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We go dot com crazy with web wonder and online oracle Gary McIlraith who talks about the release of a thousand new domain names.

We go dot com crazy with web wonder and online oracle Gary McIlraith who tells us about the release of a thousand new domain names...

Little Izzy tells us about her audition for Annie and earns herself a fanfare when she belts out a bit of The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow...

Our mystery guest is the lawn-loving and mower motoring expert Tony Dwight, who tells us all about the Lawn Mower Racing Championships ...

And, our top tenuous takes us to your desperate claims to the fame of Coldplay...

Today's show is dedicated to anyone who tunes in to the weather forecast and always drifts off when it's the bit they need to listen to...

And today's show is entitled: We have every day to change the rest of life so do what you can to have a life worth changing every day.

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麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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  • Althea & Donna

    Uptown Top Ranking

    • Rhythm Of The Sun (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • Adam Ant

    Goody Two Shoes

    • Wave Party (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.
    • 15.

  • Katy B

    Crying For No Reason

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • 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.

  • Belle and Sebastian

    I'm a Cuckoo

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • Bon Jovi

    Livin' On A Prayer

    • Music Of The Millennium (Various).
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • David Bowie

    China Girl

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Jake Bugg

    A Song About Love

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

  • Chromeo

    Come Alive (feat. Toro y Moi)

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
    • 001.

  • Coldplay

    Talk

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • David Dundas

    Jeans On

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

  • David Dundas

    Jeans On

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

  • Sophie Ellis鈥怋extor

    Young Blood

    • (CD Single).
    • EBGB's.
    • 001.

  • The Foundations

    Build Me Up Buttercup

    • Million Sellers Vol.12 - The Sixties.
    • Disky.

  • Imagine Dragons

    Demons

    • Night Visions.
    • Polydor.

  • The Jacksons

    Blame It On The Boogie

    • Disco Fever (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Ben E. King

    Stand By Me

    • Shades Of Soul (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Kraftwerk

    Computer Love

  • Madness

    Our House

    • Now 1983 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • Dean Martin & Helen O鈥機onnell

    How D'Ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning?

    • Cool Couples (Various Artists).
    • Sanctuary.

  • Gary Numan

    Cars

    • Greatest Hits Of The 70's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • Oasis

    Whatever

    • Smash Hits '95 (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • OneRepublic

    If I Lose Myself

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.
    • 001.

  • Pet Shop Boys

    Always On My Mind

    • Pet Shop Boys - Discography.
    • Parlophone.

  • Tom Petty

    Free Fallin'

    • Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever.
    • MCA.

  • Suzi Quatro

    Can The Can

    • 25 Years Of Rock `n' Roll - 1973.
    • Connoisseur.

  • Queen

    Bicycle Race

    • Jazz.
    • Island.
    • 4.

  • The Rolling Stones

    She's A Rainbow

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.

  • T. Rex

    I Love to Boogie

    • T. Rex - The Singles As & Bs.
    • Repertoire.

  • Texas

    Inner Smile

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.

  • B.J. Thomas

    Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head

    • The Love Songs Of Burt Bacharach.
    • Polygram Tv.

Pause for Thought: Abdul-Rehman Malik

Pause for Thought: Abdul-Rehman Malik

From writer Abdul-Rehman Malik:

I grew up in the well-ordered suburbs just outside Toronto, Canada鈥檚 largest city. It was pleasant enough, certainly not the kind of place prone to clandestine activity 鈥� especially at school. I can admit though, it wasn鈥檛 for a lack of trying.

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"You've gotta listen to this!鈥� she whispered conspiratorially, pressing a battered cassette tape into my hand. "We'll talk about it later.鈥� It was precisely the kind of thing that Melissa did.

It was a 1969 recording of John Lennon's showdown with a belligerent right-wing pundit during his famous bed-in for peace. I listened to it so much, I memorised the dialogue. 听听


Melissa was probably my first real female friend. A tomboy and thoroughly unconventional, we met in 4th grade 鈥� part of a group of academic misfits sent off to a special school. During our first meeting, she shook my hand and confidently said 鈥淎ssalamu alaikum鈥� 鈥� the Muslim greeting of peace. I later learned she鈥檇 grown up in Saudi Arabia.


By the time she handed me the tape we were 12 year-old rabble rousers, arguing about politics and sticking peace signs on our lockers. In high school, we were threatened with suspension for protesting the first Gulf War and later took a stab 鈥� valiant, but unsuccessful 鈥� at avant-garde political theatre.


But, between activism and her studies, I could see she was struggling to figure out who she was and where she was going. As we headed off to university we drifted apart.


"Wear gratitude like a cloak,鈥� said the mystic Rumi, 鈥渁nd it will feed every corner of your life."

I鈥檝e lived in the United Kingdom for over a decade now. Distance from home sometimes gets me nostalgic.


I tried to track Melissa down a few times and failed. Until that is a few years ago, when a mutual friend reached out to me on Facebook to tell me that she was no more. Instead, I was introduced to Tynan, as Melissa is now known 鈥� a transgendered and equality rights campaigner. This is one journey that must have been particularly difficult.


Facebook celebrates its 10th anniversary today. It鈥檚 become so much a part of our lives that I鈥檓 sure many of your listeners will check in to this programme鈥檚 page today without a second thought. 聽
I for one will be thankful for all those I鈥檝e been able to reconnect with 鈥� renewing friendships that once nurtured me. I do hope that one day though, instead sending a virtual poke or like, I鈥檒l be able to sit down with some of them 鈥� like Tynan 鈥� for a real cup of coffee. Some conversations, after all, are best had offline.

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