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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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Mon 19 Oct 2015 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Eagles

    Take It Easy

    • The Best Of Eagles.
    • Asylum.

  • Elvis Presley & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Fever (feat. Michael Bubl茅)

    • If I Can Dream.
    • Sony Music Entertainment.
    • 14.

  • Primal Scream

    Movin' On Up

    • The Best Album In The World Ever!(Va).
    • Virgin.

  • Gabriella Cilmi

    Sweet About Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • The View

    Same Jeans

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Canned Heat

    Let's Work Together

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1970 (Various).
    • Premier.

  • Guy Garvey

    Angela's Eyes

    • Counting The Squall.
    • Fiction.
    • 1.

  • 补鈥恏补

    Take On Me

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

  • HAIM

    If I Could Change Your Mind

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

  • Freddy Cannon

    Way Down Yonder In New Orleans

    • It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (Various Arti.
    • K-Tel.

  • Guy Mitchell

    Singing The Blues

  • Dean Martin

    Ain't That A Kick In The Head

    • The Best Of Cult Fiction (Various).
    • Virgin.

  • The Shires

    I Just Wanna Love You

    • (CD Single).
    • Decca Nashville.

  • Queen

    Hammer To Fall

    • Queen - Greatest Hits II.
    • Parlophone.

  • The Divine Comedy

    National Express

    • New Hits 99 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.

  • Rachel Platten

    Fight Song

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Harry Belafonte

    Jump In The Line

    • The Best Of.
    • Camden.
    • 16.

  • Harry Belafonte

    Jump In The Line

    • The Best Of.
    • Camden.
    • 16.

  • Sam Smith

    Writing's On The Wall

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.

  • The Clash

    Should I Stay Or Should I Go

    • Now 19 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Kooks

    She Moves In Her Own Way

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • The Turtles

    Happy Together

    • Heartbeat - The 60's Gold Collection.
    • Global Television.

  • Edwin Starr

    25 Miles

    • The Best Northern Soul All-Nighter (V.
    • Virgin.

  • Madness

    Baggy Trousers

    • More Greatest Hits Of 80's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • Take That

    Hey Boy

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • LunchMoney Lewis

    Bills

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

  • Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

    The Austerity Of Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Guns N鈥� Roses

    Sweet Child O' Mine

    • The Hits Album 10 (Various Artists).
    • Hits Album.

  • Faith No More

    Epic

    • NOW - Yearbook 1990 (Various Artists).
    • NOW.

  • Naughty Boy

    Runnin' (Lose It All) (feat. 叠别测辞苍肠茅 & Arrow Benjamin)

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

  • Carl Douglas

    Kung Fu Fighting

    • Million Sellers Vol.16 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Sugar Ray

    Every Morning

    • (CD Single).
    • Lava/Atlantic.

Pause For Thought

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


Growing up in the 1970s I can remember certain things that would thankfully be unacceptable today. Sitcoms with racist jokes, and racist graffiti to name but two.

Our house however was always a racist free zone. My Mum had one simple commandment "Thou shalt not be prejudiced". I can vividly remember Mum cooking breakfast - a full English for most, but pork and/or beef free breakfasts for the Jews, Muslims, and Hindus that would be round.聽 She would stand there watching everyone chatting about the world and say, "This is how it should be".

For me - a white girl in the 1970s - I never had to experience racism. I never had to feel that I had to prove I belonged. That came later - in the 1980s - when I converted to Islam and suddenly received racist abuse.

Thankfully that language became unacceptable, but it gave way then to religious abuse.聽 Me - the English girl who makes afternoon tea in bone china tea cups. But then baking and tea don't make you "one of us" if people don't want you.

Two weeks ago a 4'11" Bengali, scarf wearing, young Mum called Nadiya won Britain's best-loved baking competition. I thought she was great and I was not alone. Yet this still did not stop commentators scoring certain points - one called Nadiya's win "full scale ideological warfare." Another mused that he had "no way of knowing if Nadiya鈥檚 cakes were superior to the various infidel cakes on display".

I love this country, it is my home. But herein lies my frustration. Growing up white and Christian in multi-faith Britain I would never have had to make that declaration. That changed when I changed my faith.

Today my kids are growing up Muslim in multi-faith Britain. When a teacher asked my son how to spell his name, a friend chimed in "T.E.R.R.O.R.I.S.T".聽 Yet it is my children who have to sit through anti-extremism classes and be lectured on "belonging".

When I speak to people in the equalities industry I am told "but people choose to be Muslim" - as if that somehow makes bullying and discrimination acceptable.

We can do better than this, but we all have to take responsibility. A scarf wearing Muslim woman may well be able to win Bake Off - but when she can do that without it spawning discussions on immigration then we will have got somewhere.

Broadcast

  • Mon 19 Oct 2015 06:30
    麻豆约拍 Radio 2

Farewell Chris Evans: The best bits from his last shows at Radio 2

After eight years of hosting the Breakfast Show, Chris Evans leaves Radio 2.

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