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Jamie Cullum, Children in Need and Pumpkin Rowing

Chris is joined by Jamie Cullum who gifts us with the official Children in Need single Love is the Picture and meets Tom Pearcy who rowed down the Ouse in York in a pumpkin.

Chris is joined by Jamie Cullum who gifts us with the official Children in Need single Love is in the Picture and finds out the inspiration behind the single. On this Great Job Wednesday we meet Tom Pearcy who rowed down the Ouse in York in a 97 stone pumpkin and reveals what his next venture might be! Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by veteran coach John Blackie. We ask for your claims to the fame of Aqua-Trick-or-Treat, that's water-based broken records in today's Top Tenuous. Writer Remona Aly has the mid-week Pause For Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Wed 31 Oct 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • The Lightning Seeds

    Lucky You

    • Lightning Seeds - Jollification.
    • Epic.

  • Jonas Blue, Liam Payne & Lennon Stella

    Polaroid

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI.

  • The Rolling Stones

    Jumpin' Jack Flash

    • The Rolling Stones - Remastered.
    • Abkco.

  • Camila Cabello

    Havana (feat. Young Thug)

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco Music.

  • Tina Turner

    The Best

    • Tina Turner - Simply The Best.
    • Capitol.

  • Coldplay

    Adventure Of A Lifetime

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Rudimental

    Walk Alone (feat. Tom Walker)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • The Smiths

    This Charming Man

    • The Smiths - The Very Best Of.
    • WEA.
    • 2.

  • Al Martino

    Spanish Eyes

    • The Best Album In The World ...Ever!.
    • BMG.

  • Ariana Grande

    breathin

  • The Chainsmokers

    Side Effects (feat. Emily Warren)

    • (CD Single).
    • Disruptor Records.

  • Rockwell

    Somebody's Watching Me

    • Dancing In The Street (Various Artis.
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • Bobby 鈥淏oris鈥� Pickett & The Crypt Kickers

    The Monster Mash

    • Haloween Hits.
    • Rhino.

  • The Jam

    A Town Called Malice

    • Jam Story.
    • Universal.

  • Olly Murs

    Moves (feat. Snoop Dogg)

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Radio Nowhere

  • Spin Doctors

    Two Princes

    • Driving Rock (Various Artists).
    • Global Records & Tapes.

  • The Verve

    Bitter Sweet Symphony

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 37 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Hues Corporation

    Rock The Boat

    • Million Sellers Vol.14 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Shawn Mendes & Zedd

    Lost In Japan (Remix)

    • Shawn Mendes: The Album.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • The Cranberries

    Zombie

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • The Zombies

    She's Not There

    • The Godfathers Of Britpop.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper

    Shallow

    • A Star Is Born O.S.T..
    • Interscope.

  • Deep Purple

    Smoke On The Water

    • Singles A's & B's.
    • EMI.
    • 2.

  • George Benson

    Lady Love Me (One More Time)

    • George Benson - The Very Best Of.
    • Warner E.S.P..
    • 4.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Remona Aly, Freelance journalist and editor:

There鈥檚 a tiny room nestled in a corner of my house where we keep the most random of things. It鈥檚 filled with items we barely use and memories we will never let go of.

There鈥檚 an old JVC camera that captured crazy childhood antics. Cardboard boxes sardined with photographs and nostalgia. And in a dusty corner, leans a brown satchel briefcase, the leather worn and the handle half coming off, which belonged to my late father.

I picked it out, unclasped the buckles and opened up a lifetime of dreams, journeys and challenges. I carefully turned the old papers like autumn leaves, almost crumbling in my hands. One is a listing of school exam results, dated 1949. Another is a letter from 1964, confirming the passage by boat from India to Britain, where dad was to spend the end of his days in a foreign place he called home. There are pages that speak of his racial equality work, his Urdu poetry, there鈥檚 even a letter from the Women鈥檚 Institute thanking him for his speech on rights for all.

I look at his satchel briefcase, and think, what would I put in mine? What moments and what memories would I leave behind to fill someone else鈥檚 hands and heart when I鈥檓 no longer here.

There are some people who leave this world, and the world forgets, but there are others whose light continues to burn for years, decades, even centuries.

I often think about the legacy I want to leave. I worry so much that I鈥檓 wasting precious time, that I鈥檓 not doing enough to make the world brighter, more compassionate, more loving. I don鈥檛 want to come to the sunset of my years and look back over life鈥檚 landscape and feel regret.

I take comfort from the lasting words of a 12th century Persian Muslim philosopher, Shihab al-Din Yahya Suhrawardi, who advised: 鈥淒on't lose the trail听of wisdom's scent. While on this hunt,听don't go astray,听worrying if every little thing听is good or bad. You are the traveller,听you are the path,听and you are the destination. Be careful never听to lose听the way to yourself.鈥�

I鈥檒l heed the sage鈥檚 advice, not lose the way in worry, but be true to myself and my dad, by carving a legacy of purpose and light, that lasts beyond my final breath.

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