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Cornish Pasty Week and Zoe Ball

Chris celebrates Cornish Pasty Week with three brilliant bakers who play 'Pitch Your Pasty'! Zoe Ball reveals the route of her Sport Relief cycle: Hardest Road Home.

Chris celebrates the first ever Cornish Pasty Week with three brilliant bakers who play 'Pitch Your Pasty'! Zoe Ball reveals the route of her Sport Relief cycle: Hardest Road Home, which will take her from Blackpool to Brighton. It's Monday so we go round the globe with International Radio 2 in All Abroads and we hear about your wacky food world records in today's Top Tenuous. Vassos speaks to Graeme Obree in the Sports Locker with top biking tips from the author who penned The Obree Way: A Training Manual for Cyclists and Dr Jim Harris provides the daily Pause For Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Mon 26 Feb 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • Pulp

    Common People

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 5.

  • George Ezra

    Paradise

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Queen

    We Will Rock You

    • News Of The World.
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • Katy Perry

    Chained To The Rhythm (feat. Skip Marley)

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol Records.

  • The La’s

    There She Goes

    • Love - 38 All Time Love Classics.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Elton John

    Are You Ready for Love

    • Diamonds.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Pete Tong & Heritage Orchestra

    Killer (feat. Seal)

    • Ibiza Classics.
    • UMC.

  • Kaiser Chiefs

    Ruby

    • (CD Single).
    • B-Unique.

  • Ramones

    Baby, I Love You

    • The Ramones - End Of The Century.
    • Sire.

  • Hailee Steinfeld & Alesso

    Let Me Go (feat. Florida Georgia Line & Andrew Watt)

    • (CD Single).
    • Republic Records.

  • Coldplay

    A Sky Full Of Stars

    • Â鶹Éç Music Awards (Various Artists).
    • UMOD.

  • The Mavericks

    Dance the Night Away

  • Perry Como

    Papa Loves Mambo

    • The Best Of Cult Fiction (Various).
    • Virgin.

  • Kim Wilde & Ricky Wilde

    Pop Don't Stop

    • Here Come The Aliens.
    • Wildeflower Records.

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Hungry Heart

    • Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits.
    • Columbia.

  • Taylor Swift

    Gorgeous

    • reputation.
    • Big Machine.

  • John Miles

    High Fly

    • Anthology.
    • Connoisseur.

  • R. Dean Taylor

    Indiana Wants Me

    • Super Hits Of The 70's (Various Artis.
    • Rhino.

  • Talking Heads

    Road To Nowhere

    • Now 1985 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.

  • Dua Lipa

    IDGAF

    • Dua Lipa.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Babybird

    You're Gorgeous

    • This Year's Love (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Shaggy

    Angel (feat. Rayvon)

    • (CD Single).
    • MCA.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    Distant Colours

    • Resistance Is Futile (Deluxe Edition).
    • Columbia.

  • Diana Ross

    Ain't No Mountain High Enough

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

  • Sheila & B. Devotion

    Spacer

    • Best Disco Album In The World...Ever!.
    • Virgin.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Jim Harris, Art Historian:

Ìý

Morning, Chris. Let me start by saying that I’m very happy to be here.Ìý Happy to be out of the house, glad it’s Monday. Part of this, obviously, is that I love my work, my colleagues, my students.Ìý But it’s also something else.

Ìý

You see, it has emerged, over the past couple of days, that my responses to conflict and discord in the home may not, in fact, be impartial, balanced, just and fair, as I believed, and that, from time to time, I may actually be partial, unbalanced, unjust and unfair.

Here’s the thing.

Ìý

There’s a rule in our house, established by me, that if rubbish is left in the sitting room overnight then the PS4, beloved by my boys, is removed the next day.Ìý So on Friday morning, faced by Thursday’s detritus, I removed it.Ìý And hid it in the cellar.

Ìý

‘Harsh’, I hear you say.Ìý And harsh said the family, telling me by the magic of text that a) I was being unreasonable b) they’d found the PS4 anyway and c) I was being unreasonable.

I found this unreasonable.Ìý Surely I should protect our delicate family ecosystem with a domestic code of conduct?Ìý No, I was told.Ìý Get things in proportion.

Ìý

So I tried, but I failed and found myself taking refuge in the idea that God himself could be pretty stern with evildoers. Over the course of the weekend, however, I found myself confronted by a very different God.Ìý He was there in my prayers, forgiving me my trespasses. He was there in the measured response of the family to my Friday tantrum.

And he was there in the bible, where time and again I saw that the Lord is a) abounding in steadfast love, b) gracious and merciful and c) slow to anger.

Ìý

Slow to anger.Ìý Exactly what I am not but exactly what I need to be, because in my fast anger is consumed all the love, grace and mercy required not only for my own contentment but also the shared contentment of everyone around me. So this week, I’m back to attempting one of the basic lessons of civilised human behaviour: counting to ten before I respond.Ìý I will find it hard.Ìý But I reckon I’d rather start the week focused on that than consumed by whether there’s a crisp bag in the sitting room.

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