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Monty Don and Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Monty Don, the horticulturist and presenter of Gardeners World, tells Zoe about his latest book. Plus Dr Rangan Chatterjee talks to Zoe about sleep as part of 成人快手 Headroom.

Monty Don, the horticulturist and presenter of 成人快手's Gardeners World, tells Zoe about his latest book. It's a new edition of Monty's hugely popular book The Complete Gardener, which has been updated to reflect how he gardens today, with new photography shot at his garden Longmeadow over the last year. Monty covers what he believes are the most important aspects of gardening, sharing his recommendations with you. Organic techniques have always been at the core of his gardening, but in this new edition Monty stresses the importance of sustainable practices and all the different ways of attracting wildlife to your garden.

Dr Rangan Chatterjee talks to Zoe about sleep as part of 成人快手 Headroom. Throughout March Dr Rangan's Sunday night show on Radio 2 and on 成人快手 Sounds is focusing on the importance of sleep and he'll explain to Zoe just why it matters so much. The episodes coming up will look at; Super Foods For Super Sleep, Bluelight In The Bedroom, The Perfect Sleeping Environment and A Change In Sleep Routine as the clocks go forward.

Along with Clare Runacres on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Mike Williams on sport, she and the team have the best start to your morning. With celeb guests, headlines, tunes chosen by listeners, and more music that you can shake a glitterball at!

There's also a daily Pause For Thought from Laura Marks and listeners on the line, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

3 hours

Music Played

  • The Divine Comedy

    National Express

    • New Hits 99 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.
  • Gabrielle

    Stop Right Now

    • Do It Again.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).
  • Bananarama

    Venus

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

    Always There (feat. Jocelyn Brown)

    • (CD Single).
    • Talkin' Loud.
  • The Everly Brothers

    Wake Up Little Susie

    • Acuff-Rose Opryland Music: 50th Anniv.
    • Acuff-Rose Opryland.
  • Sophie Ellis鈥怋extor

    Murder On The Dancefloor

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
  • Prince

    1999

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.
  • Rag鈥檔鈥橞one Man

    All You Ever Wanted

    • Life By Misadventure.
    • Best Laid Plans.
  • Whitney Houston

    Million Dollar Bill

    • (CD Single).
    • Arista.
    • 1.
  • Take That

    Greatest Day

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 1.
  • Roxy Music

    Virginia Plain

    • Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music - Street Life.
    • Eg.
  • Santana

    Smooth (feat. Rob Thomas)

    • (CD Single).
    • Arista.
  • Dua Lipa

    We're Good

    • Future Nostalgia (The Moonlight Edition).
    • Warner Records.
  • Lighthouse Family

    Lifted

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
  • Charlotte Jane

    Down Days

    • CD Single.
    • RCA.
  • Moloko

    Sing It Back

    • Club MTV (Various Artists).
    • Universal Music On Demand.
  • Lionel Richie

    Dancing on the Ceiling

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

    Higher (feat. iann dior)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • Eternal

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

    • Eternal - Greatest Hits.
    • EMI.
  • Julie Andrews & The Children

    Do-Re-Mi

    • The Sound Of Music: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
    • Duchesse.
    • 11.
  • Meat Loaf

    You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth

    • The Very Best Of Meatloaf.
    • Virgin.
  • Silk City

    NEW LOVE (feat. Ellie Goulding)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
  • Brothers in Rhythm

    Such A Good Feeling

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal.
  • Culture Club

    Karma Chameleon

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.
  • Mark Ronson

    Valerie (feat. Amy Winehouse)

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony BMG.
  • Average White Band

    Let's Go Round Again

  • Bryan Adams

    When You're Gone (feat. Melanie C)

    • Bryan Adams - The Best Of Me.
    • Mercury.
  • Texas

    Hi

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).
  • Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Could You Be Loved

    • Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend.
    • Island.

Pause or Thought

Pause or Thought

The old uninhabited rectory dining room smelled of boiled cabbage.听 I never understood how it smelled so strongly but my sister Helen and I had to go there for what we called school dinner where excessively boiled sludgy cabbage was served, in my memory at least, every day.听 That wasn鈥檛 the worst of it, as to get to our meal, we had to walk down the windy stony path from the old primary school building in Elstree village, through the ancient cemetery of St Nicolas Church in single file and in silence.

I was trapped,听either way,caught between my fertile childish imagination and my appetite for an over boiled lunch.听听听

Now, many years later I have started to appreciate cemeteries which, in Jewish communities are often called 鈥榖eit shalom鈥, a house of peace. 听听听听

This week, I visited a tranquil, well-kept church graveyard in North London which has been vandalised three times in recent weeks.听 Its peace has been shattered along with 15 gravestones 鈥 some over 150 years old.听听

As I stood there with Julie the vicar, a group of primary school children were walking down the graveyard path, laughing and chatting, enjoying the warm spring day along with their teachers.听听Like so many other local people of all faiths and backgrounds, they had left spring flowers - yellow daffodils and pink and orange tulips and scattered them all over the broken stones, like rays of sunshine. 听

Rather than spreading hate and division, the vandals had done the exact opposite as messages of support, gifts, flowers and offers of help poured into the church from far and wide.听

Glancing at my watch and noting that it was lunchtime, I followed the pathway back to my car, out of habit in single file and in silence 鈥 just like my sister and I had all those years ago.听 Joyfully, there was no boiled cabbage at the other end, just a kosher bagel bakery, which to my still active imagination, smelled very simply like my childhood concept of heaven.听

Broadcast

  • Tue 2 Mar 2021 06:30