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Wild Alaska Live and Carters Steam Fair

Chris speaks to Liz Bonnin about the salmon feeding frenzy for 麻豆约拍 One's Wild Alaska Live and calls Joby Carter, owner of Carters Steam vintage funfair, ahead of Carfest North.

Chris checks in with Liz Bonnin about the 300 million salmon feeding frenzy in Alaska for 麻豆约拍 One's Wild Alaska Live and finds out what we can expect on Wednesday night's show. Chris calls Joby Carter, head honcho of the world's vintage travelling funfair, who's on his way to Bolesworth Castle for Carfest North this weekend. For the Top Tenuous Chris asks for your links to Alaska. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by World Cup winning cricketer Anya Shrubsole and Remona Aly has today's Pause For Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Mon 24 Jul 2017 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Elvis Presley vs Junkie XL

    A Little Less Conversation

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG/RCA.

  • Arcade Fire

    Everything Now

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Furniture

    Brilliant Mind

    • (Single).
    • Stiff.
    • 5.

  • Sixpence None the Richer

    Kiss Me

    • The Best Love Songs...Ever! (Various).
    • Virgin.

  • The Weeknd

    I Feel It Coming (feat. Daft Punk)

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Republic Records.

  • KT Tunstall

    Black Horse and the Cherry Tree

    • (CD Single).
    • Relentless Records.

  • Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

    I Gotta Praise

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.

  • Jennifer Lopez

    Love Don't Cost A Thing

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.

  • The Bangles

    Manic Monday

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Gladys Knight & The Pips

    The Look Of Love

    • Motown Chartbusters Volume 8 (Various Artists).
    • Spectrum Music.

  • Coldplay & Big Sean

    Miracles (Someone Special)

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

    Here I Go Again (Radio 2 Session, 21 JUL 2017)

  • The Police

    Roxanne

    • The Very Best Of Sting & The Police.
    • A&M.

  • Olly Murs

    Dance With Me Tonight

    • In Case You Didn't Know.
    • Epic.
    • 24.

  • Harry Belafonte

    Jump In The Line

    • The Best Of.
    • Camden.
    • 16.

  • Carly Rae Jepsen

    Cut To The Feeling

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

  • Adam and the Ants

    Kings Of The Wild Frontier

    • Adam & The Ants - Hits.
    • CBS.

  • Blossoms

    Charlemagne

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI.

  • The Rolling Stones

    Under My Thumb

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.

  • Canned Heat

    On The Road Again

    • The Hits Of 1968 (Various Artists).
    • MFP.

  • Simply Red

    Fairground

    • Simply Red Greatest Hits.
    • East West Records.

  • Fairground Attraction

    Perfect

    • The First Of A Million Kisses (Expanded Edition).
    • Cherry Red Records.
    • 002.

  • Rudimental

    Sun Comes Up (feat. James Arthur)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Lionel Richie

    Dancing on the Ceiling

    • Dancing In The Street (Various Artis.
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • Madonna

    Into The Groove

    • Celebration.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 8.

  • The Killers

    The Man

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Duran Duran

    Hungry Like The Wolf

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • The Archies

    Sugar, Sugar

    • Dance Hits Of The '60's & '70's.
    • Old Gold.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
From Remona Aly, freelance journalist and editor:

The other day, I was listening to Def Leppard鈥檚 鈥楶our some sugar on me鈥� and it made me think of Queen Elizabeth the First. Yep, I imagine the virgin queen uttered the words of Sheffield鈥檚 finest over 400 years ago, though it might have been more like 鈥榩our thine sugar upon us鈥� - because Britain has welcomed foreign sugar to its shores ever since Tudor times.

But what I can鈥檛 believe is that it took me over 30 years of my own high sugar intake before I discovered that tonnes of the sweet stuff was brought over through trade with the Muslim rulers of north Africa.

Even our English word for sugar, comes from the Arabic word for it - al-sukkar. Queen Elizabeth loved sugar so much that it made her teeth go black. I totally get this as does my dentist who has plied me with fillings over the years - I mean I鈥檇 have sugar in my toothpaste if I could.

A 麻豆约拍 programme aired last week called The Sweetmakers, told us that today a Brit has on average 34 bags of sugar a year. From bread to barbecue sauce, lollipops to ladoos, sugar is sprinkled, sucked and snuck into nearly everything we eat. And to think it barely existed pre 16th century is a shocker.

All of this, makes me rethink the missing pieces of our shared history, as Britain鈥檚 relationship with Islam goes back much further than I鈥檇 actually realised. Back in Tudor times, sugar not only had an impact on the edible, but opened unexpected cultural and social exchange too, from Shakespeare鈥檚 rendering of Othello: the Moor of Venice, to Muslims and Christians living side by side in 16th century Britain.

The story of sugar is the story of Britain鈥檚 melting pot. It鈥檚 nothing new, but has bound us together through its alliance of syrup for centuries. It tells me that relationships between different people can open up a world of possibilities, if only we ventured a bit further beyond our own little bubbles. 聽

The Sufi poet and Muslim scholar, Rumi said, 鈥淔ind the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.鈥�

If the unifying Tudor tale of sugar teaches me anything, it鈥檚 that the way forwards is sometimes a look backwards. And as Def Leppard, said, 鈥業n the name of love鈥�, a little bit of sugar can go a long way.

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