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Sara is joined by Poldark writer Debbie Horsfield who tells us about swapping the scythes to scissors for her new 大象传媒 One drama Age Before Beauty. Plus there's the Half Wower.

Sara sits in for Chris and is joined by Poldark writer Debbie Horsfield who tells us about swapping the scythes to scissors for her new 大象传媒 One drama Age Before Beauty. She tells us how she's writing series 5 of Poldark on her treadmill desk! We hear from three Early Achievers including listener Jan who's been up since 5am feeding the cats and tidying the airing cupboard. There's thirty minutes of musical bangers in the Half Wower with music from the likes of Whitney Houston, Bon Jovi and MC Hammer. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by runner and adventurer Danny Bent and Dr Jim Harris has the first Pause For Thought of the week.

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Mon 30 Jul 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Go Your Own Way

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 006.

  • Cheat Codes & Little Mix

    Only You

    • (CD Single).
    • SYCO.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Spinning Around

    • Now 46 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Howard Jones

    Like To Get To Know You Well

    • The Best Of Howard Jones.
    • East West Records.

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Waitin' On A Sunny Day

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • ABBA

    Summer Night City

    • Abba - More Abba Gold.
    • Polydor.

  • Paul McCartney

    Come On To Me

    • Egypt Station.
    • Virgin EMI Records.
    • 2.

  • 叠箩枚谤办

    It's Oh So Quiet

    • The Best Album In The World Ever!(Va).
    • Virgin.

  • George Ezra

    Paradise

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • The Bonzo Dog Band

    I'm The Urban Spaceman

    • The Ivor Novello Winners.
    • EMI.

  • U2

    Love Is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way (Beck Remix)

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • 叠别测辞苍肠茅

    Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)

  • Frankie Valli

    Grease

    • Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Ve.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 18.

  • Bryan Adams

    You Belong To Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • Whitney Houston

    How Will I Know

    • The Best Of.
    • Arista.

  • The Cure

    The Love Cats

    • The Cure - Staring At The Sea.
    • Fiction.

  • Bob Sinclar

    Love Generation (feat. Gary 鈥淣esta鈥� Pine)

    • Now 63 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • 搁耻苍鈥怐.惭.颁. & Aerosmith

    Walk This Way

    • Now 8 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Bon Jovi

    You Give Love A Bad Name

    • Slippery When Wet.
    • Mercury.
    • 2.

  • MC Hammer

    U Can't Touch This

    • Fast Forward (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • The Shires

    Echo

    • Accidentally On Purpose.
    • Decca.

  • Baccara

    Yes Sir, I Can Boogie

    • Million Sellers Vol.14 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Lemar

    If There's Any Justice

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music UK.

  • The Original Broadway Company Of Hairspray

    You Can't Stop The Beat

    • Hairspray: Original Broadway Cast Recording.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 17.

  • Tom Odell

    If You Wanna Love Somebody

    • Jubilee Road.
    • Columbia.

  • Space

    Female Of The Species

    • Crush (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Boney M.

    Sunny

    • The Magic Of Boney M.
    • Sony BMG.
    • 14.

  • The Boomtown Rats

    I Don't Like Mondays

    • 25 Years Of Rock'NRoll: 1979 (Various Artists).
    • Connoisseur Collection.
    • 15.

  • William Prince

    Breathless

    • (CD Single).
    • Glassnote Records.

  • Lynyrd Skynyrd

    Sweet Home Alabama

    • The All Time Greatest Rock Songs ....
    • Columbia.

  • Miley Cyrus

    Wrecking Ball

    • Bangerz.
    • RCA.
    • 6.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Jim Harris, Art Historian:

听

I鈥檓 a very possessive person.听 Not that I don鈥檛 like to share my stuff.听 Come round to mine for a barbecue or a cup of tea and it鈥檚 鈥榤i casa es su casa鈥�.听 You want to borrow a book?听 Fine.听 Drive my car?听 Go ahead.No. I鈥檓 possessive of my space.听 I have my spot on the bus.听 Ihave my table in the cafe.听 But most of all, I have my beach.

听

My beach is really two beaches, in the far southwest of Cornwall.听 When the tide is low you can walk from one to the other, but when it turns they become separate, each accessible only by a precipitously steep cliff path. The path is tortuous, but when you get there my beach is magical.听 A hidden, inaccessible, secret world of golden sand, rocks for climbing and blue sea for swimming.听

听

It鈥檚 a place to take a Trangia to cook bacon for breakfast and sausages for tea, a place where everything of work and grind and aggravation is left behind.听

So it鈥檚 incredibly annoying that other people like it too, because what I want from my holiday is to be as far away from other people as possible.

听

Trouble is, so does everybody else.听 It makes me tense. The dilemma, then, is how, as a grumpy and antisocial old man, do I share my magical beach? One answer is to go early, pick the best spot, spread out and stay late, making everyone else work around me. Or, and I don鈥檛 recommend this, claim the whole thing like the two Frisbee-playing naturists who spanned the entire width of the cove one day last week with their expert, naked disc-skimming.

听

No.听 The simple truth is that I have to learn to live with the neighbours. This has always been an issue for me, and not just on the beach.听 I reckon it is for most of us, because that simple thing Jesus said, about loving your neighbour as yourself, is pretty much the hardest thing of all.

听

But, if I ever want a happy holiday, a happy life, it鈥檚 worth trying; perhaps starting with my own family, with whom I am often the most grumpy and antisocial of all, and working outwards from there.听 Once I crack that, maybe I鈥檒l be better prepared for the naked Frisbees.

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