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: 01/05/2009

01/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Sarah Kennedy, 01/05/2009

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

Richard Madeley sits in for Sarah Kennedy on the Dawn Patrol. With a review of the newspapers 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: 01/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Wake Up to Wogan, 01/05/2009

Ease into the day with Terry Wogan's award winning breakfast show.

Ease into the day with Terry Wogan's award winning breakfast show. Includes Pause for Thought.

Ken Bruce

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

Ken Bruce: 01/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Ken Bruce, 01/05/2009

Lionel Richie chooses his Tracks of My Years.

With PopMaster, Record of the Week and a track from Roadsinger by Yusuf, the Album of the Week. 

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

Ken Bruce makes sure you get through the rest of morning safely. Two more opponents vie for the honours in PopMaster. We bring you the Record Of The Week and the final track from 'Roadsinger (To Warm You Through The Night)' by Yusuf which has been our Album of the Week. Plus Lionel Richie explains his last two choices in Tracks Of My Years. 

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

Jeremy Vine

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

Jeremy Vine: 01/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine, 01/05/2009

Discussing the school age, replacement buses, Margaret Thatcher and childbirth.

Discussing the age children should start school, replacement buses for trains, the 30th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher's rise to power, and the father who delivered his child.

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: 01/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Steve Wright in the Afternoon, 01/05/2009

Mark Radcliffe and Liza Tarbuck welcome Sophie Dahl and Martin Shaw.

Mark Radcliffe and Liza Tarbuck sit in for Steve Wright, and welcome model turned author Sophie Dahl as well as actor Martin Shaw.

It's the last day of Mark Radcliffe and Liza Tarbuck sitting in for Steve Wright and there's top guests, your texts and emails and all the best music.

Mark Radcliffe and Liza Tarbuck

Chris Evans

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

Chris Evans: 01/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Chris Evans, 01/05/2009

With listeners choosing the music for All Request Friday.

With fun, features, business, sport and All Request Friday, where listeners choose the music.

Put the pedal to the metal with music, mirth and mayhem as Chris Evans steers you home. With an all-star cast that includes fun, features, business, sport and, of course, you! We wrap the week up and launch the weekend with All Request Friday, your chance to take a turn behind the wheel. This really is your show; we rely on you to provide the music and, don?t forget, your plans get us in the mood for ours?

70 Years of Cool

70 Years of Cool: Episode 1

Episode 1

BBC Radio 2 - 70 Years of Cool, Episode 1

Jamie Cullum tells the story of Blue Note Records and the rise of modern jazz.

Jamie Cullum tells the story of Blue Note Records and the rise of modern jazz, to mark Alfred Lion's first recording session for the label in New York in 1939.

Jamie Cullum tells the three-part story of Blue Note Records and the rise of modern jazz, 70 years after the German immigrant and jazz enthusiast Alfred Lion held the very first 1939 recording session for the label in New York .
Blue Note has grown into one of the most influential music labels in the world. Today, the label boasts a back catalogue that includes such jazz icons as Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Herbie Hancock, as well as contemporary artists like Norah Jones. 
Alfred Lion's love affair with jazz music made his approach to every aspect of the label's workings different. Musicians adored working with Blue Note - the label became known for treating their artists uncommonly well - sessions arranged after their gigs in the early hours of the morning which suited them perfectly -  and giving them creative space to express themselves.  
Jamie reveals how a childhood friend of Lion's would make a vital contribution to the legend of Blue Note. Francis Wolff caught the last boat out of Nazi Germany for America and found a day job in a photographic studio. But by night he joined Lion at Blue Note and became the mastermind behind the label's iconic cover designs. Wolff photographed recording sessions in a raw and unique style, showing musicians ruminating over chord changes or soaked in sweat amidst a solo. The label didn't skip a beat in putting photographs of black artists on the covers at a time when America was still deeply racially divided.
Later joined at Blue Note by artist Reid Miles, his partnership with Wolff was as influential in the world of design as the music would be in the world of jazz. It was distinguished by moody photography and creative typography, both unique and beautiful. Among this influential art, Jamie discovers a handful of mid-Fifties album covers, featuring drawings by a then little-known commercial artist called Andy Warhol. 
Jamie reveals how the decades of dedicated industry finally took their toll on Lion and Wolff, the struggle to keep an independent label solvent came to a head in the late 1960s and the label was sold. Lion retired and the 1970s saw a splintering of jazz styles in the music world. 

By the early 1980s the label was alive but neglected, until a music fan and archivist Michael Cuscuna started hunting down the vast vault of unreleased music by Blue Note, and found a treasure trove of unheard material that is still being released today.  The label was revived and relaunched in 1985 by another life-long jazz fan Bruce Lundvall, who saw rich new exciting talent pour in, starting to experiment more with vocalists and in the process discovering one of the finest jazz singers of modern times, Norah Jones.

The greatest of all back catalogues, the most innovative jazz label working today, and since 1939 the most influential of them all - this is 70 Years of Cool, the story of Blue Note records.

Contributors include Kenny Burrell (Blue Note musician); Lou Donaldson (Blue Note musician); Soweto Kinch (jazz musician and DJ); Brian Morton (co-author of the Penguin Book of Jazz); Stephen Duffy (jazz singer and broadcaster); Dianne Reeves (Blue Note musician); Ashley Khan (journalist and author of forthcoming history of Blue Note records); Michael Cuscuna (archivist and jazz fan); Bruce Lundvall (President of Blue Note records); Sheila Jordan (Blue Note musician).

Jamie Cullum tells the story of Blue Note Records and the rise of modern jazz

Jamie Cullum tells the story of Blue Note Records and the rise of modern jazz, seventy years after Alfred Lion held the very first 1939 recording session for the label in New York

New series. 1/3. Jamie Cullum celebrates Blue Note Records - the label that is synonymous with jazz, started in 1939 by German emigre Alfred Lion , with Francis Wolff (and later Reid Miles ) behind the signature look of the stylish and moody LP covers. The label's back catalogue includes Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis , John Coltrane and Herbie Hancock , with Nora Jones a current star. The owners sold the company in the 1960s, and the series covers the label's various eras. ProducerCardPurcell

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: 01/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Sunday Night is Music Night, 01/05/2009

The Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington story, as performed at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival

Clarke Peters and Michael Brandon narrate the story of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington. The BBC Concert Orchestra and guests perform as part of the Cheltenham Jazz Festival.

The Billy Strayhorn / Duke Ellington story is performed at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival. "Half Way To Dawn" features Guy Barker & his Big Band, plus the BBC Concert Orchestra & conductor Mike Dixon. 
Special guests Madeline Bell, Ian Shaw and Emma Smith perform classics such as "Lush Life", "Sophisticated Lady", "Jump for Joy" and "Satin Doll" as Clarke Peters and Michael Brandon narrate the story of these two jazz greats.

Friday Night Is Music Night

Michael Brandon narrates the story of jazz greats Duke Ellington (1899-1974) and Billy Strayhorn 
(1915-67) in this Cheltenham Jazz Festival tribute concert.

Roger Moore:My Word Is My Bond

2/6. The former James Bond reads from his autobiography, continuing with his actor training and the first two (of four) marriages. Abridged by Paul Kent  
Radio features: pages 118-119

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: 01/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Listen to the Band, 01/05/2009

Frank Renton introduces the Redbridge Brass Brand, led by conductor Jeremy Wise.

Frank Renton introduces the Redbridge Brass Brand. Led by conductor Jeremy Wise, the band plays a varied programme of music that includes Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.

Frank Renton introduces Redbridge Brass, who've been London and Southern Counties Champions six times since 2002 and won the prestigious Butlins competition in 2009. 
With conductor Jeremy Wise they play a typically varied programme of music especially recorded for the programme.  Opening up with the March Manhattan they feature trombonist Jane Murrill in Here's That Rainy Day, the solo cornet of Ralph Brill in Don't Doubt Him and end with music from Gershwin's masterpiece Porgy And Bess.

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.

Claudia Winkleman

The Radio 2 Arts Show with Anneka Rice: 01/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - The Radio 2 Arts Show with Anneka Rice, 01/05/2009

With authors Peter Ackroyd and Simon Majumdar plus singer Madeleine Peyroux.

Claudia is joined by American jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux, author Simon Majumdar talks about his new book Eat My Globe and Baylon Leonard reviews new theatre shows.

A quirky look at the popular arts including live music with jazz singer-songwriter Madeleine Peyroux. Author Simon Majumdar talks about his new book 'Eat My Globe' while Peter Ackroyd brings a hint of medieval life with his translation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Former Cocteau Twin and now manager of Fleet Foxes Simon Raymonde, chats about the transition from artist to working behind the scenes. Plus Baylon Leonard offers a review of some new theatre shows.

With author Peter Ackroyd , food writer Simon Majumdar and, with a live set, jazz singer Imelda May

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: 01/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Mark Lamarr, 01/05/2009

Mark Lamarr presents music from the last 70 years, alongside the finest live sessions.

Mike Harding

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

Mike Harding: 29/04/2009

29/04/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Mike Harding, 29/04/2009

Mike is joined by Irish folk singer Christy Moore.

Mike is joined by Irish folk singer Christy Moore, who plays tracks from his back catalogue as well as his latest album.

On tonight's programme, Mike is joined for the whole hour by legendary Irish folk singer Christy Moore, playing tracks from his immense  back catalogue as well as his brand new album Listen.
In the interview, recorded recently in Dublin, Christy looks back over his forty year career from his first album release in 1969, through his days with Planxty and Moving Hearts right though to the present day and his latest album. 
Christy's importance as an artist has been recognized with a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2007 he was named as Ireland's greatest living musician in RTE's People of the Year Awards.  
Mike's musical selection spans early songs like Paddy On The Road, to his unforgettable version of Mike Waterson's Stitch In Time and perhaps his best-loved song Ride On from the pen of Jimmy McCarthy. 
Mike also picks his favourite tracks from Christy's brand new album Listen, a stripped down and very intimate collection of songs including long-term collaborator Wally Page's song Duffy's Cut, English folk singer Bill Caddick's John O Dreams and Christy's own song Riding The High Stool.

Mo Dutta

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

Mo Dutta: 02/05/2009

02/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Mo Dutta, 02/05/2009

Chris Hawkins sits in for Mo Dutta with music and chat.

Chris Hawkins sits in for Mo Dutta with music and chat. Including a classic hit from a golden year and Pause for Thought.

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