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All Saints World Exclusive

Sara is joined live in the studio by All Saints' Nicole Appleton and Shaznay Lewis for the world exclusive first play of their brand new single Love Lasts Forever.

Sara is joined live in the studio by All Saints' Nicole Appleton and Shaznay Lewis for the world exclusive first play of their brand new single Love Lasts Forever. We hear about the ultimate marriage tests from the listeners including riding a tandem, going on a narrow boat and perming your wife's hair. Plus there's thirty minutes of back-to-back musical bangers in the Half Wower with tunes from Girls Aloud, Stevie Wonder and Mary Mary. Karthi Gnanasegaram is joined in the Sports Locker by football presenter Kelly Cates and the Pause For Thought comes from writer and broadcaster Sarah Joseph.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Thu 31 May 2018 06:30
麻豆社 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Earth, Wind & Fire

    Let's Groove

    • 15th Anniversary Music Celebration (Various Artists).
    • Rhino.

  • Jess Glynne

    I'll Be There

    • Always In Between.
    • Atlantic.

  • Bad Company

    Can't Get Enough

    • Driving Rock (Various Artists).
    • Global Records & Tapes.
    • 1.

  • Level 42

    Lessons In Love

    • Now That's What I Call Music '86.
    • Now.

  • Paramore

    Hard Times

    • After Laughter.
    • Fueled By Ramen.

  • The Police

    Message In A Bottle

    • The Very Best Of Sting & The Police.
    • A&M.

  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    She Taught Me How To Fly

    • Who Built The Moon?.
    • Sour Mash Records.

  • Gladys Knight

    Licence To Kill

    • Gladys Knight & The Pips - Singles Al.
    • Pro-Tv.

  • The Script

    Hall Of Fame (feat. will.i.am)

    • #3 (Deluxe Edition).
    • Sony.

  • Thin Lizzy

    Don't Believe A Word

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Vertigo.

  • Frankie Vaughan

    Tower of Strength

    • Rediscover The 50's - Here Comes Summ.
    • Old Gold.

  • Tony Hadley

    Tonight Belongs To Us

    • Talking To The Moon.
    • Moonstone Music.

  • Samuel E. Wright

    Under The Sea

    • Absolutely Disney (Various Artists).
    • Walt Disney Records.

  • Destiny鈥檚 Child

    Survivor

    • Now 49 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Mavericks

    Dance the Night Away

  • Girls Aloud

    Sound Of The Underground

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Heavy D. & the Boyz

    Now That We鈥檝e Found Love

    • Radio Rap (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Kaoma

    Lambada

    • One World (Various Artists).
    • Global Records & Tapes.

  • Mary Mary

    Shackles (Praise You)

    • Huge Hits 2000 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Bad Manners

    Lip Up Fatty

    • The Best Reggae Album In The World....
    • Virgin.

  • Kevin Lyttle

    Turn Me On (feat. Spragga Benz)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Stevie Wonder

    Superstition

    • Motown Chartbusters Volume 8 (Various Artists).
    • Spectrum Music.

  • Liam Gallagher

    I've All I Need

    • As You Were.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Phil Collins

    You Can't Hurry Love

    • Singles.
    • Rhino.

  • Alice Merton

    No Roots

    • (CD Single).
    • Paper Plane Records International.

  • All Saints

    Love Lasts Forever

    • Testament.
    • AS Recordings.

  • Albin Lee Meldau

    I Need Your Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Caroline International.

  • Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

    D.I.Y.

    • What Have We Become.
    • Virgin EMI.
    • 001.

  • Bay City Rollers

    Shang-A-Lang

    • Super 70's (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Rod Stewart

    The First Cut Is The Deepest

    • The Best Of Rod Stewart.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Taylor Swift

    Blank Space (The Biggest Weekend 2018)

  • Ed Sheeran

    Happier

    • 梅 Divide.
    • Asylum Records.

  • Al Wilson

    The Snake

    • The Best Northern Soul All-Nighter (V.
    • Virgin.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Sarah Joseph, Editor of a Muslim lifestyle magazine:

听

I鈥檓 heading to a conference on Artificial Intelligence 鈥擜I鈥攍ater today. Perhaps because I was a major Terminator fan when I was a teenager, I carry a deep-seated concern about the power of machines.
听
And the data should perhaps make us sit up and listen:
听
The Japanese entrepreneur and billionaire, Masayoshi Son, talks of 鈥渟ingularity鈥濃�攖he point where AI surpasses human intelligence. He believes we鈥檙e just 20 years from that moment, and he lauds the idea that AI machines could have IQs of 10,000. Einstein鈥檚 IQ was said to be 200. Son thinks machines will take over all sorts of jobs鈥攏ot just the robots in factories, but even the roles of doctors, lawyers, engineers鈥� DJs? Surely not鈥�.
听
AI proponents are really excited by the idea that machines can solve the problems that have thwarted humans.
听
It could be argued that we haven鈥檛 done a great job with the planet鈥攚ars which have left tens of millions dead, weapons that have poisoned not only the land but the genetic materials of generations, not to mention global warming. There is perhaps an intelligent logic to the fictitious Skynet machines of the Terminator movies deciding to wipe out the humans.
听
Yet is there something special about us that makes our existence worth our failings?
听
The story of humanity鈥檚 creation as told in the Qur鈥檃n has the angels questioning God鈥檚 wisdom; Will you create something that will spread chaos and bloodshed?鈥� They say. 鈥榃hereas as we are obedient and praise your limitless glory.
God replies鈥斺�淚 know that which you know not.鈥� 听In other words 鈥� God knows what is best. 听And goes on to 鈥渢each Adam the names鈥� 鈥� to give Adam a level of intelligence and reasoning.
听
The Qur鈥檃n is telling us that there is something so wonderful and beautiful about human beings鈥攊n all our imperfection and chaos. There is something so important about freewill, that makes our very creation worth the mistakes that we will make.
听
The Qur鈥檃n is under no illusion as to human鈥檚 weaknesses 鈥� forgetful, imperfect, negligent. Yet, despite that knowledge 鈥� God created us anyway, because there is something special about human intelligence and human choice.
听
Technology is changing the world. AI has the potential to change it beyond all recognition.
Yet, I believe, we should cling on to our humanity, despite our failings. God saw beauty in it, and so should we.

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