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: 08/05/2009

08/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Sarah Kennedy, 08/05/2009

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

Wake Up to Wogan

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

Wake Up to Wogan: 08/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Wake Up to Wogan, 08/05/2009

Johnnie Walker sits in for Terry Wogan with music and chat.

Ken Bruce

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

Ken Bruce: 08/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Ken Bruce, 08/05/2009

With the Record Of The Week, PopMaster and Tracks Of My Years with Eddie Jordan.

With the Record and Album Of The Week, the Love Song and PopMaster. Plus Tracks Of My Years from Eddie Jordan.

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

Self-proclaimed Heir to the Throne of Scotland, Ken Bruce seeks willing audience to listen to radio show in world's first bid to reverse hair-loss with a daily mix of music and first-class humour. Including the Record and Album Of The Week, the Love Song, PopMaster, Travel with Lynn Bowles and Tracks Of My Years with Eddie Jordan.

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: 08/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine, 08/05/2009

Discussing the Gurkhas; a hit-and-run accident; money saving myths and Digging for Victory

Discussing Joanna Lumley's fight for the Gurkhas; the 11-year-old boy killed in a hit-and-run accident and money saving myths. Plus Digging for Victory with Terry Walton.

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: 08/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Steve Wright in the Afternoon, 08/05/2009

Richard Allinson sits in for Steve Wright, talking to Greg Proops and Julian Clary.

Richard Allinson sits in for Steve Wright, talking to Greg Proops and Julian Clary. Plus Steve Rac from London shares his CDCV.

Richard Allinson finishes his week sitting in for Steve Wright with the non stop Oldies, top celebrity guests, and your texts and emails.

Richard Allinson

Chris Evans

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

Chris Evans: 08/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Chris Evans, 08/05/2009

With listeners choosing the music for All Request Friday.

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

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. Your journey home never felt so short with Drivetime beside you at the wheel.

70 Years of Cool

70 Years of Cool: Episode 2

Episode 2

BBC Radio 2 - 70 Years of Cool, Episode 2

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 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 recording session for the label in New York .
John Coltrane was the cat that got away.  He so very nearly signed for Blue Note, but although he slipped through the label's fingers he did record one album, Blue Train, which is considered Coltrane's first true masterpiece.
Miles Davis was another artist who recorded briefly for Blue Note, one of his best outing on the label was Somethin' Else, but his sessions were blurred by drug use.  Jamie discovers the damage drugs did on the jazz scene during this period, and the impact it had on Blue Note recordings.
Jamie takes a look at some key Blue Note artists:  how by sheer luck the label unearthed the young Herbie Hancock, and what a profound effect he had on the world of jazz.  And Sheila Jordan talks about her only Blue Note recording, and how rare it was for vocalists like her to be recorded on the label before the 1980s, and why that was.
Meanwhile Alfred Lion's childhood friend Frank Wolff was photographing 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 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

2/2. Singer Jamie Cullum celebrates Blue Note Records - the label that is synonomous 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 Norah Jones a current star. Kenny Burrell , Lou Donaldson , Sheila Jordan , Stephen Duffy , Dianne Reeves and Brian Morton all contribute.

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: 08/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Sunday Night is Music Night, 08/05/2009

The BBC Concert Orchestra performs music by Gershwin, Tom Lehrer, Copland and Borodin.

Ken Bruce presents the BBC Concert Orchestra with singers Jan Hartley and David Timson, pianist Charles Miller and Sweet Chorus in music by Gershwin, Lehrer, Copland and Borodin.

Ken Bruce presents a Friday Night Is Music Night dance spectacular.

The BBC Concert Orchestra are joined by singers Jan Hartley and David Timson, pianist Charles Miller and the instrumental group Sweet Chorus and perform music by Gershwin, Tom Lehrer, Copland and Borodin. 

The BBC Concert Orchestra are led by Cynthia Fleming and conducted by John Pryce Jones.

Friday Night Is Music Night

John Pryce-Jones conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra with singers Jan Harvey and David Timson.

Roger Moore: My Word Is My Bond

Roger Moore: My Word Is My Bond: Episode 2

BBC Radio 2 - Roger Moore: My Word Is My Bond, Episode 2Search BBC

Roger Moore recounts his memories of starting out in the film industry.

Roger Moore recounts his memories of starting out in the film industry as an extra on the Vivien Leigh movie Caesar & Cleopatra, and then meeting his first wife.

Movie icon and legendary actor Sir Roger Moore, reads the second excerpt from his autobiography My Word Is My Bond.  Roger recounts his memories of starting out in the film industry as an extra on the Vivien Leigh movie Caesar & Cleopatra; heading to RADA and meeting his future wife Doorn van Steyn; celebrating VE Day in London; quitting RADA to become a star but struggling as an actor; getting married to Doorn; earning money as a knitting pattern model; the difficulties of being a young husband; the unusual way of getting a divorce, then meeting and falling in love with singing star Dorothy Squires.

Movie icon Sir Roger Moore reads from his autobiography

3/6. The actor known for his roles as the Saint (1961-69) and James Bond (1973-85) reads from his 2008 autobiography. The story continues with Moore's move to America and acting alongside Elizabeth Taylor , Ava Gardner , Debbie Reynolds , David Niven and Lana Turner.

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: 08/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Listen to the Band, 08/05/2009

Frank Renton presents highlights from The 2009 European Brass Band Championships.

Frank Renton presents the first of three programmes featuring interviews and musical highlights from The 2009 European Brass Band Championships.

Frank Renton presents the first of three programmes featuring interviews and musical highlights from The 2009 European Brass Band Championships.
The Championships were held in Ostend with The Cory Band defending their title, against fellow Welsh finalists The Tredegar Band, as well as Whitburn repesenting Scotland, and Grimethorpe representing England.

Frank Renton presents the first of three programmes of interviews and highlights from the European Brass Band championships, held in Ostende.

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: 08/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - The Radio 2 Arts Show with Anneka Rice, 08/05/2009

Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr and author Jodi Picoult are among Claudia's guests.

Author Jodi Picoult talks about her latest novel, Jim Kerr chats about thirty years of Simple Minds and dancing couple Darren Bennett and Lilia Kopylova talk about their new show.

As well as all the latest in entertainment news from Colin Paterson, including an interview with Michelle Pfeiffer, Claudia is joined by Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr as the band celebrate their 30th anniversary. 

There's also gorgeous husband and wife team Darren Bennett and Lilia Kopylova who pop in to tells us all about their first ever West End show Latin Fever. American author Jodi Picoult discusses an amazing literary career that includes six British number one bestsellers, there's a tribute to the new Poet Laureate from Charlie Jordan, and we've got all the latest on what's coming up on the small screen this summer from TV critic Julia Raeside.

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: 08/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Mark Lamarr, 08/05/2009

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

Mix a bit of hip hop with some hillbilly blues, add a splash of gospel and sprinkle with a great session recorded at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios for God's Jukebox with Mark Lamarr.

Mix a bit of hip hop, with some hillbilly blues, add a splash of gospel and sprinkle with a great session recorded at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios and you'll find yourself listening to a gem of a programme: Mark Lamarr's God's Juke Box.

Mike Harding

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

Mike Harding: 06/05/2009

06/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Mike Harding, 06/05/2009

Featuring a song from the new album by Scottish trio Lori Watson and Rule of Three.

With the best in folk, roots and acoustic music, including a song from the new album by Lori Watson and Rule of Three, and a classic track by Pete Seeger.

Mike Harding presents his usual selection of the very best in folk, roots and acoustic music, including a song from the new album by Scottish trio Lori Watson and Rule of Three. There's also news of a tour by English singer and fiddler Lisa Knapp, plus a classic track by Pete Seeger, who turned 90 at the weekend.

Mo Dutta

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

Mo Dutta: 09/05/2009

09/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Mo Dutta, 09/05/2009

Music and Mo's take on the world. With a classic hit and Pause for Thought.

Music and Mo's take on the world. Including a classic hit from a golden year and Pause for Thought.

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