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Good Morning Sunday

Reverend Kate Bottley and Jason Mohammad present uplifting stories about life.

Reverend Kate Bottley and Jason Mohammad present uplifting stories about life, love and modern spirituality.

Good Morning Sunday: 03/05/2009

03/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Good Morning Sunday, 03/05/2009

Aled Jones says Good Morning Sunday to author of books on children's food Annabel Karmel.

Aled says Good Morning Sunday to best-selling author of books on baby and children's food, Annabel Karmel. Plus Blake sing live and Dr Savi Arora has the Moment of Reflection.

Each week Aled Jones plays tracks from a broad musical spectrum, that celebrate both our choral traditions and the vibrant world of modern music as well as spiritually uplifting and reflective music. He also discusses religious and ethical issues of the week with faith representatives. This week, Aled says Good Morning Sunday to the UK's best-selling author of books on baby and children's food, Annabel Karmel. Annabel was awarded an MBE in June 2006 in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for her outstanding work in the field of child nutrition and talks to Aled about her Jewish faith. Good Morning Sunday favourites, Blake, introduce their new band member and sing some of their best-selling songs live in the studio. And Dr Savi Arora discusses the week's news from a faith and ethics perspective and gives the Moment of Reflection.

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

Aled Jones

Guests include baby/children's-food nutritionist Annabel Karmel and, performing live, classical-pop male quartet Blake. And Dr Savi Arora reflects on spiritual matters.

Lulu

Sitting in for Steve Wright with personal dedications and tunes.

Steve Wright's Sunday Love Songs

A blend of classic love songs, dedications and real-life romance stories.

A blend of classic love songs, dedications and real-life romance stories, presented by Steve Wright.

Steve Wright's Sunday Love Songs: 03/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Steve Wright's Sunday Love Songs, 03/05/2009

Lulu sits in for Steve Wright with the best new and classic love songs.

Lulu sits in for Steve Wright with romantic dedications, the search for Lost Loves and the best new and classic love songs.

Lulu returns to Sunday Love Songs and she has your romantic dedications, Lost Loves and the world's best new and classic love songs.

Michael Ball's Sunday Brunch

BBC Radio 4 Extra

Sunday Brunch with Michael Ball and guests

Michael Ball's Sunday Brunch: 03/05/2009

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Michael Ball's Sunday Brunch, 03/05/2009

Michael Ball's Sunday Brunch with special guest Robert Lindsay.

Michael Ball's Sunday Brunch with great music, a newspaper review, a look at the best of the week's entertainment and special guest Robert Lindsay.

Michael Ball brings his own special charm and warmth in his Sunday Brunch, the perfect accompaniment to a late Sunday morning. It kicks off with a newspaper review, in which a leading journalist comes to discuss what's in the papers that day. We take a look at the pick of the week's entertainment, plus Michael welcomes Robert Lindsay into the studio for a chat. All this and great music too....

Michael Ball

Elaine Paige on Sunday

Elaine Paige celebrates the best of Broadway, Hollywood and the West End.

Elaine Paige On Sunday

Elaine Paige on Sunday: 03/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Elaine Paige on Sunday, 03/05/2009

Elaine is joined by actress Sian Phillips.

Elaine Paige presents great showtunes and Hollywood music. She is joined by actress Sian Phillips, star of the stage version of Calendar Girls, who shares her Essential Musicals.

Elaine Paige presents two full hours of great showtunes and Hollywood music. And this week, EP is joined by actress Sian Phillips, who is starring in the hit stage version of 'Calendar Girls'. As well as Siân's favourite Essential Musicals, there's the competition, your break-a-leg messages and requests. Plus, 'Malcolm's Big One' comes from the 1945 Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's 'Carousel'.

Today's guests include actor/singer Aneurin Barnard , who performs 
Left Behind from the current West 
End hit Spring Awakening, in which he stars. And actress Sian Phillips - currently appearing in the West End stage adaptation of the film Calendar Girls - identifies her top musicals. Plus a song from Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1945 musical 
Carousel, as chosen by the show's producer Malcolm Prince.

Sounds of the 70s with Johnnie Walker 

Johnnie Walker plays classic tracks from the Seventies

Johnnie Walker's Sounds of the 70s

Sounds of the 70s with Johnnie Walker : 03/05/2009

Sounds of the 70s with Johnnie Walker

BBC Radio 2 - Sounds of the 70s with Johnnie Walker, 03/05/2009

Johnnie Walker plays classic tracks from the Seventies.

Johnnie Walker celebrates the '70s by playing classic tracks and interviewing key artists from the decade. Featuring archive sessions and a return of the quiz Pop the Question.

Johnnie plays classic 70s tracks from both sides of the Atlantic:  The Eagles, Steely Dan, Lou Reed, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Queen. 
He revisits his original popular 70s music quiz Pop The Question, where two callers go head to head answering 70s music questions, and raids the BBC archive to dig out sessions from iconic artists.
Johnnie also chats to musicians and public figures from the decade about their memories and favourite tracks and each week listeners help identify one of the decade's hidden gems in The One That Got Away.

Sounds of the 70s

Period pop nostalgia, with Johnnie Walker spinning hits and LP cuts from the decade of rock, folk, glam, disco, punk and metal. Expect trivia, archive sets and starry interviews.

Paul O'Grady

There's not another radio programme like it... the incomparable Paul O'Grady.

Paul O'Grady: 03/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Paul O'Grady, 03/05/2009

Only Paul would play music from Brenda Lee, Girls Aloud and The Stargazers!

Paul encourages listeners to say thank you to those who have made a positive difference to their lives. Plus great music, including Motown classics and the Northern Soul triple.

...in which Paul remembered Bea Arthur, discussed his goat and got a paper cut in the studio.  (He's fine, don't worry.)

Alan Titchmarsh with Melodies for You

Alan Titchmarsh plays a mixture of popular and classical music

Alan Titchmarsh with Melodies for You: 03/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Alan Titchmarsh with Melodies for You, 03/05/2009

With Melodies for You. With recordings by Jose Carreras, Glenn Miller and more.

With Melodies for You. Alan presents recordings by Jose Carreras, Glenn Miller and Victoria de los Angeles, a waltz by Robert Stolz and a Cornish Dance by Malcolm Arnold.

Alan Titchmarsh presents an eclectic mix of tunes from the worlds of classical, opera, operetta, musicals, films, brass and military bands and jazz. 
This week's show includes performances by Jose Carreras, Glen Miller and Victoria de los Angeles. There's a waltz from "Wiener Cafe" by Robert Stolz and a Cornish Dance by Malcolm Arnold. Plus listener requests for the music of Isaac Albeniz and Trevor Duncan.

Alan Titchmarsh

Radio, stage and film oldies and a selection of light classical pieces, from Glenn Miller to Malcolm Arnold.

The Sunday Hour

Rev Kate Bottley presents your favourite hymns and spiritual sounds

Rev Kate Bottley presents your favourite hymns and spiritual sounds with reflections, dedications and a wide range of inspirational music

Sunday Half Hour

The Sunday Hour: 03/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - The Sunday Hour, 03/05/2009

Brian D'Arcy introduces hymns about healing and wholeness.

Brian D'Arcy introduces hymns about healing and wholeness. The featured choir is Lichfield Cathedral Chamber Choir, directed by Martyn Rawles, and the organist is Cathy Lamb.

To mark the 90th anniversary of the foundation of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Brian D'Arcy introduces hymns about healing and wholeness. 
This week's featured choir is Lichfield Cathedral Chamber Choir directed by Martyn Rawles. The organist is Cathy Lamb. Hymns include "I Heard The Voice Of Jesus Say"; "There's A Wideness In God's Mercy" and "Be Still For The Presence Of The Lord".

Sunday Half-Hour

Brian D'Arcy introduces hymns exploring healing and wholeness, featuring Lichfield Cathedral Chamber Choir, directed by Martyn Rawles.

Russell Davies

Russell Davies celebrates the art, craft and inspiration of the popular song

Russell Davies: 03/05/2009

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Russell Davies, 03/05/2009

Celebrating the 110th anniversary of Duke Ellington's birth.

The show that celebrates the art, craft and inspiration of the popular song. Celebrating the 110th anniversary of Duke Ellington's birth.

Amidst the flurry of anniversaries, our first show of the new month gives us the chance to indulge in a few personal favourites and turn up some new gems, in particular Carmen McRae's fine rendering of an Artie Shaw song, Winter In May.

We also revisit the Duke Ellington's album, In A Mellotone, from which we play the Herb Jeffries number I Don't Know What Kind Of Blues I Got. This album has long been a favourite of ours, containing as it does some of Duke's finest creations of the 1940s. It also features the Blanton-Webster band, so-called because of the huge effect that the two newcomers - bassist Jimmy Blanton and tenor sax-man Ben Webster - had on the band's output.

It was a short-lived period - Ben moved on to other things in 1943 and Jimmy died tragically young in 1942 - but their influence reverberated long after their time. The album includes the original versions of two other songs for our Ellington tribute - All Too Soon and I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good.

Series on songs and songwriting, featuring anniversary tributes.

Malcolm Laycock

The best of the big bands. 
The last edition of this show was broadcast on 26 July 2009.

Malcolm Laycock: 03/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Malcolm Laycock, 03/05/2009

Clare Teal sits in for Malcolm Laycock with the best in swinging big band sounds.

Clare Teal

The David Jacobs Collection

David Jacobs presents a relaxed programme of easy-listening music and anecdotes

David Jacobs presents a relaxed programme of easy-listening music, anecdotes and the ever-popular Common Denominator

The David Jacobs Collection: 03/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - The David Jacobs Collection, 03/05/2009

The greatest songs and performances from Hollywood, Broadway and Tin Pan Alley.

The greatest songs and performances from Hollywood, Broadway and Tin Pan Alley. Plus the Weekly Common Denominator.

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: 03/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Janice Long, 03/05/2009

With live sessions, irreverent chat and great music.

With live sessions, irreverent chat and great music, including obscure, unlikely and lesser-heard records in Tunes of the Unexpected.

With the best live sessions, irreverent chat and the finest music to keep you going throughout the night. Including obscure, unlikely and lesser heard records in Tunes Of The Unexpected.

Alex Lester

Weekday morning music and entertainment with Alex Lester

Alex Lester: 04/05/2009

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BBC Radio 2 - Alex Lester, 04/05/2009

With the Best Time Of The Day Show. Eclectic music and chat, plus Pause for Thought.

With the Best Time of the Day Show. Alex plays listeners' and his own eclectic musical selections in Lester's Library and the Listeners' Library. Plus Pause for Thought at 3.30am.

An extended Bank Holiday Best Time Of The Day Show starting with an ill-advised Janice & Alex duet. Dr Frankenstein sets to work on 'Frankenchild' and we ask for signs of a female mid-life crisis. Richard's choice in Listeners' Library, where you choose the music, a double-selection from Alex's own collection in Lester's Library, and Pause For Thought.

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