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Gordon Ramsay and Bluebells

Chris is joined by Gordon Ramsay who tells us about his new ITV cookery show Culinary Genius. Plus Chris talks bluebells with plant expert Simon Toomer.

Chris returns after his Easter holidays and is joined by Gordon Ramsay who tells us about Culinary Genius, his new ITV cookery show and why he won't be running this year's London Marathon. With Spring in the air, Chris finds out about the nation's beautiful bluebells with the National Trust's plant conservation expert Simon Toomer. We find out your tenuous links to Uri Geller's mooring. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by former English cricketer James Taylor and today's Pause For Thought comes from Dr Jim Harris.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Tue 18 Apr 2017 06:30
麻豆社 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Erasure

    Sometimes

    • Erasure - Pop!.
    • Mute Records.

  • James Blunt

    Bartender

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Guns N鈥� Roses

    Welcome To The Jungle

    • Greatest Hits.
    • Geffen.

  • Pete Tong, Heritage Orchestra, Jules Buckley & Cookie

    Lola's Theme

    • Polydor.

  • Paolo Nutini

    Pencil Full Of Lead

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • The Banana Splits

    The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)

    • Television's Greatest Hits Vol. 5: In Living Color (Various Artists).
    • TVT Records.

  • Squeeze

    Cool For Cats

    • Now That's What I Call An Era: Sound Of The Suburbs (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Chuck Berry

    Big Boys

    • (CD Single).
    • Dualtone Music Group.

  • Annie Lennox

    Walking On Broken Glass

    • Now 1992 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 2.

  • Creedence Clearwater Revival

    Bad Moon Rising

    • Green River.
    • Fantasy.
    • 1.

  • Jennifer Hudson

    Remember Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.

  • The Weeknd

    I Feel It Coming (feat. Daft Punk)

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Republic Records.

  • The Who

    Pinball Wizard

    • The Who Hits 50! (Deluxe Edition).
    • Polydor.
    • 016.

  • Coldplay

    A Sky Full Of Stars

    • 麻豆社 Music Awards (Various Artists).
    • UMOD.

  • Judy Garland

    Get Happy

  • Texas

    Tell That Girl

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd.

  • Jona Lewie

    You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties

    • Back To The Eighties (Various).
    • Music Club.

  • Michael Bubl茅

    It's A Beautiful Day

    • (CD Single).
    • Reprise.
    • 1.

  • Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Jamming

    • Jammin' (Various Artists).
    • Mango.

  • Pretenders

    Kid

    • The Pretenders - The Singles.
    • WEA.

  • The Bluebells

    Young At Heart

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

  • Clean Bandit

    Symphony (feat. Zara Larsson)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Lenny Kravitz

    Are You Gonna Go My Way

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • The Dandy Warhols

    Bohemian Like You

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.
    • 7.

  • Jet

    Are You Gonna Be My Girl

    • Hits 60 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.

  • Sheryl Crow

    Halfway There

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 001.

  • Amen Corner

    Bend Me Shape Me

    • Heartbeat 2 (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Bee Gees

    Stayin' Alive

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Art Historian, Dr Jim Harris

I went to America last week, to do some work at the University of Wyoming in a town called Laramie.聽 I had the best time, talking at the University Art Museum, seeing friends and colleagues. Laramie is a legendary place.聽 Jimmy Stewart starred in a movie called The Man From Laramie and Butch Cassidy was in jail there.聽 It鈥檚 a cowboy town and a railroad town, surrounded by mountains and space and full of western warmth. It鈥檚 great.

Anyway, I got up early on Monday of last week, full of the joys, and looked out onto the most beautiful day: golden sunshine out of a clear, blue sky, and crisp shadows stretching forever across the high plains.聽 Perfect.聽 So, I decided to go for a run. Big mistake. 聽The first thing was the cold.聽 Never mind the glorious, golden sun, it was still about six degrees below freezing. Didn鈥檛 expect that.聽 Holy cow. Did. Not. Expect. That. The second thing was the oxygen - or, rather, the lack of it.聽 Laramie isn鈥檛 just near the mountains, it鈥檚 7200 feet up.聽 That means thin air for weedy sea-level lungs.聽 I was gasping.

Later that day, I told my friend Isa how the run had gone and she laughed at me.聽 Kindly, I might add, but she still laughed.聽 It鈥檚 simple, really.聽 You can鈥檛 tell the temperature just by looking and you can鈥檛 expect to run at altitude like it鈥檚 sea level.

It鈥檚 often the things we can鈥檛 see that make the difference and, just as often they鈥檙e the most important things of all, like warmth, or oxygen. We can鈥檛 see them, but we can feel their effects. Just like love.聽聽 And just like God鈥檚 spirit.聽 Christians believe that although we can鈥檛 see it, it鈥檚 always at work, in acts of kindness, in healing and mending broken hearts.聽 Jesus compared God鈥檚 spirit to the wind, which blows wherever it pleases.聽 You hear it鈥檚 sound but you can鈥檛 tell where it comes from or where it鈥檚 going

I reckon that sometimes we need that, to feel something powerful and essential without seeing it.聽 Sometimes it鈥檚 good to be reminded that the visible world might not contain everything we need to survive.聽 Even if it takes being frozen and breathless to do it.

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