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Borough Welsh Choir, Knitting and Welsh food for St David's Day

Chris Evans presents a fully interactive show for all the family, featuring music, special guests and listeners on the phone.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Thu 1 Mar 2018 06:30
麻豆社 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Earth, Wind & Fire

    September

    • Greatest Hits Of 1978 (Various Artis.
    • Premier.
    • 3.

  • Stereophonics

    Taken A Tumble

    • Scream Above The Sounds.
    • Parlophone.

  • John Denver

    Leaving on a Jet Plane

    • A Song's Best Friend: Very Best Of.
    • RCA/BMG.

  • Sophie Ellis鈥怋extor

    Murder On The Dancefloor

  • Supertramp

    Breakfast In America

    • The Very Best Of Supertramp.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Duffy

    Mercy

  • Franz Ferdinand

    Feel The Love Go

    • (CD Single).
    • Domino.

  • Justin Timberlake

    Like I Love You (feat. Clipse)

    • Glamour (Various Artists).
    • Warner Stategic Marketin.

  • Tom Jones

    Green Green Grass Of Home

    • Fifty Number Ones Of The 60's (Variou.
    • Global Television.

  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    It's A Beautiful World

    • Who Built The Moon?.
    • Sour Mash.

  • Lisa Stansfield

    The Real Thing

    • Huge Hits 1997 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Nik Kershaw

    The Riddle

    • The Essential Nik Kershaw.
    • Spectrum.

  • Bonnie Tyler

    Total Eclipse Of The Heart

  • Maroon 5

    Wait

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.

  • Shirley Bassey

    Big Spender

  • Stereophonics

    Have a Nice Day

    • Now 49 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Super Furry Animals

    Juxtaposed With U

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony.

  • Catatonia

    Road Rage

  • Calum Scott

    You Are The Reason

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.

  • The Stranglers

    Golden Brown

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • Foreigner

    Waiting For A Girl Like You

    • 40.
    • Rhino Atlantic.
    • 16.

  • The Fratellis

    Starcrossed Losers

    • (CD Single).
    • Cooking Vinyl.
    • 001.

  • Bruno Mars

    Finesse (Remix) (feat. Cardi B)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Sarah Joseph, Editor of a Muslim lifestyle magazine:

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Thirty years ago, in March 1988, I decided to become a Muslim. I was 16, and let鈥檚 just say鈥攅uphemistically鈥攖hat it was a somewhat controversial decision.

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Yet for me, Islam presented a simple, powerful way of understanding and connecting to The Essence, the Uncaused Cause of All Creation: to God.

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For my Christian family, there was a lot of, what I later recognised, as grief. Islam seemed a world away from their world, and to see them hurt was incredibly painful in itself.

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Even my beloved grandmother struggled with the fact that I looked 鈥渇oreign鈥�. Now Nana had been born in 1909 into a very homogenous Britain. Indeed, she would recall how just after World War One, her entire street came out to see a member of the Indian Army regiment walk past. And yet, through our mutual love and perseverance, she was able to see that I had not changed my essence. And at my wedding, five years later, she gave a speech declaring: 鈥淚 love your way of life, and the person that you are.鈥� She could say this because she could see that we were both striving to connect to God in our own different ways. Indeed, all my family were reconciled to my faith.

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However, many could not see past some of my outer changes. The scarf being the most obvious.

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I was spat at in the street. Called a desecrator of Churches, an infidel. And even attempts were made to pull off my attire.

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In the 30 years that have past, the narrative and environment has become even more hostile. International events have made anti-Muslim hatred a socially acceptable position in some quarters. I experience this 鈥� personally, physically. It worries me, less for me, and more for my children.

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And yet, I remain committed to that decision I made as a teenager. My faith sustains me. It connects me to The One, The Essence, which unites all of creation. The Qur鈥檃n says that God could have created us all into a single undiverse community, but God chose otherwise.

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And I pray that we are all able to see and love our common humanity, regardless of difference, and the varied ways we may approach The One.

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