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Khadijah Mellah and Jimmy Doherty

Khadijah Mellah, the pioneering jockey, tells Zoe about a brand new riding academy. Jimmy Doherty talks to Zoe about being a judge for the Big Bee Challenge competition.

Khadijah Mellah, the pioneering jockey, tells Zoe about a brand new riding academy. Khadijah became the first British Muslim woman to win a horse race on Haverland in the 2019 Magnolia Cup at Goodwood. The Riding A Dream Academy, named after a film about her story, aims to help young people from under-represented urban areas pursue a career in racing. In its pilot year, the project will run two programmes for aspiring riders aged 14 to 18. The Khadijah Mellah Scholarship will see eight talented riders take part in a year-long programme. Students will spend a week at the British Racing School in Newmarket, followed by 11 weekend sessions with a mentor and work experience at a top trainer's yard. They will also take part in pony races and study for a horse racing industry qualification.

Jimmy Doherty, one of the judges in Radio 2's Big Bee Challenge competition, chats to Zoe about what he's looking for in the designs. The Big Bee Challenge is Radio 2鈥檚 brand new competition for kids, in partnership with the Royal Horticultural Society. It鈥檚 a fun and creative way to learn more about bees and other insects that help provide much of the food we eat, and are essential for a healthy environment.

Along with Clare Runacres on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Mike Williams on sport, Zoe 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 and listeners on the line, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Tue 8 Jun 2021 06:30
成人快手 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • The Divine Comedy

    National Express

    • New Hits 99 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.

  • Keith Urban

    Out The Cage (feat. Nile Rodgers & BRELAND)

    • The Speed Of Now Pt. 1.
    • Universal.

  • Santana

    The Game Of Love (feat. Michelle Branch)

    • (CD Single).
    • Arista.

  • The Weeknd

    I Feel It Coming (feat. Daft Punk)

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Republic Records.

  • Etta James

    I Just Want To Make Love To You

    • Etta James- The Genuine Article.
    • Mca/Chess.

  • Elbow Bones & The Racketeers

    A Night In New York

    • More Greatest Hits Of 80's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • Pharrell Williams

    Happy

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Yola

    Diamond Studded Shoes

    • Stand For Myself.
    • Easy Eye Sound/Concord.
    • 1.

  • George Benson

    Never Give Up On A Good Thing

    • George Benson - The Very Best Of.
    • Warner E.S.P..
    • 3.

  • Taylor Swift

    Shake It Off

  • Tony Christie

    (Is This the Way to) Amarillo

    • Dance Hits Of The '60's & '70's.
    • Old Gold.

  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    We're On Our Way Now

    • Back The Way We Came: Vol 1 (2011-2021).
    • Sour Mash Records.

  • Prince

    The Most Beautiful Girl in the World

    • (CD Single).
    • NPG RECORDS.

  • Jake Bugg

    Lost

    • Saturday Night, Sunday Morning.
    • RCA.

  • DNCE

    Cake By The Ocean

    • (CD Single).
    • Republic.
    • 1.

  • Bonnie Tyler

    Holding Out For A Hero

    • The No.1 Movies Album (Various Artist.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Moby

    Natural Blues (Reprise Version) (feat. Gregory Porter & Amythyst Kiah)

    • Reprise.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Five

    Keep On Movin'

    • Hits 2000 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.

  • 叠别测辞苍肠茅, Anika Noni Rose & Sharon Leal

    One Night Only

    • Dreamgirls O.S.T..
    • Columbia.

  • Bobby Brown

    Every Little Step

    • Now 15 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Robbie Williams

    Supreme

    • (CD Single).
    • Chrysalis.

  • Jack Savoretti

    Who's Hurting Who (feat. Nile Rodgers)

    • Europiana.
    • UMG.

  • The RAH Band

    Clouds Across The Moon

    • One Hit Wonder (Various Artists).
    • Ganser & Hanke Media.

  • Joel Corry & MNEK

    Head & Heart

    • (CD Single).
    • Perfect Havoc.

  • Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

    The Tears Of A Clown

    • Motown: The Ultimate Hits Collection (Various Artists).
    • Motown.

  • The Eves

    Brand New Day

    • (CD Single).
    • The Eves.

  • Queen

    You're My Best Friend

    • Queen - Greatest Hits.
    • Parlophone.
    • 4.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

This has been a great month for me with a new album by Imelda May and Bob Dylan鈥檚 80th birthday (which doesn鈥檛 seem to have cheered him up at all). Then, this week one of my best bands, Crowded House, released 鈥楧reamers are Waiting鈥�. The problem with this album is that it makes me want to listen to the whole back catalogue stretching into the mid-1980s.

The title itself is evocative. Every generation needs dreamers - people who can see beyond the immediate challenges and imagine a different world in the future; people who聽聽don鈥檛 agree that we just have to accept the way the world is now, but envisages something better. And, as the album title suggests, dreamers have to have the patience to wait and work for that future, not just stamp their feet when they don鈥檛 get immediate satisfaction.

One of the songs on the album goes even deeper. 鈥楲ove isn鈥檛 hard at all鈥� is a beautiful song, but - and maybe this was the intention - the sentiment struck me as wrong. Love聽is聽hard. To love someone means to put them and their interests first. The Beatles knew that 鈥測ou can鈥檛 buy me love鈥� - it鈥檚 a relationship to be struck, not a commodity to be acquired.

Actually, the song goes on to get it right. 鈥淚t feels like love isn鈥檛 hard at all鈥� - I get that. When all is well or romance is high, loving feels easy. But, love demands more than sentiment or casual ease 鈥� as anyone who has ever loved another person knows all too well. Love is costly; love, as the Apostle Paul reminds us in a letter often read at weddings, 鈥渓ove is patient, love is kind, 鈥� is not envious or boastful or arrogant, 鈥� it bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.鈥�

So, to go full circle, love lies at the heart of patient dreaming, too. Love draws us into a place of openness and vulnerability, a place where others might ridicule us or call us naive for our longing for mercy.

In other words, love hurts, but is worth the cost. So, I鈥檓 going to dream on and learn to wait.

Broadcast

  • Tue 8 Jun 2021 06:30
    成人快手 Radio 2