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Irreverent music lover Shaun serves up music, features and entertainment.

Shaun Keaveny: With Olympian Greg Rutherford

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With Olympian Greg Rutherford

18/12/2012

BBC Radio 6 Music - Shaun Keaveny, With Olympian Greg Rutherford

Olympian Greg Rutherford joins Shaun. It's real radio gold.

Olympian Greg Rutherford joins Shaun. It's real radio gold. Plus the day's silliest news comes wrapped in a snuggly duvet of kicking alternative tunes old and new.

Long jumper and "self-styled Ginger Wizard" Greg Rutherford became an overnight sensation when he long-jumped his way to a gold medal in the Olympic Games this summer. He's also the 2010 Commonwealth Games silver medallist & 2006 European Championship silver medallist in the long jump. He joins Shaun to chat about his amazing year. 

Greg won his Olympic Gold with a jump of 8.31metres. He won on the same night that Mo Farah won the 10,000m and Jess Ennis got Gold in Heptathlon - Super Saturday 4th August 2012. After he won he said: "This is what I have dreamed of my whole life and to do it in London is just incredible, I might wake up in a minute." He was featured on a Royal Mail postage stamp, and two post boxes in Milton Keynes were painted gold in his honour!

There's all the usual much-loved features too...

Has a song wiggled its way into your tired brain overnight? Don't fret! It's only an Earworm. Shaun can provide immediate relief and release from that little beastie of a tune rattling around your head and, who knows, he just might pick yours to play if you share it with him this morning.

You can also nominate a tune for Shaun's ever-popular Song of Praise which invites a listener to evangelise about something they find wonderful.

Plus, Up-to-the minute music news comes courtesy of news horse (and former Menswear drummer) Matt Everitt, while Shaun keeps listeners apprised of the day's lighter news stories and occasional ridiculousness.

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