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Patrick Kielty sits in

Patrick Kielty sets you up for the midweek with marvellous music, including the Power Play and a pair of Crackers. We also talk Bake Off and speak to kitesurfer Kirsty Jones.

Patrick Kielty sets you up for the midweek with marvellous music that includes a listener-nominated Power Play track to wake the nation, and two linked Kielty's Crackers.

SPOILER ALERT: After Tuesday night's final, we WILL be talking Great British Bake Off!

And sports presenter Caroline Barker continues to celebrate solo sportsmen and women, as part of Radio 2's Living Alone Well season.

Today's guest is the world champion kitesurfer Kirsty Jones. A three-time champion, she also set a world record for a nine hour solo surf from the Canaries to Morocco!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Wed 23 Oct 2013 06:30

Music Played

  • The Dandy Warhols

    Bohemian Like You

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.
    • 7.
  • Paul McCartney

    New

    • New.
    • Virgin/EMI.
  • Evelyn Thomas

    High Energy

    • Various Artists - Disco & Dance.
    • BMG.
  • Jackson Browne

    Running On Empty

    • The Next Voice You Hear - Jackson Bro.
    • Elektra.
  • The Waterboys

    The Whole of the Moon

    • Now 1991 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.
  • Billy Ocean

    Love Really Hurts Without You

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1976 (Various).
    • Premier.
  • James Blunt

    Bonfire Heart

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.
  • Blur

    Country House

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

    You've Got The Love

    • Now That's What I Call Music 74 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 5.
  • Carole King

    I Feel The Earth Move

    • The Female Touch 2 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.
  • Kenny Rogers

    Coward Of The County

    • Country Roads (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.
  • New Order

    Blue Monday

  • Lissie

    Sleepwalking

    • Back To Forever.
    • Columbia.
    • 1.
  • Paolo Nutini

    Pencil Full Of Lead

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.
  • ABC

    When Smokey Sings

    • Now 1987 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.
  • Toploader

    This Is The Night

    • (CD Single).
    • Underdogs Management Ltd.
  • Eurythmics

    When Tomorrow Comes

    • Eurythmics - Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.
  • The Supremes

    Nathan Jones

    • Diana Ross & The Supremes - 40 Motown.
    • Polygram Tv.
  • Depeche Mode

    Enjoy The Silence (Reinterpreted)

    • (CD Single).
    • Mute Records.
  • Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

    Locomotion

    • Now 1984 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.
    • 9.
  • Cher

    I Hope You Find It

    • Closer To The Truth.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 001.
  • The Rolling Stones

    Under My Thumb

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.
  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Evil Woman

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.
  • Gene Pitney & Marc Almond

    Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart

    • Duets - 36 Of The World's Greatest Ev.
    • Telstar.
  • McAlmont & Butler

    Yes

    • Bridget Jones's Diary 2 (Various).
    • Mercury.
  • Kacey Musgraves

    Follow Your Arrow (Radio 2 Live In Hyde Park, 14 Sep 2014)

    • Same Trailer Different Park.
    • Mercury.
    • 001.
  • CeeLo Green

    Anyway

    • Ladykiller: Platinum Edition.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 1.
  • SW GLAMOUR BED 1

    • paris glamour by day.
    • koka media.
    • 13.
  • The Stranglers

    Golden Brown

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

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Rev Ruth Scott, an Anglican vicar in Richmond:

Tonight I fly out to Egypt. Whenever work takes me abroad I aim to travel light but always seem to take more than I need. Packing this time around I laid everything out on the bed and tried to be strict about what鈥檚 really necessary for my trip. How little can I get away with for a mix of formal and informal meetings with a wide range of people? Have I taken into account the dress codes of those I鈥檒l be visiting?

Alongside this sorting out of clothes I鈥檝e also been sifting through the baggage of my heart and mind. Since Cairo is experiencing some violent conflict I鈥檝e needed to work out which of my security concerns are reasonable and which are fuelled by uninformed fear-mongering. I鈥檝e spent time finding out as much as I can about the communities I鈥檒l be with so that I have some sense of what questions may be appropriate to ask. I鈥檝e also wondered which assumptions, expectations and personal prejudices I need to leave behind if I鈥檓 to hear and understand deeply the experiences of the very different people I meet.

Learning, I find, is as much about letting go of old, and now inadequate perceptions as it is about taking on board new ways of seeing and being. Our desire for security sometimes means we鈥檙e reluctant to relinquish long-held beliefs, even when new encounters throw them into question. In the gospels Jesus speaks of having nowhere to lay his head. This isn鈥檛, I think, about being physically homeless but about him being so uncluttered by the psychological and spiritual hang-ups that keep many of us stuck in one place, that he鈥檚 free to meet people wherever they are without feeling under threat. That kind of liberty of spirit is something I鈥檇 like to make real in my own life, wherever I go.

At heart it鈥檚 about knowing the basic essentials needed to ease the journey, and being able to jettison the excess baggage that sometimes burdens our lives.

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