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: 09/05/2008

09/05/2008

BBC Radio 2 - Sarah Kennedy, 09/05/2008

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

Wake Up to Wogan

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

Wake Up to Wogan: 09/05/2008

BBC Radio 2 - Wake Up to Wogan, 09/05/2008

Ease into the day with Terry Wogan. Including Pause for Thought at 9.15am.

Ken Bruce

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

Ken Bruce: 09/05/2008

BBC Radio 2 - Ken Bruce, 09/05/2008

Gerry Marsden chooses his final two songs on the Tracks of My Years.

Gerry Marsden chooses his final two songs on the Tracks of My Years, while Elbow provide the Record of the Week.

Jeremy Vine

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

Jeremy Vine: 09/05/2008

BBC Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine, 09/05/2008

Talking to the people who make the headlines, plus more financial advice with Martin Lewis

Talking to the people who make the headlines, plus more financial advice with Martin Lewis.

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: 09/05/2008

BBC Radio 2 - Steve Wright in the Afternoon, 09/05/2008

The guests are actors Suranne Jones and Gwyneth Strong, and singer Steve Brookstein.

Mark Radcliffe and Sally Lindsay sit in for Steve Wright. Their guests are actors Suranne Jones and Gwyneth Strong, and singer Steve Brookstein.

Mark Radcliffe and Sally Lindsay

Chris Evans

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

Chris Evans: 09/05/2008

BBC Radio 2 - Chris Evans, 09/05/2008

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?

Clare Teal's Jazz Divas

Clare Teal celebrates a collection of the world's greatest female jazz musicians

Clare Teal's Jazz Divas: Clare Teal's Jazz Divas: Episode 2: Dinah Washington

Episode 2

Episode 2: Dinah Washington

Dinah Washington

BBC Radio 2 - Clare Teal's Jazz Divas, Clare Teal's Jazz Divas, Dinah Washington

Dinah remains the biggest influence on most black female singers.

Clare Teal celebrates the world's greatest female jazz performers. 2/5. Dinah Washington. Dinah remains the biggest influence on most black female singers.

Clare Teal celebrates the world's greatest female jazz performers. 

2/5. Dinah Washington

One of the most versatile and gifted vocalists in American popular music history, Dinah Washington made extraordinary recordings in jazz, blues, R&B and light pop and could have done the same in gospel had she chosen to record in that mode. 

She remains the biggest influence on most black female singers, particularly in R&B and soul, who have come to prominence since the mid-1950s. She was only 39 and still in peak musical form when she died from an accidental overdose of diet pills and alcohol in 1963.

Clare Teal's Jazz Divas: Clare Teal's Jazz Divas

2/6. Jazz vocalist Clare Teal tackles the male-heavy image of jazz with a celebration of some of the most distinctive female singers in her field. She continues with a tribute to jazz, blues, R&B and pop star 
Dinah Washington who in 1963 died, at 39, of an allegedly accidental overdose of diet pills and alcohol. Her warm, dramatic sound influenced soul and R&B singers for generations.

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: 09/05/2008

BBC Radio 2 - Sunday Night is Music Night, 09/05/2008

Roderick Dunk conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra from the Mermaid Theatre.

Roderick Dunk conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra from the Mermaid Theatre. Joining Aled Jones are soprano Juliet Schiemann, mezzo soprano Jessica Walker and tenor Jon Christos.

Another chance to hear Roderick Dunk conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra from London's Mermaid Theatre.  

Joining presenter Aled Jones on stage are special guests soprano Juliet Schiemann, mezzo soprano Jessica Walker and tenor Jon Christos. Including Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumble Bee and Sherwin's A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square.

Friday Night Is Music Night

Roderick Dunk conducts the BBC 
Concert Orchestra in a light-classical programme. Performers include soprano Juliet Schiemann , mezzo Jessica Walker and tenor 
Jon Christos. With Aled Jones.

I, Claudius

I, Claudius: Episode 4

Episode 4

BBC Radio 2 - I, Claudius, Episode 4

Robert Graves' classic story of the Roman emperor, read by Sir Derek Jacobi.

4/8. Serialisation of Robert Graves' classic story of the Roman emperor, read by Sir Derek Jacobi, 30 years after he starred in the original TV broadcast.

Serialisation of Robert Graves' story of the Roman emperor, read by Sir Derek Jacobi

Serialisation of Robert Graves' classic story of the Roman emperor, read by Sir Derek Jacobi

Derek Jacobi reads an abridged version of Robert Graves's 1934 novel about the Roman Emperor. 4/8. Augustus's poisonous Empress finds herself under threat.

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: 09/05/2008

BBC Radio 2 - Listen to the Band, 09/05/2008

Frank Renton spotlights past European Brass Band Championships winners from the UK.

Frank Renton looks ahead to highlights of the European Brass Band Championships in Stavanger, with a programme of past winners from the UK.

Featuring a preview of the European Brass Band Championships.

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: 09/05/2008

BBC Radio 2 - The Radio 2 Arts Show with Anneka Rice, 09/05/2008

Matthew Wright Matthew chats to Jack Docherty and Morwenna Banks.

With Matthew Wright. Actors Jack Docherty and Morwenna Banks discuss the DVD release of their 
1989-93 comedy Absolutely.

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: 09/05/2008

BBC Radio 2 - Mark Lamarr, 09/05/2008

With Dutch trio T-99 performing in session.

Mark presents a show featuring a mix of new records and tracks from the all-time greats. With Dutch trio T-99 performing in session.

Genre-straddling Dutch trio T-99 perform a live session.

Mike Harding

Folk, roots and acoustic music, plus artist news and the latest album releases

Mike Harding: 07/05/2008

07/05/2008

BBC Radio 2 - Mike Harding, 07/05/2008

Mike interviews Scottish folk singer Dick Gaughan.

Mike Harding has a selection of the latest in folk, roots and acoustic based music. Plus an interview with Scottish folk singer Dick Gaughan, who turns 60 this month.

Mike Harding has a selection of the latest in folk, roots and acoustic based music, plus an interview with Scottish folk singer Dick Gaughan, who turns 60 this month. Dick chats about his early life and influences, the thriving folk music scene of 1960s Edinburgh and his debut live performance at The Log Cabin.

Mo Dutta

Mo Dutta starts off Saturday and Sunday mornings with dry wit, quizzes and music

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