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The Killers & Family Trees

The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers calls Chris live from Las Vegas with news of a big summer gig. Plus ancestry expert Laura Berry gives top tips for tracing your family tree.

The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers calls Chris live from Las Vegas to talk about the band's big UK summer gig! Ancestry expert from 麻豆社 One's Who Do You Think You Are? Laura Berry gives us her top tips for finding your family tree and your Top Tenuous takes in your desperate claims to the fame of the Eurovision Song Contest. In the sports locker Vassos heads down under to chat to Russell Fuller about the Australian Open and Remona Aly join us to Pause For Thought.

Today's show is dedicated to anyone who recently left somewhere for good but is now spookily returning.
And today's show is entitled: we lose our way, when we lose our why!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Mon 23 Jan 2017 06:30
麻豆社 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • ABBA

    Ring Ring

    • Abba.
    • Polydor.

  • Izzy Bizu

    Talking To You

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.

  • Robbie Williams

    Party Like A Russian

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Hue and Cry

    Labour Of Love

    • Now 24 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • T. Rex

    Children of the Revolution

    • Tanx + Zinc Alloy.
    • Edsel.
    • 006.

  • Hifi Sean

    Testify (feat. Crystal Waters)

    • Ft..
    • Plastique Recordings.
    • 001.

  • D:Ream

    Things Can Only Get Better

  • Roger Miller

    King of the Road

    • The No.1 Country Album (Various).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Elbow

    Magnificent (She Says)

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • The Weeknd

    I Feel It Coming (feat. Daft Punk)

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Republic Records.

  • Bananarama

    Shy Boy

    • The Very Best Of Bananarama.
    • Warner Strategic Market.

  • Del Amitri

    Roll To Me

    • Twisted.
    • A&M.
    • 007.

  • Harry Belafonte

    Jump In The Line

    • The Best Of.
    • Camden.
    • 16.

  • Bon Jovi

    Born Again Tomorrow

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • The Killers

    Human

    • Day & Age.
    • Mercury.
    • 1.

  • U2

    Sweetest Thing

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • The Four Seasons

    Big Girls Don't Cry

    • Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Ve.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 7.

  • The Beatles

    Get Back (feat. Billy Preston)

    • The Beatles - 1.
    • Apple.
    • 022.

  • Sister Sledge

    We Are Family

    • Disco Fever (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Ward Thomas

    Boomerang

    • Cartwheels.
    • Sony Music.
    • 009.

  • The Clash

    Should I Stay Or Should I Go

    • Now 19 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • No Doubt

    Just A Girl

    • The Singles 1992-2003.
    • Interscope.

  • Echobelly

    Great Things

    • Global Television.

  • Lukas Graham

    You're Not There

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 010.

  • Diana Ross & The Supremes

    Reflections

    • Diana Ross & The Supremes - 40 Motown.
    • Polygram Tv.

Pause For Thought

From Remona Aly, freelance journalist and editor:

The first time my mum and dad caught a glimpse of each other was in the reflection of a mirror. And that was on their wedding day.

It must have been so bizarre and nerve-wracking to see who you鈥檙e going to spend the rest of your life with like that, but I can imagine my Dad, in his head, probably saying the Urdu equivalent of 鈥楽cored!鈥�

Back in those days in my parents鈥� native India, the mirror custom was a subtler form of introduction, but for me, it holds profound meaning.

When my father looked in that mirror 44 years ago, it reflected back a truth that he didn鈥檛 yet know - the image was of the one who鈥檇 become the love of his life. The one who was to share the joys of wonderful children (i.e me); the one who was to laugh at his constant jokes, and the one who was to carry him through the final burden of ill health.

Sometimes I catch flashes of how my dad was, and who my mum is, in myself. I鈥檓 not a replica, but the glimmers of them in me are like stars - they light up the sky of my being.

I do believe in the saying that we are all mirrors. When we see goodness, kindness, beauty, we often reflect that goodness, kindness, and beauty back. But if we鈥檙e treated harshly, coldly, then that can be what we rebound. But I鈥檇 rather strive to reflect the God-given goodness that I believe lies in every single soul.

An illuminating piece of wisdom comes from the medieval Muslim theologian and philosopher, Ghazali, who wrote: 鈥淒ear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it clean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets.鈥�

Mirrors, like hearts, tell hidden truths. If I wipe the veil of dust from my heart, it can shine a spectrum of the human experience - 聽the happiness, the grief, the compassion, the hope, the light, and ultimately - the love.

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