As well as a wide selection of music tonight, we also looked at some rather unusual stories from the news. The Oxford English Dictionary had published its latest on-line list of new words. These included awesomesauce for something being excellent and weaksauce if it was poor or disappointing. I gave up trying to use them, but they did make an appearance in out chatroom dialogue, or bants (banter). In Fiji if you photograph someone dropping litter and pass it to the authorities, not only will the offender be prosecuted, but you would be eligible for a percentage of the fine. Our biggest talking point was the fastest shed in the world, 70.8 m.p.h. It was built on a Volkswagen Passat and is based in Oxfordshire. Spurs will exchange old shirts with names and numbers of players that have left the club, with new shirts with new players tomorrow. Unkindly it was asked why anyone would have bought one in the first place? And over ten million people had visited Cathedrals in 2014, 14% up compared with the 2004 figures. I was in Lincoln Cathedral last week and it is awesomesauce.

Playlist
Booker T & MGs – Crazy
Brandon Flowers – I can change
Joe Stilgoe – I like this one
Cilla Black – Alfie
F.R. David – Words – requested by Patrick and remembered by Rene as a No.1 in South Africa.
Band Perry – Gentle on my mind
Pat Boone – Love letters in the sand – requested by Phyl
Nathan Carter – Beautiful life
Jason Mraz – 93 million miles
Beatles – While my guitar gently weeps
Joni Mitchel – Chelsea
Chicago – If you leave me now
Hank Marvin – Django’s castle
Jessie Cook – Fragile
Sting – Message in a bottle (live in New York) – loved by Lee who saw The Police play live.
Beyonce & Luther Vandross – The closer I get to you – requested by Michael and dedicated to Vanessa.
Billy Joel – New York State of mind
Dolly Parton – Tracks of my tears – loved by everyone in the chat room.
Elvis Presley – Crying in the Chapel – from this weeks chart in 1962.
Melody Gardot – Cry wolf
Stevie Wonder – Talk with God
John Grant – I want to go to Marz
Kenny G & Louis Armstrong – What a wonderful world – Sonny Jay owned up that this is his karaoke song. We want to hear that!
Fleetwood Mac – Albatross

Join me next week when my guest is Rob Saggs from CHESS – the project based in Chelmsford and working with homeless people.

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