BBC Radio 2 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Light Programme.

BBC Radio 2

Sarah Kennedy

The show for early risers - Pause for Thought, Swing Time, Showtune,& entertainment news.

The show for Dawn Patrollers with Pause for Thought, Swing Time, the Showtune,& entertainment news.

The show for Dawn Patrollers with news, Pause for Thought, Swing Time, the Showtune, your comments, travel and entertainment news.

Sarah Kennedy: 01/10/2009

01/10/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Sarah Kennedy, 01/10/2009

On the Dawn Patrol. Includes a Pause For Thought.

On the Dawn Patrol. With the religious and entertainment news of the day as well as the general newspaper review and Show Tunes. Plus Pause for Thought.

Amazing music. Played by an amazing line up.

Radio 2: Amazing music. Played by an amazing line-up. The home of great music, entertainment and documentaries

Wake Up to Wogan

Terry Wogan's regular morning broadcast, featuring music, news and chat

Wake Up to Wogan: 01/10/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Wake Up to Wogan, 01/10/2009

Terry Wogan with music and banter. Includes Pause for Thought.

Ken Bruce

The best in music every weekday with Ken Bruce, with live sessions.

Ken Bruce: 01/10/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Ken Bruce, 01/10/2009

Tito Jackson chooses two of his favourite songs on Tracks of My Years.

Ken Bruce provides humour, music and the Popmaster quiz. Tito Jackson chooses two of his favourite songs on Tracks of My Years and Barbra Streisand is Album of the Week.

Ken Bruce flies in the face of conformity and presents a radio show completely different to any other: Music, a quiz, your texts and emails, more music and some travel bulletins. Tito Jackson makes his penultimate two choices on Tracks Of My Years and we hear another song from Barbra Streisand's Album Of The Week. Plus the Love Song, the Record Of The Week and a little matter of PopMaster, the greatest living quiz in radio.

Including after 11.30 Tracks of My Years, in which original Jackson 5 member Tito Jackson selects two more of his ten favourite records. Plus a continued week-long spotlight on Barbra Streisand 's new album Love Is the Answer.

Jeremy Vine

Jeremy Vine and guests discuss the news headlines and talk to the people making them

Jeremy Vine: 01/10/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine, 01/10/2009

Jeremy discusses BAE Systems, child sex offences, China's anniversary and driving lessons.

Jeremy looks at BAE Systems facing bribery charges; the Plymouth nursery worker accused of child sex offences; China's anniversary; and driving lessons.

Jeremy Vine .

Steve Wright in the Afternoon

Steve Wright's afternoon show with special guests, music and a host of other features

Steve Wright in the Afternoon: 01/10/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Steve Wright in the Afternoon, 01/10/2009

Steve Wright talks to the singers Olivia Newton John and David Essex.

Steve Wright talks to the singers Olivia Newton John and David Essex, brings you Factoids to impress your friends, plus the Non-Stop Oldies.

Steve Wright talks to the singers Olivia Newton John and David Essex, and brings you Factoids to impress your friends with, the non stop Oldies, all the latest news from the showbiz world and the coolest music on the planet.

Steve Wright

Chris Evans

Chris Evans' drivetime slot, with laughter-inducing chat and music

Chris Evans: 01/10/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Chris Evans, 01/10/2009

Chris gets swinging with 1940s harmony group The Marjorie Belles who are in singing live.

Chris gets swinging with 1940s harmony group The Marjorie Belles who are in singing live. Plus, chef James Martin serves up delicious deep fried cod in beer batter.

Chris gets swinging with 1940s harmony group The Marjorie Belles who are in singing live. Plus, Chef James Martin serves up delicious deep fried cod in beer batter.

The Country Show with Bob Harris

Country music news, reviews and interviews, with Bob Harris

Bob Harris Country

The Country Show with Bob Harris: 01/10/2009

BBC Radio 2 - The Country Show with Bob Harris, 01/10/2009

Bob Harris plays his choice of Americana, Country and Roots music.

Bob Harris plays his choice of Americana, Country and Roots music, including artists discovered at the 2009 Americana Music Association Conference and Awards in Nashville.

Bob Harris plays his choice of Americana, Country and Roots music, including artists discovered at the recent Americana Music Association Conference and Awards in Nashville.

Old and new country, roots and Americana, tonight showcasing artists discovered last month at the Americana Music Association Awards and Conference in Nashville.

The Radcliffe & Maconie Show

BBC Radio 6 Music

A late-night mix of live sessions, celebrity guests and listener interaction

Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie with a late-night mix of live sessions, celebrity guests and listener interaction

The Radcliffe and Maconie Show

The Radcliffe & Maconie Show: 01/10/2009

BBC Radio 6 Music - The Radcliffe & Maconie Show, 01/10/2009

Mark and Stuart welcome regular guest Noddy Holder.

Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie

Clive Anderson's Chat Room

Hard-edged chat show in which top personalities speak their mind about the week’s topics

Clive Anderson presents a hard-edged chat show in which a panel of four of the nation’s top personalities, politicians, performers and pundits get to speak their mind about the week’s hot topics

Clive Anderson's Chat Room: Clive Anderson's Chat Room

Clive Anderson's Chat Room: Clive Anderson's Chat Room: Episode 3

Episode 3

BBC Radio 2 - Clive Anderson's Chat Room, Clive Anderson's Chat Room, Episode 3

With guest panellists Gyles Brandreth, Julia Hartley-Brewer and Justin Lee Collins.

Clive Anderson hosts the show in which the audience fires topical questions at a guest panel. With Gyles Brandreth, Julia Hartley-Brewer and Justin Lee Collins.

Clive Anderson hosts the show in which the audience fire topical questions at a panel

Clive Anderson hosts the show in which the audience fire topical questions at a panel of guests

The Comedy Hour: Clive Anderson's Chat Room

3/8. Satirical, irreverent dissection of the week's news, instigated by queries from a studio audience.
With Gyles Brandreth, Julia Hartley-Brewer and Justin Lee Collins.

The Blaggers Guide...

Blaggers Guide...to the Classics: Series one

The Blaggers Guide...: Series one: Episode 3

Series one

BBC Radio 2 - The Blaggers Guide..., Series one, Episode 3Search BBC

David Quantick's quick-paced and occasionally fabricated guide to classical music.

The Blaggers Guide...: Series one

The Blagger's Guide to the Classics

3/4. Armed with fake archive footage, adverts and recordings, rock and pop raconteur David Ouantick offers comically constructed and occasionally fabricated explanations of classical music, continuing with Tchaikovsky, the string section and the waltz.

Suzi Quatro

Suzi Quatro brings American music direct to listeners

Suzi Quatro was weaned in Detroit on the best American music, taking in everything from Doo Wop and rock 'n' roll to Motown and soul. She brings the best of it to R2

Suzi Quatro: 01/10/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Suzi Quatro, 01/10/2009

Suzi heads back to 1960 with tracks from Johnny Preston, Chubby Checker and Hank Ballard.

Suzi Quatro heads back to 1960 and plays songs by Larry Verne, Johnny Tillotson and Dion and the Belmonts.

Suzi Quatro plays the music she heard in her formative years, from doo-wop to Motown and rock 'n' roll, taking us through the 50s and 60s, right up to the present day. Suzi often features American classics that never made the wireless over here and loves telling anecdotes about her American Heroes.

Every week Suzi focuses on a particular year in American chart history and once a month Suzi talks, in depth, to a special guest about their American influences. This week it's 1960 with Hank Ballard, The Ventures, Chubby Checker and Ray Peterson.

American radio oldies and nostalgia, tonight featuring US chart hits from 1960, with discs by Hank Ballard, The Ventures, Chubby Checker, Ray Peterson, Johnny Tillotson, Larry Verne, and Dion and The Belmonts.

Janice Long

Great music and chat, with a weekly interview and Spoken Word Session every Wednesday

Music you love, plus great guests and a weekly Spoken Word Session that you won't hear anywhere else

Janice Long: 01/10/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Janice Long, 01/10/2009

Mercury Music Prize 2009 nominees Led Bib play live in session.

Mercury Music Prize 2009 nominees Led Bib play songs from their album Sensible Shoes live in session. Plus Janice Theme Time Hour and Tunes of the Unexpected.

Mercury Music Prize 2009 nominees Led Bib play songs from their album Sensible Shoes live in session. Plus there's another Janice Theme Time Hour and Tunes Of The Unexpected.

With a live set by experimental jazz quintet Led Bib, whose album 
Sensible Shoes figured among this year's Mercury Prize nominees.

Alex Lester

Weekday morning music and entertainment with Alex Lester

Alex Lester: 02/10/2009

02/10/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Alex Lester, 02/10/2009

With the Dark Lord's musical instalments from Lester's Library and the Listener's Library, plus Pause for Thought.

The week's final instalment of random daftness and planned oddities from the Dark Lord. Includes 2 hourly visits to the extensive music archive known as Lester's Library, and your musical contribution in the Listeners' Library. Submit your own choices by going to Alex's pages at www.bbc.co.uk/radio2.

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