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

BBC Radio 2

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Sunday Night is Music Night

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Music: Easy Listening, Soundtracks & Musicals

The world's longest-running live orchestral programme featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra

The world's longest-running live orchestral music programme on radio, featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra and broadcast from locations throughout the UK

Friday Night Is Music Night

Sunday Night is Music Night: Christmas

Music: Classical

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

20/12/2013

Christmas

BBC Radio 2 - Sunday Night is Music Night, Christmas

Ken Bruce presents a cracker for Christmas, with seasonal music, poetry and readings.

Ken Bruce presents a Friday Night cracker for Christmas, with classic songs, poetry and readings starring Samantha Bond, Louise Dearman, John Owen-Jones and Capital Voices.

A special Friday Night Is Music to bring in Christmas. Packed with festive cheer, the seventy piece BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by the Broadway maestro Larry Blank, present a stocking full of Christmas classics including; White Christmas, Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire, Silver Bells, Sleigh Ride, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen and many, many more. With star singers Louise Dearman (Wicked) and John Owen-Jones (Phantom, Les Miserables); the West End's top vocal group Capital Voices; and readings and poetry from Samantha Bond (Downton Abbey) and film, television and stage star, Kenneth Cranham . Presented by Ken Bruce.

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

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