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Sara celebrates Afternoon Tea Week with top tips on the British tradition from royal butler Grant Harrold. Plus the morning achievers and a Half Wower jammed packed with top tunes.

Sara celebrates Afternoon Tea Week with top tips on the British tradition from Royal Butler Grant Harrold, including white linen and peeling cucumbers! In the morning achievers we hear how listeners are winning at life from baking colleagues cakes to packing school bags. We talk special keys, there's a Half Wower packed with top tunes and we hear about the new exercise set to overtake the plank for a toned tummy. In the sports locker with Mike Williams has 鶹Լ Football pundit Mark Lawrenson and Sarah Joseph provides the Pause for Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Tue 15 Aug 2017 06:30

Music Played

  • The Wonder Stuff

    The Size Of A Cow

    • Now 1991 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.
  • Arcade Fire

    Everything Now

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
  • Ike & Tina Turner

    Nutbush City Limits

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1973 (Various).
    • EMI.
  • Dolly Parton

    Here You Come Again

    • Dolly Parton: The Ultimate Collection.
    • BMG/RCA.
  • Urban Cookie Collective

    The Key: The Secret

    • (CD Single).
    • Peermusic.
  • Tiggs da Author

    Run (feat. Lady Leshurr)

    • Bridget Jones's Baby O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Polydor.
    • 001.
  • Madonna

    Lucky Star

    • Celebration.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 5.
  • Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie

    Feel About You

    • Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie.
    • EastWest.
  • Lionel Richie & Diana Ross

    Endless Love

    • Diana Ross & The Supremes - 40 Motown.
    • Polygram Tv.
  • Zak Abel

    Everybody Needs Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • The Isley Brothers

    This Old Heart Of Mine

    • Soul (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.
  • The Cadillac Three

    American Slang

    • (CD Single).
    • Big Machine Records.
  • Alex Party

    Don't Give Me Your Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Systematic.
  • Ronan Keating

    Life Is A Rollercoaster

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
  • Little Mix

    Touch

    • Glory Days.
    • Syco Music.
  • Primal Scream

    Movin' On Up

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

    Don't Get Me Wrong

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.
  • DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince

    Boom! Shake The Room

    • Code Red.
    • Jive.
  • Chic

    Le Freak

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Rhino.
  • Elbow

    One Day Like This

    • (CD Single).
    • Fiction.
    • 1.
  • Martine McCutcheon

    Any Sign Of Life

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.
  • One Direction

    History

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco Music.
    • 13.
  • Paul McCartney & Wings

    Band On The Run

    • (Single).
    • Apple.
    • 3.
  • Whitney Houston

    Million Dollar Bill

    • (CD Single).
    • Arista.
    • 1.
  • The Kinks

    Have A Cuppa Tea

    • Muswell Hillbillies.
    • Universal Music (UK) Limited.
    • 8.
  • Simon Webbe

    Nothing Without You

    • (CD Single).
    • Soundwave Music 8 Ltd.
    • 1.
  • The Shires

    Beats To Your Rhythm

    • (CD Single).
    • Decca.
    • 001.
  • Earth, Wind & Fire

    September

    • Greatest Hits Of 1978 (Various Artis.
    • Premier.
    • 3.
  • Phil Collins

    I Missed Again

    • Singles.
    • Rhino.
  • Stereophonics

    All In One Night

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
  • Adele

    Send My Love (To Your New Lover)

    • 25.
    • XL.
  • Billy Ocean

    When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going

    • Billy Ocean - Love Is For Ever (L.I.F.
    • Jive.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

Sarah Joseph, editor of a Muslim lifestyle magazine

Sunday was my daughter’s 16th birthday. She’s my youngest child. I now have a full complement of children with “special birthday” ages: my son is 21, and my other daughter 18.

It feels very strange for the baby in the family to be 16. I remember my own 16th very clearly, and yet again, I’m amazed by the swift passing of time. I do feel, however, that the world my children inhabit feels very different to the one I grew up in.

There are the obvious things like mobile phones and social media, which have starkly changed the format of daily lives, but it is more than that. Globally things feel very very different to me.

The decades of my childhood–the 70s and 80s–didn’t feel so polarised; so dangerous I guess.

There was racism when I was growing up. I can remember seeing racist graffiti, and being told very clearly that this was wrong and unacceptable. I can remember a lot of anti-Irish sentiment, as we lived through the troubles. But I didn’t feel I had to fight Fascism. Fascism was something my grandmother’s generation had fought, and beaten.

Yet here we are in 2017, and this weekend in Charlottesville, USA, a 32 year old woman, Heather Heyer, was killed and Five others are in a critical condition. Heather was protesting against a Fascist rally; a rally where swastikas, Nazi salutes, and chants were in abundance.

Such things were supposed to be consigned to the history books. Such things are not supposed to be in my children’s present and future.

The Qur’an reminds that God created us into different nations and races so that we can know one another not hate one another.

And so on her 16th birthdayalong with the jewellery and concert tickets that we bought her, we gave our daughter our unwavering promise that we will continue to fight for a world where we can all live together peacefully, in respect and dignity. And I’m forever grateful that our daughter has developed into a person who will fight for that too.

Heather Heyer’s last Facebook post said, "If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention”, and to me, the world needs our fullest attention right now, to make sure that my daughter, and all future generations, can know a world where hate and mistrust are not rampant, and where love rules supreme.

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