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Gaby Roslin, Mass Yoga and Ikigai with Hector Garcia

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 7 Jun 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • Edwyn Collins

    A Girl Like You

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.

  • The Beach Boys & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Fun Fun Fun

    • The Beach Boys With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • UMC.

  • Frankie Goes to Hollywood

    Two Tribes

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artis.
    • Gut.

  • Alesha Dixon

    The Boy Does Nothing

    • (CD Single).
    • Asylum.
    • 1.

  • Osibisa

    Sunshine Day

    • 25 Years Of Rock'n'Roll 1976.
    • Connoisseur.

  • Cher

    The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.

  • George Ezra

    Shotgun

    • Staying At Tamara's.
    • Columbia.

  • Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Jamming

    • Jammin' (Various Artists).
    • Mango.

  • Sam Smith

    Like I Can

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.
    • 007.

  • B.J. Thomas

    Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head

    • The Love Songs Of Burt Bacharach.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Albin Lee Meldau

    I Need Your Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Caroline International.

  • Blur

    Country House

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

  • Niall Horan

    On The Loose

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI.

  • David Bowie

    Absolute Beginners

    • The Ultimate 80's Ballads (Various Artists).
    • Polygram TV.
    • 4.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    Hold Me Like A Heaven

    • Resistance Is Futile.
    • Columbia.
    • 008.

  • Duran Duran

    Girls On Film

    • Duran Duran - Decade.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • Snow Patrol

    Spitting Games

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Justin Timberlake

    Rock Your Body

    • (CD Single).
    • Jive.

  • The Vapors

    Turning Japanese

    • Young at Heart (Various Artists).
    • Reader's Digest.

  • The Rembrandts

    I'll Be There For You

    • The Love Songs Album (Various).
    • Universal.

  • Journey

    Don't Stop Believin'

    • Rock Of America (Various Artists).
    • Trax Label.

  • Simple Minds

    Summer

    • Walk Between Worlds.
    • BMG Rights Management.

  • Donna Summer

    On The Radio

    • And Then She Kissed Me Vol.1 (Various.
    • Debutante.

  • Freda Payne

    Band Of Gold

    • Heartbeat: Love Me Tender (Various).
    • Global Television.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Sarah Joseph, Editor of a Muslim lifestyle magazine:

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So yesterday our daughter’s dog, Bailey, got attacked at the park.
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He’s a really friendly dog. A beautiful and perfectly soppy Havanese. He’d run up to another dog who turned on him, grabbing him, and puncturing his neck.
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We rushed him to the vet, who said if the wound had been an inch lower it would have been the jugular vein, and Bailey would not have survived.
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He was really lucky, but I am not going to downplay the event. It was a pretty horrendous morning to be honest. Bailey has been our daughter’s constant companion through her long illness, and there have been days when his company felt like the best healing for her. He gave her hope through many long dark days, and we all adore him.Μύ The dog who attacked Bailey was a rescue dog. Goodness knows what darkness that poor animal may have gone through that might have shaped him. His poor owner was utterly distraught to see her dog behave in this way.
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Likewise, our daughter was so distressed. Her darling dog was injured and she felt that impact and shock. She empathised with me. β€œIs this how you felt every time I was in hospital?” I dared not describe to her the panic of so many races to Accident and Emergency.
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It’s hard to fathom sometimes why such things happen. I struggle to work it out. But it seems that life is filled with these tests and trials.
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The Qur’an asks, β€œDo you think you will say β€˜I believe’ and you wont be tested?” That’s a tough question to contemplate, particularly if we believe God to be Loving and Merciful.
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But the Qur’an also promises, β€œWith hardship comes ease”. And that β€œwith” strikes me as really important.
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The Qur’an is saying that ease is there during every trial, not just when the trial has ended. The light can be found sparkling along the tunnel not just at the end of it. And to be true, if we relax our eyes, even during darkness, we are better able to see any light.


I reckon the experience of darkness can be difficult and destructive, and make us lash out at others and even at ourselves. Which is why I find that although trials are hard to fathom, the search for the Divine Light is fundamentally important in inspiring and maintaining hope.

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