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: 16/04/2009

16/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Sarah Kennedy, 16/04/2009

On The Dawn Patrol. With Pause for Thought.

With 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: 16/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Wake Up to Wogan, 16/04/2009

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

Ken Bruce

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

Ken Bruce: 16/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Ken Bruce, 16/04/2009

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 Daydream Believer by The Monkees, and Neil Tennant picks Streets of Philadelphia by Bruce Springsteen.

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

Including after 11.30 Tracks of My Years, in which Pet Shop Boys Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe each pick one more of their favourite records.

Jeremy Vine

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

Jeremy Vine: 16/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine, 16/04/2009

Matthew Bannister sits in for Jeremy Vine. Discussing government subsidies for hybrid cars

Matthew Bannister sits in for Jeremy Vine. Topics covered include the government offering people subsidies to buy hybrid cars.

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: 16/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Steve Wright in the Afternoon, 16/04/2009

With the latest evictee from The Apprentice.

With the latest evictee from The Apprentice. Plus the Non-Stop Oldies, picked by BBC Radio 2's Aled Jones.

Steve Wright

Chris Evans

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

Chris Evans: 16/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Chris Evans, 16/04/2009

Chris is joined by the Four Ingredients ladies who do something fun with food.

Chris is joined by the Four Ingredients ladies who do something fun with food live in the studio.

Thirsty Thursday is also food day. We're joined this week by the Four Ingredients ladies who'll be doing something fun with food live in the studio...

The Country Show with Bob Harris

The very best in Country music, celebrating the new alongside the defining legendary names

The very best in Country music, celebrating the new alongside the defining legendary names.

Bob Harris Country

The Country Show with Bob Harris: 16/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - The Country Show with Bob Harris, 16/04/2009

Featuring live tracks from Oregon-born singer and songwriter Rachel Harrington.

Featuring live tracks from Oregon singer and songwriter Rachel Harrington, whose style mixes folk, country, blues and old-time gospel.

Country, roots and Americana. Tonight's guest is Oregon-born singer/songwriter 
Rachel Harrington , whose style mixes folk, country, blues and old-time gospel. She performs songs from her recent album City of Refuge.

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: 16/04/2009

BBC Radio 6 Music - The Radcliffe & Maconie Show, 16/04/2009

Mark Radcliffe is away so Stuart goes solo. Impressionist Jan Ravens is his guest.

Mark Radcliffe is away so Stuart goes solo with comedian and impressionist Jan Ravens as his guest.

Stuart Maconie

Comic and impressionist Jan Ravens discusses her upcoming tour.

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: Series 6

Clive Anderson's Chat Room: Series 6: Episode 5

Episode 5

Series 6

BBC Radio 2 - Clive Anderson's Chat Room, Series 6, Episode 5

The panel of guests includes Mark Thomas, Jo Bunting, Kirsty Wark and Tristram Hunt.

Clive Anderson hosts the show in which the studio audience fire questions at a panel of guests including Mark Thomas, Jo Bunting, Kirsty Wark and Tristram Hunt.

Clive Anderson hosts the show where a studio audience fire questions at a panel of guests

Clive Anderson hosts the show in which the studio audience fire questions at a panel of guests including comedians, critics, commentators and politicians

The Comedy Hour: Clive Anderson's Chat Room

5/8. Irreverent topical news show combining special guests and queries from a studio audience.

On the Blog

Comedy series about the writer of an internet diary

Comedy series about the life of a blogger whose internet diary obsessively chronicles his life, loves and interest in miniature soldiers

On the Blog: Series 1

On the Blog: Series 1: Episode 1: You Can't Hurry Love

Episode 1

Episode 1: You Can't Hurry Love

Series 1

You Can't Hurry Love

BBC Radio 2 - On the Blog, Series 1, You Can't Hurry Love

When blogger Andrew Glasgow seeks love online he ends up with a few nasty surprises.

When military wargaming blogger Andrew Glasgow seeks true love online, he ends up with a few rather nasty surprises.

A comedy series about the life of a blogger with Caroline Quentin

A comedy series about the life of a blogger with Caroline Quentin, Andy Taylor and Simon Greenall

1/6. Caroline Quentin, Andy Taylor and Simon Greenall star in a relatively experimental satirical comedy about the imaginative exploits and obsessions of the teen proprietor of a blog (web log). In this opening chapter, military wargaming blogger Andrew Glasgow (Andy Taylor) seeks true love online but ends up with a few rather nasty surprises.

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: 16/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Suzi Quatro, 16/04/2009

Featuring tracks from Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Alice Cooper and Tom Waits.

Suzi Quatro plays the music she heard in her formative years. Featuring tracks from Emmylou Harris, Conway Twitty, Linda Ronstadt, Alice Cooper and Tom Waits.

US pop from the 1950s onwards, from doo-wop and rock 'n' roll to Motown and soul, tonight with a playlist featuring Conway Twitty , 
Linda Ronstadt , Alice Cooper , Tom Waits and Emmylou Harris.

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: 16/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Janice Long, 16/04/2009

Janice chats to soul and funk duo Smoove & Turrell, who play tracks from their new album.

Janice chats to Newcastle soul and funk duo Smoove & Turrell, who play tracks from their new album Antique Soul. Includes Pause for Thought.

Newcastle funk-soul duo Smoove and Turrell introduce tracks from their new album Antique Soul.

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