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Wildlife Havens and Hydration

Get lively every morning with the breakfast show. Expect lots of great music, news headlines, a look at the papers, regular sports updates and a daily Pause for Thought.

Gardener Kate Bradbury shares her top tips for creating a wildlife haven in your garden and why she's besties with bees! Kate also talks about her book The Bumblebee Flies Anyway, documenting how she transformed her barren garden. Hydration Council's nutritionist Johanna Hignett is our Not-So-Mystery Guest, who answers the questions, to sip or not to sip and what is the best way to stay hydrated? We hear your favourite TV themes, your tomato growing advice and your Top Tenuous claims to animal mascots. Vassos speaks to Leeds Rhino rugby player Adam Cuthbertson in the Sports Locker and Jahnavi Harrison provides the daily Pause For Thought.

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Thu 2 Aug 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • Edwyn Collins

    A Girl Like You

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.

  • The Chainsmokers

    Side Effects (feat. Emily Warren)

    • (CD Single).
    • Disruptor Records.

  • Queen

    Who Wants To Live Forever

    • Queen - Greatest Hits II.
    • Parlophone.

  • David Dundas

    Jeans On

    • Super 70's Summer (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Sam Smith

    Like I Can

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.
    • 007.

  • KISS

    Crazy Crazy Nights

    • Now 10, Part 1 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Gabrielle

    Shine

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.
    • 1.

  • Snap!

    Rhythm Is A Dancer

    • Holiday Hits: Non Stop Euro Pop (Var).
    • Virgin.

  • Carpenters

    Top Of The World

    • The Carpenters - Yesterday Once More.
    • A&M.

  • All Saints

    Love Lasts Forever

    • Testament.
    • AS Recordings.

  • Status Quo

    Whatever You Want

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Was (Not Was)

    Walk The Dinosaur

    • (Single).
    • Fontana.

  • Tom Petty

    I Won't Back Down

    • Tom Petty - Anthology.
    • MCA.

  • Kansas

    Carry On Wayward Son

    • The Best Of.
    • Epic.
    • 3.

  • U2

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

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • All Saints

    Never Ever

    • Love (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Liberty X

    Just A Little

    • Now 52 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Lady Gaga

    Bad Romance

    • Now That's What I Call Music 75 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 1.

  • Dr. Feelgood

    Milk And Alcohol

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

  • Rudimental & Major Lazer

    Let Me Live (feat. Anne-Marie & Mr Eazi)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Rhiannon

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 003.

  • Lindisfarne

    Lady Eleanor

    • Lidisfarne On Tap.
    • Essential.

  • Cher & Andy Garc铆a

    Fernando

  • The Archies

    Sugar, Sugar

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

  • Elvis Costello & The Attractions

    I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Writer and Musician, Jahnavi Harrison:

听

Last Friday, I was driving my brother in law to Stansted airport in the heatwave. The roads were a fuming mass of cars, being slowly roasted from underneath by the hot tarmac. We had all the windows rolled down - no AC in my old banger - but every time we had to slow down to a crawl in the traffic it became dizzyingly hot.

听

Needless to say everyone was getting frazzled. My sister was sat in the back and being a new breastfeeding mum, she always has energy bars stashed in every conceivable pocket. She started doling out slightly melted but much welcome emergency rations which helped a little!

听

Suddenly the sky turned dark and a few fat raindrops plopped down on the windscreen. I could鈥檝e cried. We saw so many people sticking their hands out the windows and up to the sky in delight. The air started to smell of that unique summer fragrance - wet grass, hot concrete, petrol fumes and river bed. It was magic.

听

It was kind of apt that the heatwave finally broke that day, because in the Hindu calendar, it was the annual festival of Guru Purnima, a day to honour the guru or teacher. An ancient prayer compares this world to a blazing forest fire - out of control and too hot to handle.

听

It鈥檚 said that when a person begins to ask life鈥檚 deepest questions - and desires to meet someone who can answer them, in time, with the unpredictability and independence of a storm arriving, the guru comes into one鈥檚 life. The cooling rainfall of blessings and knowledge follows, extinguishing the flames and bringing new life.

听

The world we live in is full of questionable leaders. The news is always full of stories about people who are meant to be exemplary, but prove to be all too fallible. It can be hard to trust that great teachers really exist - I know for many years I struggled with it.

听

Guru purnima is a day that honours those who are truly exemplary, who live what they teach, who despite their own excellence, are humble and compassionate to a fault.

听

Though the heat may rise and fall - when the rain comes, I remember them, and I鈥檓 truly grateful.

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