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Ronan Keating shares a Boyzone world exclusive!

Ronan Keating chats to Chris about Boyzone's final ever album and we play their brand new single Because for the first time! Plus, we learn about tea with expert Jane Pettigrew.

Ronan Keating chats to Chris and gives us a world exclusive first play of the new Boyzone single, Because. Ronan talks about the final ever Boyzone album and explains how and why Ed Sheeran wrote the new single. We learn about everything from the perfect teapot to cold brewing with tea expert Jane Pettigrew. Our Top Tenuous takes in your desperate claims to the fame of 麻豆约拍 Leicester, as top team member Jumpin' Jimmy Flash is vacating the breakfast show ship to present a local show. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by boxer Joseph Parker and today's Pause For Thought comes from Abdul-Rehman Malik.

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Thu 26 Jul 2018 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Elvis Costello & The Attractions

    Pump It Up

    • Elvis Costello & Attractions- The Man.
    • Imp Records.

  • Sheryl Crow

    Wouldn't Want To Be Like You (feat. St. Vincent)

    • Threads.
    • The Valory Music Co..

  • AC/DC

    Thunderstruck

    • (CD Single).
    • ATCO Records.
    • 420.

  • Johnny Marr

    Easy Money

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Portugal. The Man

    Feel It Still

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Kid Creole and the Coconuts

    Annie I'm Not Your Daddy

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

  • Rick Astley

    Beautiful Life

    • Beautiful Life.
    • BMG Rights Management.

  • Los Lobos

    La Bamba

    • Hits Of '87 & '88 Vol.12 (Various).
    • Polydor.

  • Gipsy Kings

    Bamboleo

    • Mundo Latino (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • The Dave Clark Five

    Bits and Pieces

    • Glad All Over Again.
    • EMI.

  • The Searchers

    Needles and Pins

    • (Single).
    • Pye.

  • Manfred Mann

    Do Wah Diddy Diddy

    • Ages Of Mann.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Amen Corner

    (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice

    • Sunny Afternoon - Sound Of The 60's,V.
    • Old Gold.

  • Sam Smith

    Baby, You Make Me Crazy

    • The Thrill Of It All.
    • Capitol.

  • Florence + The Machine

    Queen Of Peace

    • How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful.
    • Island.
    • 004.

  • Elton John

    Tiny Dancer

    • Diamonds.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Cher & Andy Garc铆a

    Fernando

  • Boyzone

    Because

    • Thank You & Goodnight.
    • Rhino.

  • Razorlight

    America

    • (CD Single).
    • Vertigo.

  • The Killers

    Mr Brightside

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • The Kinks

    Have A Cuppa Tea

    • Muswell Hillibillies.
    • Universal Music (UK) Limited.

  • The Coral

    Eyes Like Pearls

    • (CD Single).
    • Ignition Records Ltd.
    • 1.

  • Paul McCartney

    Flaming Pie

  • Paul McCartney

    Young Boy

    • Paul McCartney - Flaming Pie.
    • Parlophone.

  • Paul McCartney

    Come On To Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol Records.
    • 2.

  • Showaddywaddy

    Under The Moon Of Love

    • The Best Steps To Heaven.
    • Tiger.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Writer Abdul-Rehman Malik:

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Chris, at the moment I鈥檓 on the receiving end of intellectual cross examinations from my 7 year-old鈥� not the best way to spend hot summer days鈥�!

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I probably have only myself to blame.听 In grade school, all my friends talked about was hockey and basketball 鈥� which I also liked to do 鈥� but what was really on my mind was Nelson Mandela鈥檚 freedom and the nuclear arms race. Not only did I think my politics were radical, my sartorial sense was decidedly counter-cultural. As an awkward teenager, I embraced corduroy pants, tweed jackets and herringbone caps long before they made a fashion comeback. I was a legend in my own mind.

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I got my political sensibilities from my parents. My father was a political activist in his native Pakistan, doing things like marching against the country鈥檚 military dictatorship in the 1960s. My mother was a voracious reader of English literature and she loved the novels that laid bare the bourgeois hypocrisies of the moneyed elite. I grew up in a community of adults who cared about the world, because they were from every corner of the world.

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Being around this living room debating society made me precocious. I was always trying to jump in to middle of arguments, ready to fight my corner. My parents would gently encourage it, but other adults were not so generous. In one heated exchanged I remember being called 鈥減ig headed鈥� and in another 鈥渋nsolent鈥�. My parents were warned to keep me under control.

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鈥淵our children are not your children,鈥� Kahlil Gibran contemplated. 鈥淵ou may give them your love but not your thoughts/For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls/For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.鈥�

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The trouble is once you鈥檝e been taught to be inquisitive and think freely 鈥� you can鈥檛 go back. I should know. These days I feel like I鈥檓 facing an entire revolution. My son is seven 鈥� going on seventeen. He cross-examines our decisions and viewpoints as often as he can. 鈥淵ou鈥檙e a human and I鈥檓 a human,鈥� he said during a recent disagreement. 鈥淚f I wasn鈥檛 allowed to have an opinion, then it would mean I was less than human. That鈥檚 right, isn鈥檛 it?鈥� We both know I can鈥檛 argue with that.

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