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RAF and Dumplings

Chris chats to Ewan McGregor's brother and ex-Royal Air Force Pilot Colin McGregor on RAF at 100. Plus we talk to a Rhino keeper and the 麻豆社 Good Food on dumplings.

Chris is joined by Ex-RAF Pilot Colin McGregor, who is hosting RAF at 100 on 麻豆社 One alongside his brother Ewan McGregor. We speak to Longleat Safari Park Lead Keeper Leah Drury on how she and her team are working on an IVF project to save the Northern White Rhino sub-species. 麻豆社 Good Food Senior Food Editor Cassie Best provides us with a sample of delicious dumplings and gives us her top tips on how to rustle up the perfect batch. Since hearing about The Jacksons' 5-a-side football fun, we dedicate this morning's Top Tenuous to musicians in sport and ask for your desperate claims on the topic. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by Ben Ainslie, the most successful Olympic sailor of all time and we Pause For Thought with Methodist Minister Leslie Griffiths.

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Thu 22 Mar 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • Average White Band

    Let's Go Round Again

    • The Best Of.
    • Rhino.

  • Bebe Rexha

    Meant To Be (feat. Florida Georgia Line)

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Dion

    The Wanderer

    • The Wanderers (Original S/Track).
    • Sequel Records.

  • Iggy Pop

    Real Wild Child (Wild One)

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1987, Pt.2 (Var).
    • Telstar.

  • Zac Brown Band

    Jump Right In

    • (CD Single).
    • Southern Ground.
    • 1.

  • KC and the Sunshine Band

    That's the Way (I Like It)

    • Disco Fever (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Stop Me From Falling

    • Golden.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Lady Gaga

    Poker Face

    • The Fame.
    • Interscope.
    • 6.

  • DNCE

    Cake By The Ocean

    • (CD Single).
    • Republic.
    • 1.

  • Procol Harum

    A Whiter Shade Of Pale

    • Procol Harum.
    • Esoteric Recordings.
    • 011.

  • Charlie Puth

    Done For Me (feat. Kehlani)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Def Leppard

    Animal

    • Def Leppard - Hysteria.
    • Phonogram.

  • The Coral

    Pass It On

    • (CD Single).
    • Deltasonic.

  • The Jacksons

    Can You Feel It (Album Version)

    • Triumph.
    • Epic.

  • Simple Minds

    Sense Of Discovery

    • Walk Between Worlds (Deluxe Edition).
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Foo Fighters

    Learn To Fly

    • Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.

  • The Ting Tings

    That's Not My Name

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Sophie Ellis鈥怋extor

    Murder On The Dancefloor

  • Sam Cooke

    Sugar Dumpling

    • Sam Cooke: The Songwriter CD1.
    • Not Now Music.
    • 10.

  • Toni Braxton

    Long As I Live

    • (CD Single).
    • Def Jam.

  • Eternal

    I Wanna Be The Only One (feat. BeBe Winans)

    • Eternal - Greatest Hits.
    • EMI.

  • Spandau Ballet

    Gold

    • The Gold Album (Various Artists).
    • The Hit Label Ltd.

  • Jamiroquai

    Cosmic Girl

    • Simply The Best Radio Hits (Various).
    • Warner E.S.P..

  • Rae Morris

    Someone Out There

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • The Farm

    Groovy Train

    • True Brit (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • The Housemartins

    Happy Hour

    • Now That's What I Call Quite Good.
    • Go! Discs.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Leslie Griffiths, Methodist Minister:

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Happiness, happiness, the greatest gift that I possess, I thank the Lord that I鈥檝e been blessed, with more than my share of happiness. The late Ken Dodd at his most ebullient. But can we believe him? Can anyone really be that up-beat? Isn鈥檛 it all too good and sugary to be true?


Cynics might say so but most of us can point to a moment of time when everything was in harmony, when all the lights turned green, and all seemed right with the world. I鈥檝e heard Ken Dodd鈥檚 song a few times over the last week and it鈥檚 triggered memories of the Sunday School trips we used to go on as kids 鈥� always to a fairground in Barry Island or Porthcawl or Tenby. Our tickle sticks were covered in clouds of candyfloss. The diddy men were our distorted selves as reflected in the Hall of Mirrors. The laughter came in bursts when we鈥檇 hit one of our teachers a true broadside with our dodgem car. We almost always came home with teddy bears or goldfish in plastic bags or even a coconut or two. And once we鈥檇 tumbled on to the bus at the end of the day, having raced one another for the back seats, we鈥檇 be singing at the top of our voices. 鈥淚鈥檓 H 鈥� A 鈥� P 鈥� P 鈥� Y, I know I am, I鈥檓 sure I am, I鈥檓 H 鈥� A 鈥� P 鈥� P 鈥� Y.鈥� And in that moment we certainly were.


There would be plenty of sadness or sorrow, tragedy or disappointment to come, of course, but nobody was thinking of that in our little moments of elation. Bliss was it indeed to be alive on days like that and to be young was very heaven.

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So, like Ken Dodd, I鈥檓 ready to count my blessings and thank God for every ounce of happiness I鈥檝e ever enjoyed in this bewildering world. But also, like him, I feel I want to look for opportunities to bring laughter and fun into the lives of the people I meet and to tell them how tickled I am to be able to do so.


Too sugary? You tell me.

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