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: 14/04/2009

14/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Sarah Kennedy, 14/04/2009

The Dawn Patrol: News, views and music, plus a review of the morning's papers. Including 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: 14/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Wake Up to Wogan, 14/04/2009

Terry Wogan's award winning breakfast show.

Terry Wogan's award winning breakfast show. Including Pause for Thought.

Ken Bruce

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

Ken Bruce: 14/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Ken Bruce, 14/04/2009

Zoe Ball sits in for Ken Bruce. The Pet Shop Boys share their Tracks of My Years.

Zoe Ball sits in for Ken Bruce with music and chat. The Pet Shop Boys pick their Tracks of My Years, and the Album of the Week is by Duke Special. Plus PopMaster and the Love Song.

Zoe Ball sits in for Ken Bruce with music and chat.

The Pet Shop Boys choose their Tracks of My Years. Chris Lowe picks Night Fever by The Bee Gees, and Neil Tennant picks The Colour of My Love by Barry Ryan.

The Album of the Week is I Never Thought This Day Would Come by Duke Special, and the Record of the Week is Open Arms by Gary Go. Plus PopMaster, the Love Song and travel with Lynn Bowles sprinkled through the show.

Zoe Ball

Jeremy Vine

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

Jeremy Vine: 14/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine, 14/04/2009

Matthew Bannister sits in for Jeremy Vine.

Matthew Bannister sits in for Jeremy Vine, talking to the people making the headlines. Discussing Labour emails, teacher's pay, abortion and injured soldiers.

Matthew Bannister

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: 14/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Steve Wright in the Afternoon, 14/04/2009

Including Ask Elvis and guest Earl Spencer.

Join Steve Wright and the team for entertainment and chat. Including Ask Elvis and guest Earl Spencer, who is helping mentor young finalists in BBC2's The Speaker.

Steve Wright

Chris Evans

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

Chris Evans: 14/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Chris Evans, 14/04/2009

Tessa Watts explains how life in the slow lane can be beneficial.

Tessa Watts explains how life in the slow lane can be beneficial and Alan Stork talks from a tree at his climbing centre in Cornwall. Plus Eddie Jordan and his new band.

Tessa Watts shows us how life in the slow lane can be beneficial and Alan Stork talks to us from a tree at his climbing centre in Cornwall. Plus Eddie Jordan and his new band in the locker.

Desmond Carrington: The Music Goes Round

Desmond Carrington dips into classics from all musical genres

Desmond Carrington dips into classics from all musical genres from the 1920s to the present day

Desmond Carrington with The Music Goes Round

Desmond Carrington: The Music Goes Round: 14/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Desmond Carrington: The Music Goes Round, 14/04/2009

Desmond's theme in this edition is trains.

Desmond rummages through his collection of 250,000 titles to share some good tunes, some unexpected ones and a few you may have never heard before. The theme is trains.

Desmond Carrington

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: 14/04/2009

BBC Radio 6 Music - The Radcliffe & Maconie Show, 14/04/2009

Stuart Maconie goes solo. Including music from The Week That Was.

Stuart Maconie goes solo with the best music, live sessions and guest pundits. Including music from The Week That Was.

Stuart Maconie

The Organist Entertains

Nigel Ogden presents a programme of popular organ recordings

Nigel Ogden presents a programme of popular organ recordings, including pipe and electronic organs

Nigel Ogden: The Organist Entertains

The Organist Entertains: 14/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - The Organist Entertains, 14/04/2009

The Organist Entertains. Exploring the best organ music from around the world.

Nigel Ogden

Blonde on Blonde

Blonde on Blonde: Episode 2: Diana Dors

Episode 2

Episode 2: Diana Dors

Diana Dors

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Mariella Frostrup tells the story of the iconic blonde actress and singer Diana Dors.

Mariella Frostrup tells the glamorous and sometimes heart-rending story of Britain's answer to Marilyn Monroe.

Mariella Frostrup celebrates iconic blondes: Doris Day, Diana Dors and Marilyn Monroe

Mariella Frostrup celebrates three iconic blondes: Doris Day, Diana Dors and Marilyn Monroe

2/3. As part of Radio 2 at the Movies, Mariella Frostrup celebrates three big-screen iconic blondes, continuing with actress Diana Dors (1931-84), who, as a sex symbol of eye-catching shapeliness, was seen as this country's answer to Marilyn Monroe. The Swindon-born starlet was known as much for her pin-up status and TV persona as for her films, which include Kid for Two 
Farthings (1955), Yield to the Night (1956), The Amazing Mr Blunden 
(1972) and Theatre of Blood (1973). Dors was determined to have it all, and did, though at a price. Producer Sara Jane Hall

Hollywood Charmers

Hollywood Charmers: Episode 2: Errol Flynn

Episode 2: Errol Flynn

Errol Flynn

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The story of the actor whose good looks and athleticism led to swashbuckling film roles.

Michael York tells the story of the Australian-born actor who was almost as famous for his womanising and hedonism as for his swashbuckling film roles.

Series profiling some of Hollywood's most charming leading men

2/4. As part of Radio 2 at the Movies, actor Michael York profiles four charming leading men, setting his sights tonight on dashing Australian-born Hollywood movie star Errol Flynn, who died in 1959, aged 50, following an active movie career that included Captain Blood (1935), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) and The Sea Hawk (1940). Flynn was renowned for an allegedly voracious sexual appetite and in 1943 and 1948 won the Golden Apple's sour apple award for least cooperative actor. With input by daughter Rory Flynn.

Hollywood Charmers
11.30pm Radio 2 Errol Flynn (above) almost had to become a film star. The slightly unreal world of Hollywood and the movie business was the only one into which this larger-than-life character could possibly fit. The second part of this series focuses on the man who has become a legend as much for what he did off screen as on. Turning to acting after numerous jobs had failed to satisfy him, it wasn't long before he became a daring action hero in films like The Adventures of Robin Hood. He embraced the life of the hedonistic movie star completely, and even the most serious charge of rape - from which he was acquitted - did little to dampen the ardour of this incorrigible womaniser: he met his second wife while she was working in the cafeteria of the courthouse where he was being tried. (Tony Peters)

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: 14/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Janice Long, 14/04/2009

Proving there's life after midnight, with the best live performances.

With the best live performances. Including Pause for Thought.

Alex Lester

Weekday morning music and entertainment with Alex Lester

Alex Lester: 15/04/2009

15/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Alex Lester, 15/04/2009

With music and banter, Alex Lester makes weekday mornings the best time of the day.

With his mix of music and banter, Alex Lester makes weekday mornings the best time of the day. Including Pause for Thought.

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