Owain Wyn Evans spent much of Monday's Early Breakfast fretting about his Four Nations cycling challenge for Children in Need, now just four weeks away. He told listeners he'd managed a 45-mile ride to Aberconwy and back over the weekend but was "kind of stuck" at that distance, despite needing to more than double it on each day of the actual challenge. "I don't really know what the next step is," he admitted, after producer Steve pointed out they'd disagreed earlier over exactly how many weeks were left.
The morning's big talking point was etiquette, sparked by the weekend story of Zendaya not standing to greet France's first lady at a Paris fashion event. Owain and the team shared their own rules, from Steve always paying for guests' meals (a Cypriot custom via his wife Marina) to listeners texting in about mouth-closed eating, letting trolley-laden shoppers skip the queue for basket-only customers, and never stroking a stranger's dog without asking first.
Pause for Thought brought writer and priest Malcolm Doney, who chose Van Morrison's Moondance as his essential album, recalling queuing in a Soho record shop booth in 1970 to hear it before buying, and picking out Into the Mystic as the track he wants played at his funeral.
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