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Bruno Tonioli and peas!

Strictly's Bruno Tonioli tells Chris about his new Radio 2 series and his love for all things opera. As Great British Pea week begins, Chris hears from grower Russell Corfield.

Strictly's Bruno Tonioli tells Chris about his new Radio 2 series and his love for all things opera. As Great British Pea week begins, Chris hears from grower Russell Corfield and discovers what role a tenderometer has in the harvest! In the sports locker, Vassos gives us the lowdown of who to watch on Wimbledon's Manic Monday and speaks to triple Olympic Gold medal-winning rower Andrew Triggs Hodge. Sarah Joseph, editor of a Muslim Lifestyle magazine, reads the daily Pause for Thought.

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Mon 10 Jul 2017 06:30
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Music Played

  • Erasure

    A Little Respect

    • Erasure - Pop!.
    • Mute Records.

  • Shania Twain

    Life's About To Get Good

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury Nashville.

  • Simon & Garfunkel

    Baby Driver

    • Top Of The Morning With Terry Wogan.
    • Sony Music TV.

  • Nelly

    Dilemma (feat. Kelly Rowland)

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal.

  • Adele

    Send My Love (To Your New Lover)

    • 25.
    • XL.

  • The Rolling Stones

    Tumbling Dice

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.
    • 1.

  • Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

    I Gotta Praise

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.

  • Boyzone

    Love Me for a Reason

    • No Greater Love (Various Artists).
    • Global Records & Tapes.

  • Blossoms

    Blown Rose

    • Blossoms.
    • Virgin EMI.
    • 007.

  • Al Martino

    Spanish Eyes

    • The Best Album In The World ...Ever!.
    • BMG.

  • George Ezra

    Don't Matter Now

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • The Supermen Lovers

    Starlight (feat. Mani Hoffman)

    • Now 50 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Culture Beat

    Mr Vain

    • Best Of Dance 93 (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • Harry Belafonte

    Jump In The Line

    • The Best Of.
    • Camden.
    • 16.

  • Carly Rae Jepsen

    Cut To The Feeling

    • (CD Single).
    • School Boy/Interscope.

  • Luciano Pavarotti

    Nessun Dorma

    • (CD Single).
    • Decca.
    • 2.

  • Take That

    Never Forget

    • Now That's What I Call Music 1995 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Nancy Sinatra

    These Boots Are Made for Walkin'

    • The Greatest Hits Of Nancy Sinatra.
    • Boulevard.

  • The Beach Boys

    California Girls

    • The Best Of The Beach Boys (CD 1).
    • EMI.
    • 6.

  • John Lennon & Plastic Ono Band

    Give Peace A Chance

    • GIMME SOME TRUTH. (Deluxe).
    • Calderstone.

  • LeAnn Rimes

    LovE is LovE is LovE

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Bryan Adams

    You Belong To Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • Bryan Adams

    Summer Of '69

    • Bryan Adams - The Best Of Me.
    • Mercury.

  • Sister Sledge

    He's The Greatest Dancer

    • The Last Days Of Disco (Film Soundtra.
    • Columbia.

  • The Jam

    Going Underground

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • Liam Gallagher

    Wall Of Glass

  • Girls Aloud

    Love Machine

    • Now 59 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Jess Glynne

    Hold My Hand

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Sarah Joseph, editor of a Muslim lifestyle magazine.

There鈥檚 a story of a professor. He gives his class a test. The exam papers are blank, except for a single black dot. The students are confused, but the professor is adamant the test should continue. 鈥淲rite about what you see鈥�, he tells them. When the test was finished, the professor read through the students鈥� answers. Without exception, each and every one of them had written about the black dot鈥攊ts size, its placement on the page, its potential meaning.


Eventually, the professor explained his motives for the test鈥攚e鈥檙e all given a blank sheet of paper to enjoy and make our own, yet we tend to focus on the dark spots鈥攖he negatives that every human life is faced with.

When we are faced with challenges, it is hard for them not to become the focus of our lives, whether they be our own problems, or the problems of loved ones. However, the entirety of our lives is not made up of problems, there are always blessings.听


For me, I can focus on the fact that my daughter is sick, or I can focus on the fact that she exerts enormous courage and fights hard every day to get well.


I can focus on the fact that I lose three to ten days every month with migraines, or be grateful for the 20 to 27 days that I have every month to strive to do good.


I can focus on the hate I see out in the world where so many seem to want to create a 鈥渢hem and us鈥� narrative, or I can admire and support the enormous amount of work people do, upholding each other鈥檚 common humanity.


I鈥檓 an optimist, but this positive attitude does not stop me trying to find solutions for the problems, it just means the problems don鈥檛 own me, they don鈥檛 define who I am.
There鈥檚 a chapter of the Qur鈥檃n entitled The Merciful, and it asks the same question again and again: 鈥渨hich of the blessings of your Lord will you deny?鈥� So when I feel particularly low, I move from inwards to out鈥攔eflecting on my beating heart, my five senses, my family, my access to shelter and food.


We all have 鈥渂lack dots of difficulties鈥� within our lives, but they exist on the great blank canvases of our existence, which provide space for us to write our blessings.

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