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Zoe sits in for Chris Evans and is joined by Keith Harris and Orville!

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Tue 18 Feb 2014 06:30
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Music Played

  • Bellowhead

    Roll The Woodpile Down

    • Broadside.
    • Navigator Records.
    • 003.

  • The Blow Monkeys

    It Doesn't Have To Be This Way

    • The Blow Monkeys - Choices.
    • RCA.

  • David Bowie

    Let's Dance

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Chromeo

    Come Alive (feat. Toro y Moi)

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
    • 001.

  • Coldplay

    Clocks

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Elbow

    New York Morning

    • The Take Off & Landing Of Everything.
    • Fiction.
    • 001.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    You Make Loving Fun

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 011.

  • Billy Joel

    The Longest Time

  • Keith Harris & Orville

    Orville's Song

    • 大象传媒 Records.

  • Kings of Leon

    Use Somebody

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.
    • 2.

  • John Legend

    All Of Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    Motorcycle Emptiness

    • Ultimate... Drive (Various Artists).
    • Legacy Recordings.

  • Barry Manilow

    I Write the Songs

    • Manilow Greatest Hits - Platinum Coll.
    • Arista.

  • Bruno Mars

    Locked Out Of Heaven

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • Van Morrison

    Moondance

    • The Very Best Of Van Morrison.
    • Polydor.

  • Oasis

    Whatever

    • Smash Hits '95 (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • Mike Oldfield

    Sailing

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.
    • 001.

  • Brad Paisley

    The Mona Lisa

    • Wheelhouse.
    • Arista.
    • 001.

  • LeAnn Rimes

    Can't Fight The Moonlight

    • (CD Single).
    • London/Curb Records.

  • The Scaffold

    Lily The Pink

    • The Hits Of 1968 (Various Artists).
    • MFP.

  • Ed Sheeran

    Lego House

    • (CD Single).
    • Asylum.
    • 1.

  • Frank Sinatra

    That's Life

    • My Way - The Best Of Frank Sinatra.
    • Reprise.

  • Spandau Ballet

    True

    • The Ultmate 80's Ballads (Various).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Lisa Stansfield

    Carry On

    • (CD Single).
    • Monkeynatra.
    • 001.

  • Stereophonics

    Maybe Tomorrow

    • (CD Single).
    • V2.

  • Wild Cherry

    Play That Funky Music

    • Walk On - Hits From The Last 2 Decade.
    • Columbia.

Pause For Thought: Abdul-Rehman Malik

Pause For Thought: Abdul-Rehman Malik

From writer Abdul-Rehman Malik:

听

The knack of flying, mused the late Douglas Adams, is learning how to throw yourself at the ground - and miss. I wish someone had told me that when I was learning how to fly.

听

I was six years old and my mother had sown me a Superman costume. It was the real deal: a red velvet cape with matching shorts, a long-sleeved top embossed with the iconic "S" and blue leggings. Ready to battle crime, I would bounce around the house and nearby woods fending off imaginary monsters and stopping runaway trains. But more than anything, I wanted to fly.

听

I knew superheroes weren't real, but it didn't make their tales any less mesmerising - or meaningful. My young faith told me that anything was possible through prayer, so that's what I did, pray for angels to come and lift me off my feet and carry me, faster than a speeding bullet, through the air. I reasoned with God, that if I was given superpowers, I'd be able help so many people.

听

I am sure there was good reason God didn't want me to fly, but I never lost hope in superheroes. Over the years, Superman was replaced by others, women and men whose lives were more remarkable than anything ever conjured up in a comic book.

听

"The people most beloved to God," said the Prophet Muhammad, "are those who are of greatest benefit to others."

听

This week mark's 49 years since the assasination of American civil rights leader Malcolm X.听 On Friday I will be in New York City to pay my respects. As I kneel by his grave to say a prayer, I will remember a man born into violence and tragedy, who overcame poverty, criminality and hatred to become an enduring voice for justice. Malcolm was often called a radical. His ideas made people uncomfortable, and to some he was, and still is, quite controversial, and although I know he wasn't perfect I like to think he was militant in his pursuit of freedom.

听

My son now jumps around in a Superman t-shirt. He too pretends he can fly. I hope he never loses that sense of imagination and possibility. In time I hope he too will look up to people like Malcolm X. He'll realise like me that real supermen soar, even as their feet are firmly planted on the ground.

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