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LISTEN BACK TO REPORTS ON FOOTBALL,HOCKEY,GREAT NORTH RUN ROLE OF HONOUR,PARKRUN VENUES AND MY TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE. · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

• 0:07
  Speaker 1: This is Kevin, Sports Ferret Daily, bringing you the Folkestone
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: and Hive Sports Show here on 105.9 Radio Folkestone. On
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: today's show, we have local football. There's no cricket as
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: their season is over, but the hockey season starts on
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: Saturday and So we'll be telling you just how many
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: teams they have filled in this year. We have a
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: roll of honour of local athletes who took part in
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: the Great North Run. Plus news of two races where
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: I was on the mic. That's the Dover Waterfront Park
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: Run and the Rye Ancient Trails 3015K Run. We've got
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  Speaker 1: a list of park run venues attended by some of
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: our local athletes and quite frankly any other sporty snippets
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: that I could slip in. Now during the week I
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: made a trip down memory lane to the town I
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: was brought up in, that's Boreham Wood. It was a
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  Speaker 1: happy sad day as I met up with some very
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  Speaker 1: old friends and we got together to attend a memorial
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: afternoon for another friend who sadly passed away. Now we
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: chatted about the good old days like you do when
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: we used to go to a club called the Lynx Club.
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  Speaker 1: We managed to get some up and coming groups who
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: were trying to make their way up the music ladder.
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  Speaker 1: Now I remember, listen to this lot, I remember Georgie Fame,
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  Speaker 1: Amen Corner, Gino Washington. The Yardbirds were there and would
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: you believe Eric Clapton was in the Yardbirds at the time.
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  Speaker 1: But one group I will never forget, and that is
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: The Who. They turned up smashing guitars and trying to
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  Speaker 1: make a name for themselves. So let's turn the clock
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  Speaker 1: back to 1967 and get those drumsticks out because I
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  Speaker 1: can see for miles from The Who. Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: I know you this.
• 2:30
  Speaker 2: Evening, now here's a surprise. I know that you have,
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  Speaker 2: cause there's magic in my eyes. I can see for
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  Speaker 2: miles and miles and miles and miles.
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  Speaker 1: I can see for miles and miles.
• 2:44
  Speaker 2: I can see for miles.
• 2:54
  Speaker 1: As to who they are, they can see for miles.
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  Speaker 1: So come on, are you pulling those Keith Moon faces
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  Speaker 1: and getting the old pencils out and bashing them on
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  Speaker 1: the computer? Of course you were. OK, so let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you about my trip to Borehamwood. Well, sadly, my
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  Speaker 1: friend John Toomey passed away recently at the age of 79.
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  Speaker 1: Growing up, his younger brother Dave became my first friend
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  Speaker 1: at primary school when we were just five years old. Now,
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  Speaker 1: John was the older brother. I mean, when we were five,
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  Speaker 1: John was nine. And that was a massive, massive gap,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it? You know, when you're that age. But I
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  Speaker 1: got to know John later, when we were sort of
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: in our 20s, when we played football together. Now, three
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  Speaker 1: other teammates from Borehamwood Rangers came along. Goalie Cliff Munger.
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  Speaker 1: If there was ever a 50-50 ball in the box,
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  Speaker 1: you knew it was Cliff. He was hard as nails.
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  Speaker 1: Stevie Lyons was there. He was a tall centre-half who
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  Speaker 1: could always win the ball in the air. and tenacious
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  Speaker 1: tackler Danny Mooney, who would always come off the pitch saying,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't mean to hurt him. Now, in those days,
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: we never had a clubhouse. We used to have to
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  Speaker 1: wait until half past five. The pubs didn't open until
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  Speaker 1: half past five in those days, and that was outside
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  Speaker 1: the mops and brooms. Now, I spent ages chatting to
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  Speaker 1: Dave Toomey and his wife Diane, and one story that
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  Speaker 1: always pops up is the one about John on his scooter. Now,
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  Speaker 1: John had a smart mud-style Lambretta, and he went out
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  Speaker 1: one day for a ride with somebody on the back,
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  Speaker 1: and believe it or not, none of us could remember
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  Speaker 1: who it was. But another lad, Dave Tarrier, joined them,
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  Speaker 1: and he was on his scooter, but he was riding solo. Now,
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  Speaker 1: they went quite a distance away from Boreham Wood, but unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: Dave Tarrier's scooter broke down, and they couldn't get it
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  Speaker 1: going again. So they found a safe home for it
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  Speaker 1: and decided, thanks to John, to try and get home,
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  Speaker 1: all three of them, on John's scooter. Now, John Scooter
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  Speaker 1: had a long saddle. It was the Lambretta, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with the long saddle. And he had a backrest, which
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  Speaker 1: came in handy. And luckily, the guy that broke down,
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  Speaker 1: his scooter, Dave, now, he was quite a small lad.
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  Speaker 1: So what they decided to do was they put him
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  Speaker 1: in the middle and they covered him over with a
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  Speaker 1: big mud-tight parka and told him to keep his head down. Now, remember,
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  Speaker 1: in those days, you didn't have to wear crash helmets,
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: which made things a lot easier. And it was lucky
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  Speaker 1: because they managed to bypass some police patrols. But if
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  Speaker 1: you were a pedestrian, you've got to picture what it
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  Speaker 1: looked like. Seeing a scooter go by with apparently two heads,
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  Speaker 1: two bodies, but three pairs of legs on the running board. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: that story I'm sure will be passed on through the
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  Speaker 1: Toomey family for generations. And what a great story. It
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: was told a few times. I had a couple of
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  Speaker 1: people telling that. And so it was a happy, sad day,
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: but it was nice to see everyone, you know, just
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: sort of chill out and reflect on the good times. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to stay with songs in that era for
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  Speaker 1: our next song, because I wonder, I'll tell you what,
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if my friend Danny Mooney, he's got a
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  Speaker 1: world that's a jukebox in his house, and he's got
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  Speaker 1: some great 60s tracks, and I wonder if he's got
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: this one. This is from 1968. This is The Small Faces.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. You know it straight away, don't you?
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  Speaker 1: You know it. Lazy Sunday. Small Faces from 1968. So
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  Speaker 1: reliving my youth there. It was a great time to
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  Speaker 1: grow up in, you know. It's like everything. You kind of...
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  Speaker 1: You don't realise it until it's gone, you know. The
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  Speaker 1: fun we had and, you know, yeah, we always used
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  Speaker 1: to go out and have a few beers. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think any of us smoked. None of us did drugs,
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  Speaker 1: that's for sure. We just liked going out and playing
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  Speaker 1: football and going up the pub. What a way to
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  Speaker 1: grow up, you know. All right, occasionally we got into
• 7:06
  Speaker 1: a bit of trouble, but not with the police, but just,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a little scrap outside or something, but... nothing
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  Speaker 1: to write home about, it was a great time, and
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  Speaker 1: it does you good, you know, to turn the clock back,
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  Speaker 1: because sadly, as the time goes on, we start to
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  Speaker 1: lose a lot of, especially my generation, lose a lot
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  Speaker 1: of friends, and it's a sad time, but when you
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  Speaker 1: get together and have a chat, you realise what great
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  Speaker 1: fun you had. Okay, so let's move on to, shall
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: we do a bit of sport, after all, it's a
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  Speaker 1: sports show, isn't it? Right, we're going to do some
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: football now. Folkston and Victor, well, they lost 2-1 at
• 7:42
  Speaker 1: home on Saturday to Farnham FC. And there was 981
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: spectators there. But sadly, they conceded a goal, a late
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: goal again. It's been a bit of their trouble. They
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: did the same thing at Torquay, a late goal. Still,
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: all that will be put behind them on Saturday as
• 7:58
  Speaker 1: is FA Cup Day. Folkston make the short journey to
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: the Crabble to play Dover in the FA Cup second
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  Speaker 1: qualifying round. Form-wise, there's not much to choose between the
• 8:09
  Speaker 1: two sides, but let's be honest, form goes out the
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  Speaker 1: window when the FA Cup comes round. So this is
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  Speaker 1: a massive game for the two teams, the two sets
• 8:17
  Speaker 1: of fans, and of course the two towns. Meanwhile, at
• 8:20
  Speaker 1: the Alkaline Stadium last Sunday, Hyth were technically the home
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: side against Wick from Little Hampton, because if you didn't
• 8:28
  Speaker 1: know by now that they're trying to get their a
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: grass pitch converted to an artificial pitch, and so they're
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: playing all their games away. But as this was technically
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  Speaker 1: their home game, they obviously did a deal with folks
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  Speaker 1: in Evicta and played the game there. So, oh, and
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: they had a good day as well, of course. I
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: must tell you the score, they won 5-2. This is
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: another home tie, in inverted commas, against Worthing United, who
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  Speaker 1: are currently seventh in the Southern Combination League Division 1.
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  Speaker 1: This Saturday is back to the league action in an
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  Speaker 1: away fixture at Croydon. Now, in a Kent Intermediate charity
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  Speaker 1: shield game at Hawkins, where Boca Juniors from Division 1
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  Speaker 1: were the visitors, the game went to a penalty shootout
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  Speaker 1: as the result was 2-0 after 90 minutes. Unfortunately, Hawkins
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  Speaker 1: lost by four penalties to three, and out they go.
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  Speaker 1: This Saturday, back to league action. It's another home game,
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  Speaker 1: this time against Kings Hill, who are the visitors. New
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  Speaker 1: Romney were on the end of a 10-goal thriller, losing
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: 7-3 to Long Lane FC from South East London. Now,
• 9:31
  Speaker 1: I couldn't find a fixture for this week, but it
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  Speaker 1: might be because their opponents, there's some more cup competitions
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: being played, so they might be in action. So it
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  Speaker 1: leaves the New Romney without a game. But the league
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: tables are still not looking good, you know. Early on
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  Speaker 1: in the season, and I do hope it changes, but
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  Speaker 1: at the moment we're seeing Hawkins second from bottom and
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  Speaker 1: New Romney bottom. All right, so let's move on up
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  Speaker 1: to 2006. This was a catchy little tune when it
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  Speaker 1: came out. came out and this is niles barkley and crazy.
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  Speaker 2: I remember when i remember i remember when i lost
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  Speaker 2: my mind there was something so pleasant about that.
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  Speaker 1: Place We're on 2017 there. Avicii, Lonely Together. And our
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  Speaker 1: featured Rita Ora on there as well. Okay, so we're
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  Speaker 1: going to turn our attention to the Great North Run.
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  Speaker 1: Last Sunday, several local athletes took part in the Great
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  Speaker 1: North Run. In fact, it's been going now for 45 years.
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  Speaker 1: And they get around about 63,000 runners because it's a
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  Speaker 1: half marathon course. But it's funny, you know, the Great
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  Speaker 1: South Run, which is sort of around the Portsmouth area,
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  Speaker 1: That is just 10 miles. And this one hasn't taken
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  Speaker 1: place yet. That's coming up on October the 10th. Last year,
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  Speaker 1: there was about 24,000 runners took part in that one. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I've tried to compile a roll of honour, so I
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: do apologise if I left anybody out. So here we go. Now,
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  Speaker 1: first up, we've got two former guests of the show.
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  Speaker 1: Ian Vowsden, runner, one hour, 54 minutes, five seconds, raising
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  Speaker 1: money for Parkinson's UK in the memory of his dad.
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: Louisa Eade ran in 1 hour 48, 27, raising money
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  Speaker 1: for a charity called the Red Sky Foundation. They help babies,
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  Speaker 1: children and adults who are born or develop a heart condition.
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  Speaker 1: Jason King also ran for the Red Sky Foundation and
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  Speaker 1: finished in 2 hours 9 minutes 39 seconds. Rona Fry
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  Speaker 1: raised money for Dreams Come True, who enrichen lives of
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: children with a disability or a serious illness, literally making
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  Speaker 1: their dreams come true. Rona ran with her friend Katrina Peake,
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  Speaker 1: both clocking a time of 2 hours 32 minutes 4 seconds.
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: Katrina's chosen charity was the Samaritans. Now another two ladies
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: who stayed together were Julie Apps and Rebecca Stevenson. They
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  Speaker 1: both finished in a time of 2 hours 4 minutes
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: 42 seconds and they were both running for a bowel
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  Speaker 1: cancer UK. Julie Gibbs ran her third Great North Run
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: in a time of 2 hours 38 exactly. She was
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: running for South Kent Mind. And don't forget Julie is
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  Speaker 1: our warm-up lady for their Mental Elf run, which is
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: on December 6th. And we are hoping to have Jo
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: Tolhurst in the studio before then to give us a
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: good update on how that's all going. Ed James run
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  Speaker 1: 1 hour 33 minutes 30 seconds. And Phil Haynes run
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: 1 hour 42 minutes 34 seconds. Now I must mention
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  Speaker 1: my niece, Nicola Ashworth, and her friend, Tracy Catherine. Nicola
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  Speaker 1: raised over £ 2, 000 for Blood Cancer UK in memory of
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: her late husband Dave. And Tracy raised over £ 600 for
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: Cancer Research UK. These two are great friends. Tracy recently
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  Speaker 1: posted a picture going back to when they ran the
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  Speaker 1: Great North Run 14 years ago. And in the picture
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  Speaker 1: was the other great friend, Caroline Slater. Now, I've seen
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  Speaker 1: Caroline run in... Where was I? I was in Essex
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  Speaker 1: at the Hadley Country Park. And... And that is really
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: a tough, tough race, I'll tell you. And she came in,
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  Speaker 1: and she looked a bit bedraggled. It had been raining,
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  Speaker 1: I think. But it was lovely to see. It was
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: a very nice shock, actually, to see Caroline. And, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Caroline and my niece Nikki and myself, oh, my goodness,
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember how many years ago it was. We
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  Speaker 1: run a South End 10K. And it really was a
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  Speaker 1: great day, you know, and It was a different race
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  Speaker 1: for me. I'd never done it before. And I went
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  Speaker 1: down there on my own at the crack of dawn and, uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: met Nikki and Carolina. We had a great time. So
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: well done to you. I'm sorry if I've forgotten any, um,
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  Speaker 1: anybody that did the run and I haven't got older
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  Speaker 1: their time. So, uh, massive, well done. What an atmosphere
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  Speaker 1: it must've been with 60 odd thousand runners, 63,000 runners,
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  Speaker 1: it said. So, right. Turn our attention now to park
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  Speaker 1: run venues. Now I like this part of the show because, uh,
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  Speaker 1: It's like a geography lesson. I find out where runners
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  Speaker 1: have been and what sort of places they've been to
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: to find a park run. Jane Wren found her park run.
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  Speaker 1: It was called the Peel Park Run, which is in Manchester.
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  Speaker 1: Jake Harvey visited Birkenhead near Liverpool. I can't say it properly.
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: I have to say Birkenhead. That's near Liverpool. David Botting
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  Speaker 1: was at the Saundringham. That's very posh, isn't it? Saundringham,
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  Speaker 1: a royal park. for his parkrun. Lara Parsons ran the
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: Battersea parkrun. And I want to say a special well
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: done to Jax Tanner, who completed, listen to this, her
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  Speaker 1: second alphabet of parkruns. As you know, some parkrunners get
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: a little bit obsessed, you know, A for Ashford, B
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  Speaker 1: for Brighton and so on. But she found this run
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  Speaker 1: at Zielony Jar in Krakow in Poland. They go all
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: the way to Poland. There's not many parkruns with a Z.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: There's one in Holland, I think. Zoo de Kirke, I
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  Speaker 1: think it is. Anyway, the other milestone, really, was her
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  Speaker 1: 100th location. She's run in 100 different venues of a parkrun.
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  Speaker 1: So that is amazing, isn't it? And also I want
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  Speaker 1: to say, well done also goes to a nice work colleague,
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  Speaker 1: Catherine Mott. Now, Catherine, I see Catherine normally if we
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: have a race in Essex, in Clacton or in Southend,
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  Speaker 1: Catherine always comes along. Now, she was on holiday in
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: Lithuania and found the Vingis Park Run. And so, well
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  Speaker 1: done to you, Catherine. And hello to you, of course.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you're having a great time and you had
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: a great holiday by the look of it. And finally,
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: a former guest of the show, Phil King, was also
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  Speaker 1: in Lithuania. He was in Vilnius a week before. No, sorry,
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: a week later, running a marathon there. And he completed
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  Speaker 1: that marathon 30 minutes faster than his first marathon in
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  Speaker 1: London earlier this year. Now, if you remember, Phil came
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  Speaker 1: in He ticks all the boxes. He'd never run a marathon.
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  Speaker 1: His first marathon was London, and he was raising it
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: for a charity. So to knock 30 minutes off your
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  Speaker 1: time in what, six months? He's done really, really well,
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: hasn't he? Okay, now we've got a bit of a
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  Speaker 1: birthday boy here today. He had a birthday last week,
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  Speaker 1: and I've known this one for a long time. It
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  Speaker 1: was Michael Bublé, and he was 51. So sit back
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  Speaker 1: and enjoy this crooner of a song. This is called Everything.
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  Speaker 2: Michael Bublé.
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  Speaker 1: What a nice, soft, gentle, cruising sing-along song that is.
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  Speaker 1: You know what? As he was singing it, the sun
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: come out. And that's just apt. It just suits that song.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: It really does. Just like sitting by the pool, having
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: a beer. Great stuff. Okay, so a bit more running news,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: in fact. So let me tell you about last weekend.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: It was a busy weekend for me. I was at
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: two races. On Saturday, it was the Dover Waterfront Park
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Run's third birthday, where 262 runners and 20 volunteers celebrated. Now,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: we were blessed with fine weather, and it was great
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: to see so many tourists. There was loads of them
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: from all over the place. And it's a great, absolutely
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: iconic run for tourists, you know. If you've never done
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: it before, or even if you just fancy going down
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  Speaker 1: to Dover seafront and having a walk, start up the
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: end where the old hovercraft used to be, you know,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: and just go round the bend there. And as you
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: go round, you get a great view of the harbour.
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  Speaker 1: And as you look up, you get a fantastic view
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: of the castle. And then they come back and then
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: they go up this, I suppose you'd call it a jetty,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: a pier, where there's lots of boats moored up And
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: on a nice day, you know, you can just see
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: the ferries pulling out and see the coast of France.
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  Speaker 1: It really is really lovely. Run director Amy Stimpson has
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: been the driving force for the last three years, so
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: a big congratulations to her. We had Angela Wade give
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: us a little park run song where she changed a
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: few words to suit the occasion as the crowd clapped
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: along to Elton John's Crocodile Rock. And, you know, she
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: does this every now and then. She surprised me. I
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: didn't know it was on the agenda. She came up
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: and said, oh, Kevin, can I have the mic? I've
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: got to do my song now. I said, what's that
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: all about? Anyway, she does make these, gets a famous
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: song everybody knows and just changes a few words to
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: suit the park, right? Park Run and PBs and things
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: like that. We mustn't, of course, forget Ian. He was
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: in the corner dishing out the cakes for the birthday. Now,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: I really enjoyed being invited to the Dover Park Run.
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  Speaker 1: They're really such an enthusiastic, lovely bunch of people. Then
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: on Sunday, it was off in the other direction to Rye,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: where nearly 500 runners took part in the Ancient Trails
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: 30 or 15K run, started by Paul, the jovial town crier. Now,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: he was like a stereotype town crier. They started by
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: a hotel at a balcony, and he went up inside
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: the hotel, popped out on the balcony, and he was
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: about six foot tall, about six foot wide, and he
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: had this belt. And this booming voice, which was louder
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: than my PA system. But I was watching the runners,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: you know, looking up, all smiling and laughing at him.
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  Speaker 1: He really does a great job. now Tom North from
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Bexhill was the first man home in the 15k and
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Steve Gates from Hastings AC was first home in the
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: 30k knocking five minutes off the course record it was
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: nice to see four members of the Folkestone Running and
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Athletic Club Joe Carroll, Vicky Scott, Tony Scott and Molly Spice.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: And I saw the distinctive orange and white of South
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Kent Harriers worn by Ray Pearce. Congratulations must go to
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Rachel Wood and her nice work team for all their
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: hard work as this really does take some organising. You
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: can imagine it's going out in the trails the day before,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: putting the courses out. There is a split where they,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: you know, one go for 15 and one go for
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: 30 and they've really, really got to get it all right.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: So well done to the team and see you again
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: next year. Now I'm going to play this song for Angela.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Now she did this sort of parody, if you like,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: of an Elton John song. So I've dug out the
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: real version. This is for you, Angela. This is Crocodile Rock.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Crocodile Rock.
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  Speaker 1: As for our parkrun rocker, Angela, I wonder what her
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: next song will be. I hope I'm ready for it
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: this time. My dear, I did get a mention in it,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: to be fair. She did mention me, so I was
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: quite chuffed about that. Right, so the hockey season is starting.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: And you know what? I can't believe this. Former guest
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: of the show, Amy, she's the media guru at The Optimist.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: She posted the fixtures for the men's and the ladies' teams.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: And listen to this. This year, they are fielding 15 teams.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: They've got seven ladies' teams and eight men's teams. You know,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: and I did a quick bit of arithmetic. And... 15 teams,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: just 11 players. That's 165 players available to play hockey
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: at the Three Hills on a Saturday. And then you've
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: got the subs and the coaches and all the people
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: that sort of, you know, tag along for an official
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: reason for any of the teams. So you're probably looking
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: at about 200 people. It's amazing. Now, there's two pitches
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: down there, and they're just going to get used endlessly.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: they've got nine home games this weekend. And as it
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: is their first season, I'm just going to run you
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: through every single fixture. And I'm sure you won't be
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: able to remember them all like me. So let's start
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: with the men's team. Now the men's, they are away.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: They are playing actually still in the South East Premier Division.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: So that's really good. They just about stayed in by
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: the skin of their teeth last season. So they're away
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: to Mildon Russes. The men's second team are away to Cliftonville.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: The men's third team are at home to Maidstone's second team.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: The men's fourth team are away to New Beckerhamian's first team.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: The men's fifth team are at home to... Oh, yeah,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: I think in this league, the fifth and the sixth
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: team are in the same league, so they're playing together
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: at 3.30. The men's seventh team, they are at home
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: to Sittingbourne, a fourth team. And the new team, the
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: men's eighth team, are away to Maidstone, the sixth team.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: So you can see how popular hockey is. These other
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: clubs have got five or six teams each. Now the
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: ladies are also in the ladies section of the South
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: East Premier Division. So you've got both the men's and
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: the ladies playing at the highest level around this region.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Ladies first team, first game is away at Eastbourne. The
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: ladies seconds are at home to Mild and Russets. Ladies
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: thirds are away to Canterbury fourth team. The ladies fourth
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: team are at home to Ashford third team. Ladies fifth
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: team are at home to Amaldon Russets. Ladies sixth team
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: are at home to the University of Kent. And the
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: ladies seventh team are at home to Herne Bay fourth team. Now,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to repeat all that, but if you
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: go to the Folkestone Optimist Facebook page, you will find
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: all those fixtures there. Now, that in itself, just saying it,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: is a handful. But you imagine the logistics behind trying
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: to book a pitch with the opposition, trying to make
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: sure that pitches and time slots are available. That is
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: a real, real work of art. And another great thing
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: that's going on this year, the Hockey Club are celebrating
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: 100 years of hockey at Folkestone. 100 years! And look
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: at how far it's come in that time. And I
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: remember being, when I first came to Folkestone, and they
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: used to have an Easter hockey festival, but everything was
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: played on grass. And at the same time, we used
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: to play football on some of the pitches, but I'd never,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: ever seen the hockey pitches, the grass hockey pitches, looking
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: so good as they did at Easter. So, well done
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: to you, everybody. I mean, it's got to be a
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: big thank you to Roger de Haan for, you know,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: thinking about upgrading from the old rickety old cricket club,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: which stood the test of time, doubled up as a
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: hockey club. We used to use it as a running club.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: But the brilliant facilities now mean that they can put
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: on all these games and it does attract extra, if
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: you like, games at the higher level, you know, the
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: county games, because Three Hills has got the facilities. OK,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: so the next song is one that... Now, this is
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: a birthday boy as well. Unfortunately, he's no longer with us.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: But this was kind of one of the singing heroes
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: in my day back in the 60s. This is an
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Otis Redding song. Now, Otis Redding would have been 85
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: this week. But there's another sad story. He died in
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: a plane crash in 1967, and he was only 26
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: years old. So not much of a career, but he
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: did leave his mark. So let's sit back and listen
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: to a bit of Otis Redding and My Girl.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: What a voice.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: I haven't heard that one for a long time, but
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: it does take me back, doesn't it? 1965. I've just
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: read it in a My Girl. And that's a song
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: that some of the fathers of the bride brave and
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: they practice in the kitchen in the karaoke. And so
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: they can sing it at their daughter's wedding. And I've
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: seen a few videos where a few, what do you
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: call it, father of the bride have absolutely ruined that song.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: But good luck to them having a go. I think
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: if my daughter was going to get married, I think
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: I'd like to have a go. I'd like to embarrass
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: her totally singing that song at her wedding. Young couples
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: don't get married so much now, do they? I mean, like,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: days gone by, shall we say. You know, if it's
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: your first girlfriend or whatever, and you went with her
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: for a long time, people expected you to marry her.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: But now they just live together, and some of them,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: like my daughter, does very well. Got two lovely, lovely
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: grandchildren in the house. Lovely relationship with their own house. And, yeah, so... Right,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: so that's my girl. OK, so we're going to move on.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Another little song now. No, it's just one of my
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: favourite groups. I'm playing this now because I like it
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: and I don't care what anybody says, really. This is
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: The Travelling Wilburys, Handle We Care. MUSIC PLAYS Travelling Wilburys, 1988.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Can you name the Travelling Wilburys? How many of them
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: were there? Well, I'll tell you now, there was five, right? Now,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: did you have a little think about this? Did you
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: get this right? Did you have any idea? Well, it
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: was Jeff Lynn from ELO, Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Tom Petty,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: and Roy Orbison. And to me, they only made two
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: really good songs. I mean, the rest, they're the kind
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: of songs that grow on you when you listen to
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: the album. But yeah, they've done really well, didn't they?
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: And sadly, we have lost Tom Petty and Roy Orbison
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: since the days of the Handle With Care. But they
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: left a good legacy, didn't they? Right, so what we've
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: got left, we're running out of time now, but I
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: will tell you about a race that I am at,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: a unique race on Sunday. It's the Howlett's Cheetah 5K,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: and it's Howlett's Wild Animal Park, and I keep getting
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: told off because I called it a zoo. Anyway, let
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: me read you the official lines on it. Take part
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: in a truly unique 5K at Howlett's Wild Animal Park
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: and support the Aspinall Foundation's in their vital conservation work.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: This year's race edition will be celebrating and supporting the
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: rewilding of Edie the South African cheetah. Race registrations also include,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: listen to this, full entry into the park for runners
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: after the event. And you get free parking, you get
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: a bespoke medal, and your friends and family get 25%
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: off as well. Now, the Howletts 5K will take you
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: through 90 stunning acres of ancient parkland, where you'll be
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: cheered on, hopefully not chased by it. More than 45
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: species of rare and endangered animals, including elephants, gorillas, tigers
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: and lions. The event will start before the park opens
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: to its gates to the public, giving you an exclusive
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: glimpse of behind the scenes. And before that, we will
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: have a warm-up, where a lovely Jenny comes along. She's
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: normally done up in a little sort of a cheetah outfit, but... Yeah,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: so it really is, you know, a race with a difference. So,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: you know what? If you just go to nicework.org, check
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: it out. You might want to just come along and
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: have a watch and perhaps just pop in the zoo.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: I nearly said it again. Not in the zoo. In
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: the theme park. Oh, in the theme park. In the
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: World Animal Park afterwards. Okay, so let's... I think this
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: might be the last song because it's quite a long one.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: I do love this song as well. This is Aerosmith.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: And I can just picture... the girlfriend looking at the
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: TV screens as her boyfriend disappeared. This is Don't Want
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: to Miss a Thing. so there you go that's Aerosmith
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: and don't want to miss a thing well that's it
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: from me I'll be back on Saturday with AD from
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: 10 to 11 where our special guest will be Dave
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Warbrook telling me how he got on last weekend as
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: he took on a 100km walking challenge along the Thames
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: towpath did he finish it? tune in on Saturday to
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: find out bye for now