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: 04/06/2009

04/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Sarah Kennedy, 04/06/2009

On the Dawn Patrol. With the religious and entertainment news and Pause For Thought.

On the Dawn Patrol. With the religious and entertainment news of the day as well as the general newspaper review and Show Tunes. Plus 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: 04/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Wake Up to Wogan, 04/06/2009

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: 04/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Ken Bruce, 04/06/2009

The Album Of The Week is from Paolo Nutini and Ben's Brother picks his Tracks Of My Years.

With the Album Of The Week from Paolo Nutini. Plus, Ben's Brother picks his Tracks Of My Years.

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

Ken Bruce with the UK's biggest mid morning show including a round up of the week's music news plus Popmaster and Ben's Brother choosing two more of his all time favourite songs in "Tracks of my years". Today he picks classics from the Beatles and Oasis.

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: 04/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine, 04/06/2009

Jeremy discusses salary schemes, fake burglaries, village life and correct diction.

Jeremy discusses Barclays bank closing final salary schemes, the increase of fake burglaries, dying villages and being sacked for being unable to speak properly.

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: 04/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Steve Wright in the Afternoon, 04/06/2009

The latest evictee to be fired from BBC TV's The Apprentice joins Steve and the team.

The latest evictee to be fired from BBC TV's The Apprentice joins Steve and the team. Plus, the Non-Stop Oldies chosen by Michelle Twigg from Long Eaton in Nottingham.

Steve Wright talks to the best celeb guests, and brings you Factoids to impress your friends with, the Non Stop Oldies, all the latest news from the showbiz world and the coolest music on the planet.

Steve Wright

Chris Evans

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

Chris Evans: 04/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Chris Evans, 04/06/2009

Resident gastronome Nigel Barden tries to tempt Chris with edamame beans.

Resident gastronome Nigel Barden tries to tempt Chris with the Eastern delights of edamame beans in the regular food slot. Plus, find out about jellyfish.

Our gastro-gnome Nigel Barden tries to tempt Chris with the Eastern delight - edamame beans - in Thursday's food slot. And we find out the point of those sea stingers the jellyfish.

The Country Show with Bob Harris

The very best in Country music, celebrating the new alongside the defining legendary names

The very best in Country music, celebrating the new alongside the defining legendary names.

Bob Harris Country

The Country Show with Bob Harris: 04/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - The Country Show with Bob Harris, 04/06/2009

Joining Bob in session is Canadian country-blues artist Romi Mayes.

Canadian country-blues artist Romi Mayes is the guest. Known for her gritty, intensely personal songs of sex, drugs, love and heartbreak, she performs tracks from her latest album.

Tonight's session guest is the Canadian country blues artist Romi Mayes. Known for writing gritty and intensely personal songs of sex, drugs, love and life on the road she says of her new album, "If you don't like drinking or swearing or country or blues or dealing with yer broken heart, you won't like it."

Achin' In Yer Bones, her second solo album, is produced by Gurf Morlix, who was behind Lucinda Williams' hugely acclaimed album Car Wheels On A Gravel Road. The title track was inspired by her teenage experience of a 40 hour bus trip from Vancouver to Winnipeg, and echoes a recurring theme in the music of a woman who is famed for a packed touring schedule around her native country.

Performing this evening is Winnipeg, Manitoba-born country-blues singer/songwriter Romi Mayes , known for gritty and intensely personal songs of sex, drugs, love and life on the road. She discusses her new album Achin in Yer Bones.

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: 04/06/2009

BBC Radio 6 Music - The Radcliffe & Maconie Show, 04/06/2009

With the best music, live sessions and show regular, Noddy Holder.

Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie

The Wilson Dixon Line

The Wilson Dixon Line: Uncle Wilbur's Advice for Modern Living

Uncle Wilbur's Advice for Modern Living

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Wilson Dixon Line, Uncle Wilbur's Advice for Modern Living

Country music legend Wilson Dixon recalls his Colorado upbringing.

Country music legend Wilson Dixon recalls his Colorado upbringing and so-called dysfunctional family. From May 2009.

Another chance to hear this affectionate tribute to the philosophy of country music. Cowboy philosopher Wilson Dixon shares his viewpoints on life, love and relationships through songs and anecdotes. 

In the final episode, following his break up from Maureen, Wilson saddles up his horse Andrew and heads into the Colorado mountains to seek some guidance from his old Uncle Wilbour. What he gets instead is the the epic tale of "the man with no name", straight from the annals of the Wild West.

Wilson Dixon is the comic creation of Jesse Griffin and sidekick Snake Wizzelteats is performed by Jesse Budd.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 2009.

BBC Radio 4 Extra

Your digital radio entertainment station showcasing the best in comedy and drama

Your digital radio entertainment station showcasing the best in comedy and drama. With recent favourites from BBC Radio 4.

Award-winning comedian Jesse Griffin stars as outlaw country singer Wilson Dixon.

Comedian Jesse Griffin stars as outlaw country singer Wilson Dixon in an affectionate tribute to country music, full of sharp observations delivered with a deadpan, surreal edge.

The Comedy Hour: The Wilson Dixon Line

4/4. Country music and comedy merge in this near-surreal experiment featuring the songs and philosophising of Colorado-born outlaw singer Wilson Dixon. Tonight Wilson recalls his Cripple Creek upbringing and his so-called dysfunctional family.

Miranda Hart's Joke Shop

Miranda Hart's Joke Shop: Episode 2: What a Job!

Episode 2

Episode 2: What a Job!

What a Job!

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Miranda Hart's Joke Shop, What a Job!

The tall, life-embracing shopkeeper tries to prove that she can get a proper job.

The tall, life-embracing shopkeeper tries to prove that she can get a proper job. With Patricia Hodge. From August 2008.

The tall and unconventional comedienne has lots to learn about retail and men.

2/4. Another chance to hear a 2008 sitcom starring unwaveringly dry and droll Miranda Hart as a life-embracing, self-effacing woman who uses her inheritance cash to buy a joke shop despite her lack of business sense. Featuring Patricia Hodge as Miranda's bothered mother. In this week's episode Miranda tries to prove she can get a proper job away from the joke shop.

Suzi Quatro

Suzi Quatro brings American music direct to listeners

Suzi Quatro was weaned in Detroit on the best American music, taking in everything from Doo Wop and rock 'n' roll to Motown and soul. She brings the best of it to R2

Suzi Quatro: 04/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Suzi Quatro, 04/06/2009

Suzi Quatro plays her favourite music from 1975.

Suzi focuses on 1975, with music from The Carpenters, Grand Funk Railroad, Bruce Springsteen, Linda Ronstadt, Ben E King, The Doobie Brothers, Orleans and BJ Thomas.

Suzi Quatro plays the music she heard in her formative years, from doo-wop to Motown and rock 'n' roll, taking us through the Fifties and Sixties right up to the present day. Suzi often features American classics that never made the wireless over here and loves telling anecdotes about her American Heroes. 

Every week Suzi focuses on a particular year in American chart history and once a month Suzi talks, in depth, to a special guest about their American influences. 

This week it's 1975 with the Carpenters, Grand Funk Railroad, Bruce Springsteen, Linda Ronstadt, Ben E King, The Doobie Brothers, Orleans & the man usually associated with Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid - BJ Thomas.

American radio hits from the 1950s onwards, tonight with a spotlight on chart singles from 1975, considered a low point in pop history. Featuring Grand Funk Railroad, Bruce Springsteen , 
Ben E King, Carpenters, The Doobie Brothers, Orleans and BJ Thomas.

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: 04/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Janice Long, 04/06/2009

Janice is joined by Jo Hamilton for an intimate live acoustic session.

Janice is joined by Jo Hamilton for an intimate live acoustic session. Plus Tunes Of The Unexpected and your chance to choose the tunes in Theme Time Janice Hour.

Janice is joined by the beautifully ethereal Jo Hamilton live in an intimate acoustic session. There's also Tunes Of The Unexpected and your chance to choose the tunes in Theme Time Janice Hour.

Singer Jo Hamilton performs from her debut album Gown.

Alex Lester

Weekday morning music and entertainment with Alex Lester

Alex Lester: 05/06/2009

05/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Alex Lester, 05/06/2009

With the Best Time of Day Show. Includes visits to the extensive music archive known as Lester's Library and listeners' musical contributions in the Listeners' Library.

The week's final instalment of random daftness and planned oddities from the Dark Lord.

Includes two hourly visits to the extensive music archive known as Lester's Library, and your musical contribution in the Listeners' Library.

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