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Proms and Croquet

Chris finds out what's going on at the Proms 123rd season with Radio 3's Katie Derham and learns about croquet's connection to tennis with mallet marvel James Hawkins.

Chris finds out what's going on at the Proms 123rd season with Radio 3's Katie Derham and how there is something for everyone from the Royal Albert Hall to the City of Culture, Hull. We learn about croquet's connection to tennis with mallet marvel James Hawkins who reveals that Wimbledon hosted croquet before it became a tennis club. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by former ladies England Cricket captain Charlotte Edwards. Today's Top Tenuous asks for your tenuous links to 1870-something and the Pause For Thought comes from Remona Aly.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Mon 17 Jul 2017 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Kenny Loggins

    Danger Zone

    • Top Gun O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • CBS.

  • Elkie Brooks

    Forgive And Forget

    • The Very Best Of.
    • A&M.
    • 10.

  • 厂补濒迟鈥怤鈥怭别辫补

    Shoop

    • Shoop.

  • Olly Murs

    Wrapped Up (feat. Travie McCoy)

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
    • 1.

  • Michael Bubl茅

    Haven't Met You Yet

    • Crazy Love.
    • Reprise.
    • 1.

  • Luis Fonsi

    Despacito (Remix) (feat. Daddy Yankee & Justin Bieber)

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Liam Gallagher

    Wall Of Glass

  • Simple Minds

    Don't You (Forget About Me)

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

  • Faith Hill

    This Kiss

    • New Hits 99 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Billie Jo Spears

    Blanket On The Ground

    • Ultimate Country (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • Carly Rae Jepsen

    Cut To The Feeling

    • (CD Single).
    • School Boy/Interscope.

  • Mental as Anything

    Live It Up

    • Drive Time (Various Artists).
    • Dino.

  • DB Boulevard

    Point Of View

    • (CD Single).
    • Illustrious.

  • CeeLo Green

    Forget You

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Music UK.
    • 1.

  • Harry Belafonte

    Jump In The Line

    • The Best Of.
    • Camden.
    • 16.

  • Arcade Fire

    Everything Now

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Yvonne Elliman

    If I Can't Have You

    • And They Danced The Night Away.
    • Debutante.

  • Steps

    Scared Of The Dark

    • (CD Single).
    • Steps Music.
    • 1.

  • The Who

    I Can See For Miles

    • The Who Hits 50! (Deluxe Edition).
    • Polydor.
    • 012.

  • Desmond Dekker & the Aces

    Israelites

    • Rediscover The 60's-With A Little Hel.
    • Old Gold.

  • Ian Dury & the Blockheads

    Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick

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

  • Bruno Mars vs David Guetta

    Versace On The Floor

  • Paramore

    Hard Times

    • After Laughter.
    • Fueled By Ramen.

  • The Proclaimers

    Sunshine on Leith

    • The Best Of The Proclaimers.
    • Chrysalis.

  • Chris Rea

    Diamonds

    • Deltics.
    • Elektra.

  • Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

    I Gotta Praise

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.

  • Robbie Williams

    Candy

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • Amy Winehouse

    Love Is A Losing Game

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought
From freelance journalist and editor, Remona Aly:
My cousin was recently blessed with a beautiful, big-eyed baby girl. 鈥淵ou can always name her after me!鈥� I suggested. He wasn鈥檛 keen to take up the offer. He wanted a name that was unique, true to her loveliness, and above all had a good meaning.听

To be honest, I鈥檝e always thought my own name was a bit odd.
听
When I introduce myself, some think I鈥檓 Spanish, others sing the Bob Dylan song 鈥楾o Ramona鈥�, and Arabs re-name me 鈥楻ummana鈥�, which means in Arabic - a pomegranate. 鈥業鈥檓 not a fruit鈥�, I decry. A fruitcake maybe.
听
My name, Remona, doesn鈥檛 make sense. It was a compromise to please two aunts 听- one liked Reem, the Arabic for gazelle, the other, Mona, meaning wishes. So my dad the diplomat, said 鈥榣et鈥檚 stick them together鈥�. So I am Gazelle Wishes.
听
I should be grateful. As somewhere deep in the Indian subcontinent, another set of excited and proud new parents decided to call their newborn child, Lozenges. They heard it, or perhaps read it on a wrapper, and thought 鈥渨hat a beautiful, English sounding name鈥�. Lozenges.
听
I鈥檝e heard of other Asian parents calling their child, Comrade, Dollar - as in dollar bill and meanwhile in middle Britain, three sisters are called, Pinky, Dinky and Winky.
听
For me, names carry meaning, and meaning is the essence of who we are. Nothing is more beloved to our ears than our own names, it鈥檚 the sound we hear the most from birth. And what is beloved to God is His 99 names that Muslims call upon Him with, as mentioned in the Quran. God is The Most Compassionate, The Most Kind, The Most Wise, The Most Loving. 听

鈥淭he most cherished creation to God are those who take on the implied characteristics鈥� wrote the medieval Muslim theologian Ibn Qayyim Al Jawziyya. 鈥淕od is beautiful and loves the beautiful, He is merciful and loves the merciful, He is generous and loves the generous.鈥�
Our names can set the very ideals we aspire to and encourage in others, so maybe I can aim for the grace of a gazelle and hold a heart full of wishes to do good and be better. And I can thank God in His mercy, that at least my parents never called me Lozenges.听

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    麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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