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Rylan Clark-Neal sits in

Wake up and embrace the day with Rylan Clark-Neal and the team. Rylan's lined up all the hits on Maximum Music Monday, plus we check in on his mum.

Wake up and embrace the day with Rylan Clark-Neal! Between 8 am and 9 am Rylan keeps the tunes rolling on Maximum Music Monday.

Richie and Rylan go "shower head to shower head" to play Shower Ballads were they each championed a tune and listener Amy picked her favourite to play out on the show.

Along with Tina Daheley on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Hugh Ferris on sport, she and the team have the best start to your morning. With celeb guests, quizzes, headlines, tunes chosen by listeners, and more music that you can shake a glitterball at!

There's also a daily Pause For Thought from Muneera Pilgrimand listeners on the line, as Rylan entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Mon 17 Feb 2020 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Luther Vandross & Janet Jackson

    The Best Things In Life Are Free

    • (CD Single).
    • DEF JAM.

  • David Guetta, MORTEN & RAYE

    Make It To Heaven

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Little Mix

    Shout Out To My Ex

    • (CD Single).
    • SYCO.

  • Kevin Lyttle

    Turn Me On (feat. Spragga Benz)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Womack & Womack

    Teardrops

    • And They Danced All Night.
    • Debutante.

  • Mark Ronson

    Valerie (feat. Amy Winehouse)

  • James Blunt

    Halfway (feat. Ward Thomas)

    • Once Upon A Mind.
    • Atlantic.

  • Clean Bandit

    Rather Be (feat. Jess Glynne)

    • Now That's What I Call Music 88 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 4.

  • Harry Styles

    Big Yellow Taxi (Radio 2 Session, 14 Feb 2020)

    • Reprise.

  • D:Ream

    U R The Best Thing

    • Now 28 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Killers

    Human

    • Day & Age.
    • Mercury.
    • 1.

  • Jonas Brothers

    What A Man Gotta Do

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Diana Ross

    My Old Piano

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

  • Dua Lipa

    Physical

    • Future Nostalgia.
    • Warner Records.

  • Supergrass

    Grace

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Portugal. The Man

    Feel It Still

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Lionel Richie

    Dancing on the Ceiling

    • Dancing In The Street (Various Artis.
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • Gregory Porter

    Revival

    • (CD Single).
    • Decca.

  • Kelly Clarkson

    Since U Been Gone

    • Now 62 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Spice Girls

    Spice Up Your Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
    • 11.

  • Alanis Morissette

    Ironic

    • Alanis Morissette -Jagged Little Pill.
    • Maverick.

  • ABC

    Poison Arrow

    • Abc - The Lexicon Of Love.
    • Mercury.

  • Reef

    How I Got Over

    • (CD Single).
    • REEFBAND.
    • 1.

  • Sam Smith

    To Die For

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.

  • Ray Parker Jr.

    Ghostbusters

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

  • Donna Summer

    This Time I Know It's For Real

    • Best Of Donna Summer.
    • Warner Bros..

  • Robbie Williams

    Supreme

    • (CD Single).
    • Chrysalis.

  • Mabel

    Don't Call Me Up

    • High Expectations.
    • Polydor.

  • Matthew Wilder

    Break My Stride

    • Love & Pride - A Kick Up The 80's: Vo.
    • Old Gold.

  • Cheryl Lynn

    Got To Be Real

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

  • Michael McDonald

    I Keep Forgettin'

    • Michael McDonald - Sweet Freedom.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Loleatta Holloway

    Love Sensation

    • The Best Disco Album In The World...Ever!.
    • Virgin.
    • 3.

  • Celeste

    Stop This Flame

    • (CD Single).
    • Both Sides Records.

  • Talking Heads

    Once In A Lifetime

    • Talking Heads - Remain In Light.
    • Sire.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Muneera Pilgrim, cultural producer:

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In Arabic, fitnah means trial. If someone is going through a hard time, it is said that they are going through a fitnah.听

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Recently I went through an internal fitnah.

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I am a poet, a writer and a culture producer, I came up with this title when trying to explain to my parents exactly what it is that I do. 鈥淚 write and I discuss trends within culture and politics, but the question I鈥檝e heard throughout my adult life is听 鈥渨hen yuh ah go get a real job?鈥澨�

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I have become used to defending myself, and the reason why I don鈥檛 have 9-5 and why it is difficult to say exactly how much money I make month to month. In the past, I felt like I was being childish and trying to fulfill some elaborate dream.听 I鈥檝e felt like an imposter and like I don鈥檛 deserve to be doing this kind of work, because no one in my family has done this before me. Now, rarely do I invest in these thoughts. Or at least I didn鈥檛 think I did until late last year when I was commissioned to do a poem and a talk.

听

Presenting for this platform had been on my to-do list for 5 years. I had been preparing by practicing in front of mirrors for 5 years.

听

Though I had my words ready, no amount of practice would make the words string together, at each rehearsal I stumbled.

听

Come the final rehearsal, Mel, the organiser, tried to reassure me though today was not good, tomorrow would be better.

听

Tomorrow came, I听approached the red carpet thinking 鈥業鈥檓 gonna fail.鈥�

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The worst happened. In the 5th line I stumbled, and again in the 6th, but by the 10th,听confidence! Like I鈥檝e never felt, rose from my belly and made it鈥檚 home in my mouth. I delivered better than I had dreamed. Just 5 lines after failure, a complete transformation from fear to liquid gold.听

Fitna does mean trial, but it also means alchemy. African American Muslim jazz听icon John Coltrane said:听

鈥淭here is never an end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at鈥� always there is a need to keep on鈥澨�

I thought I was walking into fitna, not realising a great transformation听was waiting to happen. And all I had to do was keep on.

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  • Mon 17 Feb 2020 06:30
    麻豆约拍 Radio 2