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Hyde Park Line Up, Alan Shearer and Going Phone Free

Chris reveals the line-up for Radio 2's Festival in A Day, Alan Shearer calls in from Russia. Plus digital detox tips from Rachel Macy Stafford, author of Hands Free Mama.

Chris reveals the line-up for Radio 2's Festival in A Day, live in Hyde Park on 9th September. Artists include Manic Street Preachers, Carrie Underwood, Rita Ora and All Saints, The Band Of Love and Lenny Kravitz. Alan Shearer calls in from Russia ahead of the World Cup with his tip who will win and the lowdown on Spain's manager. On day 4 of our digital detox week author of Hands Free Mama, Rachel Macy Stafford, gives us her top tips for going phone free. Vassos speaks to Conor McNamara in the Sports Locker who gives us a flavour of football fever in Moscow. Before Kylie Minogue performs live on the show tomorrow we hear your Top Tenuous claims to the princess of pop! Sarah Joseph provides the daily Pause For Thought, reflecting on the anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Music Played

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Hold On Tight

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.
  • Bastille

    Quarter Past Midnight

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin Records.
  • Foo Fighters

    Everlong

    • Capitol.
  • Yvonne Elliman

    If I Can't Have You

    • And They Danced The Night Away.
    • Debutante.
  • Daft Punk

    Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 1.
  • Years & Years

    If You're Over Me

    • Palo Santo.
    • Polydor.
  • Little Mix

    Black Magic

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco Music.
  • The Rolling Stones

    (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

    • The Rolling Stones - Remastered.
    • Abkco.
  • Dan + Shay

    All To Myself

    • Dan + Shay.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 1.
  • Sylvia

    Y Viva Espana

    • The Best Summer Ever (Various Artist.
    • Virgin.
  • Ricky Martin

    Livin' La Vida Loca

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
  • Enrique Iglesias

    Bailamos

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
  • The Coral

    Pass It On

    • (CD Single).
    • Deltasonic.
  • Madonna

    Like A Prayer

    • (CD Single).
    • Sire.
    • 9.
  • Lenny Kravitz

    Are You Gonna Go My Way

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
  • The Band Of Love

    Gimme The Night

    • Folk Fever.
    • Mighty Village.
  • Roger Daltrey

    How Far

    • As Long As I Have You.
    • Polydor.
  • Taylor Swift

    Gorgeous

    • reputation.
    • Big Machine.
  • Take That

    Shine

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
  • Kylie Minogue

    Spinning Around

    • Now 46 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • Manic Street Preachers

    If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
  • Simple Minds

    Summer

    • Walk Between Worlds.
    • BMG Rights Management.
  • Olivia Newton鈥怞ohn & Electric Light Orchestra

    Xanadu

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.
  • Glen Campbell

    Rhinestone Cowboy

    • Ultimate Country (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.
  • Carrie Underwood

    Cry Pretty

    • Cry Pretty.
    • Capitol Nashville.
    • 1.
  • Kylie Minogue

    I Believe In You

    • I Believe In You.
    • Parlophone.
  • Tom Walker

    Leave A Light On

    • (CD Single).
    • Relentless.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Sarah Joseph, Editor of a Muslim lifestyle magazine:

A year ago today, it was Ramadan, as it is now. I鈥檇 woken for the early morning meal. I opened the back door to the garden. There was a strong, acrid smell that hung in the air. I would come to realise that it was from the inferno at Grenfell Tower, a few miles from my London home. The blaze took the lives of 72 and injured dozens more.

The tower has scaffolding round it now, but for months the charred-out remains dominated the landscape.听 A sign reads 鈥淕renfell 鈥 Forever in our hearts鈥 I would drive past it four times a week 鈥 taking my daughter to and from the hospital twice weekly. I would have to psyche myself up to drive past, and would often find myself sobbing. Me - not a resident, not a local, merely a passer-by. I can barely imagine, the trauma of living daily in its shadow.

And yet, in some way, I feel we all live with its reverberations. 72 fellow humans died in an inferno that could have been prevented, and which many had warned would happen.

Many people ask how God can allow such a disaster to happen. Personally, I鈥檓 more inclined to ask about human involvement.

The Qur鈥檃n declares, 鈥淪urely God commands justice and the doing of good.鈥 I believe, we can鈥檛 just past the buck to God.

Grenfell was an 鈥渆veryman tower鈥 鈥 multiple faiths and races lived there together, and lost their lives together. The local response was equally unified, with local community centres, churches, and mosques, opening up their doors to provide emergency relief; and have continued to provide all manner of support.

And whilst we can focus on the human outpouring of goodwill following the tragedy, I think it鈥檚 also important not to lose sight of asking the very real questions as to why and how this horror could have happened in 21st century Britain.

The Inquiry has probed a litany of problems.
Given the magnitude of the disaster, of the stages of grief 鈥 denial quickly moved to anger. The stages of grief may eventually lead to acceptance, but I believe we must never accept that inequality should lead to such calamity.

Broadcast

  • Thu 14 Jun 2018 06:30

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