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Guilt – all working and non-working parents have it at some point - some more than others. Why do we feel like this? Is there anything to feel guilty about? How can we just focus on making the most of the quality time we do have with our children? We will be talking to Jessica Chivers, the thinking woman’s coach and author of ‘Mothers Work’ about how to ease our guilt and rationalise our feelings. Jessica will have top tips for us on how to ‘get a grip on guilt’

Danny spoke to an 'intellectual equal' on Drive this evening, none other than  CJ De Mooi,  best known for his eight years on the panel of quiz show Eggheads.

As well as knowing the two double landlocked countries (Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan in case you aren't as clued up as Danny and CJ), he filled us in on the charity quiz being held in St Albans tomorrow night to raise money for The Crescent. 

The Crescent provides help and support to those living with, or otherwise affected by, HIV. Without any funding from Herts County Council, they rely entirely on donations, the goodwill of their volunteers and fundraising events such as The Quiz Night. 

As a patron of the charity, CJ will be hosting the Quiz Night held at Homewood Rd United Reformed Church Hall tomorrow from 7.30pm. Tickets are £6.00 a head or £22  for teams of four and people are encouraged to turn up on the door if you haven't had a chance to buy a ticket  CJ has promised a night of fun, education and everyone's favourite event, a charity raffle. And if you didn't need any more incentive to go, CJ provided an exclusive West Herts Drive time hint, reading the news tomorrow could help you win a round or two tomorrow...

To find out more about the quiz and the charity visit The Crescent website. 

Chris' choice for today was released on this day in 2003.

Directed by Tom Shadyac and stars Jim Carrey, Morgan Freeman, Jennifer Aniston and Steve Carrell.
Jim Carrey gets to become God.

As with Chris' other choices this week, today's film was released ton this day in 1996.

Directed by Brian De Palma and starring Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Jon Voight, Jean Reno and Kristen Scott Thomas.  This is a big screen remake of the classic TV show, spawning three sequels to date.

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Our guest this evening was travel correspondent Andy Jarosz who told about his recent trip to Greece;
Even aside from the effects of the Greek financial crisis, there are some tremendous deals on travel to Greece. Cruising worldwide is experiencing a downturn, and so cruises in the Greek islands are at the lowest prices in years - even on luxury lines, in part because of 2012's Costa Concordia disaster and other problems with cruise ships worldwide. You may be able to upgrade your trip considerably by taking advantage of some of the lowest hotel and transportation costs in a long time. Even summer flights are at lower-than-usual prices; some package tours are at decade-low prices.
While carrying a few days' cash in Euros is always a good idea, since ATMS can run out, this is especially important now. Bank mergers have actually reduced the number of ATMs available, without reducing demand. Also, be sure you have sufficient prescription medications with you. Since many medicines are imports, there have been burps in the supply lines to Greece as unpaid bills to pharmaceutical companies pile up.
While Greece enjoyed an upsurge of plenty of extra tourists in 2011, followed by fewer in 2012, I don't expect it to be that busy in 2013. With the ongoing world economic downturn, tourism to Greece may decline, though Greece is receiving many visitors from China and newly wealthy former Soviet bloc nations. But in general, you're much less likely to face massive crowding at the monuments and attractions. And this in turn leads to less jammed hotels and tavernas, which may mean that the owners have more time to relax and chat with the guests they do have. This may translate into an even more memorable and pleasant trip for you, at a bargain price.

Bottom Line: Still Go to Greece. You'll have a wonderful time - maybe an even better trip than in a "normal" year.

More details can be found at he web site http://www.501places.com/ 

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Clare Gill from Redbourn spoke to Danny today and explained all about the East Common Project. The project is a group of local residents who want to provide a natural, all age and all ability area for children and families.
The volunteers are now working with the Redbourn Parish Council and have a goal to transform the East Common, they listened to residents of all ages and got feedback from both children and their parents so they have a great knowledge of what people would like.
So far they have raised over seventy thousand pounds however to hit their target they still need another ten thousand. Their next fund raising event is Redbourn Strikes Back on the 30th June. The film "The Empire Strikes back" will be shown, there will be characters and a fate with stalls.
For more information on the project or to look out for when the tickets go on sale follow the links to:

http://www.eastcommonproject.co.uk/

You can also like their Facebook page,  https://www.facebook.com/RedbournEastCommonPlayGroup

Or follow on Twitter.
@EastCommonProj 

The film I've chosen for the film club today is The Empire Strikes Back, which was released today in 1980, making it 33 years old! The film (the 2nd in George Lucas' original Star Wars trilogy) is often held up as being the best of the bunch. It displays several qualities that Lucas failed to replicate in his more recent Star Wars films: character development, decent acting, interesting plotting and not Hayden Christensen.

The film, directed by Irvin Kirshner and starring Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford and Billy Dee Williams, is an all time classic and features one of cinema's most famous twists......... Bruce Willis is a ghost!

All this week, Chris' Film Club will be featuring films that were released this week in years gone by. Today's film was released on this day in 1988.

Directed by Ron Howard and stars Warwick Davis, Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley and Jean Marsh. The story is one of an evil queen who foresees her downfall being caused by a young girl, so it is up to Davis and Kilmer to protect this girl and defeat the queen.

Callahan's, The Eel in the Sink - Aidan MacMahon
Summer Hill - Damien O'Kane
The Tree Reels - Ciaran and James O'Grady
Flings - James Carty
The Island - Paul Brady
Shamrock Shore - Karen Casey
Glory Glor Corkscrew (Slow Air) - Aidan MacMahon
The Derry Hornpipe - Malchy Bourke
Dick Cosgrove's / Micho's Apron - Four Men and a Dog
Gareth Barry's - Aidan MacMahon
The Highlanders Kneebuckle - Johnny Henry
French Bass Clarinet tune edited - Tapanga
The Long Haul Hush - Diarmaid and Donncha Moynihan
Jigs - Antoin Mac Gabhann
Song for PJ - Four Men and a Dog
Donnchadh Ban - Darch O Cathain
Tunin Dre - Michael McGoldrick
The Stoney Steps - Johnny Henry

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Here is our new music playlist for the forthcoming week:

Agnetha Fältskog - When You Really Loved Someone
Bastille - Laura Palmer
Black Star Riders - Bound For Glory
Bon Jovi - What About Now
Bonnie Tyler - Believe In Me
Caro Emerald - Liquid Lunch
Daft Punk - Get Lucky ft. Pharrell Williams
Depeche Mode - Soothe My Soul
Fleetwood Mac - Sad Angel / Without You / It Takes Time / Miss Fantasy
Goo Goo Dolls - Rebel Beat
Jamie Cullum - Everything You Didn’t Do
Josephine - Last Minute
Josh Groban - I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever)
KT Tunstall - Feel It All
Lady Antebellum - Downtown
Nell Bryden - Echoes
Olly Murs - Dear Darlin’
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Dresden
Passenger - Let Her Go
Phillip Phillips - Home
Sinéad O’Connor - Old Lady
Status Quo - Bula Bula Quo
Stereophonics - Graffiti on The Train
Stooshe - Slip
Tegan And Sara - I Was A Fool
Texas - The Conversation
The Band Perry - Done
The Script - Millionaires

Items in BOLD are new additions

This week's featured track is Liquid Lunch by Caro Emerald:

 Lisa Pearson our lifesyle correspondent was our guest this eveing, Lisa coverd healthy eating:

What is a rubbish cook?
Just because I’m a rubbish cook DOES NOT mean I eat READY MEALS!

In my case it’s someone who ….
1) Can’t follow a recipe that involves more than three ingredients
2) Panics when there are too many steps
3) Add to that children who are not willing to politely wait for more than 10 minutes, so it’s got to be quick
4) A lack of interest in improving my skills (in fact a big mental block which I’m happy to keep)
5) No chance of being organised at the beginning of the day for dinner at the end
6) Not worried about being boring and having only enough meals for 2-3 weeks of repeats
7) Cleverly married the Big Northern Hairy One who can cook brilliantly
8) Makes the same meals for the kids and adults, because I really don’t have enough time not to
9) Has a phobia of soup apart from Heinz tomato soup with lots of bread
10) Quite likes a bit of salad, but definitely couldn’t be considered a health nut

I really, really, really think that you mums who can cook, casserole, make pies, and organise yourselves so brilliantly are amazing.  You don’t appreciate the skill required to read and follow a recipe.
Seriously, it is NOT that easy!
BUT, I’m not that bothered about learning.  I have been a domestic goddess twice in my life and it kicked me big time in the butt both times, so I’m totally content with my rubbishness.

So why on earth am I going to write about it, if I’m so rubbish at it? Because I think that the media only gives three really extreme images of cooking.
1) You have the chips, curries, fried in humungous amounts of fat with a sprinkling of sugar and salt on top image.
2) Then there are the incredibly extremely healthy bunch, who eat a pile of things that I wouldn’t consider, let alone my children.
3) Then there are the chefs who seem insistent on adding so many ingredients and chopping so many things up, even when they are cooking something ‘simple’ or ‘quick’.
more details can be found at the web site  http://mummywhispererblog.com

I have learnt to cook healthy well balanced meals, that are simple and quick to cook.
There’s hardly any preparation time.
They are easily mix and matched.
And they work for both the grown ups and the kids in this house.

So that’s what I’m going to share.  Hopefully it will help anyone stuck in the chip scenario to break out of it, and Mums struggling to balance their demanding lives with providing healthy food.
Some of you may then go on to become brilliant cooks, which will be great.
Some brilliant cooks might still like to read my ideas, just to make sure that they are also brilliantly healthy.

On the Parents' Show this week we discuss sex and how we deal with our children and young people's questions and queries about the topic. We will be talking about the considerable social and societal pressures that our children and young people are up against, and why the relationship that we have with them, as parents and carers, is so vital to them establishing the self esteem, and inner resolve to deal with the pressures and situations that they will undoubtedly encounter in their lives.

Our experts us on the show this week are Professor Fiona Brooks, Head of Adolescent and Child Health, University of Herts, and early years expert and Director for the Centre of Coaching and Mentoring at University of Hertfordshire, Sally Graham.

This week on the Parents' Show we are talking about division of labour in the home between partners, mums and dads - how do you decide who does which jobs? Which jobs does no-one want to do and why? Do you expect your hubby/wife to do particular jobs around the house and if so, why? What is the best system to put in place? How do we avoid or resolve conflict over jobs around the house?

Expert guests include Professor Lynn Cook, Professor of social policy, from the University of Bath and psychologist Catriona Wrottesley, couples therapist, from the Tavistock Centre in London.

Today Simon was in the studio again to talk all about films. He appears to have recovered from the story told in the most recent blog post, which saw him driving off into the sunset in a Cadillac with a bevy of beautiful women and a cooler full of beers. He was just acting out after his beloved Brentford missed out on automatic promotion. He insists he is very fine indeed, although the second wedding ring on his hand and the 'THUG LIFE' tattoo on his knuckles suggests otherwise. Football can do crazy things to a man.

Ok, that was a lie (the tattoo says 'YOLO'), but he was in the studio to talk about the UK box office and his pick of films on TV for the coming week.

Friday
In the Line of Fire
9.00pm – 11.45pm
5USA


Saturday
Face/Off
9.45pm – 12.00am
BBC3


Sunday
The Social Network
9.00pm – 11.20pm
Channel 4


Monday
State of Play
11.10pm – 1.35am
ITV2


Thursday
Beverly Hills Cop
9.00pm – 11.05pm
Film4

Matt Adams Came into the studio to discuss this weeks news.  180 years ago the longest prize fight took place on Nomans land common.  The fight was 99 rounds over the course of 3 hours.  a vinal record shop is opening in Heritage Close.  There are objections in Harpenden to a circus that will be starting there, locals say that it will take away from trade.  Harpenden Railway Sttation are proposing to put a deck above the present car park to enable further parking spaces.  The dispute between the Gardens of the Rose and Butterfly World has now been settled, this was about parking rights.  The Community Horse Patrols have been resumed. 

David Thorold from St Albans Museum came in to talk about the museum in general.  David said that this area is easier to get to arkiology than in more built up areas, as the local fields are able to be dug rather than places needing to be demolished.  In this area it has been proved that the locals got on with the romans, wheras some areas opposed them and were crushed in response.  The older Roman town is said to have continued after the Romans withdrew in 410 AD and also the new town then grew up around the Abbey.  The gold coins found were the highest quality coin in the Roman times, Silver were next and Bronze last, these became rather scrappy and were of very little value.  The gold coins found have been deliberately buried, probably due to battles and needing to hide their welth.  The cost of entering the local museum is free to residents in this area, as it is paid for in the taxes. 

Iain Loe joined us from the campaign for Raeal Ale to talk about the festivals coming up.  CAMRA has been important to keep the real ales going, as the big companies were set to take over and make mass produced beer the only choice.  There are now a lot more small bruries than there used to be, as bruers are starting to come on since the times that CAMRA came on.  CAMRA are also trying to promote Cider makers as well.  The Cider should be made from whole apples rather than concentrate and also ideally should be british.  They also are promoting Pear cider in a like manner.  CAMRA now have awards for various things such as Pub of the year and club of the year.  The good beer guide comes out in September every year and lists the best pubs in the country for real ale.  CAMRA have a website and also an app that you can download and this will let you know the best pubs in the local area that you are in at present.

Gemma Smith from the Herts Show came in to talk about the show and to promote making a short film of the show on a camera or phone, uploading it to youtube and entering a competition they are running.  The film should be about 3 minutes or so in length.  The prize would be a Dinner Bed and Breakfast in one of 2 local hotels.  There is also a second and third prize.  contact details www.hertsshow.com where you can find all details.  The show takes place on Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th May.

The local cyclists then featured in a recorded interview giving an update on their progress.  They have had some problems in the mountain passes in Switzerland and they had to change what they intended to do.  They are now going towards Ittily.  The weather has been reasonable with a little rain in places. 

Here we go with another four hours of the finest oldies music programme you will find on your radio.

We start at 9-00 with the best selling singles and news stories from May 1966 listen out for The Beach Boys, Lee Dorsey and The Dave Clark Five. Just after 10-00 we value a long lost disc, SJH will be getting all nostalgic and don't forget Steve's legendary Gripe just before midday. At 10-15 our Brief Biog features The Tornados and there's an update on all of the news of your favourite musical stars of yesterday between 10-30 and 11-00.

A vintage children's song appears just after the 11-00 news in Kids Corner, this is followed by three songs that have a common link in Connections, just after 11-30 Music In The News plays songs that could be linked to some of this week's news stories. In to the last hour we Pull A Pound, have one of those songs that's Too Good To Be Forgotten, at 12-15 it's another 45rpm, 45 minutes of real pop music, here we give you the news and the top selling discs from June 1979,chances are you will hear songs from Art Garfunkel, Wings and Supertramp.

Join us for four hours of solid gold music at 9-00am this Saturday with competitions where you can win tickets to see an amazing Elvis show "Elvis Is In The Building" at Broxbourne Civic Hall on the 19th May, if you fancy going to the Herts County Show on the 25th or the 26th May then we have a family pack of four entry tickets for either day to give away.

 

Saturday evening at 10-30 on our Saturday Late Date it's another edition of Radio Times, tune in and hear the Emperor Rosko from 1967 at 10-15.

THE SOLID GOLD MUSIC SHOW IS SPONSORED BY DOCKGUARD OF LUTON.

Bob Lewis was our guest today, from the Breakaway Theatre company.  They have been going 25 years and are a roaming company that do inside and outside productions.  They have around 40 active performing members, and around 200 associate members - often arranging social evenings, acting lessons, car boot and cake sales.

Their forthcoming production is called 'Roberto Zucco' based on a true story of an Italian serial killer in the 80s.  He was notorious throughout Europe, being placed on the 'Most Wanted' list.  The subject matter may seem dark but there is a comedic edge too.  In a twist to the format, the main role is undertaken by two actors to show the outside and inside of Zucco.  It was written by French author Bernard-Marie Koltes and has not been performed previously in Hertfordshire.  It contains adult themes and strong language, some discretion is advised.

The show will be performed from 30th May-1st June and then from 6th-8th June at the Maltings Arts Theatre.  Tickets can be purchased at www.ticketsource.co.uk/OVO and information about the group can be found at www.breakawaytheatre.co.uk