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Dame Elizabeth Anionwu and Jo Brand

Chris speaks to Dame Elizabeth Anionwu about opening over 30 sickle cell centres in the UK and Jo Brand tells us how she went from psychiatric nurse to comedian.

Chris speaks to Dame Elizabeth Anionwu about her journey discovering the effects of the sickle cell disease and going on to open over 30 sickle cell counselling centres across the UK. Jo Brand tells us how she went from psychiatric nurse to comedian and hosting 大象传媒 Two's medical-themed quiz show Britain's Best Junior Doctor. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by Michelin trained chef Jonny Marsh who cooks for international football teams including England and Belgium. We ask for your claims to the fame of the England manager, Gareth Southgate. Senior Rabbi Julia Neuberger has today's Pause For Thought.

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Tue 26 Jun 2018 06:30
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    The Heat Is On

    • Above The Clouds: The Very Best Of.
    • Universal.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Golden

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    • BMG Rights Management.

  • The Soggy Bottom Boys

    I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow

    • O Brother Where Art Thou?.
    • Mercury.
    • 7.

  • Texas

    Summer Son

    • Texas - The Greatest Hits.
    • Mercury.

  • Supertramp

    Breakfast In America

    • The Very Best Of Supertramp.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • The Banana Splits

    The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)

    • Television's Greatest Hits Vol. 5: In Living Color (Various Artists).
    • TVT Records.

  • Madonna

    Holiday

    • Finally Enough Love (Deluxe Edition).
    • Rhino.
    • 34.

  • Rick Astley

    Beautiful Life

    • Beautiful Life.
    • BMG Rights Management.

  • Gabrielle

    Dreams

    • Now 1993 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

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    Candy

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  • Elvis Presley

    I Just Can't Help Believing

    • Presley - The All Time Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.

  • Meghan Trainor

    Let You Be Right

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.

  • The Kinks

    You Really Got Me

    • The Journey - Part 1.
    • BMG.
    • 7.

  • The Kinks

    All Day And All Of The Night

    • The Journey - Part 1.
    • BMG.
    • 23.

  • The Kinks

    Sunny Afternoon

    • The Journey - Part 2: Anthology.
    • BMG.
    • 13.

  • Bryan Adams

    Cloud Number Nine

    • Now 43 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Rockaria!

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.

  • Bastille

    Quarter Past Midnight

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin Records.

  • The Fray

    How To Save A Life

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Yazoo

    Don't Go

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

    Girls On Film

    • Duran Duran - Decade.
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  • Aretha Franklin

    Respect

  • James Arthur

    You Deserve Better

    • (CD Single).
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  • Cliff Richard & The Shadows

    Summer Holiday

    • Cliff Richard - 40 Golden Greats.
    • EMI.

  • The Jam

    A Town Called Malice

    • Jam Story.
    • Universal.

  • The Style Council

    Walls Come Tumbling Down

    • Billy Elliot O.S.T. - Various Artists.
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    Snakes

    • Run Deep.
    • Motema.

  • The Dave Clark Five

    Glad All Over

    • Glad All Over Again.
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  • Chris Rea

    On The Beach

    • The Best Of Chris Rea.
    • East West Records.

  • Arrow

    Hot Hot Hot

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

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Julia Neuberger Senior Rabbi at the west London Synagogue:

Whilst everyone is celebrating the magnificent England win on Sunday, spare a thought for the players, and indeed the fans, in Volgograd. Swarms of mosquitoes and midges have been bothering them. And, whilst the players were instructed by the FA to apply high strength insect repellent liberally before the game, you could still see them swatting bugs away from their faces.

I鈥檓 one pf those people that acts as an insect repellent- for everyone else. I get bitten by mosquitoes on the Tube, in the garden, everywhere. They go for me before anyone I鈥檓 with. For me, and probably for the players and fans in Russia, they are simply a painful and itchy irritant. But they also spread deadly diseases, such as malaria and Zika virus. So all credit to the Bill Gates Foundation for donating $4 million a few days ago towards creating self-destructive mosquitoes in a desperate bid to eradicate malaria 'within a generation'聽

Which has left me wondering why we have mosquitoes at all, and what good purpose they serve. 鈥楢rov鈥�, gnats or mosquitoes, is one of the ten plagues sent by God to the Egyptians in the Hebrew Bible, to persuade Pharaoh to let the people go. Their bites drove the Egyptians crazy! Mosquitoes were well known in the ancient world, and appear in Greek and Roman stories too. Yet what are they for, unless there is some purpose in an irritant for humans, and other mammals, that we do not understand? Some ecologists give them a bit of credit- they isay they serve as food for birds in the tundra, and that they do pollinate orchids, but that鈥檚 hardly enough!

Some physicists look at the universe and see a divine purpose or at least a divine spark that set off Big Bang. I am a simpler soul. I just want to know what God鈥檚 purpose was in creating the mosquito. For they only cause harm. So why has it taken human beings, endowed by God with super intelligence, so many millennia to wipe them out? Whilst other species face the threat of extinction because of us human beings, mosquitoes thrive. This must be a divine test of human beings- able to control so much of our universe, but taking millennia to eradicate the simple, but deadly, mosquito. It really does not reflect well on us.

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