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Amol Rajan sits in with Konnie Huq

Konnie Huq wakes up and embraces the day with Amol Rajan!

Wake up and embrace the day with Amol Rajan! Konnie Huq joins Amol to chat about her new book Cookie And The Most Annoying Boy In The World.

Along with Clare Runacres on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Mike Williams on sport, he 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!

You tell us the simple things which bring you happiness from clean sheets, line dried laundry to peeling hard boiled eggs!

There's also weather with Carol Kirkwood, a daily Pause For Thought from Jahnavi Harrison, as Amol entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Wed 7 Aug 2019 06:30
蜜芽传媒 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Mark Ronson

    Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Friendly Fires

    Silhouettes

    • Silhouettes.
    • Polydor.

  • Gabrielle

    Dreams

    • Now 1993 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • George Ezra

    Paradise

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Matthew Wilder

    Break My Stride

    • NOW That's What I Call Pop Gold (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Jamiroquai

    Virtual Insanity

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

  • Westlife

    Dynamite

    • Spectrum.
    • EMI.

  • Chris Rea

    On The Beach

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

  • Europa

    All Day And Night (feat. Madison Beer)

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • John Travolta & Olivia Newton鈥怞ohn

    You're The One That I Want

    • Grease (Original Movie S/Track).
    • Polydor.

  • Prince & The Revolution

    Raspberry Beret

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Sam Smith

    How Do You Sleep?

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.

  • Duffy

    Mercy

    • (CD Single).
    • A&M.

  • Status Quo

    Liberty Lane

    • Backbone.
    • Ear Music.

  • Boyzone

    Picture of You

    • Polygram Tv.

  • Billy Bragg

    A New England

    • Go Discs.

  • Phil Collins

    Two Hearts

    • Singles.
    • Rhino.

  • Louise

    Lead Me On

    • (CD Single).
    • Lil Lou Records.

  • Kiki Dee

    Star

    • Young at Heart (Various Artists).
    • Reader's Digest.

  • David Guetta

    Stay (Don't Go Away) (feat. RAYE)

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Shania Twain

    Man! I Feel Like A Woman!

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.

  • Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello

    厂别帽辞谤颈迟补

    • (CD Single).
    • Fontana Island Records.

  • Primal Scream

    Brown Sugar (Radio 2 Session, 26th July 2019)

  • Ed Sheeran

    Shape Of You

    • 梅 Divide.
    • Atlantic.

  • Ariana Grande

    no tears left to cry

    • (CD Single).
    • Republic Records.

  • Eagle鈥怑ye Cherry

    Save Tonight

    • 1999 Grammy Nominees (Various Artists.
    • Elektra.

  • Van Halen

    Jump

    • The All Time Greatest Rock Songs ....
    • Columbia.

  • The Who

    Won't Get Fooled Again

    • The Who Hits 50! (Deluxe Edition).
    • Polydor.
    • 021.

  • Keane

    Somewhere Only We Know

    • (CD Single).
    • Transcopic Records.

  • 叠别测辞苍肠茅

    Spirit

    • The Lion King O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Walt Disney Records.

  • Seal

    Crazy

    • The Hit Pack (Various Artists).
    • CBS.
    • 4.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Writer and Musician, Jahnavi Harrison:

听I got back from New York just a few weeks ago and immediately on my return I was attending two weddings - as you do, this time of year. Right after that we were to head down to Cornwall and visit my grandmother who鈥檇 been very ill and seemed to be steadily declining. We were driving along the M5 In the heatwave and stopped at Exeter where we got a call that she might pass that night. And that she did, after we鈥檇 all said our goodbyes and how much we loved her - the light was dimmed for the night and she peacefully departed.

听She was a woman of the wartime generation, joining the RAF cadets as a teenager and getting to parade, much to her pride, in front of Queen Elizabeth. And there was much struggle - she raised four children with little money or help and battled cancer three times - just in 1985 she was told she had only six weeks to live!

听At her funeral we sang hymns that poignantly, she鈥檇 chosen herself and cried, remembering how music and song really were a bright thread of joy that ran through her many challenges. She loved to sing: and we always did when we were together. We sang her songs - like You are my sunshine, and the Sound of Music, and her favourite hymn 鈥楬ow Great Thou Art鈥�. Having a son, (my Dad) who鈥檇 become a Hare Krishna monk at 17 - occasionally she鈥檇 sing Hare Krishna and other Hindu chants with us.

听In my own tradition singing is a way of daily life. Songs and mantras connect me with an inner world, and offer deep connection with community and my own faith. But like anything, it鈥檚 easy to get distracted and spend more time on things that mean less.

听Among many other things my grandmother鈥檚 life reminds me of the power of song - how it鈥檚 something that I can carry with me always, rich or poor, sick or healthy, in heatwaves and on wet Mondays. My life may be easier than hers, but as I read the news I think the world is no easier a place. I鈥檓 grateful for the magic that music brings to my life and the timely reminder to in all moments sing from the heart, Oh God, how great thou art!

Broadcast

  • Wed 7 Aug 2019 06:30
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 2