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Amol Rajan sits in with Antonio Banderas

Amol Rajan sits in for Zoe and chats to Antonio Banderas about starring in Pedro Almod贸var's upcoming film Pain and Glory.

Wake up and embrace the day with Amol Rajan! Antonio Banderas chats about starring in Pedro Almod贸var's upcoming film Pain and Glory.

Along with Jason K on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Mike Williams on sport, Amol and the team have the best start to your morning. With celeb guests, quizzes, headlines, tunes chosen by listeners and more music than you can shake a glitterball at!

You let us know about your Today's To-Dos, which could be the most random, interesting, or even really mundane things you need to check off your to-do list before bedtime.

There's also weather with Carol Kirkwood, football pundit Jermaine Jenas has the latest updates on transfer deadline day and a Pause For Thought from religion and ethics teacher and broadcaster Rae Duke, as Amol entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Thu 8 Aug 2019 06:30
成人快手 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Stevie Wonder

    Sir Duke

    • Stevie Wonder - Song Review.
    • Motown.

  • Ingrid Michaelson

    Young And In Love

    • Stranger Songs.
    • Cabin 24 Records.

  • Jennifer Lopez

    Ain't It Funny

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic/Sony.

  • Jack Savoretti

    Youth And Love (feat. MIKA)

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd.

  • Shalamar

    A Night To Remember

    • Friends - Deluxe Edition.
    • Big Break Records.
    • 5.

  • Black Eyed Peas

    I Gotta Feeling

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.
    • 4.

  • Kygo & Whitney Houston

    Higher Love

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA Records.

  • Spandau Ballet

    Gold

    • The Gold Album (Various Artists).
    • The Hit Label Ltd.

  • Years & Years

    If You're Over Me

    • Palo Santo.
    • Polydor.

  • Pulp

    Common People

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 5.

  • 尝脡翱狈

    Falling

    • 尝脡翱狈.
    • 尝脡翱狈 Recordings.

  • Take That

    Greatest Day

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 1.

  • Keane

    Love Too Much

    • Cause & Effect.
    • Island.

  • Thelma Houston

    Don't Leave Me This Way

    • Any Way You Like It (Expanded Edition).
    • SoulMusic Records.

  • Portugal. The Man

    Feel It Still

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Earth, Wind & Fire

    Boogie Wonderland (feat. The Emotions)

    • The Best Seventies Album In The World.. Ever!.
    • Virgin.
    • 2.

  • Dido

    Friends

    • Still On My Mind.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd..

  • The Boo Radleys

    Wake Up Boo!

    • Various Artists - Untitled.
    • Global Records & Tapes.

  • Yazoo

    Don't Go

    • Electronic 80's (Various Artists).
    • EMM.

  • Madonna

    Material Girl

    • Finally Enough Love (Deluxe Edition).
    • Rhino.
    • 2.

  • Emeli Sand茅

    Shine

    • Real Life.
    • Virgin.

  • Travis

    All These Things That I've Done (Glastonbury 2019)

  • David Guetta

    Titanium (feat. Sia)

    • (CD Single).
    • Positiva.

  • Luther Vandross

    Never Too Much

    • The Love Album (CD 1) (Various Artist.
    • Virgin.

  • Terry Jacks

    Seasons In The Sun

    • Million Sellers Vol.16 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Will Smith

    Just The Two Of Us

    • Big Hits 98 CD1.
    • Sony/BMG.
    • 6.

  • Elbow

    One Day Like This

    • (CD Single).
    • Fiction.
    • 1.

  • Vampire Weekend

    Stranger

    • Father Of The Bride.
    • Columbia.

  • Amy Macdonald

    This Is The Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Vertigo.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Rae Duke, Religion and Ethics teacher and broadcaster.

It鈥檚 always around this time of year that my love of reading is fully resurrected. The joy of realising that - when in holiday mode at least - I can race through the neglected pile of books and magazine cut outs resembling an unwieldy tower on my bedside table.聽

I鈥檝e recently started a two-pronged approach to reading, which has zapped that bad habit I had of starting a book, only to cast it aside when I fancied something different 鈥� and that鈥檚 to have two reads simultaneously on-the-go: that page-turning bestseller, coupled with a more learned option to pore over. Happily, embracing this bookish yin-yang balance has boosted the number of acknowledgements pages I鈥檝e since clapped eyes on.

There are particular times in life that I turn to complementary modes of writing. The balmy, lazy days of summer suit carefree reads charting first loves and confirming comfortable conclusions, but the bigger moments 鈥� the highest highs and lowest lows; births, deaths, unions, can only be matched in words, I think, by poetry.

And it鈥檚 the work of the official poet of the 2012 London Olympics, Lemn Sissay that I鈥檝e recently been delighting in. He believes poetry to have a sacred dimension, acting as a bridge between the physical and the spiritual - hence our leaning on it at christenings, weddings and funerals and our finding of it across all religious traditions.

One of Lemn鈥檚 most powerful poems is called, Let There Be Peace 鈥� it鈥檚 etched into the walls of Manchester and Huddersfield universities and was recited at the Manchester Together with One Voice event that marked a year since the devastating arena attack there.

It reads like the Beatitudes 鈥� the blessings in the Bible that reimagine the world as it could be. He visualizes tears evaporating to 鈥渇orm clouds鈥� and fall into reservoirs of drinking water鈥�, a time when 鈥渨ar correspondents become travel show presenters鈥� and 鈥渉arsh memories burst into fireworks that melt in the dark pupils of a child鈥檚 eyes.鈥�

Not only is Lemn so inspiring as the creator of such artistic gems but he also encourages me to get my own imagination in gear.

And as the ever sage Alistair McGrath - both a theologian and a scientist - wrote, 鈥渨hile we should never neglect the importance of reason and understanding, we must also value the power of imagination as the gate-keeper of the human soul.鈥�

Broadcast

  • Thu 8 Aug 2019 06:30
    成人快手 Radio 2