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

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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: 29/02/2008

29/02/2008

BBC Radio 2 - Sarah Kennedy, 29/02/2008

The Dawn Patrol: News, views and music, plus a review of the morning's papers.

The Dawn Patrol: News, views and music, plus a review of the morning's papers. Including Pause for Thought at 6.20am.

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

Including at 6.20 Pause for Thought with Andy Perry.

Wake Up to Wogan

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

Wake Up to Wogan: 29/02/2008

BBC Radio 2 - Wake Up to Wogan, 29/02/2008

Ease into the day as Johnnie Walker sits in for Terry Wogan.

Ease into the day as Johnnie Walker sits in for Terry Wogan. Including Pause for Thought at 9.15am.

Johnnie Walker

Including at 9.15 Pause for Thought with the Rev Ruth Scott.

Ken Bruce

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

Ken Bruce: 29/02/2008

BBC Radio 2 - Ken Bruce, 29/02/2008

With Sir Tim Rice choosing a hit from 1984 amongst his Tracks of My Years.

With Sir Tim Rice choosing a hit from 1984 amongst his Tracks of My Years, and REM providing the Record of the Week.

Including Tracks of My Years, in which lyricist Tim Rice identifies two final picks in his ten favourite recordings. Plus a final track from the new album by electronic duo Goldfrapp.

Jeremy Vine

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

Jeremy Vine: 29/02/2008

BBC Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine, 29/02/2008

Jeremy asks: 'Are you a woman who is planning to pop the question'?

In Your Money and Your Life, Jeremy asks: 'Are you a woman who is planning to pop the question'?

Topical phone-in show featuring people in the news. 
PHONE the Comment Line on [number removed] or the Question Line on [number removed] between 11.45am and 1.45pm 
Go to www.radiotimes.com for guest details

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: 29/02/2008

BBC Radio 2 - Steve Wright in the Afternoon, 29/02/2008

Steve's guests are Clive Anderson and Dr Hilary Jones.

Steve and the team bring you the big show with great music, celebrity chat, astrology, the factoids and the non-stop oldies. The guests are Clive Anderson and Dr Hilary Jones.

Steve Wright

New and old music, with big-name studio guests and features.

Chris Evans

Featuring music, features, lively chat and studio interviews with famous people.

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

Chris Evans: 29/02/2008

BBC Radio 2 - Chris Evans, 29/02/2008

A show packed full of music. Plus regular features such as Fox the Fox and Gobsmackers.

With a show packed full of music. Plus regular features such as Fox the Fox, Gobsmackers, the Drivetime Jukebox Jury, and What's in the Locker, Cocker?

The Bob Hope Trail

The Bob Hope Trail: Episode 2

Episode 2

BBC Radio 2 - The Bob Hope Trail, Episode 2

Michael Freedland continues to track the life of 'the fastest gagman in the business'.

2/6. Michael Freedland continues to track the life of 'the fastest gagman in the business', Bob Hope. He chats to family, friends, writers and musicians.

Michael Freedland tracks the life of 'the fastest gagman in the business'

Michael Freedland's series tracking the lives of big stars through ordinary people who met them turns its attention to 'the fastest gagman in the business', Bob Hope

2/6. Following on from his series profiling 20th-century showbiz giants Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby, Michael Freedland hears from the friends, family and associates of Hollywood, radio, TV and troops entertainer and comic Bob Hope, who was born in England in 1903 but lived in America from the age of four.
The story continues in the star's hometown of Cleveland, with input and memories from Hope's nephew Bob Hope, local journalist Tom Feran, former Cleveland Indians baseball star Bob Feller, and a number of the city's locals who knew Hope, saw him perform, or live in his former houses.

Sunday Night is Music Night

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: 29/02/2008

BBC Radio 2 - Sunday Night is Music Night, 29/02/2008

Live from the Mermaid Theatre, London, Paul Gambaccini presents the BBC Concert Orchestra.

Live from the Mermaid Theatre, London, Paul Gambaccini presents the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Martin Yates. With guests Jamie MacDougall, Annette Wardell and Graeme Danby.

Friday Night Is Music Night

Martin Yates conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra, with soprano Annette Wardell , tenor Jamie MacDougall and, in a tribute to Northumberland-born vocalist Owen Branningan , baritone Graeme Danby. Tonight's concert also features a tribute to leap-year baby Gioachino Rossini , who was born on 29 February 1792. Presented by Paul Gambaccini , live from London's Mermaid Theatre. 
Producer Bridget Apps

Adolf Hitler - My Part in His Downfall

Adolf Hitler - My Part in His Downfall: Episode 6

Episode 6

BBC Radio 2 - Adolf Hitler - My Part in His Downfall, Episode 6Search BBC

Spike has an affair and ends up at an Algerian PoW camp with no prisoners to oversee.

Spike Milligan's war memoirs, read by lifelong Milligan fan Paul Merton. Spike has a last-minute affair and ends up at an Algerian PoW camp with no prisoners to oversee.

Another chance to hear Spike Milligan's war memoir read by lifelong Milligan fan, Paul Merton.

This was the first of seven volumes of Spike's war memoirs but it is also a comedy classic in its own right. First published in 1971, the book is peppered throughout with Milligan's gags, one-liners and surreal comic invention

Paul Merton's delivery of the gags, characters and Goonish events of the story vividly bring to life the experiences of the 22 year old Spike Milligan from call up through basic training in the early years of the war.

In the final episode, the battery is finally posted overseas. Spike enjoys an intense last minute affair with a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force before the long journey from Liverpool to Algiers, where he is billeted in a prisoner of war camp lying unused because the allies had so far failed to capture any Germans.

Spike Milligan's war memoirs, read by lifelong Milligan fan Paul Merton

Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall

Paul Merton reads Spike Milligan 's uniquely surreal comic memoirs about the Second World War, published in 1971 to great acclaim. 6/6. Spike has a last-minute affair and ends up at an Algerian PoW camp with no prisoners to oversee. Abridged by Mike Haskins

Listen to the Band

Showcase for brass and military band music, looking at new CD releases and old favourites

Showcase for brass and military band music, looking at new CD releases and old favourites and updating the traditional image of banding

Listen to the Band: 29/02/2008

BBC Radio 2 - Listen to the Band, 29/02/2008

Frank Renton plays the best of the new brass band releases.

Frank Renton showcases the cream of new brass band releases. Producer Terry Carter

The Radio 2 Arts Show with Anneka Rice

Looking at the latest books, films, plays and exhibitions

A lively and unpretentious look at the latest films, plays, dance events, books and exhibitions, alongside an eclectic selection of music.

The Weekender

The Radio 2 Arts Show with Anneka Rice: 29/02/2008

BBC Radio 2 - The Radio 2 Arts Show with Anneka Rice, 29/02/2008

Matthew looks at two comedic offerings starring Nicole Kidman and Uma Thurman.

Matthew looks at two comedic offerings starring Nicole Kidman and Uma Thurman, as he continues to review the latest films, books and plays.

Matthew Wright with a survey of contemporary arts and culture, including the current cinema. Producer Paul Rodgers

Mark Lamarr

Mark Lamarr presents the best music you never knew you loved from the last 70 years.

Mark Lamarr presents the best music you never knew you loved from the last 70 years, alongside the finest live sessions.

Mark Lamarr presents the best music you never knew you loved from the last 70 years, alongside the finest live sessions. 

This is where garage meets soul, punk meets country, and 30s yodelling collides with 70s dub and 90s hip hop...

...painting the world with sunshine, one record at a time!

Mark Lamarr: 01/03/2008

01/03/2008

BBC Radio 2 - Mark Lamarr, 01/03/2008

With blues-soul group Little George Suereff performing in session.

Mark presents a show featuring a mix of new records and tracks from the all-time greats. With blues-soul group Little George Suereff performing in session.

New music and banter, with live sets from up-and-coming bands. Producer Jodie Keane

Pete Mitchell

Soul and rock music show with guests and interviews, presented by Pete Mitchell

Pete Mitchell: 01/03/2008

BBC Radio 2 - Pete Mitchell, 01/03/2008

Pete plays a mix of music, including classic soul, funk, disco and R&B.

Pete plays a mix of music, including classic soul, funk, disco and R&B, and presents interviews from the music industry past and present. Including Pause for Thought at 3.30am.

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