Supergrans, Backwards Running and Great Job Wednesday
Chris reveals your Supergran top ten, speaks to the three-time Retro Running World Champion Garett Doherty and meets a trio of quirky Carfest characters on Great Job Wednesday.
Chris meets the Supergrans that make Britain great by revealing the top ten, including the volunteer firewoman in World War II and the recovering heart-attack survivor who lets loose on the dance floor. We hear from Garett Doherty, the Irish backwards runner who's won the Retro Running World Championships three times and tells us the ideal exercise for anyone experiencing back pain. Chris meets three quirky characters, a Vintage Village organiser, a Superhero trainer and the owner of Bolesworth Castle, for a Great Job Wednesday Carfest special. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by British former long-distance runner Brendan Foster. In today's Top Tenuous we ask for your tenuous links to the artist Banksy and Rabbi Dr Harvey Belovski has the Pause For Thought.
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Is running backwards the way forward? Garett Doherty tells us!
Duration: 04:13
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Meet the Supergrans who make Britain great!
Duration: 03:44
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Daniel Craig's already let slip he's playing James Bond in 2019
Duration: 02:23
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The Clash
Rock The Casbah
- The Singles.
- Epic.
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Rudimental
Sun Comes Up (feat. James Arthur)
- (CD Single).
- Atlantic.
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LeAnn Rimes
Can't Fight The Moonlight
- (CD Single).
- London/Curb Records.
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David Bowie
Oh! You Pretty Things
- David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
- EMI.
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Michael Bublé
Nobody But Me
- (CD Single).
- Reprise.
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The Human League
Mirror Man
- Rip It Up (Various Artists).
- EMI.
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Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott
I Gotta Praise
- (CD Single).
- EMI.
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Spice Girls
Wannabe
- Bad Girls (Various Artists).
- Sony Music TV.
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Luis Fonsi
Despacito (Remix) (feat. Daddy Yankee & Justin Bieber)
- (CD Single).
- Polydor.
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Lee Marvin
Wand'rin' Star
- (Single).
- Paramount.
- 9.
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Carly Rae Jepsen
Cut To The Feeling
- (CD Single).
- School Boy/Interscope.
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Diana Ross
Chain Reaction
- Now That's What I Call Music '86.
- Now.
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Adele
Skyfall
- (CD Single).
- XL.
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Bryan Adams
You Belong To Me
- (CD Single).
- Polydor.
- 001.
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The Farm
Groovy Train
- True Brit (Various Artists).
- Polygram Tv.
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Calvin Harris
Feels (feat. Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry & Big Sean)
- (CD Single).
- Columbia.
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Paul Weller
Woo Sé Mama
- (CD Single).
- Parlophone.
- 001.
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Prince & The Revolution
Raspberry Beret
- 4Ever.
- Warner Bros.
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Daryl Hall & John Oates
You Make My Dreams
- Greatest Hits.
- RCA.
- 5.
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Black Eyed Peas
I Gotta Feeling
- (CD Single).
- Interscope.
- 4.
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The Smiths
William, It Was Really Nothing
- The Very Best Of The Smiths.
- WEA.
- 6.
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The Beach Boys
Good Vibrations
- Smiley Smile (Stereo Version).
- EMI.
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R.E.M.
Man on the Moon
- Simply The Best Movie Album (Various).
- Warner Strategic Market.
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Coldplay & Big Sean
Miracles (Someone Special)
- (CD Single).
- Parlophone.
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Boney M.
Painter Man
- Boney M - Night Flight To Venus.
- Ariola.
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The Jam
Start!
- Sound Affects.
- Polydor.
- 12.
Pause For Thought
From Rabbi Dr Harvey Belovski, rabbi of Golders Green Synagogue and CEO of University Jewish Chaplaincy:
Last week my wife and I celebrated 20 years in the rabbinate.Ìý I gave a brief speech about our time with the community and some of the wonderful people who’ve accompanied us on the journey.Ìý I came into the job with many grand ideas.Ìý Some I’ve achieved; others I’ll never achieve.Ìý But I’ve learned that seeing life as a journey rather than a destination is a helpful and very Jewish approach.Ìý I also mentioned a few stories; here’s one.
A while ago, I heard a visitor from another synagogue say, ‘Our rabbi is brilliant; he can speak for an hour about absolutely anything!’.Ìý Quick as a flash, one of my regulars replied, ‘Our rabbi is even better; he can speak for two hours about absolutely nothing!’
Despite the jollity and some rather good whisky, the Jewish community is currently marking the saddest week in the year.Ìý This culminates in a day of national mourning and fasting next Tuesday, when we remember miserable events in our history, particularly the destruction of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.Ìý These events seem very distant as they happened long ago, but they touch on issues that affect us all: fragmentation of families, dispersal of communities, loss of shared values.Ìý We mourn the loss of connections between people that can leave us feeling isolated and lonely.
There are over seven million one-person households in the UK – almost 30% of the total – and this figure is set to rise dramatically.Ìý Of course, many people are perfectly happy living alone, but lots would prefer not to.Ìý Loneliness may well be one of the most painful of all human experiences.Ìý And we can even experience loneliness and isolation when we are not alone.Ìý The great rabbi of Kotzk once said that there’s no place lonelier than a room full of people.Ìý When we can’t connect with others, when our internal lives are disintegrating, when the fabric of society is unravelling, we can be alone in a crowd.Ìý A room full of people is not necessarily a room of people together.
We’ve been fortunate to share the last 20 years with true friends.Ìý It’s a real blessing, one that’s especially meaningful in a fragmented world.
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