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Jools Holland calls Chris to chat about celebrating 25 years of Later with a special concert and to press play on a world exclusive of his new collaboration with Jose Feliciano.

Jools Holland calls Chris to chat about celebrating 25 years of Later... with a special concert at London's Royal Albert Hall. He also gives Chris a world exclusive first play of his new collaboration with Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Jose Feliciano. We talk the delights of Sherry with professional educator Phil Saunter who recommends where to start on a journey of sherry discovery. Plus our listeners send in their super-parent back-garden building projects, Vassos speaks to former professional triathlete Chrissie Wellington about exercising whilst pregnant and we Pause For Thought with Freelance journalist and editor, Remona Aly.

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Mon 18 Sep 2017 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Don't Stop

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

  • Paloma Faith

    Crybaby

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Katrina and the Waves

    Walking On Sunshine

    • The Best Summer Ever (Various Artist.
    • Virgin.

  • Jason Derulo

    Want To Want Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • R.E.M.

    The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite

    • R.E.M. - Automatic For The People.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Rock 'n' Roll Is King

    • ELO's Greatest Hits Vol.2.
    • Epic.

  • Blondie

    Doom Or Destiny

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

  • KISS

    Crazy Crazy Nights

    • Now 10, Part 1 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Jess Glynne

    Hold My Hand

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • The Drifters

    Save The Last Dance For Me

    • Very Best Of Ben E.King & The Drifters.
    • Global Television.

  • P!nk

    What About Us

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Justin Timberlake

    Can't Stop The Feeling!

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Billy Joel

    All About Soul

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • The Kooks

    She Moves In Her Own Way

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • Harry Belafonte

    Jump In The Line

    • The Best Of.
    • Camden.
    • 16.

  • U2

    You're The Best Thing About Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Jools Holland & Jos茅 Feliciano

    Let's Find Each Other Tonight

    • East West Records.

  • Ike & Tina Turner

    River Deep - Mountain High

    • The Best Of The Rock'n'Roll Years Vo.
    • 麻豆约拍.

  • The Four Seasons

    Sherry

    • Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Ve.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 1.

  • James Blunt

    Bartender

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Sam Smith

    Too Good At Goodbyes

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.

  • 碍鈥怟濒补蝉蝉

    Rhythm Is A Mystery

    • Now 1991 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.

  • 4 Non Blondes

    What's Up?

  • Garth Brooks

    Ain't Going Down ('Til The Sun Comes Up)

    • Garth Brooks - The Hits.
    • Liberty.

  • Timbuk 3

    The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades

    • (Single).
    • Irs.

  • Van Morrison

    Transformation

    • Roll With The Punches.
    • Exile.
    • 001.

  • Gregory Porter

    Liquid Spirit

    • Liquid Spirit.
    • Blue Note.
    • 001.

  • Sister Sledge

    We Are Family

    • Disco Fever (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

Pause for Thought

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

On the old days before Ofsted inspections were really a thing, my dad who was a teacher, took my older brother, when he was a baby, to school with him.

聽It was a bit like the Brittas Empire, you know when the receptionist would stash her kids in the drawers of her desk, but with dad, he鈥檇 leave my brother in his pram in the corridor, carry on teaching and tend to him during break times.

聽It does sound worse than it was, both my mum and dad had to work with no support, so it was one of those things, of its time in the 70s - the 鈥榓nything goes鈥� mentality.

聽But I guess, leaving my brother in the corridor wasn鈥檛 ideal or ethical. So after school finished one day, my dad went around knocking on local doors, desperate to find a willing babysitter.

聽He was in luck. A doorway opened, revealing a guardian angel in a woolly skirt and pink fluffy slippers. Dad asked - or rather begged her to look after his little son: the school corridor baby.

聽I鈥檇 like to point out that we were the only Muslims in the village, the only brown people who were obviously slightly bonkers, but the lady without question, without hesitation, opened her arms and her heart. She treated my brother like her own son, and a few years later when I came on the scene, looked after me like a daughter too.

聽Decades on, we still write to each other, birthday cards, Christmas cards, letters remembering how her dog ate my brother鈥檚 birthday cake. So many shared memories and shared hearts. Aunty Pam will always be our second mum. 聽

聽I think of her, when I think of a saying by Prophet Muhammad, that goes: 鈥楢ll of humanity is the family of God and the most beloved to God is the one who is of most benefit to His children.鈥�

聽There are a load of people in our global family, 7.5 billion of us, with all our weird and wonderful differences. Aunty Pam is just one story in all of that, but it鈥檚 a little story that can harness the love of an entire universe. It鈥檚 a story that says: we are different, we are family, we are blood.

聽So I thank God for family, and I also thank God that my early learning years weren鈥檛 spent in a stationery drawer.

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