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Zoe Ball and Liam Gallagher

Chris Evans presents a fully interactive show for all the family, featuring music, special guests and listeners on the phone.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Thu 8 Mar 2018 06:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Mark Ronson

    Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Lissie

    Best Days

    • Castles.
    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • Dolly Parton

    9 to 5

    • Dolly Parton: The Ultimate Collection.
    • BMG/RCA.

  • Five

    Keep On Movin'

    • Hits 2000 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.

  • Elvis Costello & The Attractions

    Radio Radio

    • The Very Best Of Elvis Costello.
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • Texas

    Black Eyed Boy

    • Hits Zone - The Best Of 97 (Various).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    It's A Beautiful World

    • Who Built The Moon?.
    • Sour Mash.

  • Whitney Houston

    How Will I Know

    • The Best Of.
    • Arista.

  • Dawn

    Knock Three Times

    • Million Sellers Vol.14 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Marshmello & Anne-Marie

    Friends

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Daft Punk

    Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Heart

    Crazy On You

  • Madonna

    Like A Prayer

    • (CD Single).
    • Sire.
    • 9.

  • Meghan Trainor

    No Excuses

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.

  • Black Box

    Ride On Time

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

  • Athlete

    Wires

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Kylie Minogue

    In Your Eyes

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Liam Gallagher

    Paper Crown

    • As You Were.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 004.

  • OMC

    How Bizarre

    • Now 34 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Maroon 5

    Moves Like Jagger (feat. Christina Aguilera)

    • (CD Single).
    • A&M.
    • 1.

  • Paolo Nutini

    10/10

    • Sunny Side Up.
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • Gregory Porter

    Light At The End Of The Tunnel

    • Unmasked: The Platinum Collection.
    • UMC.
    • 13.

  • Elton John

    Crocodile Rock

    • Diamonds.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Remona Aly, Freelance journalist and editor:

It’s not often that I suffer from delusions of grandeur. But my photograph was once used for a panel event entitled, ‘What if God was a woman’.

It’s a question that has prompted some real corkers in the past. One writer responded: ‘She would not have taken six days over the Creation, but multi-tasked and got it done in three.’ Another said, ‘A female God would make it mandatory for husbands to stop the car and ask someone, anyone, for directions.’ And my favourite, ‘She would engineer a more equal society - around his 20th birthday, every human male would find himself temporarily transformed into a woman.’ Empathy really is the best policy.

I used to think the Almighty was more of a patriarch than a matriarch. At primary school, I remember drawing a picture of God looking like the Asian version of Father Christmas. But I later learnt that the medieval Muslim scholar, Ibn Arabi, said he sometimes used the feminine pronoun when addressing Allah, keeping in mind God’s divine feminine attributes. Hmm, my Father Christmas deity was looking less and less like Mr Khan.

It’s true that many religions, many attitudes, many societies have been pretty much male dominated, but the landscape of our his-stories, are incomplete without the legacy of our her-stories.

From my own Islamic vantage point, I see women like Lubna of Cordoba, the 10th century mathematician, who created a library filled with half a million books. And I see Noor Inayat Khan, Britain's first Muslim war heroine.

Today we’re making our own stories, and none of them have been achieved without struggle, sweat and courage. To me, the grit of a single mother is as glorious as the tenacity of a female leader.

My wish for the 104th year of International Women’s Day – which is today – is for balance to be brought to a world that currently wobbles on inequality. When women and men together, cherish the divine feminine as well as the divine masculine. And I wish that the quip, ‘You’re being such a girl,’ will be the biggest compliment you could ever give.

If Prophet Muhammad’s revolutionary words, ‘Women are the twin halves of men’ has taught me anything, it’s that we can only reach justice if we’re in it together.

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