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Isn't That Expensive?

Sara wants to know what things you thought were really expensive or valuable as a child. Plus Totally Teavoted, the SARA Awards, Alphabest and Hatched, Matched and Dispatched.

Sara wants to know what things you thought were really expensive or valuable as a child that you now realise are not. What were you told was special and not to be used willy-nilly by a parent, teacher or sibling?

Will today鈥檚 listener prove they鈥檙e Totally Teavoted by answering the phone to Sara with the magic phrase?

As it鈥檚 Thursday, there鈥檚 a game of Alphabest. If you fancy a go, email sara.cox@bbc.co.uk

The Chef of the Week will Make A Meal Of It from a listener's three ingredients that need using up! If you'd like to be considered for being Chef of the Week, email sara.cox@bbc.co.uk

Also, a fantastic person is given the prestigious SARA Award, and Sara shares another of your stories on Hatched, Matched and Dispatched.

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Music Played

  • Aretha Franklin & George Michael

    I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)

    • George Michael - Ladies & Gentlemen.
    • Epic.
  • Erasure

    Blue Savannah

    • (CD Single).
    • Mute Records.
  • Toby Lee

    Count On Me

    • House On Fire.
    • 100 Records.
  • The Fratellis

    Chelsea Dagger

    • Now 65 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • Lene Marlin

    Sitting Down Here

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
  • Boyzlife

    Dancing With The Echoes

    • (CD Single).
    • Boyzlife.
  • The Feeling

    Fill My Little World

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Island.
  • The Lotus Eaters

    First Picture Of You

    • New Frontiers (Various Artists).
    • Temple Records.
  • Deniece Williams

    Let's Hear It For The Boy

    • History Of Dance Music Vol.2 (Variou.
    • Connoisseur Collection.
  • The Cure

    All I Ever Am

    • Songs Of A Lost World.
    • Polydor.
    • 7.
  • Post Malone

    I Had Some Help (feat. Morgan Wallen)

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.
  • S Club

    Reach

    • Huge Hits 2000 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.
  • ABBA

    Mamma Mia

    • Abba Gold (40th Anniversary Edition).
    • Polar.
    • 004.
  • Mumford & Sons

    Rushmere

    • Rushmere.
    • Glassnote.
  • Britney Spears

    Oops!... I Did It Again

    • Now That's What I Call No.1's (Various Artists).
    • EMI.
  • The Lottery Winners

    Turn Around

    • KOKO.
    • Virgin.
  • The Temptations

    Treat Her Like A Lady

    • From Motown With Love (Various Artists).
    • K-Tel.
    • 6.
  • Peggy Gou

    (It Goes Like) Nanana

    • (CD Single).
    • XL Recordings.
  • Teddy Swims

    Guilty

    • I've Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 2).
    • Atlantic.
  • The Saturdays

    Ego

    • Best Of British: 00s (Various Artists).
    • UME.
  • Rosie Gaines

    Closer Than Close

    • Huge Hits 1997 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.
  • Taylor Swift

    22

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.
    • 1.
  • The Corrs

    Dreams

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • James Bay

    Sunshine In The Room (feat. Jon Batiste)

    • (CD Single).
    • Island EMI.
  • The Script

    Hall Of Fame (feat. will.i.am)

    • #3 (Deluxe Edition).
    • Sony.
  • 10cc

    All I Have To Do Is Dream (Radio 2 Piano Room, 13 Feb 2025)

  • Dolly Parton

    Jolene

    • Million Sellers Vol.15 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

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