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: 24/06/2009

24/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Sarah Kennedy, 24/06/2009

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: 24/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Wake Up to Wogan, 24/06/2009

Terry Wogan's award-winning breakfast show. Includes Pause for Thought.

Ease into the day with 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: 24/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Ken Bruce, 24/06/2009

Tony Hatch's Tracks of My Years include Queen and Sweet Sensation.

Tony Hatch's Tracks of My Years include Queen and Sweet Sensation. Please note: competitions or votes featured in this programme may now be closed.

Including your chance to test your musical knowledge with the PopMaster quiz while Tony Hatch chooses two more of his favourite pieces of music in Tracks Of My Years. Today he picks favourites from Queen and Sweet Sensation. Please note: competitions or votes featured in this programme may now be closed.

Including after 11.30 Tracks of My Years, in which songwriter, composer and producer Tony Hatch (Joanna, TV themes for Crossroads and Neighbours) selects two more of his ten favourite records, today featuring Queen and Sweet Sensation.

Jeremy Vine

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

Jeremy Vine: 24/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine, 24/06/2009

With topical debate and great music. Jeremy Vine looks at the topic of sleepovers.

Looking at sleepovers. Have your children drunk alcohol, or watched an 18-rated movie, at a friend's home?

Jeremy Vine discusses people panicking in the West Midlands over swine flu; President Sarkozy saying there's no place for burkhas in France;  sleepovers going wrong; and whether it's cool to be short?

PHONE the Comment Line on [number removed] or the Question Line on [number removed] between 11.45am and 1.45pm

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: 24/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Steve Wright in the Afternoon, 24/06/2009

With broadcaster and comic Hardeep Singh Kohli.

With broadcaster and comic Hardeep Singh Kohli, while 6 Music's Steve Lamacq looks forward to the Glastonbury Festival. Plus the Non Stop Oldies.

Steve Wright chats to top celebrity guests, and brings you brain-teasing Factoids, the Non Stop Oldies, your texts and emails and all the best music to sing along to!

Steve Wright

Chris Evans

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

Chris Evans: 24/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Chris Evans, 24/06/2009

Chris chats to pilot Yvonne Vincent who is 71.

Chris chats to pilot Yvonne Vincent who is 71. He also hears from Jim Brindley, Director of the National Fork Lift Heritage Centre, the world's only Forklift Truck museum.

Chris chats to 71 year old pilot Yvonne Vincent, and it's forks away as we hear from Jim Brindley, Director of the National Fork Lift Heritage Centre, the world's only Forklift Truck museum.

Mike Harding

Folk, roots and acoustic music, plus artist news and the latest album releases

Mike Harding: 24/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Mike Harding, 24/06/2009

Featuring an interview with Ian Anderson, editor of the music magazine fRoots.

With the best in folk, roots and acoustic music. Featuring an interview with Ian Anderson, editor of the music magazine fRoots, which celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2009.

Mike Harding presents an hour of the very best in folk, roots and acoustic music including an interview with Ian Anderson, editor of the roots music magazine fRoots, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year.

Specialist in folk, roots and acoustic-based sounds, with news of the latest album releases. Plus an interview with musician Ian Anderson , who edits the unusually titled folk-roots magazine fRoots, which premiered 30 years ago as Southern Rag.

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: 24/06/2009

BBC Radio 6 Music - The Radcliffe & Maconie Show, 24/06/2009

Chatting to Sarah Outen as she continues her record-breaking rowing attempt.

Mark and Stuart catch up with Sarah Outen on her record-breaking attempt to cross the Indian Ocean.

Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie

Solo rower Sarah Outen chats live from her boat in the Indian Ocean.

Trevor Nelson

Trevor Nelson joins Radio 2 for a show that plays the best in soul music past and present.

Leading soul DJ Trevor Nelson joins Radio 2 for a show that plays the best in soul music past and present. 

Trevor Nelson: 24/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Trevor Nelson, 24/06/2009

Trevor's Album of the Week is Aaliyah's self-titled release of 2001.

With the finest soul music, past and present. Trevor's Album of the Week is Aaliyah's self-titled release of 2001.

Trevor's Album Of The Week is Aaliyah's self-titled release of 2001.

Aaliyah waited nearly five years to deliver her third album but considering that she was essentially growing up - it was the equivalent of spending time in college - when she came back with an eponymous record in the summer of 2001, she came back strong.

Aaliyah isn't just a statement of maturity and a stunning artistic leap forwards, it's one of the strongest urban soul records of its time. Where such peers as Macy Gray and Jill Scott work too hard to establish their ties with classic soul, Aaliyah revels in the present, turning out a pan-cultural array of sounds, styles, and emotions. 

This sound is entirely unfamiliar - part of the pleasure is how contemporary it sounds - but she sounds just as comfortable within the soundscapes of Timbaland as Missy Misdemeanor Elliott and, possibly, less self-conscious. Aaliyah never oversings, never oversells the songs - this comes on easy and sultry and there's a lot of substance, in terms of the songwriting and the songs themselves.

Series contrasting original genuine soul with contemporary hip-hop and neo-R&B. Tonight's playlist features Pleasure and new acts, with an album spotlight on US neo-soul singer Aaliyah's eponymously titled third album - a 2001 release that yielded the 2002 UK number-one chart hit More than a Woman.

Steve Lamacq

Steve plays the best new music from exciting upcoming artists and established acts

Steve plays the best new music from the most exciting upcoming artists and established acts

Steve Lamacq: 24/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Steve Lamacq, 24/06/2009

Steve plays music from exciting upcoming artists and is Introducing...Speech Debelle.

Steve plays the best new music from the most exciting upcoming artists and established acts. Plus, Introducing...Speech Debelle.

Steve Lamacq brings the best new music to the Radio 2 listener. Hear the most exciting new tracks by established and upcoming artists before any other show joins the bandwagon. Steve plays The Doves to Jarvis Cocker, Coldplay to Star Death and White Dwarfs, Florence & the Machine to the Mexican Institute of Sound. 

Each week a different artist tells us all about themselves in Introducing... This Week he's Introducing ... Speech Debelle. Previous acts featured before they hit the big time include the Ting Tings and Noah & the Whale. Plus there's the 'Listeners Tip', where you alert us to the best new bands you've enjoyed.

Specialist in new music, with tracks by established, emerging and upcoming bands, plus an interview.

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: 24/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Janice Long, 24/06/2009

Playing live are the songwriting duo Honey Ryder. Plus Tunes of the Unexpected.

London indie folk and rock male/ female duo Honey Ryder perform.

Alex Lester

Weekday morning music and entertainment with Alex Lester

Alex Lester: 25/06/2009

25/06/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Alex Lester, 25/06/2009

The Best Time of the Day Show. With Pause for Thought.

The Best Time of the Day Show. With the Half-Time Hooter, Pause for Thought, plus the Lester's Library and Listeners' Library music selections.

Alex, Radio 2's Dark Lord of the early mornings, presents his interactive blend of music and unique wit.

Also on the Best Time of the Day Show, Alex raids his record collection for something new, or downright surprising from Lester's Library, and there's one from you in the Listeners' Library. Plus, the second Half-Time Hooter Of The Week.

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