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: 15/05/2009

15/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Sarah Kennedy, 15/05/2009

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

Richard Allinson 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

Wake Up to Wogan

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

Wake Up to Wogan: 15/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Wake Up to Wogan, 15/05/2009

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

Johnnie Walker sits in for Terry Wogan with music and chat. Plus Pause for Thought from Rev Ruth Scott, an Anglican Vicar in Richmond.

Johnnie Walker

Ken Bruce

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

Ken Bruce: 15/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Ken Bruce, 15/05/2009

Zoe Ball sits in for Ken Bruce. Including Alesha Dixon's Tracks Of My Years.

Zoe Ball sits in for Ken Bruce, with the Record and Album Of The Week, PopMaster and Alesha Dixon's Tracks Of My Years. Please note: competitions or votes featured in this programme may now be closed.

Zoe Ball sits in for Ken Bruce. Romance is in the air when she plays the daily Love Song. Plus there's the Record and Album Of The Week, PopMaster and Alesha Dixon's Tracks Of My Years.

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

Zoe Ball

Jeremy Vine

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

Jeremy Vine: 15/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine, 15/05/2009

Discussing MPs' expenses, babies switched at birth and fighting for love.

Discussing MPs' expenses claims and how listeners would fix the system, the women who were accidentally switched at birth and asking if listeners would fight over a woman.

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: 15/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Steve Wright in the Afternoon, 15/05/2009

Steve speaks to Diane Warren, co-writer of the UK's Eurovision entry.

Steve speaks to Diane Warren, co-writer of the UK's Eurovision entry. Plus, Sacha Tomkins from Bedford shares his Non-Stop Oldies.

Steve Wright and the team dig out the most fascinating Factoids and talk to the biggest celebrity guests, and there's the best music on planet Earth as well.

Steve Wright

Chris Evans

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

Chris Evans: 15/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Chris Evans, 15/05/2009

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.

70 Years of Cool

70 Years of Cool: Episode 3

Episode 3

BBC Radio 2 - 70 Years of Cool, Episode 3

Jamie Cullum recounts how the Blue Note jazz label has been revived in modern times.

Jamie Cullum reveals how the label had to be sold in the 1960s, but then DJs and musicians began sampling Blue Note music. The label's revival had begun.

Jamie Cullum concludes the 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.
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. As the decade closed Blue Note became something of a sleeping label.
But club DJs and the hip-hop culture was picking up on old Blue Note tunes, sampling them, and they were turning up in the most unexpected places, as saxophonist and MC Soweto Kinch and author Brian Morton reveal.
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 discovered a treasure trove of unheard material that is still being released today. The label was revived and re-launched in 1985 by another life-long jazz fan Bruce Lundvall, who saw rich new exciting talent pour in, like Cassandra Wilson and Dianne Reeves; Wynton Marsalis; pianists Robert Glasper and Jason Moran; saxophonists Greg Osby and Jo Lovano; and singer Kurt Elling. Blue Note was experimenting more with vocalists and in the process discovering one of the finest jazz singers of modern times, Norah Jones.
Contributors include Kenny Burrell (Blue Note musician); Lou Donaldson (Blue Note musician); Soweto Kinch (saxophonist and MC); Brian Morton (co-author of the Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings); 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 music producer); Bruce Lundvall (President of Blue Note records); and 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

3/3. Jamie Cullum celebrates jazz label Blue Note Records, started in 1939 by Alfred Lion , with Francis Wolff. This final edition looks at the rise of modern jazz and Lion and Wolff's struggles to keen an indie label solvent, ultimately selling up in 1969. But after a quiet 1970s, the back catalogue of riches caught the ears of club DJs and purveyors of hip-hop sampling. Current Blue Note president Bruce Lundvall relaunched the label in 1985, with a new era of artists such as Dianne Reeves and, more recently, Norah Jones. ..

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: 15/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Sunday Night is Music Night, 15/05/2009

Aled Jones presents singer-songwriter Paul Carrack and American jazz singer Melody Gardot.

Aled Jones presents singer-songwriter Paul Carrack and American jazz singer Melody Gardot performing live from LSO St Luke's.

Aled Jones presents Friday Night Is Music Night live at LSO St Luke's, with singer-songwriter Paul Carrack and American jazz singer Melody Gardot.
Melody performs numbers from her new album and then Paul Carrack takes over Act Two, performing his greatest hits with the BBC Concert Orchestra. 
Paul is as respected for his solo career as for his collaborations - with Ace, Roxy Music, Squeeze, Roger Waters, Mike & The Mechanics, Nick Lowe, The Pretenders, The Smiths, The Eagles, Ringo Starr, BB King, Eric Clapton and Elton John - to name just a few. It's fresh with a twist of vintage and served up with a great burst of energy.

Friday Night Is Music Night

Martin Yates conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra with Paul Carrack (ex-Ace, ex-Squeeze), who performs hits from his career. Plus jazz singer Melody Gardot with new songs. With Aled Jones.

Roger Moore: My Word Is My Bond

Roger Moore: My Word Is My Bond: Episode 3

BBC Radio 2 - Roger Moore: My Word Is My Bond, Episode 3Search BBC

Roger recounts his memories of moving to America and his break into Hollywood movies.

Roger recounts his memories of moving to America with Dorothy Squires to pursue his dream of becoming a big name.

Movie icon and legendary actor Sir Roger Moore, reads the third excerpt from his autobiography "My Word Is My Bond". 
Roger recounts his memories of moving to America with Dorothy Squires to pursue his dream of becoming a big name; his first job on US television; and getting married to Dot in New Jersey.
He also recalls being signed to MGM; starring in movies such as 'The Last Time I Saw Paris' alongside Elizabeth Taylor and Van Johnson; working with Ava Gardner, Debbie Reynolds and Vic Damone; his first movie with David Niven; and being taught how to kiss 'properly' by Lana Turner.
On returning to the UK, he stars in 'Ivanhoe', alongside a German-speaking Christopher Lee; is surprised by a young Elvis Presley, and allows his heart to take him far from Dorothy and into the next phase of his life.

Movie icon Sir Roger Moore reads from his autobiography

Roger Moore:My Word Is My Bond

4/6. The actor reads from his 2008 autobiography, continuing with The Saint (1961-69), The Persuaders! (1971-2) - including the exploits of co-star Tony Curtis - and a career-boosting encounter with James Bond producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli.

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: 15/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Listen to the Band, 15/05/2009

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

Frank Renton presents the second programme featuring music and conversation from the 2009 European Brass Band Championships, held in Ostend.

Did Cory retain their European title, how did the other UK bands representing Wales, Scotland and England get on? 
Join Frank Renton tonight as he presents the second programme featuring music and conversation from the 2009 European Brass Band Championships held in Ostend.

Further highlights from the recent European Brass Band championships.

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: 15/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - The Radio 2 Arts Show with Anneka Rice, 15/05/2009

Claudia is joined by actress Sian Phillips, author Freya North and musician Ruarri Joseph.

Actress Sian Phillips, best-selling author Freya North and musician Ruarri Joseph join Claudia for her round-up of the arts.

Celebrated stage and screen actress Sian Phillips currently appearing in the West End hit Calendar Girls talks about her one woman show. 

Enjoy a live gig without stepping out the front door when Ruarri Joseph pops in to play a couple of songs . His music's described as floaty and beautiful so just perfect for a late night Friday. 

And what do chick-lit authors do after winning the Romantic Novel of the Year award? Find out from author Freya North who's just published her latest book 'Secrets'.

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: 15/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Mark Lamarr, 15/05/2009

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

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: 13/05/2009

13/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Mike Harding, 13/05/2009

Mike Harding chats to Bellowhead front man Jon Boden.

Mike Harding chats to Bellowhead front man Jon Boden and plays tracks from his solo album Songs from the Floodplain.

Mike Harding chats to Bellowhead front man Jon Boden and plays tracks from his eagerly anticipated new solo album 'Songs From The Floodplain'. 
Plus there's Mike's usual selection of the very best in folk, roots and acoustic music including another trip into the Folk Vault with a classic live performance from the archives.

Mo Dutta

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

Mo Dutta: 16/05/2009

16/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Mo Dutta, 16/05/2009

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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