BBC Radio 2 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Light Programme.

BBC Radio 2

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: 02/06/2009

02/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Sarah Kennedy, 02/06/2009

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: 02/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Wake Up to Wogan, 02/06/2009

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: 02/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Ken Bruce, 02/06/2009

With the Album Of The Week by Paolo Nutini and Tracks of My Years from Ben's Brother.

Ben's Brother chooses his Tracks Of My Years, and the Album Of The Week is by Paolo Nutini.

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

Funny, intelligent and devilishly good-looking? Ken Bruce reckons two out of three ain't bad as he blasts off in his music and banter-fuelled rocket of mid-morning delight. Ben's Brother chooses 'Thriller' by Michael Jackson and 'Trouble' by Ray LaMontagne in Tracks Of My Years. We play a song from the Album Of The Week, the Record Of The Week and the Love Song plus two more contestants go head-to-head on PopMaster.

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: 02/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine, 02/06/2009

Discussing the Air France airbus, Beachy Head suicides, Spanish Civil War and hitchhiking.

Jeremy discusses the disappearance of the Air France airbus, the family found at the bottom of Beachy Head, the Spanish Civil War and hitchhiking.

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: 02/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Steve Wright in the Afternoon, 02/06/2009

With singer-songwriter Michael McDonald and former Britain's Got Talent winner Paul Potts.

With singer-songwriter Michael McDonald and winner of the first series of Britain's Got Talent, Paul Potts. Plus the Non-Stop Oldies, picked by Tim Noden from Sandbach in Cheshire.

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

Steve Wright

Chris Evans

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

Chris Evans: 02/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Chris Evans, 02/06/2009

Chris takes off with human cannonball Dave 'The Bullet' Smith.

Chris gets the buzz on the Pylon Appreciation Society from electric friend Flash Bristow and takes off with human cannonball Dave 'The Bullet' Smith.

Chris gets the buzz on the Pylon Appreciation Society, from electric friend Flash Bristow. And we promise a dynamic drive home as Chris takes off with human cannonball Dave 'The Bullet' Smith.

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: 02/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Desmond Carrington: The Music Goes Round, 02/06/2009

Desmond's theme is 'friendly persuasion'.

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 'friendly persuasion'.

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 'friendly persuasion'.

Desmond Carrington

Easy-listening golden oldies. 
Tonight's playlist theme is friendly persuasion.

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: 02/06/2009

BBC Radio 6 Music - The Radcliffe & Maconie Show, 02/06/2009

With great music, live sessions and guest pundits.

Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconle

New music and hip oldies framed by rock-nerdy banter and chat.

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: 02/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - The Organist Entertains, 02/06/2009

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

Nigel Ogden

With The Organist Entertains. Popular organ recordings, including classics and standards.

Harlem Timeline

Harlem Timeline: Episode 3

Episode 3

BBC Radio 6 Music - Harlem Timeline, Episode 3

Soweto Kinch traces what happened in Harlem between the end of the 1940s and the 1970s.

Soweto traces what happened between the end of the 1940s and the 1970s, taking in the story of soul music and the growth of doo wop, and the social problems of the '60s.

Soweto Kinch continues his personal journey to discover the story of Harlem. 

Today he traces what happened from the end of the 1940s to the 1970s, taking in the story of soul music, and the growth of doo wop, but also looking at the social problems of the 60s, when Harlem's name was synonymous with protests and violence.

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

The Harlem Timeline

3/4. British saxophonist, composer and rapper Soweto Kinch explores the music, politics and culture of the northern Manhattan district Harlem. 
The story continues with a look at the phenomenal rise of doo-wop in the 1950s and the unrest, protests and violence that characterised 
Harlem in the decade that followed.

You Heard It At The Movies

You Heard It At The Movies: Episode 5: Animation

Episode 5

Episode 5: Animation

Animation

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

Composer George Fenton looks at writing music for the world of animation.

George Fenton looks at the differing disciplines and heightened reality that goes with composing scores for animated films.

George Fenton continues You Heard It At The Movies with a look at writing music for the world of animation.

From the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes to the classic Disney animation films, George looks at the differing disciplines and heightened reality that goes with composing scores for animated films. He plays classics from The Silly Symphonies, the Disney greats, The Simpsons and more.

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

You Heard It at the Movies

5/8. Composer 
George Fenton explores the art and business of writing music for the big screen, continuing with the differing disciplines and heightened reality involved in composing scores for animated films. 
Examples include Walt Disney's series of Silly Symphony shorts (1929-39) and the Hollywood giant's feature-length classics, as well as Danny Elfman 's 1989 opening theme for The Simpsons.

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: 02/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Janice Long, 02/06/2009

Nerina Pallot joins Janice live in the studio to play some of her favourite songs.

Nerina Pallot joins Janice live in the studio to play some of her favourite songs. Plus Tunes Of The Unexpected.

The wonderful Nerina Pallot joins Janice live in the studio to play some of her favourite songs. There's also a couple of Tunes Of The Unexpected for your listening pleasure!

New music, chat and features, with a track from Radio 2's showcased album of the week. Tonight's guest is singer/songwriter and 2007 Brit Award nominee Nerina Pallot. 
3.00am Alex Lester

Alex Lester

Weekday morning music and entertainment with Alex Lester

Alex Lester: 03/06/2009

03/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Alex Lester, 03/06/2009

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 and 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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