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: 23/06/2009

23/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Sarah Kennedy, 23/06/2009

Liza Tarbuck sits in for Sarah Kennedy on the Dawn Patrol.

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

Liza Tarbuck

Wake Up to Wogan

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

Wake Up to Wogan: 23/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Wake Up to Wogan, 23/06/2009

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: 23/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Ken Bruce, 23/06/2009

With hits from Bonnie Tyler and The Searchers as Tony Hatch chooses his Tracks of My Years

Including hits from Bonnie Tyler and The Searchers as Tony Hatch chooses his favourite records in Tracks of My Years. Please note: competitions or votes featured in this programme may now be closed.

Including tracks from Bonnie Tyler and The Searchers as Tony Hatch chooses two more of his all time favourites in Tracks Of My Years. Plus the daily PopMaster quiz and the album and record of the week.

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: 23/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine, 23/06/2009

Jeremy Vine debates water customers being turned off.

Jeremy Vine debates water customers being turned off, the Iranian student shot during the protests, NHS spending money on cancer drugs and David Blunkett being attacked by a cow.

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: 23/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Steve Wright in the Afternoon, 23/06/2009

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

Steve Wright with showbiz guests, the national and international news from the world of entertainment, the Non-Stop Oldies and great music.

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 best music from across the globe.

Steve Wright

Chris Evans

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

Chris Evans: 23/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Chris Evans, 23/06/2009

Chris investigates how to get the most flavour out of your fruit juice.

Put the pedal to the metal with music, mirth and mayhem as Chris Evans steers you home. With an all star cast that includes fun, features, business, sport and, of course, you!

Chris investigates how to get the most flavour out of your fruit juice. Also, as we grow from baby to adult, is there is a single part of our body that never changes in size?

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: 23/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Desmond Carrington: The Music Goes Round, 23/06/2009

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 footwear.

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 footwear.

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: 23/06/2009

BBC Radio 6 Music - The Radcliffe & Maconie Show, 23/06/2009

Mike Oldfield chats to Mark about the reissue of Tubular Bells.

Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie

Tonight guest Mike Oldf ield discusses his 1973 "progressive rock" opus Tubular Bells.

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: 23/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - The Organist Entertains, 23/06/2009

The Organist Entertains celebrates its 40th anniversary with a special concert.

The Organist Entertains celebrates the 40th anniversary of the programme with the broadcast of a special concert recorded at Blackpool's Tower Ballroom.

The Organist Entertains marks four decades of organ music from around the world with a special concert recorded last month at the legendary Blackpool Tower Ballroom.

The concert features performances from presenter Nigel Ogden and Phil Kelsall, Blackpool Tower's resident organist. There are also the contrasting sounds of the Howard Beaumont Trio, with Howard at the keys of the Hammond B3 organ in its first major public appearance in the UK. 

The Organist Entertains has been running as a regular weekly programme on BBC Radio 2 since 1969 with Nigel Ogden as the regular presenter since 1980, following the retirement of the programme's founder and first host, Robin Richmond.

Nigel Ogden

With The Organist Entertains.
A special concert to mark the 40th anniversary of the show founded and first presented by Robin Richmond. Recorded on 29 May at the Blackpool Tower Ballroom, the event features performances by Nigel Ogden (who in 1980 took over from Richmond as presenter), the Howard Beaumont Trio and Blackpool Tower's resident organist Phil Kelsall.

Stand Down Margaret: Music's Response to Thatcherism

Stand Down Margaret: Music's Response to Thatcherism: Episode 2: Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)

Episode 2

Episode 2: Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)

Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)

BBC Radio 6 Music - Stand Down Margaret: Music's Response to Thatcherism, Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)

Jeremy Vine examines pop music's response to Thatcherism.

Jeremy Vine examines pop's response to Thatcherism. Many young people were attracted by the aspirational values so beloved of Thatcher's cabinet and embraced by pop's New Romantics.

Part 2/2: Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)

Jeremy Vine continues to examine pop music's response to Thatcherism, thirty years after her she became Prime Minister (following the General Election of 3 May 1979).

Part one told how the stringency of Thatcher's policies provided the perfect thing to kick against and inspired a wealth of anti-government music that populated the charts during Thatcher's first six years in power.

But pop was no less divided than society in the 1980s. As Jeremy's fellow students marched against Margaret Thatcher and her policies, accompanied by the music of The Specials, Elvis Costello or Billy Bragg; others were attracted by the aspirational values so beloved of Thatcher's cabinet and embraced by the New Romantics.

Pop fans admired the glamorous lifestyles projected by bands like Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet or Bananarama, and if they couldn't share the wealth, at least they could look the part and share the style.

Band Aid embodied the DIY ethos of Thatcherism and the Enterprise Allowance scheme, aimed at supporting the young unemployed, gave birth to countless new record labels including Soul II Soul and Creation. So, was Margaret Thatcher ultimately responsible for club culture and Brit Pop? 

We hear from key players of the time including Spandau Ballet's Gary Kemp, Pete Waterman of the SAW Hit Factory, Soul II Soul's Jazzie B and Creation Records' Alan McGee.

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

Jeremy Vine examines pop music's response to Thatcherism

2/2. Marking 30 years since 
Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister, Jeremy Vine recalls pop music's response to her 1980s reign - from 2 Tone, Elvis Costello and The Jam to Band Aid and beyond - and assesses the music's impact and its legacy. Tonight's concluding chapter looks at the 1980s triumph of pop style (Duran Duran , Spandau Ballet) and forges links between Thatcherism's DIY ethos with Band Aid and, resulting from the government's Enterprise Allowance, countless new record labels such as Creation plus the sound system Soul II Soul. Featuring interviews with Gary Kemp (of Spandau 
Ballet), producer Pete Waterman , Soul II Soul's Jazzie B and Creation 
Records' co-founder Alan McGee.

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: 23/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Janice Long, 23/06/2009

Great music and chat, with live music sessions. Includes a Pause For Thought.

Great music and chat, with live music sessions and listener suggestions for a Tune of the Unexpected. Includes a Pause for Thought.

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

Alex Lester

Weekday morning music and entertainment with Alex Lester

Alex Lester: 24/06/2009

24/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Alex Lester, 24/06/2009

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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