1929 BORN: Martin Luther King JR, US civil rights leader, Nobel peace laureate, Atlanta
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Wave of the future, 1929 |
10:10
People who take three 30-minute naps per week have a 37% reduced risk of heart disease, according to a recent study.
13:28
Hear, hear!:
"There's God and there's the devil, and the devil's not a gentleman. If you give him any kind of an opening, he will take that."
13:52
CALLER 1: It's not a sexy topic to be talking about, the bowel.
14:01
CALLER 3: She went for a test. We got engaged. They told her she could wait six months for results. She died within five months. Ovarian cancer. She took matters into her own hands and went private. They saw her within four weeks. When she died she had her hand on her bible. We were married 13 short weeks.
14:07
CALLER 4: I'm on both waiting lists. I forgot to tell the doctor I had VHI. Two months for public. Two weeks for private. The poor can wait and die.
14:08
AD: Buy some car insurance. You and your car have got a friend with our car insurance company.
14:21
CALLER 8: I blame the voters for voting for the feckers.
CALLER 1: My husband and I don't believe in skipping queues. We're socialists. Like Bertie. Ha ha. Now I feel like vomiting, and it's not the cancer.(Pregnant pause)
ADIO: If you get your bowel cancer detected in time it'll make things easier for you and your family. Contact your doctor.
CALLER 9: I just heard the ad on the radio. What's the point in saying 'go to your doctor' if you can't get something as basic as a colonoscopy? Why can't they get the finger out and get people in?
ADIO: Treat the family with a trip to the Christmas Panto.