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: 27/04/2009

27/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Sarah Kennedy, 27/04/2009

Richard Madeley sits in for Sarah Kennedy.

Richard Madeley sits in for Sarah Kennedy on the Dawn Patrol with the usual mix of music, the Newspaper Review and 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

Richard Madeley

Wake Up to Wogan

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

Wake Up to Wogan: 27/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Wake Up to Wogan, 27/04/2009

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: 27/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Ken Bruce, 27/04/2009

The Album of the Week is Roadsinger from Yusuf.

The Album of the Week is Roadsinger from Yusuf, and Lionel Richie explains his choices for Tracks of My Years.

Please note: competitions or votes featured in this programme may now be closed.

Ken Bruce leads you from mid-morning to afternoon. Two more opponents vie for the honours in PopMaster and the Album of the Week is 'Roadsinger (To Warm You Through The Night)' from Yusuf. Lionel Richie explains why he's chosen another two songs on Tracks Of My Years.

Please note: competitions or votes featured in this programme may now be closed.

New and old music, and after 11.30 throughout the week Tracks of My Years, in which Lionel Richie picks - two a day - his ten favourite discs.

Jeremy Vine

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

Jeremy Vine: 27/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine, 27/04/2009

Discussing swine flu, an oversubscribed job for a binman and the whistleblowing NHS nurse.

Jeremy Vine discusses the 'hysteria' over swine flu, the 238 applications for one binman job, the exodus of millionaires and the whistleblowing NHS nurse.

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: 27/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Steve Wright in the Afternoon, 27/04/2009

Mark Radcliffe and Liza Tarbuck sit in for Steve Wright with music and chat.

Mark Radcliffe and Liza Tarbuck sit in for Steve Wright with guest Brian Conley and the return of CD CV.

Mark Radcliffe and Liza Tarbuck sit in for Steve Wright all this week, and are joined by top guests from the world of showbiz. Plus they have all your texts and emails and the best music in the world.

Mark Radcliffe and Liza Tarbuck

Chris Evans

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

Chris Evans: 27/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Chris Evans, 27/04/2009

Andrea Caldecourt tells Chris why flowers are good for our health.

Ceri Stanaway, a researcher for Which? Magazine, reveals some of the surreal subjects they have surveyed, and Andrea Caldecourt tells Chris why flowers are good for our health.

Ceri Stanaway researcher for Which? Magazine reveals some of the surreal subjects they have surveyed; and Andrea Caldecourt tells Chris why blooms are good for our health as well as making us happy!!

The Blues Show with Paul Jones

The weekly dose of rhythm and blues tunes from Paul Jones.

The weekly dose of rhythm and blues tunes from Paul Jones, combining classics, new releases, sessions and occasional interviews.

Paul Jones

The Blues Show with Paul Jones: 27/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - The Blues Show with Paul Jones, 27/04/2009

With a session from Stephen Dale Petit and Mick Taylor.

An hour of classic blues and the cream of new R&B releases. With a session from Stephen Dale Petit and Mick Taylor and an obituary tribute to John Cephas.

Classic R&B and new blues releases. 
Plus a live set by new-blues guitarist and singer Stephen Dale Petit with blues-rocker Mick Taylor.

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: 27/04/2009

BBC Radio 6 Music - The Radcliffe & Maconie Show, 27/04/2009

Stuart Maconie presents solo. With live music from Graham Coxon.

Stuart Maconie presents solo. With live music from Blur guitarist and solo artist Graham Coxon.

Stuart Maconie

Presenting solo this week. Blur's Graham Coxon performs a live set ahead of the release of his new album "The Spinning Top".

(Stuart Maconie's week: page 31)

Big Band Special

The very best big band music, from the 1930s to the present day

Big Band Special: 27/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Big Band Special, 27/04/2009

Clare Teal presents a tribute concert to Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald.

Clare Teal presents the BBC Big Band in the second part of a concert of songs associated with 20th-century giants Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra. Recorded at the Town Hall, Birmingham, the programme features guest singers Anita Wardell and Todd Gordon.

Jools Holland

Join Jools and his Rhythm Section as he plays tracks from his eclectic record collection.

Jools Holland: 27/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Jools Holland, 27/04/2009

Jools and his Rhythm Section are joined by guitarist Albert Lee.

Jools Holland and his Rhythm Section are joined by guitarist and former Head Hands and Feet frontman Albert Lee.

Jools Holland and his Rhythm Section are joined by guitarist and former Head Hands and Feet frontman Albert Lee. Known as the guitar players guitarist, Albert joins Jools and the band on an impromptu version of Johnny Burnett's 'Tear It Up'.

4/13. Big band, jazz and R&B picks. Jools is joined by his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra, who tonight perform with Grammy-winning 
English country guitarist Albert Lee.

Andre Previn: All the Right Notes

Andre Previn: All the Right Notes: Episode 4

Episode 4

BBC Radio 2 - Andre Previn: All the Right Notes, Episode 4

Celebrating the life and career of the distinguished conductor, composer and musician.

Profile of the life and career of Andre Previn, whose musical journey has included Hollywood directors, outraged peacocks, the London Symphony Orchestra, and Morecambe and Wise.

Another chance to hear Charles Hazlewood's profile of André Previn (aka Andrew Preview). 

Born on 6 April 1929 in Berlin, André emigrated with his family to the United States ten years later and became one of the most distinguished musicians of our time.

His collection of awards includes Grammys, Oscars (four in total for film scores including My Fair Lady and Gigi), the Austrian and German Cross of Merit, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the LSO and a British Knighthood.

This series is written by Russell Davies and includes contributions from Sir John Dankworth and Dame Cleo Laine, Denis Wick, John Ammonds, David Finck, Richard Sherman and Sir Tom Stoppard. It first broadcast in April 2009 to coincide with a season of concerts at Carnegie Hall celebrating his 80th birthday.

Celebrating the life and career of Sir Andre Previn

4/4. Charles Hazlewood concludes a profile of Oscar-winning composer, conductor, arranger and performer Andre Previn.

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: 27/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Janice Long, 27/04/2009

Top chat, great music and the best live sessions.

Top chat, great music and the best live sessions. Includes rare tracks, remixes and unusual cover versions in Tunes Of The Unexpected.

Top chat, great music and the best live sessions to keep you going through the night. Includes rare tracks, remixes and unusual cover versions in Tunes Of The Unexpected.

Alex Lester

Weekday morning music and entertainment with Alex Lester

Alex Lester: 28/04/2009

28/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Alex Lester, 28/04/2009

The Best Time Of The Day Show. Alex discusses sugar lumps and casts carry on Trucking

The Best Time Of The Day Show. A combination of 'great' music and 'great' conversation, because we've decided that everyone & everything is great.

Alex, aka The Dark Lord, presents a blend of music and conversation. Includes Alex's personal choice of tracks in Lester's Library, Stig's chance to get a tune played in the Listeners' Library feature, and Pause for Thought at 3.30am. And lots of stuff about frogs and cheese.

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