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We Talk Christmas Puds with Lorraine Pascale!

We have got a full complement at Breakfast this AM, with Chris, Vassos, Lynn and Mo Stu back to wake the nation. Plus, we hear from Lorraine Pascale and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Weather's Louise Lear.

We've got a full complement at Breakfast this morning, with Chris, Vassos, Lynn and Mo Stu re-united in the studio and ready to wake the nation.

We find out if listeners are back on track, following the stormy weather, and Louise Lear from the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Weather Centre fills us in on the East-West divide.

Things get fruity - with a dash of rum - as Lorraine Pascale talks Christmas puddings and gives us some marvellous marinating tips.

And after lovely Lorraine revealed that she didn't use her own kitchen when filming her TV series, our Top Tenuous allows you to share your claims to the fame of "THEY USED OURS!"

Plus we hear about Alfie Winfborrow's 24-hour basketball fundraiser, and Simon Cohen delivers today's Pause For Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Tue 29 Oct 2013 06:30
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 2

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  • Elvis Costello

    Veronica

    • Elvis Costello - Extreme Honey.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Matt Cardle

    When You Were My Girl

    • (CD Single).
    • Absolute.

  • Bee Gees

    You Should Be Dancing

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.

  • The Lightning Seeds

    Lucky You

    • Lightning Seeds - Jollification.
    • Epic.

  • The Zutons

    Valerie

    • (CD Single).
    • Deltasonic.

  • 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.

  • Van Halen

    Jump

    • The All Time Greatest Rock Songs ....
    • Columbia.

  • Lorde

    Royals

    • Pure Heroine.
    • Republic.

  • Dire Straits

    Money For Nothing

    • Sultans Of Swing - Best Of Dire Straits.
    • Vertigo.

  • The Coral

    In The Morning

    • (CD Single).
    • Deltasonic.

  • Paper Lace

    Billy Don't Be A Hero

    • Living In The 70s (Various Artists.
    • BMG.
    • 1.

  • Jake Bugg

    Slumville Sunrise

  • Simply Red

    A New Flame

    • Simply Red Greatest Hits.
    • East West Records.

  • Status Quo

    Whatever You Want

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Bellowhead

    Roll The Woodpile Down

    • Broadside.
    • Navigator Records.
    • 003.

  • Dean Martin & Helen O’Connell

    How D'Ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning?

    • Cool Couples (Various Artists).
    • Sanctuary.

  • Toploader

    This Is The Night

    • (CD Single).
    • Underdogs Management Ltd.

  • Bryan Adams

    Run To You

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

  • Gotye

    Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra)

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • James Taylor

    Your Smiling Face

    • James Taylor - Classic Songs.
    • CBS.

  • Squeeze

    Cool For Cats

    • Fantastic 70's (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Thea Gilmore

    Beautiful Day

    • (CD Single).
    • Fullfill Records.

  • Fine Young Cannibals

    She Drives Me Crazy

    • And Then She Kissed Me Vol.1 (Various.
    • Debutante.

  • Taylor Swift

    Red

    • Red.
    • Mercury.

  • The Cranberries

    Zombie

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • The Stone Roses

    Waterfall

    • (CD Single).
    • Silvertone.
    • 8.

  • Céline Dion

    Loved Me Back To Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Boz Scaggs

    Lido Shuffle

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1977 (Various).
    • Premier.

  • Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

    Ain't No Mountain High Enough

    • Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell: Greatest Hits.
    • Tamla Motown.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

With Simon Cohen, who runs a communications agency.

Ìý

This week we took baby Seren up her first mountain, the Skirrid in Wales. I had a bit of a wobble before the climb, finding reasons not to take the journey. But I heard a story from Buddhism that made me think differently about how we face challenges in our lives.

Ìý

A man was on a pilgrimage to the top of a mountain, to meet an enlightened being of wisdom. With the mountain’s peak lost in the clouds, he stops to ask an old lady for help. ‘How long does it take to get to the top?’ She says nothing. He raises his voice ‘How long to the top?’ Complete silence. Assuming the lady must be deaf (or very rude), he presses on, up the mountain. After a few seconds, the lady calls out. ‘Two days. It will take you two days.’ The man asks why she didn’t say anything earlier. ‘You were standing still when you asked. I could only tell you how long it would take, when I could see you walking.’

Ìý

If you’re anything like me, you have plenty of mountains in your lives. There are the physical challenges - like rehabilitation from an injury, training for a race. Then there are the mountains in the mind - problems at home or work, bouts of self-doubt, or mountains of debt stacking up. Their solutions, like the pilgrim’s summit, may be obscured in the clouds. So, how to overcome these?

Ìý

Martin Luther King Jr said ‘faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.’ And so it is with the mountains in life.Ìý The first steps might be to find the self-belief to admit that there is a problem, or to talk about concerns to loved ones. I believe that wisdom is sometimes found not only by pausing for thought, but by taking a few small steps to show faith in ourselves, that we will eventually conquer the mountains in our lives.

Broadcast

  • Tue 29 Oct 2013 06:30
    ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 2

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