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Click of the Day

Choice chunks, more-ish morsels, best bits... For your delight and delectation, this is our pick of the week's radio. Listen to ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Leicester's specially selected pieces right here.

Love local radio? This is your chance to listen again to some golden moments, nuggets of noise - our best bits. Informative, irreverent, serious - but always entertaining.

We'll bring you some of the very best bits of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Leicester. This is radio to rave about...

Click of the day

Monday 17 November - Cardiac Arrest

Can you imagine enduring the grief of losing a child?

This is what Colin and Hilary Simpson had to go through when their daughter Sarah died, aged 20, in April 2007 ,from an undiagnosed heart condition.

Rather than let Sarah's death defeat them though, her parents are creating awareness of cardiac risk in young people with the help of the organisation CRY.

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Leicester's Tony Wadsworth spoke to Sarah's father, Colin alongside Founder and Chief Executive of organisation CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young), Alison Cox...

Barack Obama

Sunday 16 November - The Obama Effect

When the result came, The Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki held a national holiday, ass Barack Obama's father was born in Kogelo in western Kenya.

Mukesh Naker is originally from Kenya and now lives in Leicester and is in touch with many Kenyans both here and abroad.

A week on, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Leicester's Pinash Dankwah asked him how he felt about Obama's victory?

Tony performing at Abbey Park

Thursday 13 November - Talking Fast

To celebrate Guiness World Records Day, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½Ìý Leicester's Tony Wadsworth attempted to set a new world record today, but he can't do it on his own.Ìý

To help him out was the world's fastest talker, Sean Shannon, and between them they tried and set the new record for the fastest time for two people to recite the first verse of record breaking song "Rock Around the Clock" - one word at a time.

Did Tony beat the world record?

Surgery

Wednesday 12 November - The Right to Die?

'I've had enough' were the words of 13 year-old Hannah Jones whose picture was splashed all over the papers on 11 November.

After eight years of being ill, she has decided not to have a life saving heart transplant.

And it was only a couple of weeks ago that the story broke about Dan JamesÌý- the 23 year-old rugby playerÌýwho decided to go to Switzerland to die rather than live life in a wheelchair.

So should we have the right to choose to die?

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Leicester's Tony Wadsworth spoke to Lesley Close whose brother made the decision to end his life.

Tony also got the views from President of Leicester Secular Society Allan Hayes and Director or Paliamentary Affairs for CARE, which stands for Christian Action, Research and Education, Dan Boucher...

Baby Booties

Tuesday 11 November - Adoption

Could you give a child a second chance to a happy home?

Well The Adoption Team for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland successfully approves over 30 new adopters every year, but there is always a shortage of people coming forward to adopt sibling groups of two, three or more children.

At the moment there are 36 children waiting for a new family.

So what's the reality behind adoption?

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½Ìý Leicester's Tony Wadsworth was joined by adoptive mum, Natalie Voit and Service Manager for Fostering and Adoption in Leicester City, Mark Tingley...

Wednesday 05 November - Remembering the Famous Fifty

In a few days time, Britain and countries around the globe will be marking the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War - a special and poignant Remembrance Day.

Leicestershire played an important part in the war. Coalville's Famous Fifty were the first few men to volunteer on the outbreak of World War One.

Remembrance poppy in a muddy field in Northern France

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Leicester's Tony Wadsworth was joined by Michael Kendrick whose own grandfather was one of those men...

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