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Jenson Button, Scarecrows and Scaresperts

Chris is joined by racing driver Jenson Button who reveals all ahead of the release of his autobiography Life to the Limit. Plus, get Halloween ready with scarespert Simon Allen.

Chris is joined by British racing driver Jenson Button who reveals secrets from his 17 years in Formula 1 ahead of the release of his autobiography Life to the Limit and teases us with what he might be up to next year. We get into the spooky spirit for Halloween on Great Job Wednesday with Simon Allen, who spends his time plotting how to frighten visitors at Alton Towers as a scarespert. Chris keeps the Harvest Festival feeling flowing with a listener-led choir singing the scarecrow song live on the air. We ask for your claims to the fame of Oliver! the film in today's Top Tenuous. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by British long distance runner Jo Pavey and Methodist Minister Leslie Griffiths has the mid-week Pause For Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Wed 18 Oct 2017 06:30
麻豆社 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Go Your Own Way

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

  • Craig David

    Heartline

    • (CD Single).
    • Insanity Records.

  • The Cure

    Just Like Heaven

    • The Cure - Galore.
    • Fiction.

  • Duran Duran

    Hungry Like The Wolf

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

    I Gotta Praise

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.

  • The Jacksons

    Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)

    • Rhythm Divine 2 (Various Artists).
    • Dino.

  • Charlie Puth

    How Long

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Adele

    Rumour Has It

    • 21.
    • XL.
    • 1.

  • Blondie

    Hanging On The Telephone

    • Atomic: The Very Best Of Blondie.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • Adam Faith

    What Do You Want

    • The Hits Of 1960 (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Jessie Ware

    Alone

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • New Radicals

    Get What You Give

    • (CD Single).
    • MCA.

  • Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Jamming

    • Jammin' (Various Artists).
    • Mango.

  • Just Jack

    Starz In Their Eyes

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.

  • Andreas Johnson

    Glorious

    • Glorious (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Roy Orbison & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    I Drove All Night (feat. Ward Thomas)

    • A Love So Beautiful: Roy Orbison & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Legacy Recordings.

  • Kings of Leon

    Use Somebody

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.
    • 2.

  • Thomas Dolby

    She Blinded Me With Science

    • Thomas Dolby - Hyperactive.
    • EMI.
    • 11.

  • Christopher Cross

    Ride Like The Wind

    • Christopher Cross.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Bobby 鈥淏oris鈥� Pickett & The Crypt Kickers

    The Monster Mash

    • Haloween Hits.
    • Rhino.

  • R. Dean Taylor

    There's A Ghost In My House

    • And They Danced The Night Away.
    • Debutante.

  • Morrissey

    Spent The Day In Bed

    • Low In High School.
    • BMG.

  • The Stranglers

    No More Heroes

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1977 (Various).
    • Premier.

  • Elastica

    Waking Up

    • Live Forever (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Kelsea Ballerini

    Legends

    • Unapologetically.
    • Sony Music.

  • Shani Wallis & The Three Cripples Crowd

    Oom Pah Pah

  • Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

    Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing

    • The Very Best Of Marvin Gaye.
    • Motown.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Leslie Griffiths, Methodist Minister:听听听听听听听

听It鈥檚 strange to see the name Jesus appearing so regularly on the back pages of our newspapers. Gabriel Jesus, yes that one, was up to his old tricks again over the weekend, scoring another two goals for Manchester City in their defeat of Stoke. 7 鈥� 2 is a thrashing by any measure and my poor wife, a Stoke supporter, suffered a moment or two of deep gloom on hearing the result. This man Jesus gets on the scoresheet again and again. Eight goals in eight games is astonishing and we can only guess what the rest of the season is going to bring.

听The commentators are going wild in their praise of his young talent; one of them suggested that Jesus is heading to become the successor to Lionel Messi as the best player on the planet. And since Messi scored all three goals in Argentina鈥檚 win over Ecuador last week, and almost single-handedly got his team into next year鈥檚 World Cup finals, that鈥檚 quite a claim.

听For people like me, of course, the Jesus brand is very important. His name runs through the pages of the New Testament and pops up every Sunday in the sermons that I preach. So this left-field invasion of what I might consider my territory takes just a little adjustment on my part. I know that some fellow believers wince at seeing the precious name of Jesus all over the sports pages. But I can鈥檛 say it bothers me too much.

听Indeed, I just love the headlines: 鈥淛esus saves City鈥� or even 鈥淛esus, City鈥檚 Messiah鈥� have clearly given sub-editors a great deal of fun. And for me, anything that keeps the name of Jesus in the public domain is good for my business too 鈥� all publicity is good publicity as far as I鈥檓 concerned.

I like to tell people how Jesus has been scoring goals for me since I turned to him in my early twenties, that he鈥檚 no flash in the pan, that he goes on getting results, year after year, decade after decade. I鈥檇 love to plaster that success all over the back pages. I really would.

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