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Soft Cell and Trees

Marc Almond gives us the world exclusive first play of Soft Cell's new single Northern Lights, plus we talk the fascinating ways trees help humans.

It's Shabba Tuesday! Marc Almond gives us the world exclusive first play of Soft Cell's new single Northern Lights, plus he reveals how they are celebrating their 40th year in the music business. We talk the fascinating ways trees help humans with the author of Around The World In 80 Trees, Jonathan Drori, and today's Top Tenuous takes in your desperate claims to the fame of Sherwood Forest. Plus we Pause For Thought with Sarah Joesph.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Tue 21 Aug 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • Wings

    Listen To What The Man Said

    • The 7" Singles Box.
    • MPL.

  • Rod Stewart

    Didn't I (feat. Bridget Cady)

    • Blood Red Roses.
    • Decca.

  • Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes

    (I've Had) The Time Of My Life

    • The Hits Album 7 (Various Artists).
    • CBS.

  • Jess Glynne

    I'll Be There

    • Always In Between.
    • Atlantic.

  • Coldplay

    Don't Panic

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Music.

  • Shabba Ranks

    Mr Loverman

    • 100 R&B Classics: The Anthems.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 4.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Hold On Tight

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Tommy James & The Shondells

    Mony Mony

    • Fifty Number Ones Of The 60's (Variou.
    • Global Television.

  • David Guetta

    Don't Leave Me Alone (feat. Anne-Marie)

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Otis Redding

    These Arms of Mine

    • Atlantic Soul (Various Artists).
    • Warner E.S.P..

  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    If Love Is The Law

    • (CD Single).
    • Sour Mash Records.

  • Prince

    When Doves Cry

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.

  • ABBA

    Ring Ring

    • Abba.
    • Polydor.

  • Chuck Berry

    My Ding-A-Ling

    • Chuck Berry - The Collection.
    • Castle.

  • Anita Ward

    Ring My Bell

    • Songs Of Love.
    • Big Break Records.
    • 9.

  • Teach-In

    Ding-A-Dong

    • Eurovision Song Contest 1956-1999 (Various Artists).
    • Universal.

  • Elvis Presley vs Junkie XL

    A Little Less Conversation

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG/RCA.

  • James Bay

    Just For Tonight

    • Electric Light.
    • Virgin.

  • Soft Cell

    Northern Lights

    • Universal Music Operations Limited.

  • Miles Kane

    Cry On My Guitar

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.

  • Eurythmics

    There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)

    • The Female Touch 2 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • KC and the Sunshine Band

    Give It Up

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

  • Louis Armstrong

    What A Wonderful World

    • This Is My Song - Love Songs Of The 6.
    • Old Gold.

  • Muse

    Something Human

    • Something Human.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Go Your Own Way

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 006.

  • Ram Jam

    Black Betty

    • 25 Years Of Rock 'N' Roll: 1977 (Various Artists).
    • Connoisseur Collection.
    • 2.

  • Boyzone

    Because

    • Thank You & Goodnight.
    • Rhino.

  • Bryan Adams

    (Everything I Do) I Do It For You

    • (CD Single).
    • A&M.

  • The Ting Tings

    Shut Up and Let Me Go听

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 8.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Sarah Joseph, Editor of a Muslim lifestyle magazine:

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Muslims all over the world are celebrating Eid Al Adha today.

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The Eid festivities 鈥� marked by special prayers, with new clothes, and all manner of delicious foods making an appearance - joyfully signal the end of Hajj 鈥� The Great Pilgrimage, and Islam鈥檚 fifth pillar.

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Over the past few days, approximately three million people, have gathered to participate in religious rites that go back, not to the prophet Muhammad, but to the Prophets Abraham, and to Adam.

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Indeed, yesterday, The Day of Arafat, all the pilgrims gathered on a hill just outside of Makkah, to pray for forgiveness. A re-enactment of the story of Adam, who is said to have been reunited with his wife, Eve, there, and together they prayed for forgiveness from God after their fall from grace.

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Whether you take the story to be allegory or understand it literally, the essential meaning of the story remains the same.

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Adam鈥檚 and Eve鈥檚 decision to ignore God鈥檚 wishes, demonstrates human free will, and that ultimately humans are fallible. We will fail, we will fall. However the story is not a negative one. It is not about falling, it is about getting back up. It is not about being lost, it is about finding our way home.

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For, in the Muslim telling of the Adam and Eve story they both recognised their own wrong-doing, they didn鈥檛 try to blame others for their mistakes, or explain away their failings. Instead, they immediately accepted responsibility for their own errors, and sought the forgiveness of The Most Merciful. They were forgiven, and they moved on.

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The story shows us that to make mistakes and to be forgetful is in the nature of the first human. It is not only part of the human story, it is part of the human condition. And, in the story, the best way to respond is to accept our weaknesses and failings, and to say to sorry.

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For Muslims the world over, Eid today is a day to rejoice because even though we may make mistakes, even though we may isolate ourselves from The Divine, saying sorry provides a way home, and an opportunity for new beginnings.

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