Simon Reeve, spray tanning sheep, and harps
Chris Evans talks to travel presenter Simon Reeve about his first-ever live tour, and listeners join Chris on the phone to talk spray tanning sheep, harps and defrosting delicacies.
Chris talks to the 麻豆官网首页入口's top travel presenter Simon Reeve about swapping his treks around the world for his first ever UK live tour. Plus an array of listeners join Chris on the phone as Jenny and Harry from Cloudside enlighten us on the joys of spray tanning sheep, 16 year old Megan from Harrogate plays her harp live from a service station, Suze from London tells us about defrosting delicacies. before a year long holiday and Steve from Calne gets a surprise when he tells us about his forthcoming wedding. Vassos is joined in the sports locker by golf commentator Ken Brown and we Pause For Thought with Nick Baines, the Bishop of Leeds.
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What happened when 16 year old Megan called Chris with her harp?
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Is spray tanning sheep an actual thing?
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Pause For Thought
From Nick Baines, the Bishop of Leeds:听
It's that time of year again. For me August slows everything down and I finally get some space. But, it's also the time for long car journeys 鈥 and that means loads of time to listen to music. The great thing about your kids having grown up is that no one argues with your choice of CDs.听
Well, what you鈥檒l find in my car this morning - I have just checked - is a strange mix of Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Richard Ashcroft, Elbow and the wonderful Imelda May. I got back from a trip the other day feeling that my emotions had been shredded, listening to songs that seem to have been dragged out from the depths.听
And that鈥檚 the power of music. Words on their own can pack a punch, but add a good tune and some decent backing and your guts go on a different journey.听
There鈥檚 nothing new about this. One of the other things I do during August is read all 150 Psalms from the Hebrew Scriptures. Why? Simply because I get immersed in a song book that doesn't always reflect my mood or circumstances, but does provide a vocabulary for times yet to come. Whether howling with complaint about the injustices in life, or laughing with joy at the wonderful enormity of the cosmos, or weeping alongside those whose lives have been torn apart, or encouraging your mates to stick with it regardless of the hindrances 鈥 the whole of life is in there and there鈥檚 a song for everyone at every time and in every place.听
Just over a week ago I was talking to child refugees in the countryside outside Khartoum in Sudan. Kids whose family have disappeared and who find themselves abandoned or orphaned through the violence of others. Yet, they still hear the echoes of a haunting melody that whispers of hope as they are taken in and cared for by strangers who meet them where they are. Lament is coloured by laughter; memory does not just belong to the past, but is being created for tomorrow.
听So, in all the twists and turns of a fragile life, it is still possible to detect the sound of a plea uttered by Canadian songwriter Bruce Cockburn: 鈥淟ove that fires the sun keep me burning.鈥
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