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Richard Allinson sits in

Richard Allinson sits in with 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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Tue 24 Jun 2014 06:30
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Music Played

  • 补鈥恏补

    Take On Me

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Santana

    The Game Of Love (feat. Michelle Branch)

    • (CD Single).
    • Arista.

  • Depeche Mode

    Just Can't Get Enough

    • Me Without You O.S.T. - Various.
    • Columbia.

  • Dire Straits

    Lady Writer

    • Sultans Of Swing - Best Of Dire Straits.
    • Vertigo.

  • Echo & the Bunnymen

    People Are Strange

    • Echo & The Bunnymen - Ballyhoo.
    • Korova.

  • George Ezra

    Budapest

    • Wanted On Voyage.
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Go Your Own Way

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 006.

  • Michael Franti & Spearhead

    I'm Alive (Life Sounds Like)

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI Records.
    • 001.

  • Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

    Moulding Of A Fool

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI.

  • Stacy Lattisaw

    Jump To The Beat

    • Let Me Be Your Angel.
    • BBR.
    • 009.

  • Bruno Mars

    When I Was Your Man

    • Unorthodox Jukebox.
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • Matt Monro

    We're Gonna Change the World

    • Heartbreakers: 20 Golden Greats From Matt Monro.
    • Virgin.
    • 7.

  • New Order

    Regret

    • Glorious (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Oasis

    Don't Look Back In Anger

    • This Year's Love (Various Artists) C.
    • Global Television.

  • Primal Scream

    Movin' On Up

  • Chris Rea

    On The Beach

    • The Best Of Chris Rea.
    • East West Records.

  • La Roux

    Uptight Downtown

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band

    Hollywood Nights

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.

  • Ed Sheeran & Rudimental

    Bloodstream

    • X.
    • Atlantic.
    • 7.

  • Frank Sinatra

    Strangers In The Night

    • Frank Sinatra - The Reprise Years.
    • Reprise.

  • Rod Stewart

    You Wear It Well

    • The Best Of Rod Stewart.
    • Warner Bros.

  • The Stone Roses

    I Am the Resurrection

    • Cigarettes And Alcohol: 40 Modern Anthems (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Joss Stone

    Super Duper Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Relentless Records.

  • Tears for Fears

    Sowing The Seeds Of Love

    • The Best Of Drive Time (Various Artists).
    • Polygram TV.
    • 7.

  • Three Dog Night

    Mama Told Me (Not To Come)

    • 25 Years Of No.1 Hits - Vol.1 (Vario.
    • Connoisseur Collection.

  • Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

    Learning To Fly

    • (CD Single).
    • MCA.

  • U2

    Beautiful Day

    • Now 47 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Midge Ure

    Become

    • (CD Single).
    • Hypertension-Music.
    • 001.

  • War

    Low Rider

    • Blaxploitation: The Sequel Vol.2.
    • Global Television.

  • Amy Winehouse

    Tears Dry On Their Own

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From writer Abdul-Rehman Malik:

听

It's finally begun. The Great British Summer is upon us.听 We wait the whole year for sunshine to blind us and for the blast of warm air to tousle our hair and invigorate our bodies and souls. It is as if the world had been created anew.

听

Lying in bed the other night, I looked out my window and the sky hadn't turned full dark yet. In fact, during these long days, there are always traces of light in the sky.

听

The summer breeze rustling through our flat that night, reminded me of the long, hot Canadian summers of my childhood. With school out for two months, we lost track of the days. Every day was Saturday. My friends and I would leave on our bikes in the morning, a few dollars in our pockets to spend and no discernible plan. Perhaps we'd end up knee deep in the ravine or fighting brain freeze at the ice cream truck.

听

It was as close to true freedom as I've ever felt.

听

The nights could get uncomfortably warm, and no amount of fans or open windows could cool us down. When I couldn't sleep I'd listen to the radio and it was on one these nights, when heat had driven sleep away, that I heard John Coltrane's A Love Supreme for the first time.

听

It was unlike anything I'd ever heard before. Visceral and arresting, it was the music of longing, passion and pain. Hearing Coltrane whispering over and over, "a love supreme, a love supreme" was like hearing a prayer.听

听

The Qur'an asks us, "Which of the favours of your Lord will you deny?"

听

As a child I was shielded from much of the ugliness of the world. 50 years ago when Coltrane began composing A Love Supreme, he didn't have such luxury. As America's cities burned and hundred of thousands took to the streets to demand their civil rights, Coltrane was also fighting his own demons - the ones that kept knocking on his door.

听

Yet through it all, Coltrane found hope. He affirmed and proclaimed love - God's greatest favour.听 Greater even, I have to admit, than the Great British Summer.

听

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