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: 12/05/2009

12/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Sarah Kennedy, 12/05/2009

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: 12/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Wake Up to Wogan, 12/05/2009

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

Johnnie Walker sits in for Terry Wogan with music and chat. Includes Pause for Thought with Father Brian D'Arcy.

Johnnie Walker

Ken Bruce

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

Ken Bruce: 12/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Ken Bruce, 12/05/2009

With the Album and Record Of The Week, PopMaster and Tracks of My Years from Alesha Dixon.

With the Album and Record Of The Week, PopMaster and Tracks of My Years from Alesha Dixon.

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

Ken Bruce flies in the face of conformity and presents a radio show completely different to any other: Music, a quiz, your texts and emails, more music and some travel bulletins. Plus Tracks Of My Years from Alesha Dixon.

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: 12/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine, 12/05/2009

Discussing MPs' expenses, a lift plunging ten feet, a threatened pub and Welsh Devolution.

Discussing public outrage at MPs' controversial expenses claims, the lift that plunged ten feet at Tower Bridge, the Cardiff pub threatened with demolition and the Welsh Devolution.

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: 12/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Steve Wright in the Afternoon, 12/05/2009

Steve is joined by Neil Oliver, archaeologist and presenter of Coast.

Steve is joined by Neil Oliver, archaeologist and presenter of Coast. Plus the Non Stop Oldies, as picked by Bazz Mercer from Otley in Leeds.

Steve and the team with the biggest celebrity guests, the best music from across the globe, Factoids, the latest showbiz news and the Non-Stop Oldies.

Steve Wright

Chris Evans

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

Chris Evans: 12/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Chris Evans, 12/05/2009

Chris celebrates double Sony Gold by revisiting the best of the guests.

Chris hosts a Sony Gold Drivetime Celebration party with a pick of the best guests. Everyone is invited!

Desmond Carrington: The Music Goes Round

Desmond Carrington dips into classics from all musical genres

Desmond Carrington dips into classics from all musical genres from the 1920s to the present day

Desmond Carrington with The Music Goes Round

Desmond Carrington: The Music Goes Round: 12/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Desmond Carrington: The Music Goes Round, 12/05/2009

Desmond rummages through his collection of 250,000 titles to share some good tunes, some unexpected ones and a few you may have never heard before. The theme is 'a long journey'.

Desmond rummages through his collection of 250,000 titles to share some good tunes, some unexpected ones and a few you may have never heard before. This week's theme is a long journey.

Desmond Carrington

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: 12/05/2009

BBC Radio 6 Music - The Radcliffe & Maconie Show, 12/05/2009

Mark and Stuart take a scientific approach with tunes connected to the periodic table.

With live sessions, celebrity guests and listener interaction. Mark and Stuart take a scientific approach to the show, with tunes connected to the periodic table.

Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie

The Organist Entertains

Nigel Ogden presents a programme of popular organ recordings

Nigel Ogden presents a programme of popular organ recordings, including pipe and electronic organs

Nigel Ogden: The Organist Entertains

The Organist Entertains: 12/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - The Organist Entertains, 12/05/2009

The Organist Entertains. Exploring the best organ music from around the world.

Nigel Ogden

Not Letting It Be

BBC Radio 2 - Not Letting It Be

Matt Lucas looks at the tradition of music business satire.

Matt Lucas looks at the tradition of music business satire, from Spike Jones, The Rutles and Spinal Tap through to The Flight of The Conchords, Stella Street and Rock Profile.

When The Rutles 'documentary' All You Need Is Cash was released in 1978, it revived the long tradition of music business satire.
The film paralleled the story of the real Fab Four with incredible attention to detail - from early beginnings in Liverpool, through the mind-bending excesses of Rutlemania, to the band's infatuation with the mystic Arthur Sultan in Bognor Regis and the shambles of their last LP, Let It Rot. 
Back in the 1940s it had been bandleader Spike Jones who'd had a pop at the popular music of the day. He in turn inspired the man who would become synonymous with the send up - Stan Freberg. Freberg resented the rise of rock 'n' roll and recorded celebrated satires of Elvis Presley, Johnny Ray, The Platters and The Chords.
The rise of the Beatles and the onset of psychedelia took pop music into new areas of self-importance, fertile ground not only for The Rutles but more especially This Is Spinal Tap, such a convincing portrayal of a heavy metal band on the road that legend has it some viewers mistook this 'mockumentary' for a true story.
The Hee Bee Gee Bees, Flight Of The Conchords, Weird Al Yankovic, U2 parodists The Joshua Trio and television shows like Rock Profile, Stella Street and Star Stories have carried on this noble tradition.
Today, as we become increasingly swamped by the parallel forces of celebrity culture and rock star earnestness, this programme explores what makes for successful music business satire. 
Presented by Matt Lucas and with contributions from Neil Innes, John Sessions, Harry Shearer, Weird Al Yankovic, Phil Cornwell, Philip Pope and journalists Maureen Cleave, Ray Connolly, David Hepworth and Bill Flanagan, this programme will tell an alternative history of popular music, of how things might have been, where Spinal Tap's Smell The Glove rivals Sgt. Pepper as a cultural icon and old rockers take over the corner shop.

Matt Lucas showcases satirical swipes at the music business, from Spike Jones in the 1940s, and Stan Freberg - who sent up 1950s icons Elvis Presley, Johnny Ray and The Platters - to 1970s Beatles pastiche act The Rutles. Plus Rob Reiner's seminal mock documentary This Is Spinal Tap (1984), TV shows such as Stella Street (1997-2001) and Lucas and David Walliams's Rock Profile (1999-2000), as well as acts such as Flight of the Conchords and U2 parodists The Joshua Trio. Contributors include Harry Shearer (This Is Spinal Tap), US DJ "Weird Al" Yankovic, Neil Innes (ex-Rutles), John Sessions (Stella Street), Phil Cornwell (Stella Street) and several journalists.

Not Letting It Be 10.30pm Radio 2
You may think that rock and rock musicians in particular are in no need of being satirised, as they do the job pretty well themselves. Well, that doesn't mean they aren't ripe for a bit of a ribbing. Matt Lucas, himself no stranger to taking the michael out of rock gods with David Walliams in Rock Profile on BBC2, hosts this chronological countdown of the best of the mickey-takers. Step forward Neil Innes with his tales of Rutlemania; Harry Shearer, who turns the amp all the way up to 11 with Spinal Tap (surely the definitive send-up/homage); and the Hee Bee Gee Bees... remember Meaningless Songs (in Very High Voices)? They had Angus Deayton among their number but got Richard Curtis to write the lyrics. Not bad. Quite why Stella Street is here is a bit of a mystery to me - just because Phil Cornwell and John Sessions get to practise their Mick and Keef voices doesn't make it satire. Plenty of great music, a few lightly tossed anecdotes and - voila! - an hour of high-quality entertainment.

You Heard It At The Movies

You Heard It At The Movies: Episode 2

Episode 2

BBC Radio 2 - You Heard It At The Movies, Episode 2

George Fenton looks at some of the silver screen's most successful composers.

George looks at some of the silver screen's most successful composers and how they responded to the lure of Hollywood.

In programme two of You Heard It At The Movies, composer George Fenton looks at some of the silver screen's most successful composers and how they responded to the lure of Hollywood. From a steady exodus of European musicians heading to the States in the early days of cinema, to the writers working in the Hollywood studio system today, George gives us a personal insight into the working processes of a film composer. 
With illustrations from the cinema greats - as well as some less well-known scores - there's music from Erich Korngold, Miklos Rosza, Aaron Copland, John Williams, Nino Rota and more.

Award-winning film composer George Fenton presents the big screen's greatest film scores

You Heard It at the Movies

2/8. Five-time Oscar-nominated composer George Fenton explores the art and business of writing music for the big screen. This edition looks at the outsiders seduced by the lure of Hollywood, including 
Erich Korngold (Austria-Hungary), Miklos Rosza (Hungary), Nino Rota (Italy), and New Yorkers Aaron Copland and John Williams.

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: 12/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Janice Long, 12/05/2009

Great music and chat, with live music sessions.

Great music and chat, with live music sessions and listener suggestions for a Tune Of The Unexpected.

Great music and chat to keep you up through the night, with live music sessions and your suggestions for a Tune Of The Unexpected.

With a live set from Blur's 
Graham Coxon , who performs a live set to coincide with the release of his new album The Spinning Top.

Alex Lester

Weekday morning music and entertainment with Alex Lester

Alex Lester: 13/05/2009

13/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Alex Lester, 13/05/2009

The Best Time Of The Day Show. Alex brings his own combination of music and conversation.

The Best Time Of The Day Show. A combination of music and conversation. Popular features include the Listeners' Library, where listeners choose the music.

Alex brings his own combination of music and conversation to early weekday mornings, making this The Best Time Of The Day Show. Popular features include the Listeners' Library, where you choose the music, and a double-selection from Alex's own collection in Lester's Library.

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