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Guy Martin calls in

Motorcycle racer Guy Martin and natural history curator Richard Sabin call Chris, plus the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's transfer deadline day presenter and Dan Walker with On This Day.

Terrific Toby electrifies us with his gifted guitar playing and a rocking rendition of AC/DC's Highway To Hell...

Daredevil Guy Martin calls in with news of a new show involving a motorcycle and 1,000 miles of open road, and Richard Sabin from the Natural History Museum tells us how they're welcoming a new 83-foot Blue Whale!

The Top Tenuous takes in your desperate claims to the fame of 'Big Things On Tour', and Sarah Joseph the editor of a Muslim Lifestyle magazine provides us with a Pause For Thought.

Today's show is dedicated to any January dry athletes who jumped off the wagon with both feet this weekend...
And today's show is entitled: nerves are not here to be eliminated but embraced and put to good use!

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Music Played

  • U2

    Beautiful Day

    • Now 47 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Ellie Goulding

    Love Me Like You Do

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Neil Diamond

    America

    • Neil Diamond - The Jazz Singer.
    • Capitol.

  • The Cardigans

    Lovefool

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

  • Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

    I Love Rock 'n' Roll

    • Joan Jett - I Love Rock 'n' Roll.
    • Blackheart.

  • Squeeze

    Cool For Cats

    • Fantastic 70's (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • George Ezra

    Cassy O'

    • Wanted On Voyage.
    • Columbia.

  • The Rolling Stones

    19th Nervous Breakdown

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.

  • Johnny Cash

    I Walk The Line

    • Now 100 Hits Country (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Bill Haley and His Comets

    Rock Around The Clock

    • That's Rock'n'Roll (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    Ballad Of The Mighty I

    • (CD Single).
    • Sour Mash Records.

  • Noah and the Whale

    5 Years Time

  • Tracy Chapman

    Talkin' Bout A Revolution

    • Tracy Chapman.
    • Elektra.

  • The Who

    Who Are You

    • CSI: O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Hip-O-Records.
    • 9.

  • Junior Senior

    Move Your Feet

    • Smash Hits Chart Summer 2003.
    • EMI/Virgin/Universal Music.

  • Mark Ronson

    Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Kula Shaker

    Hush

    • Kula Shaker - Kollected: The Best Of.
    • Columbia.

  • One Direction

    Story Of My Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco Music.

  • Sam & Dave

    Soul Man

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

  • Crosby, Stills & Nash

    Marrakesh Express

    • Over The Years....
    • Rhino.
    • 001.

  • Right Said Fred

    Deeply Dippy

    • Now 1992 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Texas

    Start A Family

    • 25.
    • PIAS.

  • Gregory Porter

    Liquid Spirit

    • Liquid Spirit.
    • Blue Note.
    • 001.

  • Slade

    Cum On Feel The Noize

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Elton John

    Crocodile Rock

    • Diamonds.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • The Shires

    Friday Night

    • (CD Single).
    • Decca.
    • 001.

  • Was (Not Was)

    Walk The Dinosaur

    • Virgin.

  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience

    Crosstown Traffic

    • The Jimi Hendrix Collection.
    • Universal.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
From Sarah Joseph, Editor of a Muslim lifestyle magazine:

Twenty five years ago today president, FW de Klerk, gave a speech to the South African parliament that signalled the end of Apartheid. In the speech he rescinded the ban on the ANC, and announced the release of political prisoners, including Nelson Mandela.

The alternative he said was β€œgrowing violence, tension and conflict”, as well as global isolation, β€œWithout contact and co-operation with the rest of the world we cannot promote the well-being and security of our citizens” De Klerk declared.

De Klerk’s speech, and the formal end to Apartheid, demonstrates that injustice - no matter how long it exists for - cannot be sustained. The repressive legal system had existed for 46 years. Racial segregation had been in place for over 200 years.

Yet still, history shows us that when truth speaks to power, power cannot continue if it is built on a foundation of injustice. Truth will always win out-it is the ultimate order of things. As the Qur’an puts it: β€œTruth has come and falsehood has vanished. Falsehood is always bound to vanish.”

As such, I believe with confidence that the injustices that we see today will also fall. Without this firm confidence I think I would become despondent with the world, as there seems so much that is wrong, so much which is unjust.

But we ourselves have to be involved.

The Qur’an talks about faith AND action. The two are partners.Β  It is not enough for me to have faith that injustice can’t be sustained. I have to act to make that true. In South Africa there were many who sacrificed much so that Apartheid could end.

If we see a wrong of any level - be that a bully in the playground, in a work place, in a relationship, or a global injustice, then it is right to act.

Being passive is not an option. Being aggressive is not conducive to good.Β  Being proactive and assertive that the injustice cannot be sustained surely has to be the way forward.

It may not be comfortable. It may not be easy. But speaking truth to power is the only way injustice falls. It is the way of history. It is the way of the world.

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