Anneka Rice challenges the nation to get up and join her for the Saturday Breakfast show. 
Music Played
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Robert Plant 29 Palms
(CD Single), Fontana, 5
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Adele Rolling In The Deep
(CD Single), XL, 1
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Big Screen Belter
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The Commitments Mustang Sally
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Badly Drawn Boy All Possibilities
(CD Single), Twisted Nerve
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Matthews' Southern Comfort Woodstock
Rediscover The 60's - With A Little H, Old Gold
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Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)
(CD Single), Rounder
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Womack & Womack Love Wars
Soul Years: 1984 (Various Artists), Knight Records
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Marli Harwood It's Called A Heart
(CD Single), Marli Records, 10
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George Harrison What Is Life
George Harrison: All Things Must Pass, Parlophone, 11
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Eliza Doolittle Skinny Genes
(CD Single), Parlophone, 1
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Golden Oldie
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Lesley Gore It's My Party
Rediscover The 50's - Here Comes Summ, Old Gold
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The Script If You Ever Come Back
(CD Single), RCA, 1
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Take That Greatest Day
(CD Single), Polydor, 1
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ABBA Dancing Queen
Abba Gold, Polydor, 1
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CeCe Peniston Finally
Ce Ce Peniston - 20th Century Masters, A&M
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They Might Be Giants Birdhouse In Your Soul
Snap It Up! (Various Artists), CBS
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Sammy Davis Jr. The Candy Man
Hits Of 1971 & 1972 (Various Artists), Polydor
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Led Zeppelin Rock 'n' Roll
Led Zeppelin - Early Days, Atlantic
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Led Zeppelin D'Yer Mak'er
Mothership, Atlantic
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Robert Plant Harm's Swift Way
(CD Single), Decca, 1
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Gobsmackers #1
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The Black Keys Girl Is On My Mind
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Gobsmackers #2
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Charlie Rich Life's Little Ups And Downs
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Robert Plant Angel Dance
(CD Single), Decca, 1
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Manic Street Preachers Postcards From A Young Man
(CD Single), Columbia, 1
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The Easybeats Friday On My Mind
Good Morning Vietnam (Film S/Track), Disky
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Dire Straits Sultans Of Swing
(Single), Vertigo, 5
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Glen Campbell Southern Nights
That's Country (Various Artists), EMI
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Pause For Thought
From Alison Murdoch, a Tibetan Buddhist:
"Last week, a friend shared an unsettling story about something that happened when her daughter was three years old. The child had spent nearly a month in hospital with pneumonia, and been given a pair of ‘princess shoes’ – the kind of coloured glittery shoes that little girls dream of. On the way home from the hospital, she started being rude to her mother. Despite being told off, she contorted her face and shrieked “I can say and do anything I want!” The mother replied that as a punishment for rudeness, the princess shoes would be thrown out. Later that evening, tears secretly streaming down her face, my friend put the precious shoes, still unworn, in the bin.
The story left me full of doubts and questions. Was it an act of kindness, or of cruelty? Did the end justify the means? Would I ever be capable of such tough love? Yet seven years on, that particular mother daughter relationship seems particularly warm, close and honest – perhaps because of what happened to those princess shoes.
Looking back on my life, I can see that the most powerful and lasting lessons have all been learnt through pain and struggle. The rest of the time, I tend to be on cruise control. As a teenage temp, the appropriately-named Mrs Savage taught a lasting lesson on punctuality. And I didn’t know anything about loyalty and courage until a close friend developed leukaemia.
In Tibetan Buddhism, there’s a whole category of teachings known as ‘lojong’ – which translates as ‘transforming problems’ - on the basis that difficulties can be consciously welcomed as opportunities to learn something new and gain inner strength.
Life is full of difficulties – we don’t have any choice about that. The choice we do have is whether to distract ourselves and gloss over them, or be open to whatever they can teach us." -
Today's Show: Robert Plant Is Coming For Breakfast!
Today's show is dedicated to all officianados of rock dude-dom
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Today's Show Starred:
Claire Maddison from Middlesborough who chose a Big Screen Belter
Sue Sullivan who turned sixty, but didn't want to get in the helicopter her friend had booked for her!
Caroline Klinge from Glasgow who started her 24 hour spin-a-thon
Penny from Worcestershire who helped her daughter move to Essex
Emma from Norwich who took us back with a Golden Oldie
Robert Plant from Worcestershire who chose today's Gobsmackers
Alison Murdoch who shared some wise words -
Photo gallery
Check out the pics of Robert in the studio
Broadcasts
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BBC Radio 2Fri 18 Feb 2011 06:30 BBC Radio 2
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