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LISTEN BACK AS I TALK ABOUT CLIFFTOP CHALLENGE,LOCAL CRICKET,CELEBRITY AND MY BIRTHDAY PLUS A NEW EVENT CALLED BEAT THE BELL · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Kevin Sports very Daily here bringing you the
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  Speaker 1: Folkston and Hi Sports show right here on Radio Folkston.
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  Speaker 1: Were with the extreme weather taking place, many of the
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  Speaker 1: sporting contacts are in the sort of can't be asked mood,
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  Speaker 1: including me. So I haven't got much sport to tell
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  Speaker 1: you about, but we'll have plenty of great music on
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  Speaker 1: the show.
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  Speaker 2: I have got some cricket news.
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  Speaker 1: I've got a report on last week's cliff Top Challenge,
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  Speaker 1: and a few other odds and ends and snippets.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to chuck in. I was going to do
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  Speaker 2: this on Saturday, but we had some guests in it.
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  Speaker 2: It was so busy.
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  Speaker 1: But last week there was five celebrities. Five famous celebrities
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  Speaker 1: from the world of music had their birthdays, so we'd
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  Speaker 1: be playing some of their tunes. So to start the show,
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  Speaker 1: we have celebri number one, who recently celebrated her sixty
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  Speaker 1: fifth birthday.
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  Speaker 2: She's a South End supporter.
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  Speaker 1: She used to be in a group called Yazoo. So
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  Speaker 1: let's get this show on the road and listen to
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  Speaker 1: a bit of Alison Moye and Love Resurrection.
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  Speaker 2: Can do bigline day. What's which.
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  Speaker 1: Alison Moye, Love Resurrection.
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  Speaker 2: Nineteen eighty four.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know what, that's one of my biggest regrets actually,
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  Speaker 1: because Alison Moya was actually at the Least Kiffore many
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  Speaker 1: years ago, and as a lot of shift workers can
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  Speaker 1: sympathize with this, she was on at the Least Cliff
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  Speaker 1: Fall probably on a Wednesday evening or something, and I
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  Speaker 1: was working and I missed that, and she is one
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  Speaker 1: of I've said this before on this show. I love
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  Speaker 1: female singers with a strong voice, strong ballad singers, and
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  Speaker 1: she certainly fits that category. That's the word, that category
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  Speaker 1: is right.
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  Speaker 2: So how are you doing out there? Are you coping
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  Speaker 2: with this heat? Are you?
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  Speaker 1: Are you loving it? Or you think a bit cooler? Please,
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  Speaker 1: a bit cooler. Well, it has been a bit extreme.
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  Speaker 1: I must admit that we were in Cyprus in May
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  Speaker 1: time and it was pleasant and to be honest, it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't as hot as this, but then we did have
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  Speaker 1: the pool to jump into. Okay, So one game that
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  Speaker 1: does like a bit of sunshine, but I don't know
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  Speaker 1: whether it's this extreme is cricket. Now, it's nice to
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  Speaker 1: have a nice sunny afternoon and watch a bit of cricket,
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  Speaker 1: but the temperatures are still going to be very very
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  Speaker 1: hot around the weekend, so I'm sure the games are
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  Speaker 1: going ahead. So let's do some late cricket news now.
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  Speaker 1: This is last week Folks on first eleven where they
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  Speaker 1: traveled to Bickley Park near Bromley. They lost the toss
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  Speaker 1: and were put into bat, but could only manage one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty three runs. Bickley Park then put one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty five on the scoreboard, winning the game
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  Speaker 1: by six wicket. This coming Saturday they welcome Holmesdale from
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  Speaker 1: seven Oaks to the Three Hill Sports Ground. Hawkins had
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  Speaker 1: a good day at home with the bat, winning the toss,
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  Speaker 1: deciding to bat, making the three hundred and twelve for five.
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  Speaker 1: Westgate on Sea managed one hundred and fifty five all out,
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  Speaker 1: but it was nowhere near enough and Hawkins won the
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  Speaker 1: game by one hundred and fifty seven runs. This Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: Hawkins are at home to of Faversham. I've also had
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  Speaker 1: a good day at the crease. They were put into
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  Speaker 1: bat by Saint Margaret's Cosmopolitan and made two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: eighty for nine. They then skittled out the Cosmopolitan for
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  Speaker 1: just eighty four runs and so won the game by
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and ninety six. Saturday, Hi the visit at
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  Speaker 1: Westgate on Sea. Iive Green a wonder toss at Tenadon
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  Speaker 1: and put them into bat, making one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: three all out. The Green then made one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty five for four, winning the match by six wickets.
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  Speaker 1: And this Saturday it's at home to Canterbury th third eleven.
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  Speaker 1: Silwood lost the toss against north Down, who decided to
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  Speaker 1: bat first, making two hundred and four all out. Silwood
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  Speaker 1: could only manage one hundred and forty four so lost
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  Speaker 1: the game by sixty runs. Saturday it's a local derby,
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  Speaker 1: not too far to travel as they go to Merzam
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  Speaker 1: Now in a low scoring game at Linton Park, batted
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  Speaker 1: first against Sipton Park and made ninety.
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  Speaker 2: Four all out.
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  Speaker 1: The Sibs dismissed them for ninety five runs, losing just
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  Speaker 1: five wickets along the way, but they won the match
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  Speaker 1: by five wickets. On Saturday, Sibs are a way too,
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  Speaker 1: which the ball's second team.
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  Speaker 2: So there you have it.
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  Speaker 1: The forecast doesn't look good if you're a spectator getting
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  Speaker 1: the shade. And actually this tomorrow, actually Friday, Friday evening,
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  Speaker 1: I'm off to Canterbury to watch a bit of T
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  Speaker 1: twenty and we treated ourselves to some seats in the
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  Speaker 1: stand and I'm not sure whether there's any shade there
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  Speaker 1: or whether the sun will be belting down straight into it.
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  Speaker 2: I really don't know.
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  Speaker 1: This is the first time we've been in the shade
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  Speaker 1: there in the stands there, so we're going to have
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  Speaker 1: to wait and see.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, now another birthday boy.
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  Speaker 1: So this will be the second of our five birthday
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  Speaker 1: musicians who have left their mark on the singing industry.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you all remember this one. When it first
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  Speaker 1: came out, they thought, who is that?
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  Speaker 2: What does he look like? Is it a boy or
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  Speaker 2: is it a girl?
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  Speaker 1: Well, Boy George is actually sixty five now and at
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  Speaker 1: the time he was joined by Culture Club and this
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  Speaker 1: is probably his famous song, This is a Come a Chameleon.
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  Speaker 1: Culture Club and frontman Boy George. They came to our
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  Speaker 1: attention in the mid eighties, I think about eighty four
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  Speaker 1: eighty three, and everybody thought, what on earth is this
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  Speaker 1: lead singer doing.
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  Speaker 2: Is it a boy? It says Boy George, But is
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  Speaker 2: it a boy? Is it a girl? But I mean
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  Speaker 2: he stood to test the time.
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  Speaker 1: If anything, the way he dressed immediately you knew who
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  Speaker 1: it was and you know what?
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  Speaker 2: Where was it?
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  Speaker 1: There was a fancy dress party up put the folks
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  Speaker 1: in Rugby Club years ago and I thought, oh, what
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  Speaker 1: can I go as it was a kind of a
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  Speaker 1: pop theme, so I got a boy George outfit actually
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  Speaker 1: and it suited me, I must say that. But when
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  Speaker 1: I got there there was another boy George as well,
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  Speaker 1: so there was two of us.
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  Speaker 2: So we had a bit of a laugh about that. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Now if you remember a last Saturday, another Saturday before
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  Speaker 1: I had two guests in the show, Chantelle and Phil Rashbrook.
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  Speaker 1: And well, Saturday straight after last Saturdays, straight after the
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  Speaker 1: sports show, I was off. I went to Deal for
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  Speaker 1: the Cliff Top Challenge. Now, so let me remind you
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  Speaker 1: just what exactly the Top Challenges. It's a trail run
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  Speaker 1: and you can choose your distance either fifty five miles, yes,
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  Speaker 1: fifty five miles, thirty six twenty six point two, the
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  Speaker 1: Marrison distance fifteen ten or five miles now the fifty
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  Speaker 1: five milers. They start near Hastings and they started at
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  Speaker 1: two o'clock in the morning and everybody hopefully ends up
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  Speaker 1: in Deal and it was a massive sellout eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: runners taking part. Now the event has raised two hundred
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  Speaker 1: and sixty thousand pound in before we started at the
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  Speaker 1: last Saturday for breast cancer nour. I eventually got there
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  Speaker 1: around about eleven forty five when absolutely amazed when a
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  Speaker 1: fifty five mile runner came heading towards the finish line
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  Speaker 1: at almost twelve o'clock on the dot midday. So let's
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  Speaker 1: put this in perspective. It set off at two o'clock
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  Speaker 1: Saturday morning to arrive almost exactly ten hours later, completing
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  Speaker 1: at an average five and a half miles an hour.
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  Speaker 1: But this is no ordinary terrain. Some of the hills
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  Speaker 1: and trails are quite brutal, but it was an amazing
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  Speaker 1: piece of endurance running. So then for the next four
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  Speaker 1: hours we had runners from all the distances coming in
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  Speaker 1: crossing the line.
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  Speaker 2: We had live entertainment. It came from a soul choir.
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  Speaker 1: There was a young lad called Jamie Reese who entertained
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  Speaker 1: us playing the saxophone. Then a lively group of youngsters
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  Speaker 1: called late to the function. They got everybody rooking. Now,
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  Speaker 1: one particular runner, Jenny Heathfield, deserves a real special mention.
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  Speaker 1: Last year she attempted the fifty five miler, but she failed,
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  Speaker 1: so this year she had a score to settle and
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  Speaker 1: she came back again, this time completing the course showing
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  Speaker 1: real bravery, so massive, well done to you, Jenny. Now
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get a chance to have a chat with
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  Speaker 1: Jenny because she was totally wasted. Shots of bits. Whatever
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  Speaker 1: you like to say, she'll agree with you. And she
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  Speaker 1: took herself off for a little while and just kind
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  Speaker 1: of chilled out, and I was a bit busy. We
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  Speaker 1: missed each other, but I did have a catch up
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  Speaker 1: with her during the week and as she's five. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this event gets bigger and better every year. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to run it and many regulars come along and
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  Speaker 1: support it every year. You can hire a table, your
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  Speaker 1: reserve a table for ten for the whole afternoon, bring
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  Speaker 1: a picnic, bring your own drinks, but of course there
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  Speaker 1: are caterer's cocktail bars. You can buy a cold bier beer.
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  Speaker 1: There's a massage table for the runners. Phil and Chantell
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  Speaker 1: just thought about everything and the top of it all,
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  Speaker 1: it was a lovely day. It wasn't as hot as
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  Speaker 1: we are getting now in fact, and running from Hastings
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  Speaker 1: to the deal direction there was a bit of a breeze,
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  Speaker 1: but it was on their back, so it was not
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  Speaker 1: too bad. Now, the people of Deal and surrounding areas,
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  Speaker 1: I absolutely loved this event and the support is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I did my bit on the mic trying to keep
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  Speaker 1: everybody informed as runners were coming in and thanking sponsors
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  Speaker 1: for their support, and just trying to make the days
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  Speaker 1: sort of flow a bit and keep everybody informed. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I had a nice surprise when the group was setting
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  Speaker 1: up that was late to the function. I saw Seasiders
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  Speaker 1: radio football commentator Charlie Prescott. He was setting up his
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  Speaker 1: keyboard and the first thing he said to me was Gregy.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't expect it.
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  Speaker 2: To be this big.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, it was another successful day. Chantelle stood by the
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  Speaker 1: band stand afterwards and thanked everybody and she said, all
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  Speaker 1: the previous years have been good, but this one was
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  Speaker 1: the best. So please spare a thought for Phil as
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  Speaker 1: he has to go back cycle all the way from
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  Speaker 1: Deal to Hastings picking up the signs and already they're
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  Speaker 1: preparing for next year. Okay, so we're moving on to
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  Speaker 1: our next celebrity and music birthday. Now, this is a
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  Speaker 1: gentleman that is a bit Marmite. You either love him
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  Speaker 1: or you hate him. But he had a great, great
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  Speaker 1: following with the ladies, that's for sure. And during the
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  Speaker 1: week he turned eighty three, I think we're going to
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  Speaker 1: play this one. Yeah, I got it right. This is
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  Speaker 1: a weekend in New England and this is everygo Barry
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  Speaker 1: madlho for a minute there. So Barry Manilo Marmite, you'll
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  Speaker 1: either love him or you hate him.
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  Speaker 2: He was eighty three last week. This night weave goodbye.
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  Speaker 2: No it seems I'm bad again again. That goes right
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  Speaker 2: back to nineteen seventy six Barry.
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  Speaker 1: Manilo, who last week was eighty and he hasn't been
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  Speaker 1: in the best of health lately. He's had to cancel
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  Speaker 1: a couple of concerts. But let's face it, you get
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  Speaker 1: to eighty, do you really want to go out and perform.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's only the Rolling Stones that I want
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  Speaker 1: to do that, and it's talking to Rolling Stones.
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  Speaker 2: I was just I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I had a flash moment there where I played a
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  Speaker 1: song for Phil King on Saturday Route sixty six and
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  Speaker 1: that was one of the early Rolling Stone songs. And
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  Speaker 1: the film came in and with MICHAELA and Will and
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  Speaker 1: we talked about their day at the London Marathon and
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  Speaker 1: what a great Saturday morning that was.
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  Speaker 2: I really loved it, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And there are loads and loads of sporty podcasts on
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  Speaker 1: Radio Folkston website and also on my Facebook page. But
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: if you go to Radio Folkston dot com and follow
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  Speaker 1: the links to but it's got a sports show and
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  Speaker 1: podcasts and.
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  Speaker 2: There's a couple of hundred of them on there.
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  Speaker 1: They're not all interviews, to be fair, and some of
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  Speaker 1: them are just reports on various things. But you can
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  Speaker 1: look back and you can have a listener and you
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  Speaker 1: can share the podcast. And that's the great idea about podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: Not everyone can listen live at this time of day,
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  Speaker 1: and we do understand that. I mean some people, you know,
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: this is kind of a lunchtime. They might listen to
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  Speaker 1: twenty minutes in the lunch break. But you can listen
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  Speaker 1: to the whole show back on the radio of Radio
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  Speaker 1: Focused on the website and just follow the links and
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  Speaker 1: you can go to all the podcasts. Now, if you've
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  Speaker 1: got a Spailty story to tell me, I'd love to
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  Speaker 1: hear it, and it is the opportunity to come in
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  Speaker 1: and have a chat with me.
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  Speaker 2: And it is so casual.
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  Speaker 1: People that have been in before a little bit tense,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit nervous, but once we get going, we
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  Speaker 1: have a chat and they relax. We ask them for
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  Speaker 1: if they want to play their favorite song, that sort
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  Speaker 1: of thing, and then invariably can't shut them up. It's
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  Speaker 1: such a good thing to do. And you can see
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  Speaker 1: behind the scenes of your local community radio how it works,
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  Speaker 1: how the system works, how the tracks come out, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's really an education and you'd have a lovely morning
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  Speaker 1: or even a Thursday at lunchtime. So if you've got
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  Speaker 1: sporty stories, perhaps you're doing an event that wants a
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  Speaker 1: bit of a recognition, then just get in touch with me.
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  Speaker 1: You can email us at Sports Desk at Radio Folkston
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  Speaker 1: dot com or just send me a message on my
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  Speaker 1: Facebook page. Okay, we're staying with the birthday theme now. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is a gentleman that probably is only remembered in
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  Speaker 1: recent times for a song at Christmas because he says
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  Speaker 1: in his typical brummy voice, this song is more pinching. Well,
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  Speaker 1: there is another side to a nerdy holder, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And I love this track. I've dug this one out now.
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  Speaker 1: Nordi Holder was eighty years old last week and he's
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  Speaker 1: always remembered for big, loud, shouty, powerful songs.
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  Speaker 2: But I want you to hear the other side of him.
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  Speaker 1: This is a lovely song from nineteen seventy four, and
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  Speaker 1: this is Nordy Hold of Slade and a song called
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  Speaker 1: every Day.
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  Speaker 2: Every Day when I'm away, I'm think of you. Everyone
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  Speaker 2: can carry on except.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the other side of a naughty Holder. You
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  Speaker 1: normally expect to see him in big platform boots and
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  Speaker 1: we've Slade really rocking behind him. But he has got
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  Speaker 1: a soft side.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll tell you what. I love that song. I
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  Speaker 2: really do. Okay, so well, I'll tell you what.
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  Speaker 1: We keep with the birthday theme because we've got one
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  Speaker 1: more birthday to celebrate.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: This is a gentleman that needs no introduction whatsoever. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's written so many classic songs and during the week
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  Speaker 1: he was eighty four. Now he's a member of the Beatles.
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  Speaker 1: There's I mean, he went on to write songs with
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  Speaker 1: wings Beatles still standard test the time. And I've been
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: up to Liverpool and I've been to the Cavern and
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  Speaker 1: I absolutely loved it. I mean geographically that it's not
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  Speaker 1: the same cabin. It's in the same sort of location,
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: but there was a bit of structural work done, so
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  Speaker 1: it's slightly moved, but it's still the cavern. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: even Silla Black, she was a checkout girl. She used
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  Speaker 1: to take the hats and coats at the cavern. And
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  Speaker 1: it's just jam packed with nostalgia, not about the Beatles
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  Speaker 1: either And in the afternoons they have a free afternoon
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  Speaker 1: where there are and this shows you how long that
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  Speaker 1: the music has lasted and stood the test of time.
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  Speaker 1: They have kind of budding artists that are singing in
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  Speaker 1: the songs of the sixties and they are really really good,
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  Speaker 1: you know, And I just kind of felt it was
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  Speaker 1: an honor to be there, all the old posters of
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  Speaker 1: Billy J. Cramer and the Dakotas and Jerry and the Pacemakers,
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  Speaker 1: all the Liverpool sound which really took off in the sixties.
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  Speaker 1: Paul McCartney last week it was eighty four and once
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  Speaker 1: he's gone on to make like literally hundreds of great
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  Speaker 1: records when he was with the Beatles, and once again
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  Speaker 1: they were up front and rocking and rolling, and all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, the Beatles churned this one out and
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  Speaker 1: for me, this would be the most classic song that
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  Speaker 1: Paul McCartney has ever saw. Yes, there go Paul McCartney
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  Speaker 1: and the Beatles and well looking say that was nineteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty five. So okay, So we wished the following people
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  Speaker 1: were happy birthday. Allisonmoya was sixty five, Boy George from
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  Speaker 1: Culture Club was sixty five, Barry Manilow was eighty, Nordy
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  Speaker 1: Holder was eighty, and Paul McCartney was eighty four. And
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  Speaker 1: there was all last week. And I want to tell
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  Speaker 1: you about someone else that's having a birthday.
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  Speaker 2: On the twenty ninth.
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  Speaker 1: June, I will be having a birthday and I will
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  Speaker 1: be seventy five. Now I'm not going to make any excuses.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to put my hand up and own up
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  Speaker 1: to my age. And I just want to read out
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  Speaker 1: something that I have posted on Facebook and that is
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: getting a great response.
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  Speaker 2: So listen to this.
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  Speaker 1: On Monday, the twenty ninth of June, I will be
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  Speaker 1: reaching a milestone in my life, my seventy fifth birthday.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: So I thought, what can I do? How about raising
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: money for prostate cancer? Now?
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: I thought I've done my bit for Cancer Research UK
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  Speaker 1: and breast cancer. Now and so I decided to promote
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: prostate cancer. Now I'm not climbing Everest, running an ultramarathon,
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  Speaker 1: jumping out of a place, or anything like that. I'm
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: just having a milestone birthday. Then I thought, do you
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  Speaker 1: know what. Over the last twenty five years, I've promoted
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  Speaker 1: Race for Life on stage, I've promoted loads of charities
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  Speaker 1: and interviewed hundreds of fundraising gifts on this very radio
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  Speaker 1: focused in sports show. I've been a quiz master an
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  Speaker 1: endless amount of quizzes for charity, all for other people.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought it's my turn to do some fundraising
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  Speaker 1: for a good cause. I've also compared hundreds of road
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  Speaker 1: races for running clubs promoting their causes. If you've ever
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  Speaker 1: been to one of those and one of those people
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  Speaker 1: that I've helped or called in at a race, then
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: all I'm asking for is a small donation as a
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  Speaker 1: birthday present, and it will go straight to the prostate
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  Speaker 1: cancer charity. One in eight men will get prostate cancer,
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  Speaker 1: and all too often men find out by complete chance
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  Speaker 1: too late. So denote today to help funder research that
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: will improve the odds of catching prostate cancer earlier. Because
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  Speaker 1: men's lives shouldn't be left to chance. So I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is what I posted on Facebook, and it just
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  Speaker 1: says thanks for reading this together. Lots of small donations
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  Speaker 1: can make one big donation. Kevin Daly, that's me. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be seventy five on Monday. Now I might just
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  Speaker 1: add that I haven't got prostate cancer myself. People have
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  Speaker 1: been asking that, but no, but I have lost a
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  Speaker 1: couple of friends who did have this terrible illness. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I just thought, oh, I've seen it before. So I
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  Speaker 1: decided to start this just giving page and set myself
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  Speaker 1: a target of five hundred pounds, and so far I've
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: received nearly four hundred pounds. Now, the point that I
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: made is that lots of little donations make one big donation,
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  Speaker 1: and I want to thank all those have donated so far.
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  Speaker 1: But I too, I do want to tell you about
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  Speaker 1: one donation that appeared on my page for a one
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  Speaker 1: hundred pound I looked at the name Gary Parker. I thought,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know anybody called Gary Parker, so I tracked
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  Speaker 1: him down a complete stranger on Facebook, and sent him
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  Speaker 1: a massive thank you. Now, Gary told me he was
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  Speaker 1: a keen cyclist and himself and some of his Fellow'spurse
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  Speaker 1: supporters have raised over three hundred and thirty thousand pound
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  Speaker 1: for Pancreatic Cancy UK on a ride that they make
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: every year called the Grand Depart Amsterdam. Now looking at
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Gary's Facebook page, is also taking part in various fundraising events,
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  Speaker 1: including a twenty kilometer walk.
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  Speaker 2: So I just want to share this story.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: And if you remember, I read out a story for
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Gemma Jemmy Niles who was raising charity at Money for
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Charity for her daughter and she found it very humbling
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  Speaker 1: to find that total strangers were donating to her her
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  Speaker 1: charity as well. So it does you know, it makes
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  Speaker 1: you feel that there are some lovely, lovely people out there.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a great thing that these people do, just
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  Speaker 1: off their own back, complete strangers.
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  Speaker 2: It's brilliant. I'm lost for the words. Anyway, there you go.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to click on my Facebook page and
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: track the links down, you see a picture of me
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  Speaker 1: and my just Giving page, and that will wish me a.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Very very happy birthday. Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: But this is one of my favorite I'll think if
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  Speaker 1: I had to choose a song for my birthday, I
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: do love the Eagles and It's a tough call, but
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  Speaker 1: I've chosen this one.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go. Take it easy, dig you.
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  Speaker 1: Easy, don't look the sound your Onscrib.
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  Speaker 2: Eagles nineteen seventy two.
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  Speaker 1: Right, I want to tell you about another sporting event
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  Speaker 1: that's come my way and now listen to this. Are
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  Speaker 1: you looking for a fun challenge this summer while supporting
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  Speaker 1: two fantastic local charities, Join us for Beat the Bell
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday, the sixteenth of August at the Anchor in
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  Speaker 1: in Winger. Beat the Bell is a unique self guided
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  Speaker 1: charity run or walk for people of all abilities. You
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  Speaker 1: can choose from ten circular routes, all starting and finishing
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: at the anchor and complete as many or as few
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: as you like. Take part on your own or with
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: a team or with some friends. The event starts at
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: eleven and finishes at nine o'clock when the last bell rings.
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  Speaker 1: Now the entry is twenty pound, all profits going to
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Young Lives Foundation and Saint John's Ambulance, who will both
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: be there on the day now. Young Lives Foundation supports
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  Speaker 1: children and young people across Kent, helping them overcome challenges,
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  Speaker 1: build confidence and reach their full potential, and Saint John's
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  Speaker 1: Ambulance where we all know who they are, but it
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: is a well known volunteer based organization that could always
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: do with a bit of extra fundraising. I mean whilst
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: they might be volunteers, I mean they've still got to
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: buy the kit and stuff like that. So yeah, raising
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: funds for the Sir John's Ambulance is a great cause.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Now this is a very very different sort of run.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: I think it's unique actually. Now a gentleman called the
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Rob Small got in touch me and asked if I
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: could just mention it on the radio and now I'll
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  Speaker 1: get into it. He's done so much work, you know.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Now if you visit on the website Beatthebell dot UK right,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: what you'll find is ten videos. Now the keyword in
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: their little right up there is self guided. So there's
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: not going to be any marshals out on the course.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: And what you would do if you So you decide
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: to run five miles, So go to beat the Beell
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  Speaker 1: you dot UK and you will see there's a map,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: a physical map you can look at like any other
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Ordnance Survey type map, but then you can click on
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  Speaker 1: the video. Now Rob has run that five mile course
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: and he's videoed every sort of left turn, right turn,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: and just to make sure that you don't get lost.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: And he's done that from all the all the ranges
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: of one mile to ten miles, so the amount of
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: work has gone into that. And if you're doing a
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: one mile course, you might do one and think oh
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: that was good, Perhaps do another two miles. Then you
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: can click on the two mile and do another two
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: miles and so on and you can run as many
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: as you like. But the old principle is totally different.
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  Speaker 1: And I've got to applaud in well done, Rob, And
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: as you say, there's two good charities there, the Young
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Lives Foundations and the John's Ambulance. And so keeping in
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: touch with Rob and he's letting me know how the
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: entries are going, and I just want to keep you
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: up to date.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: But Rob, well done to you.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: That has a great idea and unique, I would say,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: and it will be a little bit of a challenge
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: for the runner. So if you really fancy doing something
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: totally different, basically it's running with your phone and following
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: the course that Rob has run and you're not getting lost.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: So that's on Sunday, the August the sixteenth, So visit
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  Speaker 1: their website Beatthebell dot uk. Right bit of music. Now,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: now this one takes me back nineteen ninety seven. Now,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: I started working down at Eurotunnel with an agency in
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety seven, and so this song was actually really
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: prominent in those days. And it's like a song that
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: can take you back to your holiday, to your first love,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: to a funeral perhaps, But this one will take me
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: straight back to those early days on Eurotunnel. And it
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: is brim full of asher and corner Shop theyah we
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: go in nineteen ninety seven, the corner shop and brim
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: full of asher.
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  Speaker 2: And as I said, the records do take.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: You back to your childhood, your first girlfriend, your first nightclub,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: certainly holidays and I don't know periods of university and
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: that one takes me back so the first time I
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: worked at Eurotunne or that one seemed to be pumping
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: out all the time for some reason. So I had
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: a good time. I met up with a load of
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: old my old buddies Ramsgate. If you've ever been over
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: to a certain establishment that has got the word spoons
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: in it, then that's where we met and up on
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: the rooftop and it's great to get together, you know,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: and we've all packed up work now and they all
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: got plenty to talk about, all got time on our hands,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: and yeah, it's great to keep in touch with all
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: the guys from a eurotunnel there, right, So the last
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: song of the day. We are running out of time.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: I've been waffling quite a bit today because we just
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: couldn't be asked to do much sport. There we go,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: We owned up to it. So we're going to play
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: out with this one. We won't get it all in,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: but I'll be back on Saturday. So this is the
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: verve and bittersweet symphony.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's it from me for today.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be back on Saturday between ten and eleven, when
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: my special guest will be Beth Keeling, who recently took
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: part in a strong woman competition.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: So that's going to be an interesting morning.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Friday evening Tomorrow, I'm off to watch Kent Spitfire's play
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Nuts Outlawers in the two twenty match at the Saint
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Lawrence Grown that I'll be back on Saturday and see
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: you then five point nine online at Radio Folkston dot
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