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: 30/04/2009

30/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Sarah Kennedy, 30/04/2009

Richard Madeley sits in for Sarah Kennedy on The Dawn Patrol.

Richard Madeley sits in for Sarah Kennedy on The Dawn Patrol. With news, reviews 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: 30/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Wake Up to Wogan, 30/04/2009

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: 30/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Ken Bruce, 30/04/2009

Lionel Richie chooses his Tracks of My Years.

Lionel Richie chooses his 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 go head to head in PopMaster, we bring you the Record Of The Week and play the penultimate track from the Album of the Week - 'Roadsinger (To Warm You Through The Night)' by Yusuf. Plus Lionel Richie explains his choices on Tracks Of My Years and there's a roundup of the week's Music News after 11am. 

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

Including after 11.30 Tracks of My Years, in which Lionel Richie picks two more of his ten favourite records.

Jeremy Vine

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

Jeremy Vine: 30/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine, 30/04/2009

Discussing swine flu, parking tickets, sex and children with high IQs.

Jeremy discusses swine flu and the best and worst scenarios that can be expected, parking tickets, the couple who had sex every day for a year, and children with high IQs.

Phone-in. PHONE the Comment Line on [number removed] or the Question Line on [number removed] between 11.45am and 1.45pm

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: 30/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Steve Wright in the Afternoon, 30/04/2009

Mark Radcliffe and Liza Tarbuck sit in for Steve Wright.

Mark Radcliffe and Liza Tarbuck sit in for Steve Wright and chat to the singer, TV presenter and fitness enthusiast Coleen Nolan. Plus, another listener shares their CDCV.

Mark Radcliffe and Liza Tarbuck continue sitting in for Steve Wright, and they have the best music ever and are joined by top celebrity guests.

Mark Radcliffe and Liza Tarbuck

Chris Evans

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

Chris Evans: 30/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Chris Evans, 30/04/2009

From seed to compost, Chris and gardening expert Bob Flowerdew go potty about plants.

Gastronome and regular guest to the show Nigel Barden dishes up some great gurnard. And from seed to compost, Chris and gardening expert Bob Flowerdew go potty about plants.

Resident gastro-gnome Nigel Barden dishes up the great Gurnard. And from seed to compost, Chris and garden guru Bob Flowerdew go potty about plants.

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: 30/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - The Country Show with Bob Harris, 30/04/2009

Bob is joined for an acoustic session by CMA Duo of the Year Sugarland.

Joining Bob for an acoustic session are Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush of Sugarland, one of the hottest acts in Country music and CMA Duo of the Year for the last two years.

They are one of the hottest acts in Country music, and CMA Duo of the Year for the last two years. Joining Bob in session tonight are Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush of Sugarland. The two singer-songwriters from Atlanta Georgia formed Sugarland in 2002 with fellow musician Kristen Hall. They released two albums before Kristen left and have since honed the band into the Country Duo of the moment. Not only are they reigning CMA Duo of the Year, but Jennifer Nettles picked up Song of the Year at the 2008 awards for her heart-wrenching ballad 'Stay'. At the same awards they were also nominated for their live version of Dream Academy's 'Life in a Northern Town'. They've had four number 1 Country singles and in 2005 Jennifer and Jon Bon Jovi topped the Country charts with their duet 'Who Says you Can't Go Home. Tonight they perform two live acoustic songs from their current album 'Love on the Inside', and talk to Bob about their influences, their songwriting and their thoughts on Country music's mass appeal.

Country, roots and Americana. 
Tonight's guests are Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush of Country Music Association Award-winning duo of the year Sugarland. The Atlanta singer/songwriters perform two acoustic numbers from their 2008 album Love on the Inside and discuss their influences, their songwriting and country music's mass appeal.

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: 30/04/2009

BBC Radio 6 Music - The Radcliffe & Maconie Show, 30/04/2009

Stuart presents solo and is joined by Ian Broudie of the Lightning Seeds.

Stuart Maconie

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 7

Episode 7

Series 6

BBC Radio 2 - Clive Anderson's Chat Room, Series 6, Episode 7

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

Clive Anderson takes a satirical look at the week's hot topics. 7/8: The panel guests are Steve Bell, Ronni Ancona, David Quantick and Tom Bradby.

Clive Anderson takes a satirical look at the week's hot topics. His panel guests are Steve Bell, Ronni Ancona, David Quantick and Tom Bradby.

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

7/8. Irreverent topical news show in which four special guests tackle 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 3: An Englishman's Home

Episode 3

Episode 3: An Englishman's Home

Series 1

An Englishman's Home

BBC Radio 2 - On the Blog, Series 1, An Englishman's Home

With his house on the market, Andrew does his best to put off prospective buyers.

Andrew's mother puts the house on the market but Andrew does his best to put off the prospective buyers.

Another chance to hear the first series of On The Blog starring Caroline Quentin, Andy Taylor and Simon Greenall. 
Our "hero" is Andrew Glasgow, the assiduous keeper of a "blog" about his life and loves, which in Andrew's case is a collection of military war gaming enthusiasts, some tiny painted pewter soldiers, his terrifying Czech mother and the mysterious Mr Demjanjuk.
In episode 3,  Andrew's mother puts the house on the market, but Andrew does his best to put off the prospective buyers.

On The Blog stars Caroline Quentin) in a virtuoso performance as all of the female parts, Simon Greenall (I'm Alan Partridge) as supporting male characters and features Andy Taylor as Andrew Glasgow.

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

3/6. Caroline Quentin, Andy Taylor and Simon Greenall star in a comedy about the imaginative exploits of a teen proprietor of a blog (web log). The story continues with Andrew's attempts to thwart his mother's plans to sell the house.

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: 30/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Suzi Quatro, 30/04/2009

Suzi Quatro plays music from 1963 with tracks from Del Shannon, Roy Orbison, The Cascades and Skeeter Davies.

Hollywood star and Rock'N'Roll performer extraordinaire Suzi Quatro plays the music she heard in her formative years, from doo-wop to Motown and rock 'n' roll, taking us through the fifties and sixties right up to the present day. Suzi often features American classics that never made the wireless over here and loves telling anecdotes about her American Heroes. Every week Suzi focuses on a particular year in American chart history and once a month Suzi talks, in depth, to a special guest about their American influences. This week it's 1963 with Del Shannon's Little Town Flirt, Roy Orbison's In Dreams, The Cascade's Rhythm of the Rain and Skeeter Davies's The End of The World amongst the many songs on the American charts.

US pop from the 1950s onwards, from doo-wop and rock 'n' roll to Motown and soul, tonight with a spotlight on hits from the pre-Beatles 1963 American charts, featuring Del Shannon , Skeeter Davis , The Cascades and Roy Orbison.

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: 30/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Janice Long, 30/04/2009

With Piney Gir and the Age of Reason in session and Janice's Theme Time Hour.

Chat, wit and music. With Piney Gir and the Age of Reason in session and Janice's Theme Time Hour.

Chat, wit and the finest gourmet hand-picked music around! Expect some electronic exotica with Piney Gir in session and we start the weekend with Janice's Theme Time Hour.

Music, chat and guests, with a live set from US-born London-based electronic-country artist Piney Gir.

Alex Lester

Weekday morning music and entertainment with Alex Lester

Alex Lester: 01/05/2009

01/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Alex Lester, 01/05/2009

The Best Time of the Day Show. Features include the Listeners' Library.

The Best Time Of The Day Show. Alex presents his own combination of music and conversation. Includes the Listeners' Library, where listeners choose the music.

Witty conversation and music in the early morning. Also on the Best Time of the Day Show, Alex - The Dark Lord - delves into his own record collection to pick something new or obscure from Lester's Library, and your contributions from your own personal music archives in the week's final Listeners' Library choice.

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