asked the family, they might say that 鈥檃 little tetchy鈥�, actually means, 鈥榓 walking, talking nightmare to live with鈥�.

I鈥檓 pretty sure I share this with a lot of people: you don鈥檛 have to be in school or a teacher to have the sense that summer is a necessary moment of respite.聽 Whatever work we do, it鈥檚 a blessed relief to stop for a while.

Now it鈥檚 tempting to add, 鈥榓nd do something else鈥�, so we, like many people, have planned our holidays way ahead of time.聽 But I鈥檓 wary of the idea that when we have downtime we need to fill it.聽 Last week I heard a parent on the radio talking about the value of boredom in the school holidays, and I think there鈥檚 something in that.

In the Bible, the prophet Isaiah knew something about weariness, that 鈥榚nd of term鈥� feeling.聽 鈥楨ven youths will faint and be weary,鈥� he says, 鈥榓nd the young will fall exhausted鈥�.

And he also knew that you can鈥檛 always just pick yourself up and carry on.聽 You need a break.聽 You need a proper pause.

And so he continued, 鈥楾hose who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary.鈥�

At the heart of that is the idea of waiting.聽 Your strength isn鈥檛 going to be renewed in an instant 鈥� you wait, and refreshment comes.聽

So I reckon that as the holidays finally arrive, it鈥檚 worth not just packing the diary with more stuff, even if it鈥檚 different stuff.聽 Wait first. Have a rest. And then you can run all you like.

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