With Olympian Greg Rutherford
Olympian Greg Rutherford joins Shaun. It's real radio gold. Plus the day's silliest news comes wrapped in a snuggly duvet of kicking alternative tunes old and new.
Long jumper and "self-styled Ginger Wizard" Greg Rutherford became an overnight sensation when he long-jumped his way to a gold medal in the Olympic Games this summer. He's also the 2010 Commonwealth Games silver medallist & 2006 European Championship silver medallist in the long jump. He joins Shaun to chat about his amazing year.
Greg won his Olympic Gold with a jump of 8.31metres. He won on the same night that Mo Farah won the 10,000m and Jess Ennis got Gold in Heptathlon - Super Saturday 4th August 2012. After he won he said: "This is what I have dreamed of my whole life and to do it in London is just incredible, I might wake up in a minute." He was featured on a Royal Mail postage stamp, and two post boxes in Milton Keynes were painted gold in his honour!
There's all the usual much-loved features too...
Has a song wiggled its way into your tired brain overnight? Don't fret! It's only an Earworm. Shaun can provide immediate relief and release from that little beastie of a tune rattling around your head and, who knows, he just might pick yours to play if you share it with him this morning.
You can also nominate a tune for Shaun's ever-popular Song of Praise which invites a listener to evangelise about something they find wonderful.
Plus, Up-to-the minute music news comes courtesy of news horse (and former Menswear drummer) Matt Everitt, while Shaun keeps listeners apprised of the day's lighter news stories and occasional ridiculousness.
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Doves
There Goes The Fear
- Heavenly.
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Grizzly Bear
A Simple Answer
- Warp Records.
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John Lennon, Yoko Ono & Plastic Ono Band
Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (feat. The Harlem Community Choir)
- That's Christmas (Various Artists).
- EMI.
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Public Enemy
Don't Believe The Hype
- Def Jam.
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Edwyn Collins
A Girl Like You
- Setanta.
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Bobby Womack
Stupid
- XL Recordings.
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Lykke Li
Get Some
- CD SINGLE.
- LL RECORDINGS / Atlantic.
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Soundcity (Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear)
Cut Me Some Slack
- Columbia Records UK.
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The Rolling Stones
She's A Rainbow
- The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
- Abkco.
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The Cure
Close To Me
- Fiction.
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补濒迟鈥怞
Matilda
- Infectious Records.
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Veruca Salt
Seether
- Scared Hitless.
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The Stranglers
No More Heroes
- Virgin.
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Muse
Follow Me
- Warners Music.
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Roxy Music
Editions Of You
- EG.
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Foals
Inhaler
- Transgressive Records.
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Jessie Ware
Swan Song
- Devotion.
- Island Records.
- 007.
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Bill Withers
Who Is He (And What Is He To You)
- CBS.
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Dexys Midnight Runners
The Celtic Soul Brothers (More, Please, Thank You)
- Mercury.
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Jake Bugg
Trouble Town
- Jake Bugg.
- MERCURY RECORDS.
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The Specials
Too Much Too Young Live from Maida Vale (12th December 2012)
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The Who
Substitute
- Polydor.
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Peace
Wraith
- Columbia.
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FIDLAR
Wait For The Man
- Wichita.
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Siouxsie and the Banshees
Peek-A-Boo
- Polydor.
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- Tue 18 Dec 2012 07:00麻豆社 Radio 6 Music