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Oscars and The Kebab Awards

Chris speaks to the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's LA correspondent Peter Bowes with live Oscars reaction and we hear from the newly crowned Best Chef at the 2017 British Kebab Awards, Maz Demir.

Chris speaks to the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's LA correspondent Peter Bowes with reaction to The Oscars and the accidental awarding of Best Picture to La La Land. In other big award news, we speak to the newly crowned Best Chef at the 2017 British Kebab Awards, Maz Demir, and Chris samples one of his signature dishes. Plus we find out about Vassos' own claim to Oscar fame, the team discuss different types of milk and Father Brian D'Arcy makes a rare visit to the studio for today's Pause For Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Mon 27 Feb 2017 06:30
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Music Played

  • Earth, Wind & Fire

    Let's Groove

    • 15th Anniversary Music Celebration (Various Artists).
    • Rhino.

  • Marc Almond

    A Kind Of Love

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.
    • 1.

  • La La Land Cast

    Another Day Of Sun

    • La La Land O.S.T..
    • Interscope.
    • 001.

  • Queen

    Hammer To Fall

    • Queen - Greatest Hits II.
    • Parlophone.

  • The Coral

    In The Morning

    • (CD Single).
    • Deltasonic.

  • The Undertones

    Teenage Kicks

    • Beautiful Game (Various Artists).
    • Universal.

  • Stevie Wonder

    Faith (feat. Ariana Grande)

    • Sing O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Island.

  • Madonna

    Beautiful Stranger

    • Madonna - Greatest Hits Volume 2.
    • Maverick.
    • 13.

  • Just Jack

    Starz In Their Eyes

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.

  • Billie Jo Spears

    Blanket On The Ground

    • Ultimate Country (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • Madness

    Another Version Of Me

    • (CD Single).
    • UMC.
    • 008.

  • Womack & Womack

    Teardrops

    • And They Danced All Night.
    • Debutante.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Don't Stop

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 009.

  • KT Tunstall

    Black Horse and the Cherry Tree

    • (CD Single).
    • Relentless Records.

  • Harry Belafonte

    Jump In The Line

    • The Best Of.
    • Camden.
    • 16.

  • Take That

    Giants

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band

    Hollywood Nights

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.

  • Naughty Boy

    Should've Been Me (feat. Kyla & Popcaan)

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • The Animals

    We Gotta Get Out Of This Place

  • Marlena Shaw

    California Soul

    • Sampled 3 (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Meat Loaf

    Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad

    • No Greater Love (Various Artists).
    • Global Records & Tapes.

  • Texas

    Let's Work It Out

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Eddy Grant

    Electric Avenue

    • The Best Of The 80's Vol.II (Various).
    • Crimson.

  • INXS

    Need You Tonight

    • The All Time Greatest Rock Songs ....
    • Columbia.

  • Blondie

    Fun

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.

  • Elvis Presley

    Return To Sender

    • Presley - The All Time Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.

  • Stereophonics

    Dakota

    • (CD Single).
    • V2.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Father Brian D’Arcy, a Catholic Passionist priest:

The conversation everywhere today is understandably about the winners and losers at the Oscars. I was hoping Ruth Negga would win Best Actress for her performance in β€œLoving”, not just because she’s Irish but because of the power of the true-life story behind β€œLoving”.

Richard and Mildred Loving went through agonies to have their interracial marriage recognised in the United States in the 60s. Richard and Mildred had to leave their home State of Virginia and move to Washington to be married in 1958. Interracial marriage was forbidden in Virginia; five weeks after the couple returned home, police broke into their bedroom and arrested them in the middle of the night. Their crime was loving each other enough to celebrate an interracial marriage.

The judge found them guilty and ordered them to leave Virginia or go to jail. For ten years they lived in Washington and cared for their three children.

Encouraged by civil rights progress, Mildred wrote to Attorney General Robert Kennedy. He helped them find two young lawyers who took their case all the way to the Supreme Court in 1967. The judges unanimously ruled that State laws prohibiting mixed marriage were unconstitutional and the country’s last remaining Segregation Laws were wiped away.

The Loving’s life story on film could have been full of self-righteous histrionics. Instead it’s a quiet, reserved and beautiful study of how love thrives and marriage survives under unbearable pressures. Two ordinary people, madly in love, achieved something extraordinary. They really lived out the Bible’s advice β€˜hatred causes conflict but love conquers all.’

β€œLoving” deliberately concentrates on how an unjust, cruel law affects the day to day lives of innocent people – their relationships, where they could make their home, how they raised their children.

Mildred was softly spoken, shy, demure, yet incredibly strong-willed. She was never afraid to speak the truth. She reminds us that the world is changed by people of principle who make huge contributions in unassuming ways. The Loving’s survived because they had an absolute conviction about the value of doing the right thing.

They weren’t martyrs or saints, just good, decent people. The kind of people we can all beΒ  - if we so decide.Β Β 

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