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Cher and ABBA's Bjorn Ulvaeus

Chris is joined by legendary singer and actress Cher who stars in Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again and speaks to ABBA's Bjorn Ulvaeus on the group's continued success.

Chris is joined by legendary singer and actress Cher who stars in Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again and finds out what is was like to join the cast and sing a version of ABBA's 1980 hit Fernando for the sequel. We speak to Bjorn Ulvaeus on ABBA's continued success thirty years after their split and what it was like to star in the movie. With Mamma Mia mania sweeping the nation, Chris asks for your claims to the fame of Cher in a very special Cher live Top Tenuous. Today's Pause For Thought comes from Remona Aly.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Tue 17 Jul 2018 06:30
麻豆社 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Elton John

    I'm Still Standing

    • Diamonds.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • The Shires

    Echo

    • Accidentally On Purpose.
    • Decca.

  • The Cult

    She Sells Sanctuary

    • The Cult - Pure Cult: The Singles.
    • Beggars Banquet.

  • Bruno Mars

    Locked Out Of Heaven

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • Glen Campbell

    Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

    • Meet Glen Campbell.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • The Banana Splits

    The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)

    • Television's Greatest Hits Vol. 5: In Living Color (Various Artists).
    • TVT Records.

  • ABBA

    Super Trouper

    • Abba Gold (40th Anniversary Edition).
    • Polar.
    • 006.

  • Meghan Trainor

    Let You Be Right

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.

  • Whitney Houston

    I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)

    • Whitney Houston - Whitney.
    • Arista.

  • Jimmy Dean

    Big Bad John

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

  • Sheryl Crow

    Wouldn't Want To Be Like You (feat. St. Vincent)

    • Threads.
    • The Valory Music Co..

  • ABBA

    Mamma Mia

    • Abba Gold (40th Anniversary Edition).
    • Polar.
    • 004.

  • George Michael

    Faith

    • George Michael - Ladies & Gentlemen.
    • Epic.

  • Four Tops

    Loco In Acapulco

    • Their Greatest Hits.
    • Telstar.

  • Deva Mahal

    Snakes

    • Run Deep.
    • Motema.

  • ABBA

    Waterloo

    • Abba Gold (40th Anniversary Edition).
    • Polar.
    • 019.

  • ABBA

    Ring Ring

    • Abba.
    • Polydor.

  • ABBA

    Slipping Through My Fingers

    • Love Stories.
    • Polydor.
    • 4.

  • Cher

    I Found Someone

    • The Greatest Love (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • Cher

    If I Could Turn Back Time

    • Cher - The Greatest Hits.
    • WEA/Universal.

  • Cher & Andy Garc铆a

    Fernando

  • ABBA

    Voulez-Vous

    • Abba Gold.
    • Polydor.
    • 013.

  • Eagle鈥怑ye Cherry

    Save Tonight

    • 1999 Grammy Nominees (Various Artists.
    • Elektra.

  • Izzy Bizu

    Talking To You

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.

  • Kim Wilde

    Birthday

    • Here Come The Aliens.
    • Wildeflower Records.

  • Cher

    The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

聽From Remona Aly, Freelance journalist and editor:

I don鈥檛 know how many times I鈥檝e been asked this question but why do bad things happen to good people?

Take my friend for example. She pays her taxes, helps deprived youngsters have bright futures, but this all-round good egg fell down a manhole in the middle of the street.

Okay, she may have been checking a good looking guy on the other side of the road, but I'm not sure that deserves going feet first down a random hole.

This is a minor tribulation of course, but so many good people suffer major awful stuff and it simply doesn鈥檛 seem fair.

Another good egg to whom loads of bad things happened was an 11th century north African scholar called Ibn Nahawi. Ibn Nahawi lost his home, his family, he even lost his eyesight, yet he authored a powerful poem in which he said: 鈥榶our hardships relieve me. Truly, your dark night beckons the dawn鈥�.

I admit, looking for the light of dawn hasn鈥檛 always come easily. I鈥檝e been at my darkest hour when witnessing someone very close to me lose their newborn baby - her tiny heart beat a few precious hours before leaving a world she entered too soon.

It left my own heart broken into pieces, but somehow my faith and human resilience soldered it back together.

In Islam, parents who lose a baby are assured that their child will be the first to welcome them into Paradise. I hold on to the belief that anything that鈥檚 torn away from a person will come back to them with more grace and beauty than we can imagine.

The American Muslim writer and speaker, Yasmin Mogahed said: 鈥榊our life is nothing more than a love story. Between you and God. Nothing more. Every person, every experience, every gift, every loss, every pain is sent to your path for one reason and one reason only: to bring you back to Him.鈥�

The greatest love stories are not without tears and struggle. Bad things may well happen to good people, but I believe joy is on the way for those who endure them. The loom of life might try to unravel me, but I鈥檒l find a way to hold my threads together through patience, faith and ultimately a love that keeps me coming back round.

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