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: 26/05/2009

26/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Sarah Kennedy, 26/05/2009

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: 26/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Wake Up to Wogan, 26/05/2009

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: 26/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Ken Bruce, 26/05/2009

Zoe Ball sits in for Ken Bruce. Suggs explains his choices for Tracks of My Years.

Zoe Ball sits in for Ken with a live session from Grammy Award-winner and Doobie Brothers frontman Michael McDonald. Please note: competitions or votes featured in this programme may now be closed.

Zoe Ball sits in once again for Ken Bruce with a live acoustic session from Grammy Award-winner, and Doobie Brothers frontman, Michael McDonald.

Suggs from Madness talks about London's Burning by the Clash and Love Is A Beautiful Thing by Al Green which are another of his two favourite songs in Tracks Of My Years, plus there's PopMaster and the Daily Love Song.

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

Zoe Ball

Including after 11.30 throughout the week Tracks of My Years, in which Madness frontman Suggs (Graham McPherson ) picks - two a day - his ten favourite discs.

Jeremy Vine

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

Jeremy Vine: 26/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine, 26/05/2009

Discusses North Korea, Brits dressed as nuns, snoring and Fred Bowers.

Jeremy Vine discusses North Korea's nuclear test, the Brits arrested in Crete for dressing up as nuns, a cure for snoring and the breakdancing pensioner Fred Bowers.

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: 26/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Steve Wright in the Afternoon, 26/05/2009

Join Steve and the team for the Non Stop Oldies and top celebrity guests.

With more factoids and top guests. Plus the Non Stop Oldies, as picked by David Taranager from Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan.

Steve Wright chats to top showbiz guests, and brings you brain-busting Factoids, the Non Stop Oldies, the national and international news from the world of entertainment, and the coolest music from across the globe.

Steve Wright.

Simon Mayo

Chris Evans

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

Chris Evans: 26/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Chris Evans, 26/05/2009

Simon Mayo sits in for Chris Evans. With Irish singer Lisa Hannigan performing live.

Simon Mayo sits in for Chris with Irish singer Lisa Hannigan chatting about her new single and performing it live. Plus it's the grand finale of the UK Monopoly Championship.

Simon Mayo sits in for Chris with multi-talented Irish singer Lisa Hannigan in to chat about her new single and play it for us live, plus it's the grand finale of the UK Monopoly Championship!

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: 26/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Desmond Carrington: The Music Goes Round, 26/05/2009

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. The theme is 'in the camera's eye'.

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 "in the camera's eye".

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: 26/05/2009

BBC Radio 6 Music - The Radcliffe & Maconie Show, 26/05/2009

Stuart presents solo and catches up with rower Sarah Outen.

Stuart hosts solo and chats to Sarah Outen as she rows from Western Australia to Mauritius in a bid to be the first woman, and the youngest and fastest person, to make the crossing.

Stuart Maconie

Presenting solo this week, tonight featuring British rower 
Sarah Outen with her record-breaking row across the Indian ocean. 
Stuart's week: page 28

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: 26/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - The Organist Entertains, 26/05/2009

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

Nigel Ogden

The Harlem Timeline

Harlem Timeline: Episode 2

Episode 2

Harlem Timeline

BBC Radio 6 Music - Harlem Timeline, Episode 2

Soweto Kinch on the gospel tradition, art, music and poetry of the Harlem Renaissance.

Soweto Kinch continues his journey into the music and politics of Harlem, exploring the Harlem Renaissance, the Savoy Ballroom and the home of the new thing - bebop jazz.

In his second journey into Harlem's history, Soweto Kinch finds out about the rich gospel tradition, explores the art, music and poetry of the harlem Renaissance, and traces the story of jazz from swing to bebop. He visits the place where politician Marcus Garvey addressed the crowds from a soapbox, and finds out where African American thinker and reformer W. E. B DuBois lived and worked. He hears about the legendary Savoy Ballroom, and the late night clubs like Minton's and the Uptown House where Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie created a new style of jazz. Finally as the 1940s progress, rhythm and blues arrives on the scene and the everyday sound of Harlem is transformed.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 2009.

Classic concerts & sessions from the BBC's vast music store. It's your musical heritage.

BBC 6 Music brings together the cutting edge music of today, the iconic and groundbreaking music of the past 40 years and unlimited access

Musician Soweto Kinch takes a journey of musical discovery in Harlem

Musician Soweto Kinch takes a four-part journey of discovery in Harlem, where a few square miles in northern Manhattan have given the world great musical riches

2/4. British saxophonist, composer and rapper 
Soweto Kinch explores the musical heritage of the northern Manhattan district known as Harlem. The story continues with a look at the community's rich gospel tradition, the art, music and poetry of the Harlem Renaissance, and the successive thriving swing, bebop and R&B scenes. Plus tales of the famous Savoy Ballroom, late-night clubs such as Minton's and the Uptown House, where Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie forged a new jazz style. And memories of politician Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) and Sugar Hill resident and civil rights activist and intellectual WEB DuBois (1868-1963).

You Heard It At The Movies

You Heard It At The Movies: Episode 4: Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance

Episode 4

Episode 4: Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance

Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance

BBC Radio 2 - You Heard It At The Movies, Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance

George Fenton looks at the film musical and plays some classic scores.

Composer George Fenton looks at the film musical. From Jolson to Garland, and from Andrews to Astaire and Kelly, George plays some classic movie musical scores.

Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance - composer George Fenton looks at the Film Musical in this week's edition of You Heard It At The Movies.

It's impossible to cram all the greats into half an hour - but from Jolson to Garland to Andrews to Astaire and Kelly, George looks at the start of movie musicals, plays some of the classics, and looks at what became of the movie musical after the Golden Age.

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

You Heard It at the Movies

4/8. George Fenton explores the art and business of writing music for the big screen, continuing with the golden age of movie musicals, from Al Jolson and Fred Astaire to 
Judy Garland and Gene Kelly.

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: 26/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Janice Long, 26/05/2009

Janice is joined by David Johansen and Sylvain Sylvain from the New York Dolls.

Janice is joined by David Johansen and Sylvain Sylvain from the New York Dolls, as they share anecdotes and play some of their favourite tunes.

Janice is joined by David Johansen and Sylvain Sylvain from the legendary New York Dolls, as they share anecdotes and play some of their favourite tunes. There's also a couple of Tunes of the Unexpected and the usual banter and merriment.

Alex Lester

Weekday morning music and entertainment with Alex Lester

Alex Lester: 27/05/2009

27/05/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Alex Lester, 27/05/2009

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.

An early morning mix of music & conversation, including the first Half-Time Hooter of The Week. Also on the Best Time of the Day Show, Alex dips into his own record collection to choose a new release or classic track from Lester's Library and something selected by you in the Listeners' Library.

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