Saturday Breakfast + Canterbury food festival 24 Sept 2016

Jan returns to take your calls, emails and messages. She’ll also be checking the roads and rails to keep you up to date with the latest travel. Colin brings us the sport.
To mark the fact its autumn our Tranquil Time poem is by John Keats – Ode to Autumn.

A campaign group wants banks to take more responsibility when fraudsters steal money from customers’ accounts. Jason chats to Peter Moony after 8.

After 9am – down in Canterbury – it’s their Food and Wine Festival – Kevin Field
– the host of the event, will join us live on the line.

Also in Sittingbourne today it’s the Sittingbourne Mediaeval Mops Fair in the High Street. The Mayor will open the fair at 11am. There will be loads to entertain you including rides, attractions, stalls, food and traders Jake the Jester and Mr Green the Mind Reader.

Saturday Breakfast 17 September 2016

On Jason McCrossan’s Saturday Breakfast Show:

7am – 8am
NEWSQUIZ… Ja plays a clip from the news – but can you work out the story behind the sound?

In Tranquil Time our poem today is by John Clare and is called Colours of autumn.

8am-9am
QUIZ – Play Your Cards Right – Jason will shuffle his giaganic playing cards -to reveal 4 cards – all you have to do is guess whether card 5 is Higher or Lower than card 4. We will hear Nigel Farage’s views on UKiPs only MP (they are not nice) .

Also, one in three people admit to middle-lane hogging on a motorway – according to a new survey. Jason chats to PC Anthony Cope.

9am-10am
Pick of the Number One Pops; 1971; 1981; 1991; 2001 – the songs we play were all number one on this day.

And today is Sport In The Park – Jason will speak to Pete & James Waters – his Saturday Show will be live from the event.

Interview with Danny Lucas of @LitterGram

Litter currently costs Britain £1bn per year and Jason’s guest tonight has set up a smart phone app which lets users report sights of litter directly to their council to clear it up.

Danny Lucas developed the Littergram app over a year ago and as well as chatting to Jason McCrossan about how it works – we also hear how Facebook is trying to force Littergram to change its name.

Saturday Breakfast Maritime Ship Show 10 September 2016

On Jason McCrossan’s Saturday Breakfast show this morning:

It’s the NEWSQUIZ? Jason will play a clip from the news – but can you work out the story? In Tranquil time our poem is read by Gill Fraser Lee.

It was a big week for star trek fans – as the franchise turned 50 on Thursday – we hear from former Trekker Whoopi Goldberg.

Jason calls upon the ancient spirits and call upon the late and great Bob Holness to make an appearance for our Blockbusters Quiz.

A quarter of Britons travelling overseas have no qualms about using free public wi-fi abroad for online banking. Jason chats to security Expert Tony Anscombe about the hidden dangers of using public WiFi.

We start this hour with Pick Of the Number One Pops then the Red Hot Chilli Pipers have made a charity single in memory of firefighters killed in the 9/11 terror attacks which occurred 15 years tomorrow. Later on today it’s the Maritime Ship Show – Jason will chat to event organiser Bernard McCall.

Saturday Breakfast with security expert & Maritime Show 20 August 2016

Monday Matters Terrorism & Les Mis v Phantom Charity football 08 August 2016

muslim militants

 

Saturday Breakfast 30 July 2016

Saturday Breakfast Faversham Nautical Festival 23 July 2016

On Saturday Breakfast with Jason McCrossan today: Jan has the Weather & Travel; Andrew has the news.

Between 7am & 8am
In the News Quiz… Jason plays a clip from the news – but can you work out the story?

Our Tranquil Time poem today is : A Bay in Anglesey, Sir John Betjeman READ by Gill Fraser Lee.

8am & 9am
We will have the latest updates from the terrorist incident in Germany including the response from Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.

We play Treasure Hunt: where we’ll send Jan up in the SFM Helicopter with Jock McSporran – but can you guess where oor Jan is today?

08:40 David Lewis talks to Jason about a report out today which suggest two-thirds of British people are worried about overspending on holidays abroad this summer.

9am & 10am
Pick Of The Number One Pops: 1965; 1975; 1985; 2005

09:40: Peter Flower from the Faversham Nautical Festival will chat to the team about the events happening today in Faversham.

Monday Matters Tony Blair & the Chilcot Report 11 July 2016

Tony Blair gave a 2 hour press conference to defend his actions

On Monday Matters with Jason McCrossan this week.

After 8pm Jason discusses a research out today which suggests nine in ten people think that drink or drug drivers who kill someone should be charged with manslaughter. Jason speaks to Gary Rae from the campaign charity BRAKE about these findings.

The Pet Shop Boys are our featured group. Neil Tennant celebrated his birthday yesterday. He was 62.

Also celebrating her birthday is the Award-winning singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega. After 9pm Jason will play 4 songs from her live album – In Concert (Live at the Coach House, San Juan Capistano) 1993.

The Chilcot report was published last week Jason speaks to Professor Ruth Blakeley from the University of Kent. We also discuss a project Professor Blakeley is running in conjunction with Westminster University called The Rendition Project – which looks at the CIA’s rendition, detention and interrogation (RDI) programme.

Saturday Breakfast with Wimbledon & scams 02 July 2016

On Saturday Breakfast – Jason starts by celebrating the Welsh historic win at the Euro 2016’s as the beat Belgium 3-1. Also, can you guess the story behind the news clip in this weeks News Quiz- or is that all just French as well? Gill Fraser Lee returns with Tranquil Time reading the poem – To My Brother by Vera Brittain – as we commemorate 100 years since the Battle of the Somme.

After 8am – Jason test your cryptic thinking with our BrainBox quiz and he gets serious as research out today says that people who fall victim to investment scams lose up to £20,000. Matthew Upton from Citizen’s advice spoke to Jason on the launch of Fraud Awareness month.

After 9am – in Pick of the number one pops – we hear songs from Hot Chocolate, Pet Shop Boys, Faith Evans and Puff Daddy and Rihanna.

And after England’s disastrous knockout at the Euro’s – we hear from FA chairman Greg Dyke about why he thinks England did so badly and we also hear from Calum Leslie in France.