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Chris Evans presents 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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Thu 10 Sep 2015 06:30
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Music Played

  • Free

    All Right Now

    • Back To The 70's (CD1) (Various).
    • EMI.
    • 15.

  • Don Henley

    Take A Picture Of This

    • Cass County.
    • Atlantic.
    • 001.

  • Little Richard

    The Girl Can't Help It

  • Simple Minds

    Don't You (Forget About Me)

    • Glittering Prize - Best Of Simple Min.
    • Virgin.

  • Sheryl Crow

    My Favorite Mistake

    • (CD Single).
    • A&M.

  • Talking Heads

    Once In A Lifetime

    • Talking Heads - Remain In Light.
    • Sire.

  • Nell Bryden

    Wolves

    • (CD Single).
    • 157 Records.
    • 001.

  • The Kinks

    You Really Got Me

    • The Journey - Part 1.
    • BMG.
    • 7.

  • Genesis

    Invisible Touch

    • Genesis - Turn It On Again.
    • Virgin.

  • Guy Mitchell

    She Wears Red Feathers

    • The Best Of Guy Mitchell.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
    • 4.

  • Simply Red

    The Ghost Of Love

    • (CD Single).
    • SimplyRed.com.
    • 001.

  • Lily Allen

    The Fear

    • (CD Single).
    • Regal.
    • 1.

  • Pat Benatar

    Love Is A Battlefield

    • The 80's Collection: 1984 (Various).
    • Chrysalis.

  • Stealers Wheel

    Stuck In The Middle With You

    • (Single).
    • A&M.

  • Steely Dan

    Do It Again

    • MCA.

  • James Morrison

    Demons

  • The Beatles

    Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

    • 1962-1966.
    • Apple.
    • 2.

  • The Wannadies

    You And Me Song

    • Hollywood Cool (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Paul Weller

    Broken Stones

    • Paul Weller - Stanley Road.
    • Go! Discs.

  • Bee Gees

    How Deep Is Your Love

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.

  • Brandon Flowers

    Lonely Town

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Kim Wilde

    Kids In America

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • U2

    New Year's Day

    • Now 1983 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.
    • 3.

  • Big Country

    Fields of Fire (400 Miles)

    • Young at Heart (Various Artists).
    • Reader's Digest.

  • The Beatles

    Octopus's Garden

    • 1967-1970.
    • Apple.
    • 5.

Chris' Pause For Thought: Abdul-Rehman Malik

Chris' Pause For Thought: Abdul-Rehman Malik

Abdul-Rehman Malik, journalist and broadcaster:

Chris, I’ve been thinking a lot about home lately – partly because of the events playing out in Europe at the moment but also because 12 years ago this month, I left the city of my birth – Toronto, Canada – to follow my newly found love to these British Isles. ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ is now, of course, London, a city that I have come to adore so much that I often wonder how hard it will be to leave if that time ever comes.Β 

With family scattered across continents, I have actually come to see many places as homes of a sort, cities like Dhaka, Singapore and Lahore. Ports of call where I am received warmly, where familiar faces, beloved friends or a memorable haunt reach out to welcome me.

There are also homes to which I have never been.

In 1947, as the British Raj came to an end, millions of people, Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims, abandoned their homes for an uncertain future in one of two new nations. My grandparents and their families left their homes in India for the promise of life in newly created Pakistan. Historians estimate that nearly 14 million people in all were displaced. It remains the greatest mass migration in human history. No member of my family has ever returned to the homes they left.

My father’s family was from Amritsar in the Punjab, the spiritual home of the Sikh faith and the site of the magnificent Golden Temple. I often spoke to my grandfather about his memories of home. He’d tell me about the house my father was born in, the village mosque my great-great-grandfather helped build and the boys with whom he’d play cricket with.

He even confided in me that he even once snuck into the Golden Temple which unlike now, was taboo for Muslims to visit.

β€œO People,” God affirms in the Qur’an, β€œWe created you all from a single man and a single woman, and made you into races and tribes so that you should recognize one another. In God’s eyes, the most honoured of you are the ones most mindful of God.”

A few weeks ago I climbed into cab in London and in the course of our banter, the cabbie asked me where I was from. I told him that my father was born in Amritsar. He didn’t need to know any more. He smiled and excitedly told me he too was from Amritsar. β€œWe’re practically brothers,” he declared.

ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ is a place we can leave, but it is a place which never leaves us.

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