Owain Wyn Evans used Early Breakfast to update listeners on his training for his 400-mile, four-nation Children in Need cycle challenge, and he wasn't sounding confident. He revealed he's repeatedly cycling up and down the steep hill near his house and relying on "a good, strong cup of camp coffee" to get through sessions. Someone had told him he'd eventually be laughing at hills by the time the challenge comes round, but Owain wasn't convinced: "I won't be laughing at this hill at the moment." Listener Steve suggested he try a "pedal powered children's merry-go-round" for extra training, which Owain said he might actually give a go.
The morning's theme was life lessons, with listeners phoning and texting in things they learned outside the classroom. Ann in Swansea explained her method for folding a fitted sheet, while Louise in Macclesfield shared a sweet memory of her late husband Phil teaching her how to stuff a duvet inside its cover in seconds, having picked up the trick working in a hotel as a teenager.
For Pause for Thought, a Methodist minister and theologian spoke movingly about meeting a homeless friend outside a London supermarket, and chose the Proclaimers' Sunshine on Leith as their essential album for National Album Day, saying the song "brings me to tears."
Elsewhere, Step Back in Time listeners correctly guessed 1971, and Air Drum Anthems was revealed as Big Country's In a Big Country, nominated by listener Lisa from near Bury St Edmunds.
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