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Burns Morning with Bagpipes, Haggis and Whisky!

Rachel McCormack tells Chris about her Scottish travels tasting whisky for her book Chasing The Dram and we celebrate Burns Morning with Highland hits with bagpiper Matt McCrae!

Chris and the team celebrate Burns Morning with fabulous foody Rachel McCormack telling us the legend surrounding haggis and brings us a sample with a twist (aloo tikka). She also has stories of travelling across Scotland sampling local whiskies for her book Chasing The Dram. Plus we have live bagpipes in the studio from Matt McCrae who serenades us with highland hits and even the Star Wars theme! You tell us about ironing boards with seats and vintage flexi-disc singles! Vassos chats to Olympic diver Jack Laugher in the Sports Locker and writer Paul Kerensa provides the daily Pause For Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Thu 25 Jan 2018 06:30
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Daft Punk

    Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    International Blue

  • Paul McCartney & Wings

    Live And Let Die

    • The 7" Singles Box.
    • MPL.

  • Sydney Youngblood

    If Only I Could

    • Club Classics From The 80's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • Olly Murs

    Dance With Me Tonight

    • In Case You Didn't Know.
    • Epic.
    • 24.

  • Big Country

    In a Big Country

    • Without The Aid Of A Safety Net.
    • EMI.

  • Rudimental

    These Days (feat. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Alicia Keys

    Fallin'

    • Alicia Keys - Songs In A Minor.
    • J.

  • Nat King Cole

    Don't Get Around Much Anymore

    • The Nat King Cole Collection.
    • EMI.
    • 20.

  • Hoseah Partsch

    Paper Planes

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin/EMI.

  • Deacon Blue

    Real Gone Kid

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

  • Yvonne Elliman

    If I Can't Have You

    • And They Danced The Night Away.
    • Debutante.

  • The Mamas & the Papas

    California Dreamin'

    • The Best Of.
    • MCA.
    • 2.

  • Thin Lizzy

    Whiskey In The Jar

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Mercury.
    • 10.

  • Oasis

    She's Electric

    • What's The Story Morning Glory -Oasis.
    • Creation Records.

  • Craig David

    I Know You (feat. Bastille)

    • (CD Single).
    • Insanity Records.

  • Franz Ferdinand

    Take Me Out

    • Now That's What I Call Music 57.
    • Now.

  • Texas

    Inner Smile

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.

  • Bruno Mars

    Finesse (Remix) (feat. Cardi B)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Squeeze

    Cool For Cats

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

  • Charlie Puth

    Marvin Gaye (feat. Meghan Trainor)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Wings

    Mull Of Kintyre

    • The 7" Singles Box.
    • MPL.

  • AC/DC

    It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)

  • The Trammps

    Disco Inferno

    • NOW Boogie Nights - Disco Classics (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Imelda May & Jack Savoretti

    Call Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Decca.
    • 001.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From comedian and writer Paul Kerensa: 


Always a delight to pause with a thought – though if I’m honest, often I feel like a fraud. Other Pause For Thoughters are bishops, rabbis, faith leaders extraordinaire! I’m a comedian, who seemingly leaned on a BBC door, and somehow stumbled into the room with the big red light and the microphone. I feel like Guy Goma – that poor chap a decade ago, who came to the BBC for a job interview and ended up live on the news channel thanks to a name mix-up. I believe he’s Director-General now.

 

As a stand-up who kneels down, I’m rarely on time at Sunday church, after late Saturday gigs – so again I sometimes wonder what I’ve walked into. Recently I rushed in and gatecrashed a christening: visitors in every seat, from a host of backgrounds.

 

It meant that at the prayers for the christened baby, the language used reflected these differences. A corduroy-clad godfather from a lofty, high church background, gave a centuries-old prayer: “We beseech thee, O God, shape your christened servant after the pattern of your own divine beauty, may it be clear that he belongs to you, O Creator of the Universe.” It was pretty epic.

 

But then a godmother, from a different church: less liturgy, less corduroy, more T-shirts, and more spirit-led. Her prayer wasn’t centuries or even seconds old, but unwritten – vocalised as she felt moved, more like: “Dear God, would you really care and protect, help this child prosper and just, feel your love, all the time.”

 

I sensed both godparents felt like they didn’t quite fit, but I adore those differences. On the face of it, they made an awkward duo. But they united to tell this new life that it belonged. Life in all its variance means seven billion different humans have seven billion different mouthpieces.

 

So even when I feel like I don’t belong, I try and remember that seven billion others can feel likewise – and even then, we can make others belong. I’ll stumble through many new doors into new rooms, jobs, situations – but when there, I reckon it’s how I include those I find within, that really matters. So whether I’m meant to be here or there’s someone outside with a similar name – thanks for making me belong. 

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  • Thu 25 Jan 2018 06:30
    BBC Radio 2

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