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Course these are looking quite foggy and also be a 69 as well reduced visibility that so approach with cat if you're using those of stretches of road this evening but pretty much east of you need to use the a 74 m. To be encountering any problems I'm Jason Harvey for b.b.c. Radio computer. On f.m. Am online and don't freebie a lot of the county for 40 years this is b.b.c. Radio Cumbria. B.b.c. News 7 o'clock I'm sorry loud and the president of the Supreme Court says it will give its judgment on whether the government muskets parliament's approval to leave the e.u. 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And I won't form well ask this because at the value of vinyl sales outstrip digital downloads we look at who's paying to listen to music now days plus if you're a fan of the many auction house shows on t.v. Stay here as after Hof past 7 the former chairman of Christie's will be here to tell you what it was like selling van cough some flowers for a world record price 30 years ago. a habit or because you really really really like the music or you prefer the bits of chat in between hopefully it's a combination of all of the above well if you are a music fan you are doubly going to enjoy Tonight Show after half past 8 a bloke will be here who has set the questions for the last 20 years for the biggest pop trivia show on the radio Ok So another channel it's on Radio 2 but it's the most listened to Sharon Europe for goodness sake So we'll we'll give Ken Bruce a bit of an accolade and talk about pop master at half past 8 at night so be ready to answer some questions and we'll talk about music right now as aficionados and traditionalist have been giving the needle to C.D.'s and m p 3 s. It seems we've talked about it on the show choir there over the years but now lovers of real records have reached a rather impressive milestone for the 1st time ever the music industry's made more money from vinyl than it has from digital downloads to find out exactly why shortly but 1st Adam Clarkson's been to visit a brand new record store in Hartley pool where the ethos of the business is to promote a passion for music and keep prices low. Style pop explosion. Definitely one of the way direct cause we get an. Amazing on the last. M Jackson or another record shop. Space in Harley both been open to long we're not saying we're just as a really independent really you know from the area you know from the northeast of England So talk me through the journey of me being here now with your shop in all its glory. And we've done it in May and think now and that was such a freak out from am in only friends in. Went to school everything and then all next week I was a wreck was always been a massive part of me but I never I never seen it as like. It was an open so recent years when my they we had no more record shop in Poland it was like it we were dead in the war gentlemen for a long time hardly people was like you'd walk through the. Second hand shops were gone the direct quote shops were gone and we had we didn't of these things. This is going to mean very favorite records Camembert and weirdly you know one of the 1st records I really remember looking up and read in might be an interest in what else is out to other 'd than just music. Good news. You know. Sometimes people don't take the opportunities to shoot on people especially like areas I mean it is a low income every day and and some people are trying to survive in places like this although we have what we work with you know I mean we use like record pricing guides and stuff like that in Record Collector magazine. So yeah we have like a base of where we know where we can go and we can always get a deal so I think that's what's great about the shop I mean you know if someone came in they want to spend hundreds pound on vinyl we're not going to judge you know we're going to try and get a saw you know I'm going to trying to really you know I mean this is more about their passion for music and access to music rather than the stone cold cash I had well in initially what I want to do is open a musical library and obviously just because we didn't have the space the the plan was as I What's again a jukebox unit was Hope took to a wide shop in a sense and then just have a very little community cafe kind of thing where people come in and just browse and listen as weird as it sounds you know I just want people to hear and you know it's amazing when someone can comment in the say oh you know I like electrical electric like James Brown in this. You know. Someone says so much. About. How. The future we will listen to music. Hope you heard it Roland 81 triple 3 is my text start your message Mark and I get to see it standard message rates apply if you're on line e-mail me Mark at b.b.c. Doco the u.k. Or call the show over 34531858 I used to buy so many records I had hundreds of thousands of vinyl albums and singles gave most of the way carted around 2 boxes one of my favorite albums and one of my favorite 7 singles for 3 house moves and of course each of those moves they never came out of the loft of the cellar and finally buying league game away to someone who worked on the show about 3 years ago so I do know where they are and I know they are having a great 2nd life even if I no longer possess them what about you vinyl digital download streaming How do you listen to music right now and what's the future of the way we will listen to our favorite tunes Neil McSweeney is a lecturer at the University of Sheffield music department he also runs a record label and he's a musician himself Neil Good evening welcome to the show how are there things for him now displeasure interesting stats weren't they earlier this week saying that more money was we should emphasize this more money was spent on vinyl than on downloaded albums last week for the 1st time what do you make of that. I think that's been a trend that you know the headline statistics come out is the point at which that that. The money being spent crossed over but that's been if you look at the graph that's been given in that direction for a while and it's it's due to also the value of the sort of digital. Consumption going down at the same time as the value of the final consumption going up so it's like a bit of a double edged sword point of view of the music producer Interestingly the numbers are as follows 120 vinyl albums back upon 120000 vinyl albums sold last week compared with 295000 digital downloads so a lot more being downloaded digitally but as you rightly pointed out the vinyl albums cost a lot more if that trend continues and as you point out it's been going that way for a number of years what does that mean for you as a musician and a producer. I mean in terms of. The continuing trend in the show I mean we feel pretty confident as a record label that if we put stuff out on a well designed well produced vinyl there's a core. Audience who will be interested in that and I think that so it gives a better confidence in the short that that format is viable and C.D.'s are much more sketchy actually you know I mean there's still inside because we work in traditional folk Amongst of the generals and that audience still has an appetite for cd but again we can definitely see the trend in there is not is not positive but in the short term it's a Vinals pretty strong we've got to explore the opportunities for develop in. The digital environment you know at the moment the way that it's set up the big. Distributors and big platforms it suits major labels with enormous back catalogue and they can generate decent revenue out of all those plays but the new music produces. The deal isn't sustainable if you slash that out a little because yes digital downloads was meant to be the future but you're talking about streaming which model I am now not sure but I actually buy to possess the music themselves there they stream it in real time why is that not such a good business model for you Well yeah I mean the little window of time where we've had paid for downloads that's the be all right because there's no production cost really as you can infinitely duplicate that you all in the 3 file and that's great people pay I think the 79 p. On the i Tunes store was just because that was the equivalent of a dollar at the time they set it so very arbitrary and that we're moving into streaming now and streaming on. You Tube Spotify or Deezer any of these platforms generates a fraction of a pence. Per stream and so. If you're having global smashes or more importantly I suppose if you're in control of large back catalogs of material then that is not so not so bad and also alongside because that all adds up you know all the no point one Pence's turn into hundreds of thousands straight millions of dollars eventually if you've got enough songs being streamed and if they're being streamed enough times but 1st small producers it's very very hard of small record labels or individual artists or whatever it's very hard to generate any any kind of sustainable income out that so and also on top of that the the major labels are actually cut in on the profits of . Spotify and particularly but it's not possible for you as a producer and a musician to to use streaming service to get your music out there but then a b.b.c. I.c.m. Poll found out earlier this year that people who discovered or listened to music on streaming services were actually more likely to then go out and buy vinyl often as a goodwill gesture to an artist that they loved I mean couldn't you use that to benefit yourself and your artists Well there's a bit of that that you absolutely can and that's the fundamental core of why I think the future is because the people that buy say vinyl these days very frequently from new music producers are doing it as an act of micro patronage you know that they're deliberately funding that art because they want more of it and they could get it for free I mean not the vinyl they couldn't but the music they could offer very little but they're choosing to invest money in that because they want that person to continue to make music and I think that model where we move away from a sense that the audience for a particular artist or a label whether our consumers we have an industrial model we manufacture products we market them and we ship them out to shops and people buy them on mass that for me is being swept away and we've got a much more collaborative pick. Where. The labels have to work alongside and in collaboration with and all sorts of people really I mean big major record labels in the past used to have departments that were responsible for making videos and departments that are responsible for all sorts of elements the p.r. And these days for anybody that's trying to make new music so again I'm sort of separating out the back catalogue the emergence of industrial era that's just finished went on with digital age and separating out the people producing music now you need a lot of goodwill and partnership and teamwork and all that kind of stuff I mean the impetus that the chap that was just on talking about his record shop it was fundamentally. A very social. Impetus wasn't it was a man trying to make a contribution that's what he was trying to think fundamentally and yes if he can sustain his ability to make that contribution he'll keep doing it into what you were saying earlier Yeah Neal we're going to have to call it a day that it really is to sort of thank you so much for coming on it really interesting insights from Neil McSweeney music lecturer at the University of Sheffield who also runs a record label and is a musician himself looking at really what the future is what do you do right now if there's a piece of music you really want to hear downloaded by the cd the album or Musical. We will be there will be live on the red carpet maybe get shot to Robbie Emeli Sande they will be there as well John Legend Lucas Graham Craig David a reporter in their dressing France chatting to each of them before the show will have those interviews and bits of gossip from backstage on Monday between 7 and 10 Thank you Andrew's interest and lovely photographs of your iconic albums from the John Lennon collection What else have you sent me shadows Greatest Hits Double Fantasy John and Yoko There's a classic recording as is this Every picture tells a story Rod Stewart and there's Ziggy Stardust David Bowie as well from back in the days when you were buying everything on vinyl everything on 12 inch How is it now how are you listening to music you've heard about the vinyl revival to talk now about the stream machine streaming continues to grow and grow will it do so though in the future Well let's ask Roman tago head of content and editorial at the streaming service Deezer u.k. Revenue. Good evening had a mock Thanks for having me on we saw those figures earlier this week for downloads versus vinyl but how is streaming performing this year. Really well. We've got 10000000 users in 180 countries around the world you know we're just part of streaming which is you know has Iran 100000000 consumers around the world to kind of put it in the Financial Times in 2015 streaming was a sponsible for $2900000000.00 revenue for the music industry and it continues to grow it's doing really well we continue to grow the fastest growing revenue source for the music industry and user base is growing really fast as well I want you think the benefits for the user for the consumer the person who is listening to a streaming service. Convenience really you know in a catalog we've got 43000000 songs that's pretty much the whole history of recorded music and you can have it on your phone in your pocket to listen to any time any place you want it's also very personalized So as you listen to a service like I was we've got a feature called Flow which is kind of a personalized soundtrack so you tell it what you like you listen to it give you even give it feedback about we enjoyed The enjoy it works out what you skip what you like to listen to it different times of day and you get this kind of a personalized curated experience how he discovered the music and kind of hope you'll help me find your way back to things he loved before and discover new things that you might love in the future it's also a great value as well you know it's have that much music available to you 10 pounds a month is really really great value and you know consumers really enjoy it Lou talking to an a man who runs a small independent record label and now how much downloads were good for that industry 79 pence ago you could actually make a bit of money and is it possible for artists who want to huge international names to make decent money from streaming Yes we pay out like that billions every year is a streaming industry but is it mostly going to tell a swift and Beyonce. Yeah there are big part of it because you know that have dedicated fans who stream millions of their songs every day but what we can offer smaller x. Is I think a really great value way to get on to the Lata you know we work really closely with a lot of artists on the major label machine who are kind of creating really great music and working with smaller distributors to get it into our service we can then discover it put it in front of the fans put it in play lists put on our home page and I can start picking up streams ne'er and then the next step for them is Ok that's new fans they've got to come to the shows will buy them dies and reengage with them they can speak to virus service by social media so it's about building a fan base and I think probably more than in the past when you could just release a seed a and that was enough now artistic thinking about the career is very diverse way so it's about the life it's about streaming it's a little bit physical as well so we're part of the pitch if you acces dies now you streaming services myself every day I absolutely love them and I love the instantaneousness the convenience of them I also love the way that you can suggest things that I might like you pointed this out yourself should I be worried that you can only do that because you know so much about me you've gathered lots of data at the bit sinister should I be worried now I know it's who you know evil always got full control over the data you give us you know you're going to go saying Strang And I think you like and we think that is the reason and Hans improve your experience we won't use it for anything else apart from the how we find music so I don't worry too much now those numbers are huge 2900000000 and to 2015th the music industry you've got the 10000000 users the 200000000 that you mentioned as well where does streaming go from here what's the future. Just on what's really I think there's still millions of people around the world to still yet to discover streaming still to try out I think which is going to continue to grow really fast I think you kind of seen downloads has started to dwindle I think that was down 10 percent in 2015 so I think we'll see more people switch away from downloading music to streaming it and then for us I think it's just about giving them a great product helping them find new music and really trying to support the artists as well as something that you know you were talking to me about he was talking about responsibility we definitely feel that responsibility to work with artists and you also mentioned collaboration that's really important for us we want to help artists to grow to get to a new audience and said maybe I take music for which this is just an evolution you know people used to by violence that are buying drives people used to buy C.D.'s streaming is just the new way to find a new song you know and to fall in love with it I'll just go to told here I mean thanks so much coming on tonight I want to how many classic Christmas playlist d z u k will I put this one on till I was the next few weeks thank you very much reminisce had a content and editorial and that stream. There is less than a Christmas playlist now shall we. We've. Been told some. Distance. From. The big. Display. From. The Flood. Insurance on the. you already have your music buying days are behind you the best music while I was in 203040 years got stick with that let me know your thoughts Mark b.b.c. Don't go to u.k. On social media Facebook dot com forward slash mark for a show at Mark for a show on Twitter actually talking Christmas hits you last heard I believe in Father Christmas played well I guess every 2 or 3 hours today as Greg Lake who recorded it has died at age 69 he also fronted King Crimson and Emerson Lake and Palmer we will hear an appreciation of his life and some of his music. A little later in the show. Good evening in. The West. It's broken down between junction. And junction 27. And the 62. Is closed. Between 64 and Somerset. Westbound. Between. 170. 301-2384 just. Enjoy the theatricality the tense nervousness in the room just before. The conversation about to hear with the man who presided over Christie's for 40 years. For Once In My Life this is from Dave whose e-mail from Colby on the subject of vinyl the big story was that the sales of vinyl for the 1st time last week exceeded those of digital downloads. They have been growing over the years they're now overtaken downloads downloads it seems are going to fall by the wayside will either buy vinyl or we will stream that is the future Dave says I got to record fans a lot I find that if something is 20 or 30 years old it seems quite expensive the sellers won't lower prices from a cost I've seen in some guidebook I think they're overcharging for chatty or played a 1000000 times records and how come when C.D.'s 1st came out we were told it was the purest form of sound and much better than vinyl now it's in vinyl that supposedly the best sound what changed I remember being told exactly the same thing I do find it fascinating that there are not a lot that old I don't think but there is an advancing technology that I have seen in and out started in radio played vinyl then we went on to cd and you're right it was the big thing they did skip when greasy fingers touched them and now they've gone and there will be cd players and studios like this but we never use them everything now digital. Dave you might be the person to ask I was at my aunt's house for Sunday lunch 3 or 4 days ago and her husband recently passed away and he was a massive opera fan I mean huge and he has box sets of operas go by years and operas there they go beasts so to have the whole thing on vinyl you might have anywhere between $4.00 and $8.00 maybe even 10 albums in a box set and they're not records have been played a 1000000 times over they are records that maybe were played once or twice and then loved and cherished Shila through she should and should she needs to sell them that's what I told her anyway. Any advice you might have for me to pass on thank you Mark b.b.c. Don't go to u.k. Trouble free on the tech start your message Mark you can call me 34531858 in the meantime let's go behind the scenes at one of the world's most famous auction houses Charles him slip presided over Christie's for 40 years and has a few tales to tell of his time there in his new book an auctioneer's lot which reveals amongst many other things his lifelong passion for art my 1st love was really more architecture than painting but I always loved looking at things and you page a bit at school I know a bit of it successfully or not particularly. Went into the Coast Guard's did your time there at what point did you decide you'd like to make a career in out actually I tried to get a job interests before I went into the army but they were keen I kept on kept on them and after coincidently with leaving they offered me a job which is the luck indeed what was the atmosphere like at Christie's at that time it has this exclusive establishment image that's what it projects anyway what was it like it was like that in actuality it was so friendly very badly paid very small there were only $96.00 people in the whole organization worldwide and one had to do pretty much everything and it wasn't doing well we'd been in the 19th century and the early 20th century we've been very much the number one and then join the war particularly got hit by a bomb and the whole building was burnt to the ground and they had to move and all were called Lost all the library was lost anything survived the oh catalog so far but everything else went when I went there in the early 1960 s. It was the rebuilding time and saw the biz were. 3 to 4 times bigger than we were and it was a struggle one was conscious and it wasn't very secure it was quite it was quite painful sometimes but hey he was fun you clearly got through it and you roast the top and you became the man we saw on the podium these historic in an amazing auctions I mean are you talking a book about your favorite South I mean Vanguard sunflowers must rank among them yeah I mean one couldn't in some ways overemphasize the importance of it because it took the art market into and on to a new level but at the same time as paintings go it was by no means my favorite painting there were other pictures or other pictures by Vanguard that dealt with that I like great the more he penned that sunflowers the some slight controversy as to how many times he actually painted it but if you say 8 times it's probably about right and the 1st one he ever did I dealt with privately couple of years later that's a picture which I've always kept reproduction of at home it's just so beautiful he was sitting looking at the sunflowers when he painted that the one that fetched all the money was the last one he painted and he was doing it copying is own work or doing it from memory I mean even really brilliant in anything it. Was good but he didn't quite have the freshness of the 1st version but it was still it was an incredibly exciting sale What's it like to be up there because you got to be a bit of a performer a bit of a showman haven't you yes but it's quite technical you have written in beads you you have a lot of that you've got to get over I mean you can't just sell it whatever you've got to take the bids in the right order you've got to have you wits about you yes. Mostly you've got to encourage people and I think I'm actually reasonably certain that a good auctioneers can make can make a difference the exact amount of a difference I'm not quite sure but these probably something 1020 percent it's a fascinating art I love that you say in the forward to an auctioneer's lot that your children will never read this we should say one of your children is Kirstie Allsopp who everyone assumed by from the telly and they had a good sounding board for your ideas too there's a funny thing my son is very interested in painting my 3 daughters are all much more interested in real estate Kirsty is obviously very good at it my next daughter Sophie has done a certain amount of television work and he's very good about the value of houses and my youngest daughter Natasha already has is managed by dinners and clever footwork already to acquire about 3 properties in London and they're also fascinated by property I think it was their mother my wife had a business called house and she found things for people we also moved house now quite sure how many times we moved house we were married for 46 years my wife died 2 years ago I think we moved house about 30 times Oh goodness gracious So Pops sort of it's inbred isn't it really into the way I think so many you know it was the the pictures were there but they were frequently moving you say very interesting lead to you you had to work even though your father and grandfather had not they spent all the family money bad which meant that you had to go out and some more yes would be the short answer to that question but I would always I would always work even though I can't get my head round the idea of not getting off and doing something whatever it is whether it's writing painting in the office I think I think I've got that solved. Position unhappily the children have to and what Christmas look like in your household this year will be my high so we have the usual family thing and one Christmas on one Christmas often it's it's not our Christmas this year children are all going to they're all much of the married they're all going to their in-laws or and I'm going off with my youngest daughter and I has been his parents who are all friends of mine and in fact we're going to Morocco for Christmas so I could it's not it's not home Christmas this year but a very interesting soppy one yeah it's lovely if the weather's not a good place to paint. That was Charles him clip and an auctioneer is lot triumphs and disasters at Christie's that's his book out now. That are also missing with the art theme if that's Ok and move from Christie's The auction house to wow a very exciting giveaway forget Charlie in the Chocolate Factory this is a new style golden tickets which is now under way for a special 5 pound notes engraved with a tiny portrait of author Jane Austen are being put into circulation and could be worth more than $20000.00 pounds each micro artist Graeme Short joins me great good evening. Why did you choose the new 5 pound note when it came out so I'm not. The saints of September. That brought me in make a match and the thought of wonder if I couldn't cry on the on the clay a portion on the transparent window and. Then I found that I could then have to decide what to put on it next year to say to understand a verse or have Genest in staff and no results of events going on in the country and actually she's going to appear instead of Churchill on the new 10 pound notes which come out in July next year of course I destroyed Don Look I got him I wanted I'm lifting it up to the life of the moment so you've got the Queen's head then you've got the. Big Ben A's that's it he's that way you've done your engraving now to the right Big Ben you're saying pants on yeah I think right on top of the pants on. How did I take that take about one of them for they took me about 2 weeks each and is it right you have to have Botox injections to keep your. Kids is my crowing driving which sells in art galleries and you know every time it's healthy people how to work it makes me realize I'm not normal shouldn't be doing this and start work at midnight and went to a 5 am and that's just to avoid any vibration from passing traffic to work through a powerful microscope a lot he went past on the right I could say that moving and the lettering on grave is is I always tell take for the sickness of a human hair is measured at 100 microns and the let's ring is on the about 5 microns high which is smaller than the red human blood cell now one I'm working away at a stethoscope I've had tablets actually and I shouldn't have had them in the not to lower the heart right and I'll get it down to 20 base them in it and try to increase between Heart dates every every few months and say I have a course of injections around my eyes Botox the wrinkles a still day by the way but it keeps my eyes absolutely rigid while I'm working the things you have to do feel a lot as a service I want to tell people how its sense of mission business if I have got one of these and he's not the only one I will know by holding it up to life. And have that I'm calling it invisible ingratiating of been speaking with the Bank of England and they said that their standard line was that there's a 1928 act and you can't just size the notes Well I haven't really decisive because a put the portraits on top of the pan sign now as you turn the note in a different light they portray dissipates in the package sun is still there when you turn it back it comes back again so it is invisible if you will not be in the town in the near future to show I should blame you so much of the. I talked about the value of this I mean you are a successful artist you sell your work we know how much it is well if I do find one of these how much do you think I might get. I would hope to see if $0.01 up there on the saw had that that someone will put it on an Internet auction site and you know some might send money for Christmas obviously replaced about that wonderful We've got 10 seconds like where are they likely to be Grandma they were in circulation Yes that out once in England once got them on wells and one in Northern Ireland I'm out spending I'm out shopping about collecting thank you grandma. Micro artist. For of the out in circulation could go for $20000.00 News website about the mom who's complained to Tesco after the potato Alpha bites that she bought didn't contain all the necessary letters to spell out her son Logan's name Nicola Hart from Dunstable in Bedfordshire made the grumble on the supermarkets Facebook page saying they shouldn't be called out for bites bait but certain letter bites Tesco replied saying that they do not say Africa Latin is guaranteed so let his words complaints spelling over to your best one gets on the air in 20 minutes 8 want to pull 3 starting him a message Mark. And I am online and on freebie a lot of the county from. This is p.c. Radio. B.b.c. Nice ass ace o'clock I'm sorry loud and the u.k. . He is facing an unprecedented terror threat the warning from the head of the Secret Intelligence Service m I 6 Alex Hohl says militant groups in Iraq and Syria are plussing attacks he says he expects the k. Will continue to work closely with the u.s. 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Our event Thursday just up to a tough final get together all the week I'm lots to talk about diaries for example when I was young I kept one didn't trust the rest of my family not to read it so much it was written in code and no idea where it is now or who ended up looking at it what about you did you have one research just out says you'll be a better writer than your contemporaries who did not so he would carry your children or grandchildren to put pen to paper that story in the next 5 minutes class after half past a time to test your pop knowledge with music quizmaster Tilse was the man behind the bigot. Pop trivia quiz on the radio. You can name the song. This introduction finishes I guess you'd like. A bunch of afraid to get in touch a showstopper you check small b.b.c. Talk of the U.K.'s Facebook Twitter for show you're looking for a close outreach for 31850. Players. Playing. The below. Street. Light in your. Head. Could. Play a. Close. Election Tough. course the show from Worthing you were asking or somebody was about vinyl and white was better sounding will see it is a compressor therefore less dynamic it's the same as watching a live band you get the highs and you get the lows I was asking at the start of the program how you purchased music nowadays if you did it or if I'd asked you 3040 years ago clearly you decide vinyl us what we all do you may have moved on to a cd Perhaps you tried digital downloads now there are millions of us streaming music that we will never own and a small minority who've gone back to vinyl once more Paula says I always buy vinyl I collect all reggae from the other formats sounds odd to compress and I love to play around with the bass and the treble get a real buzz from playing the stuff Brian says I like northern soul if I bought the vinyl records I've spent many thousands of pounds at least with downloads you can build up a large collection of music without having permanently empty wallet and this from Keith on email the last music I bought was just last Saturday from a small secondhand record shop in Leeds it comprised 4 vinyl L.P.'s Supertramp even in the quietest moments Allman Brothers Band Brothers and Sisters Day That means say Devon Williams same by vinyl I can cds otherwise never use dreaming and only very infrequently downloads. Really interesting to hear from you as always feel free to go in touch phone text email or via social media lots there to entertain you now diaries mention the 5 minutes ago because I'm interested to know whether or not you keep on or whether you ever kept one would you want to boost your writing skills it might be a good idea to do so figures today from the National literary trust show that children who keep a journal are almost twice as likely to be doing better in their word based work at school I read Pickton is from the trust's online Irene Good evening good evening Mark what exactly have you found well yes as you say every year the National Literacy Trust surveys more than $30000.00 children and young people on their reading and writing habits and on most recent survey found that children he said they kept a diary they were not any more motivated to write but were almost twice as likely survive the left expected for the rate with those statistics the same for boys and girls are not really we noticed that 3 times as many girls as boys that they kept a diary and we also found that slightly younger children were more likely to say they kept a diary. Needy assertive 8 to 11 year olds for example said they kept a diary compared to just 12 percent of $1416.00 Olds How do we know they're it's not the children who are already better at writing who therefore decide to keep diaries rather than the keeping of the diaries making them better well that isn't something we can tell from this particular research but what we do know is that children who keep a diary a better writers so that's something that we really want to encourage. Are there any other reasons why it might be important to keep a diary rather than starting the habit if you if you like of writing yeah I think it's a great way to develop your own voice and experiment with different lighting styles and it helps you to build resilience because you can process your own thoughts and express your failings and I think also you can write about what you want to write about so your own interests whether it's a record of football matches you say or family or friends your own hopes and dreams is keeping a diary cool Yes I really think is that the mayor and if you think of all the really popular children's books right now so many of them are diaries like Diary of a Wimpy Kid series springs to mind but there are lots and lots of office so it's obviously something we really enjoy reading about and I wonder if perhaps we'd enjoy writing or writing that would say every child will have a phone in their hand maybe a laptop maybe a tablet is duct dating their social media constantly several times an hour if it were based rather than just a selfie is not a diary of sorts Yeah in a way definitely yes but I think it's sort of very in the moment rather than being more reflective and also I think very importantly a Diaries a completely private diary that you write yourself home very quiet that you're not writing for like you can say what you really fail even if it's something you might be more uncomfortable sharing publicly so I think that's a really important difference What can schools do to encourage the keeping of diaries. Well National Literacy Trust research does show that children are writing less the fun over the last 5 years one in 4 chip well so I should say one in 4 children rate diaries 5 years ago and now it's just one in science and we wonder if it might be that the focus in school is on things like spelling and grammar which is obviously very important may perhaps have left less time for writing for fun which is why we think it's even more important that it's encouraged to. And should parents do that encourage meant well we're calling on a very practical thing we're calling on parents and families or anybody buying gifts for a child to consider buying them a diary for Christmas this year and also that we've got loads of brilliant texts for encouraging children survive on our words for Life website so we really encourage parents to have a look at that when we talk about youngsters in social media on the program generally experts encourage parents to keep an eye on pop their parents or their kids or writing on online just the national literary trust Literacy Trust encourage parents to read children's diaries. I can't speak for the National Literacy Trust or not so what I can say is I remember being both a diary in my early teenage years to Christmas and it had a lock on it and that was very important to me yeah I had a look at mine as well but I didn't trust my sisters and my mom to see what I wrote anyway I think that's the look I think the secret you know hiding place in your brain is very important very good. Advice thank you I love the details you all the best you aren't taken from the National Literacy Trust by my diary. You know. If. You do the sound like. A. Big kid. you were really clear still love to me. It's. The. Emotion the tenderness Total Eclipse Of The Heart funny Tyler fellow Lorraine's just Texas I kept a diary as a child and I have for most of my adult life I would never be without one for his wanted to write but I said rubbish at writing still enjoy my diary though and write it every night the ready you can't more do more that's never too late you may think you're writing until you have sent that manuscript in you do not know what other people think and I tell you that story because I interviewed earlier this week Josephine Cox the multi 1000000 selling bestselling author 20000000 books she shifted always number one loaned out from local lending libraries and she kept diaries she noted down what happened to her when she was young and she didn't start turning up her childhood into novels until she was in a forty's look at the now very very rich recorded that interview a couple days ago will run on the show one day next week really fascinating woman I shall when I get an exact day and time you know when you can hear it. We've been hearing how children who keep diaries are more likely to do better writing in school this is according to the National Literacy Trust bestselling multi award winning author Jacqueline Wilson has been backing Barack and even shared some of her diary entries from when she was 13 keeping a journal always been a part of her life I think I was about 7 or 8 my money is to give me a Christmas box and always in that Christmas box was a let schoolgirl diary and I loved keeping Darrius then and really through most of my childhood and certainly through my teenage years I just wrote and wrote and wrote the teenage diaries and I poured out my heart that terribly embarrassing to look back on but it does sort of bring those times by and it shows you just you know how you care so passionately about things and one day your so incredibly happy and the next day you really really think the world is coming to an end but it it's interesting looking back particularly for right so who writes for young people because it does help me get in the mood I think you've only got to go to any shopping center and see the really attractive stationery shops I think many children particularly girls love the idea of a shiny new diary a very special pen and I think the thing about a diary it's not for sharing you don't care how many people like it it's just for you you can write anything you want to and you can do an actual account if you would day or you can write what you really feel right about the people you absolutely love right but people you hate write about what your hopes and ambitions if you're into sports she can keep a serious log of all the matches you've watched you can too. Anything you want to do you can make up your own video games it's your private world and it's a lovely way of keeping track of what you like to do and as a sort of byproduct I think it increases your fluency and helps you become comfortable at expressing yourself and I've actually been brave enough to put extracts from my real diary in this book here kind of autobiography and I think this extract is the funniest of all I say very pompously I have been reading Enid Blyton's autobiography again but this time far more cynically she doles out advice and again and again to would be right is surely her books aren't all that great if I ever write I won't write for children were wrong I was to bestselling author Jacqueline Wilson revealing some of the entries in her diary. The scene where you know Tom Brady. Cuz you. Live. Which I suppose going to work for the story of the mom from Dunstable who complained to Tesco she bought potato Alpha bites they didn't have all the necessary letters to spell out her son Logan's name very upset Tesco over and back not every letter is guaranteed unfortunately So what did you want to hear where there were some obvious some less so words affidavit from Ian who's in Rochdale d.-i v.-o. R.-c. E. Just because it's allowed to spelt out letters I guess tell me why Net That's from David on Twitter love letters from the King Tony suggested that a i.o.u there's a good shoot freeze from Paul a.b.c. The Jackson's That's from Rich also came in from our own who's. Night trucking at the moment I get over it Daniel on Facebook it's a bit much she's just a mom wants to teach a youngster how to spell the boxtops the letter Patrick called from Bristol hip to be square from Pip if you listen to news they're all good and there's loads of them I wish I go for in the end Oh yes on Facebook facebook dot com for slash mark for a show David song for whoever just not poor a logo. Beautiful sound. That . This song Oh you. Guys you work with me on the show I would talk about this track last week we didn't play but we talked about it amongst ourselves whole notion of a conversation with you the beautiful South song. How many women's names. And list them all I think it's 10 and I've got 4 or 5451 of the 2 and I thought somebody a guy I listen to a lot of music and I can harm and I can sing pretty well no perfect all those songs can I give you every word generally no 70 to get 4 or 5 which is half pretty good so you get no prizes just throwing it out there Laura's in New Castle just call the show recently found 35 years worth of diaries in a cupboard Oh my goodness your life Lori your life did you read it yet read every one of them again but she says that her private thoughts and feelings and has now ripped all of them up didn't want anyone else to see them or about the next generation Lor about relatives all that after you've gone I mean. You know. When you were. How you felt how you lived. Because. Nothing's going to bring him back but did you pause for a moment before throwing the match to the. Question about. Like. With. All the questions from the biggest. And not. In. A morning. 123. 84. My next guest is known as the collective you have the world's only complete collection of every single u.k. Top 40 chart hit since records began in 1952 he also devises the questions for the Pop master quiz already 0 to use Ken Bruce show and is the producer on sounds of the sixty's on the same station Phil swerd has written new books about both of them and he joins me now feel Hi welcome to the show thank you very much and good to be here it's excellent to talk to somebody with such an end Cyclopedia knowledge of pop music over the years when did you 1st get hooked in I was probably 2 or 3 years old and I was given a wind up gramophone record player by my grandfather and a part of 70 eight's he said here and I was so fascinated by putting this this 10 inch thing onto a plate that spun round Mystica needle on it and sounds coming out of all this is amazing and and then my parents used to play a party game and friends came around said as if to say to go and get Frank Sinatra singing high hopes or something I'll go over to the part of records pick it up put on the right side and play it gets around to applause and then I was just fascinated by music and I got to enjoy music more and as I was growing up through the years. I could I spent all my pocket money on records of drama school days my parents would buy me a record on a Saturday because the local record shop might pick something so it's been with me since just be a just little afterbirth I was it always a name to make a career of it in my head it was again not in my parents'. Accounts and or lawyer young Philip actually it was ladies hairdresser 3 years apprenticeship that they they they arranged that for me when I left school and all through my school years are only ever my going sneaking out buying read my headmaster said as I left on the left of my Soon after my 15th birthday he saw nothing good will come of you out to go but by I mean it wasn't badly behaved but I wasn't very good at school where were you hearing all the music that you were falling in love with well it's very difficult in the in the early sixty's to hear music Radio Luxemburg was the mainstay for finding new things and you heard a bit on the b.b.c. Like program but they were so strict of a needle time because because then they could only ever play handful of records at a time and the set number of hours and they'd been there you'd have Joe lost in his orchestra doing a cover version of a Beatles hit but no that was mostly mostly Luxemburg and and I used to get the musics press every week the New Music Express and on the chart page one someone side of the charts would be all the new release on the deck a label on the other side and I had 2 transistor radios tucked away under my sheets and I would descend to Luxemburg until I'd heard every one of those records as not how I couldn't sleep properly until I'd heard every one of those records a self taught to in the morning but it was shut down and not to until they shut down anyway you were one of those that were then obsessed with the beauty of the single you know I don't think you didn't have them to go off and buy the album and mainly have 3 or 4 bands or artist that you followed religiously you you love the purity of the sing. And you wanted those totally absolutely matter of fact I was often given peace my birthday on the earth nice but. Played a couple times and then but my way but now the single was always the thing and I've been very lucky all through my life to know people who associate with. Records have given me samples and said so I built up that way so I had to buy every single one of them and otherwise have never had the collection I got today at what point did you want to start that complete collection because you were I'm guessing out there buying befall top Pullos top 20 back then or top 10 was no very beginning not no not at all if I die my career has been song plugging promoting records then record production for a while and then when I absolutely thought I had to get into radio if I don't get it now I'm never going to get into it and and I was invited by b.b.c. Radio Radio wanted to put together a massive quiz for them for which they said there's no money in it but would you like to do it and I did it and at the end of it I got it invited by a commercial radio station in London to get involved with one of their quizzes and we were creating you rounds a new game to the quiz and there's some things we couldn't do because no one had the records and I thought right I need to have every single hit record and that was when I decided I had to make a list of the ones I haven't got my going to get them so got got the hit singles book and I worked out checked off everything it's my collection what I had got and actually went out and found them and it took a long time to about 10 years to actually complete list Yeah because now of course you go on e Bay and you'd find someone on yeah some part of the planet who had it and I knew bands money and it would arrive so how did you do it then going around record fairs looking in record collector. Car boot sales. Everywhere wherever you could could find a good record shots then did not in the eighty's did not stock back catalog in the sixty's and seventy's you go into record shop and buy something from 10 years ago they'd have a copy of it on the shelf because they didn't really get to lead it was specially not hit records for a long long time but the shelf life in the eighty's with the weeks so so it was tough it really was tough but the 2nd record shops and I became very friendly with quite a lot of the dealers and the problem was if I went to a record fair people got to know me and so if I picked up a record the price would triple So he said had to have to take a friend with me and say Could you go buy that record and well before I presume you want to go out today that's fine you could then buy them as they came out and so on in nowadays are you still buying the top 40 well fortunate we get we do get given quite a lot of the records by by the labels and such some of them now you can't even you can't even buy a physical copy of some of the chart records so you have to have a download. But but but yes I was still buy something that is that we don't acquire I haven't got in the Top 40 certainly and occasionally you get some of those one few years ago there's a football club record got into the Top 40 and the only place you could buy it was in that city from w 8 Smith the only one only place you could buy that record. With great and what I didn't realize until starting a conversation it was that there are moments on the show every night where someone listening might choose a piece of music for something we've been talking about and we won't necessarily have it with this in the studio but because of the beauty of the b.b.c. We can we can delve into the bowels of the building and there will be a copy there and that's thanks to you it is now because b.b.c. Wanted to have a digital library and they they went out to tender and a number of companies bid for it and I for had a company formed to. A colleague of mine who's very very technical and he did say spent years digitizing my collection before he went to market and we put in a bid and and won it so it is mostly my my collection that our musings have read about Harper state when someone choose a piece of music player I'm probably playing something from your collection Yeah probably got my fingerprints. Now say the service went down and the computer crashed somebody put a piece of malware in and everything was destroyed by one tune which truckie saving . It's a very tough question that because there's so much to choose from I mean I think I think I've grown up with a record that was locked it wasn't a wasn't a big kid's mention he even made the Top 40 and that was Lorraine Edison's stay with me which the walkabouts colleges say with me baby and I think David Essex also did a version of it later on but the but the and the right medicine was just an outstanding record it just sends shivers down my spine every time I hear. That issue stay with me the choice of my guest this evening Phil Swan he's the collector he has every single Top 40 hit record since records began in 152 and he's using is extraordinary within these 2 books I'm holding in my hands of the moment the 1st is so. Sounds of the sixty's I listen to that show Radio 2 brand Mathew Saturday morning an amazing program how did you get involved with it what it was very odd because I got a phone call from Radio 2 I think it was in yes it was in 2007 runs about March April time and the producer on the program was leaving and they hadn't Has anyone else to take over and I've met Brian a few times and Brian actually suggested that I took it over for a short while they found a replacement so they offered me the show with or without would I care take of for $6.00 to $8.00 weeks and I was delighted because I've always isn't one of my favorite shows on radio myself so I couldn't I can't tell you how thrilled I was and I said of course so so I signed a contract to do a programs and I'm still doing it. Mazing and Brian is there what 26 years on now because he took over in 990 when he's playing the tracks and he gives me those little snippets of information that he does I'm guessing you're the brains behind those snippets I do help with the significance Yes I do say that because I've been reading the book and if you see all of just such pieces of information yes now I mean I've been writing this stuff as a set of 10 years and of course when you play records on the radio you can't give all the information that you like to give in fact listeners go oh you didn't say that why do you say that about him you know what you only said of well if you want 10 minutes on the Beatles every time you play a Beatles record fine but but so there's all this stuff that I've accumulated over the 10 years that I keep and I thought that was this make a really good book so other lovely chapters here the double a sides I used to love those you feel you're getting so much more for your money than the Beatles covers there are some tracks I remember growing up with that I didn't even realize had been done by the Beatles originally and there are stories behind those in here as well how much of this information do you keep in your head quite a bit of it actually because over the over the years since since I've been in the industry I've met some. People really I think been really lucky because I've done I've worked on t.v. Shows I did a show on television for the a.b.c. Call that show business for 15 years and met so many big names and get chatting with them in the bar afterwards and they tell you stories and I always always loved these stories and Ok and I know and few people develop a ring up so I could I rang let's read up the ranger who who produces produced a lot of Tom Jones records and arrange them most I don't every story there is on on this Tom Jones record can you tell me something about it and they'll say Yeah but I've done this one 0 no did know that and that's how a lot of this stuff comes about through actually meeting people and unlocking it and the part mastic was because also how this one with the picture of a smiling Ken Bruce on the front of it I don't think I can remember when Pop master wasn't a part of that radio 2 morning show were you there right at the beginning Ken and I and his producer we went out for lunch when they decided they wanted to revamp the show and we had a couple of bottles of wine and we invented pop master and so I was there right from the the day we actually made a part of it and have you changed the style of question over the years because I if I think back to when I 1st heard it I found that I could answer most of the questions I feel that for me is not the case anymore Have you made them harder overviews I don't think so but I would say this to everyone about a question questions only difficult if you don't know the answer Well Senator there are so many quizzes in here I mean the questions that are in here are these questions that sort of have been around the block they've been asked on the show you recycle him a few times and or do you have to come up with new ones every time to do a book like that you have to start from scratch it's too hard to actually go along go through all the questions that I've written or we've written in over the years of doing that the radio show because if you the book is categorize you've got all these different themes so to find 10 questions on I don't know on say food and drink you have to get. Hundreds of questions from the from the scripts from the program is much is actually quicker to write to new ones really so if you want to I don't know that I just open at Talk of the devil if you want to to write 10 questions around the devil you know is that all you do you just sit down and you and your collaborators just come up with yeah you get all the Devil Went Down to Georgia I can write Devil Woman mysteries 3 different songs whatever woman so that's to say so if we do that that's how it all comes about and I was there and you know the devil went out of Georgia that is question one can you name the group who's only top 20 here and I see I could get that one no problem I could also get the what hit song is shared by Kylie Minogue Sanya and steps it's you see but you loveless into a false sense of security with pop master you think you can get quite cocky and then suddenly you're floored how many of these you carry around in your head well I've got to be honest it's when I sit down and think about it and I said I do have the the hit singles book in front of me as well and the cross reference with the. Jukebox but I sometimes listen at home and the questions that been written say for 5 weeks ago not on the sit there on a cup of coffee and I'll score 9. Well Google I'm so glad you are in the same boat as us as you sit down there listening to it coming back out of the radio a lot about a slight advantage as well ever so slightly How long. Do you think I can run until people get fed up with it I mean it seems to be going from strength to strength we've just started doing live shows now he would have done it for Children in Need for years is running and we started doing corporate events and we're doing. A few live events next year we've got we've had our 6 bookings already so against it's all going to be high tech with with with people coming coming in having drinks maybe some food and playing the game and is it all for the fun of winning all the big prizes or the big prizes Yeah the nice talking to solution or if I win or what it depends how it goes if it depends on the venue it depends on what I think I think initially it'll it'll be small prizes but we are looking at some very very big events for 2018 excellent Well watch this space Philbin lovely to have you on the books are the bumper pop master quiz book and sounds of the sixty's that both out now I've been chatting to Phil swell and Phil thank you well thank you got some brand new music for you now for b.b.c. Introducing on a Thursday our favorites get another spin so this is our various. 4 lads from South Yorkshire. This again is called cold conscious. B.b.c. Introducing. Are they great that's how they made music in rather um and Barnsley 4 lads from South Yorkshire they are our various kings that's cold conscious you've heard it before on the show got it by b.b.c. Did you see it gets a replay because quite a fab now they will be on the show they've been touring everywhere for months weeks but a pin down they will be on the show a week on Monday have a bit of a chat and play the new single as well looking forward that right will talk about dogs and Christmas and the warnings the calls today ask me to make sure your canine friend is kept well away from seasonal food and will meet the dog who ate Christmas 12 months ago. On a family I am online and don't remain at the heart of the county from the audience this is b.b.c. Radio Cumbria. B.b.c. News answer 9 o'clock I'm Sarah Loughton the former astronauts John Glenn the 1st American to orbit the Earth has died he was 95 Glenn a war hero went on to serve 4 terms in the u.s. Senate the Tasso croon of the looks back at his life after the Soviet Union had shocked the Americans in 1961 by being the 1st to put a man into space John Glenn's mission 10 months off a year ago ins was aimed at restoring American pride Glen came home to a ticker tape reception and later forged a career in politics as a senator for his home state of Ohio although he withdrew early from the race for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1904 he kept at the national imagination again though in 1908 when he took a 9 day ride on the space shuttle Discovery for a series of studies into the aging process John Glenn may not have been the 1st human in space but at 77 he became the oldest u.k. Intelligence and security services have destroyed. To 12 terrorist plots in the last 3 years the new head of m I 6 Onyx youngest says the scale of the terrorism threat to the u.k. Is unprecedented riches Baratz who is head of counterterrorism at m I 6 and is now director of an international anti extremism group he explains the thinking behind Mr youngest remarks I think that this is part of a continuing trend of the agencies coming out of the shadows a little bit not because they think that's a good idea in itself and they but also I think to reassure the public that the secret is really operating on the public's behalf the Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov says the Syrian army has stopped military operations in eastern Aleppo to allow for the evacuation of thousands of civilians from rebel held areas he says Russian and American military experts will meet in Geneva to discuss the situation in Aleppo Mr Lavrov was speaking on the sidelines of a European foreign ministers summits because that's. What we're also sure I can tell you that active military action by the Syrian army in eastern Aleppo has been suspended today because the latest and largest evacuation of civilians wanting to leave Eastern Aleppo is underway the owners of Southern Railway have lost their High Court case to hold a series of strikes by train drivers all Southern services will be hits for 3 days next week and 6 days in January in a dispute about driver only trains a judge rejected an argument the that the action would breach and customers rights . An earthquake of the magnitude of 7.7 has struck 40 miles off the coast of the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean that had no immediate reports of its impacts with a tsunami warning has been issued to nice weather though the outbreaks of rain in the northwest it will be mild in the south. 3 minutes past 9. B. C. I know I know you don't need me to tell you Christmas is coming a time for festivities singing eating drinking celebrating but we'll be joining it there are calls today asking you to make doubly sure your canine friend is kept well away from the seasonal edibles and a cautionary tale coming out from the dog owner whose pooch ate Christmas 12 months ago plus we pose to think of the armed forces personnel away from home and loved ones on December 25th news before 10 on how you can send them some Christmas cheer . Ready for. By keeping. The. Facts right isn't that contemporaries. Vanessa has emailed a chef from East ball I kept a diary in my childhood each evening write it up as I got older tell by the wayside but just over a year ago I lost my dad husband David and have started to write a diary again it's as though I'm speaking to Hayden I can chat highs and especially now use and I found it fair Putin and I have next years lined up to continue well worth thinking about. And this from John also our on Facebook great show this most nights I've kept a diary since I was 17 I can tell you what I was doing 10 years ago family weather work etc just love writing and drawing I fill in a page a day or Bannister made up missed of days that's quite a healthy attitude John says John Wilkinson because if you tell yourself once you miss a day that it it's over well we'd all fail miss a day it's fine to miss a couple days just pick up when you can ate one triple 3 is my text or 2 message Mark you can email Mark at b.b.c. Doco dot u.k. Call the show 034530858 or get in touch via social media we're on Facebook or on Twitter just search mark for a show there's a warning about leaving booze lying around your house over Christmas because your dog might fancy a tipple too according to the veterinary poisons information service they had 26 calls from vets this time last year who weren't sure how to treat intoxicated pets apparently their favorites are expensive Irish whiskey and cream based like yours half the reported cases last year involve those drinks which you Anderson has been to white cross that King seat in Birmingham to get some more information. The most depressing thing is these are the malls are drinking more classy drinks so myself I think I need to reassess my life but in all seriousness I'm here with the vet so a lot of people here it might snigger at the fact that pets can get drunk or pets can drink alcohol similar to us effects pets very differently the problem means that they don't actually have to have a lot of alcohol for it to cause quite severe neurological signs and that in itself you know sort of affecting the nervous system it can have quite severe effects their heart's breathing and all that sort of thing and although you know they might seem like they're just maybe a little bit drunk it can actually cause even more severe effects cardiac arrest comas and sadly even death on what might even seem to be quite a small amount of alcohol so how difficult can that be to treat I mean if you have a dog or a cat or whatever bought into you that a Palm we've got in here or rich whiskey or cream basically cures how difficult can that be to treat How would you go about working on a lot of it spends on how how quickly it's been since they've had it so if they've just had to you know there is a chance that we can try in similar to you know trying to they're still making get as much out a lot of it unfortunately there is no you know you sort of real cure. Just about treating the symptoms receiving and you know if we are worried that they are potentially going to have a cardiac arrest trying to stop that as well and therefore most humans if they're intoxicated it can be quite obvious solution however for an animal for a dog for a cat what should we be looking out for you know sort of anything from drowsiness if they've become really disorientated and walking around quite a lot you know if they respond which you rate doesn't seem quite quite right you know really if you've got any worries that they may have had a little bit of alcohol we'd just say bring them straight up to the practice in just a bit yeah even. It's a little bit and well I think what a lot of people aren't aware is we're always of the sea so this time a year people could come up with alcohol as well so you know I sort of things like Christmas pudding raping Brown and Young to prove it instead of even that can be enough to cause quite survey symptoms as well so I ne ne You know what we would just it has any any concerns or if you do you think they might have to lay away and you just want to get in checked out you know just just give your local raring to go pop them up to us and we can you know sort of assess and see whether we we're all worried that it's going to cause even most of the symptoms of you personally have to treat an animal under the influence before I have had one case it was it was a little while ago I supped leave the onus and so I was who also I quite intoxicated say the problem with that case is obviously they couldn't drive to get to us so it's quite a while since the peds have it luckily in that case the drug was not to be found in the end good news for. Me. The way from the Irish whiskey The dogs could get accidentally drunk at Christmas but Alfie the English bull terrier went one better than that last year he ate Christmas I'm talking fairy lights advent calendar wrapping paper even chewed the tree. From Wakefield is I don't know. How was he always a bit of a cheeky puppy he's always been I mean. What exactly did he manage to do a year ago. Well last year he chewed straight through our 2 lights he chewed defeat on our tree and pulled that the pulled the tree over and smashed multiple ball bowls they had dug the advent calendar which he had all of his in one sitting . Well studio You Tube presence as well so my goodness how was he after all base. Looking we know most of them he didn't you know he didn't ingest all while off. The train he was the biggest one because obviously we had to move quite swiftly have to a 7 foot 3 tree fell on him so where he was going all bulls everywhere so we got to move in and pick you up to stop him from standing you know any of it my goodness I mean has he ever come across have you had to take him to the vets because of problems due to what he's managed to eat Yeah when we've got concerns that something may not pass we've we've taken and luckily know everything has always passed the way it showed And but we've also had that chips fall having things stick in his teeth. One of them was the one of the holders on the shoe rack and that got Mr Carney skin and my goodness I hear that he's got a bit of a taste for styling hair as well oh yeah yeah actually straightness I mean that particular favorite delicious. But I had dry Oh yeah that was a Christmas present I lost it about 4 days. The wiring that you now have to sit next to the wall to in order to try you have now they'll be somebody listening to this right now say Ab train our feet just just stop if you must have tried cos and then we take all of the precautions we've got baby gates we create so while left unattended in the house this is all I've got to say on to our windows he will just slide off and. Not for now you say most things you don't have to worry about They've been sort of going all the way through and if you had to delve about to to to reclaim whatever it was that easy. Yeah but you've got to I've got to admit you actually when they come out one way or another that they're not and you know anyway usable once they can back out yes I see yeah I'm kind of guessing that so sort of scoop it up and get rid of it with everything else you pretty much lovely now thinks he got a taste for all this last Christmas he's a year old a year wiser now if you don't don't proofing this year you just also. Don't proofing Well you know like I said you've got baby gets everywhere we will going to buy another one to stop in again in the upstairs bedroom. Presence. As you can open up all. But oh you're not I mean you know what else do we do do we not we do we not but I would trio. Maybe a little artificial one on a table out. I don't think anything's out of all things very few of you relented and have you bought him a dog you have a calendar again not this year not even a 115 last year and they're. Very wise as he got any presents that you managed to wrap and put out of harm's way so that he has something to open on the 25th when we has he's got plenty of presents he's got to get him and he's got new leads new colors and plenty of change so he's trying to get into the chase but back then I said stashed away. I mean he's not listening because you just totally ruin the surprise no. No I think I think if I'm on a Steve Kimock the strange one in some little food. I have to open the fridge door yet. No Look Leno Well you know where we seem to go to relatives he always seems to find the French people did not have to buy and I want. To give our best to Alfie tell him to keep safe not to only eat what you put in front of him I will try and if they say Ok when he sells I'd like to say thank thank thank you what you and Sharon's fall covering all the costs that shakes me to make foreign like how awful being absolutely wonderful and also to our that cultivates throughout all the treatment that they have given him in particular and a lot of that out and I wouldn't have stayed you've done it well done Adam Well done the insurer is Alfie try not to make Amy call either of them this Christmas to be home you know. Have a good long a month about out as how you me I mean Islander from Wakefield the owner of Alfie the English bull terrier who's seeing them rather more of out of that than most other dogs his age. B.b.c. Radio Cumbria. Age of 69 like Chris best known as one 3rd of the rock band. But in 1975 had a hit with one of the best. Christmas songs and doubt reports. Greg Lake found fame at the end of the sixty's with the band King Crimson but meeting Keith Emerson who died in March this year they decided to start a new band and with the addition of drummer Carl Parma formed Emerson Lake and Palmer LP went on to become one of the great names in seventy's prog rock they also found success with rock versions of classical pieces such as Pictures at an Exhibition and Fanfare for the common man the band split in 1979 Greg Lake also had a massive solo hit with I believe in Father Christmas. This is this. This little. Man. Did just that. Bold good a. Muslim I. Just. Love. To. Look at his. The a 591 is speaking to a collision just near the cow the trust adventure center. Locked in the a 169 remains closed westbound collision that shot from cross-town ride along 20170 does the side. Lane is still closed by. An industrial estate that would light. And in Blackpool in Lancashire Plymouth right the a 587 that's close now for bridge maintenance what close both ways between Benson right and the junction with more brick hill right that you sponsor any other problems to call in on 3 I 123-0184 that's the latest I'm out of Mo always like sharing stories with you got another one for you and about 3 minutes from now I'll take you back to Christmas 1914 it's off to the 1st World War I and a very popular president that was sent free to ole serving soldiers and sailors from a member of the royal family. Says George Ezra. Miles to. Go to grand piano my view to focus. My service by she. Could see. My. Mom. Just. To. Be doing. My friends and family. So much. To see do. You. Have to see to. A picture. Tube. Or. Go to. The focus to. Join. Ezra buter best came to me via b.b.c. Introducing original music of George's for another introducing track for you in about 15 minutes from now again it's Thursday it will be a replay it's been amazing one held over before you put back in the box again here for a 2nd time about quarter to 10 to 10 we hear about the most popular presence each Christmas and it does tend to be the latest toy your gadget or must have things but in 1940 mm or the start of the 1st World War it was something set free to all serving soldiers and sailors from a member of the royal family the Princess Mary gift box was much prized and unify University of Bristol ph d. Student Martin Barry's taking a look at its history and how they've now become family heirlooms. The idea was the brainchild of the 17 year old daughter of King George the 5th and Queen Mary Princess Mary by August September it was becoming very obvious that the 1st World War was not going to be over by Christmas and the prospect of soldiers away from home at Christmas time was quite a poignant subject the princess wanted to do something herself to show that soldiers weren't forgotten something from home everyone in the King's uniform on Christmas Day $914.00 was eligible for a princess Merry Christmas gift it's a little brass box with a double skinned soft lead the tin was designed to have a purpose beyond the original issue of the receptacle for the gifts within that gift is a pencil it's a pencil made out of a bullet it's a 303 cartridge case the tip is made on that particular one of sterling silver and if you look at the neck of the bullet case you'll see a cipher princes marries m. Sipher what I am seeking to do is interview people about the relationship they have with the 10 because the tin would have belonged to a relative or it could have been a friend of the family or they could have just picked it up at a flea market and my research is based on the materiality and memory associated with the tin very few comfort tens were given after 914 I suspect that probably had a lot to do with the production of the tins and selves but also a certain amount of war weariness cabarets produced little metal tins for wounded soldiers which had half a dozen Neapolitan chocolates in and a message of goodwill around trees in New York produced a tin had cigarettes in one side of the 10 and around trees chocolate and also on the bottom of the tin there was a little area that was designed to strike the matches the interesting thing about the Merry to. Then is that it's designed specifically to go into a soldier's battle dress pocket the material use the brass use although this was a primary component of the munitions industry they deliberately used brass because it doesn't rust quite so quickly it's a soft material and the double skin when closed for an air tight seal the Tim was designed to carry a person with Manto's letters photographs whatever the soldier wish to put into the 10 that was the purpose of the 10 beyond holding some cigarettes and a cigarette lighter and a pencil and much prized they were by many for years afterwards the story of the Princess Mary gift boxes but what about Christmas. Forces personnel this year how do you celebrate Christmas thousands of miles away from how that answer that for you after Ashford and Simpson. And so. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. The. Slip. And Simson 1st World War soldiers and Silas might have got the Princess Mary gift box but what do we do for the troops abroad over the festive season the support our soldiers charity sends over Christmas goodies boxes run with the thought from the charity joins me now Ron Hi there hello how are you know and very well thank you how did you get involved with this or study with this about 6 or 7 years ago I want to give something that Christmas going into it with support I was soldiers. To it because we don't have anything in December let the families do that. One thing led to another 767 years later I'm still here send them back so I would do the labs all year around well back then Princess Mary 100 and odd years ago I was sending cigarettes and matches and a bit of chocolate What do we send now days definite or send the signature and the matches. That's a definite no no put chocolate definitely. Did really say what we don't send because we send anything it's all we can get in a box I don't even know what over to purity and weight response on and we don't send Ned assaults we don't sell me we don't send. Anything that special to be to be quite honest but I mean when my life was out there I would send an e-mail small puddle and poles and rocket teams from around one seems to put the day in but also. Sweet Treats but I'll post. Bits and pieces to be honest so it's a mixture of stuff nonperishable stuff that they can eat but also stuff that might make him laugh make him solid It definitely s x puzzle books. I remember one yet are sent out in a box. What you call them children she is both filled a book full of different various types to little N.G.'s with 2 to 2 decks of cards and the use the challenge is cheap support wonderful So it's just take them I going to say that we have heard about them and basically as I said before it's a morale and is it mainly people like yourself who have a family connection to somebody else who's in the forces old you sort of pull donations from all sorts of life that we not known all my life was in when I started doing these. We're good people I would add what it is interesting these that haven't got people in the in the foster family of family members. But I mean the people that help us the general public a lot of people around combat Island work and might have an idea and met a part of same assigning as me and it died actually stunning. So block it clicked in the goodies and Abbi thank you to also mark not just around able to haul my well post and the public on it that had and cash so to speak and going by bits and pieces all boxes without those people we couldn't do this why do you think it's important as I can see back in the day and I back in the beginning of the 1st will mean that the conditions were random those guys probably were going to live that long and they couldn't get stuff now of course and in 2016 if you're posted overseas you'd be the oldest living in a in a small village or a small town and a most things are available. Yes and no all to be honest with you my love was in. The fall but when it was enough God and he said there was nothing it's basically let's say. Getting a couple of tents and stick them somewhere where there's nothing so wet as we can go to the supermarket and we can go to the shops and buy crisps noodles and things like them lives depend on the rock pox the cauldron in the falsies can we do provide to all Fasi Zaka Navy f. Austin everybody they all get what we can send them and so yes in Bastion there was it was all sots there but whenever you're out in the world and you know your. Listeners will know when the Globe brought for a fortnight it's always nice to come warm and have a nice cup of you don't that's for each table this goes out the sugar goes out you know with me the wife once put. Goody boxes of. What you call them Chinese cottons and whistled in full of job and went to the local markets and got all sorts of foot put them there so it sticks just seems to like what sort of feedback have you had What's it mean to those that receive these boxes all the them in the main thoroughfare through with the men being that we get off the blues that we get back from the lads I'm not actually the lads and lasses that that come back and and we've had our what all only a c's of a people looking to dawn on them books of chocolates and flowers I was doing a collection Wethington the guy from Wilkinson the rocket going in the Falklands actually brought me if Oakland's buck so it does mean a hell of a lot to these guys and girls that out there 7 the country and we're from home missing birthdays missing Christmas and it's it's also it's it's sad that we have fought about them and there's people back home and what actually I'm missing them and this look just a family reprieve she what the deal went. You know what I mean yeah makes perfect sense Ryan great job as are all those who support you too thank you so much for explaining what you get up to on the show tonight been really good to talk to you not upon the top like I do but if I want to continue please we do need your help. When trucks from support soldiers now it's peace introducing time that's here track to shall we this is Bloom who make what they call alternative cosmic pop that from Brighton where else this is shout. Introducing. If. Fronted by 2 women that I was I Emily and Maggie and the band is blue they're from Brighton and that song is called shout you had her on the show going to Bobby's you to see replays on the 1st day for that very best tracks. Now b.b.c. Introducing will be sending some of their finest along to this next Monday night's The b.b.c. Musical holds all it's going to be in the miscible nice of the night music featuring. Robbie Williams. Lucas Craig. Craig David age. 97 to. Get ready to kill performances of the 26 team b.b.c. Musical join me. Next Monday night live from 830 on b.b.c. Such excitement we give away some tickets you have a chance to win an earlier in the week for the b.b.c. Music Awards yakker you didn't get them but we couldn't hold however we will be that our reporter on the red carpet backstage I think various dresser was as well apparently she's basically got access all areas and we'll be reporting on you'll be hearing some music from the awards Monday on the show between 7 to. Mark forest. B.b.c. Radio Cumbria. Come up. Who. Say that's true. But let's thank you so let us go at our. Place. To. Get. Stuck you can. Be. Streaming download. Life is an option Christine should be keeping the pop quiz mastiff on the show keep the dogs away from Christmas and possibly up prezzies to send. Forces personnel at tomorrow on the show's time 1st Christmas party this weekend. The 1st of many. 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