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: 01/07/2009

01/07/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Sarah Kennedy, 01/07/2009

The Dawn Patrol: News, views and music, plus a review of the morning's papers.

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: 01/07/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Wake Up to Wogan, 01/07/2009

Johnnie Walker sits in for Terry Wogan with music, chat and a Pause for Thought.

Johnnie Walker sits in for Terry Wogan with music, chat and a Pause For Thought.

With Terry Wogan still away, Johnnie Walker and the team continue to mess around at breakfast time. With regular travel bulletins, news and a Pause For Thought.

Johnnie Walker

Ken Bruce

The best in music every weekday with Ken Bruce, with live sessions.

Ken Bruce: 01/07/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Ken Bruce, 01/07/2009

Singer-songwriter Eg chooses his Tracks of My Years, including David Bowie.

Singer-songwriter Eg chooses his Tracks Of My Years. Plus, Lenka provides the Album Of The Week. Please note: competitions or votes featured in this programme may now be closed.

You've made the right decision. Get comfortable and enjoy the Ken Bruce Show. We've put a lot of effort into today's show!

There's a Love Song, a Record Of The Week, a track from the Album Of The Week and the world's greatest 10-question music quiz, PopMaster. Plus singer-songwriter Eg chooses Life On Mars by David Bowie and All The Young Dudes by Mott The Hoople in Tracks Of My Years.

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

Including after 11.30 Tracks of My Years, in which singer/ songwriter Eg (born Francis White ) selects two more of his ten favourite records, today featuring David Bowie and Mott the Hoople.

Jeremy Vine

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

Jeremy Vine: 01/07/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine, 01/07/2009

Jeremy discusses the possible closure of two naval shipyards.

The possible closure of two naval shipyards; protecting yourself from lightning strikes; people who impersonate war heroes by wearing medals; and does your child carry a knife?

Jeremy discusses the possible closure of two naval shipyards, how to protect yourself from lightning strikes, does your child carry a knife, and people who impersonate war heroes by wearing medals.

PHONE the Comment Line on [number removed]91 or the Question Line on [number removed]22 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: 01/07/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Steve Wright in the Afternoon, 01/07/2009

With movie star Johnny Depp and the Non-Stop Oldies.

With movie star Johnny Depp and the Non-Stop Oldies, as chosen by Antony Gilbert and Rob Paffett from Salisbury.

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: 01/07/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Chris Evans, 01/07/2009

Music, mirth and mayhem as Chris Evans steers you home. With fun, features, business and sport.

Shrug off midweek misery as Chris Evans gets you home with music, mirth and mayhem. With an all star cast that includes fun, features, business, sport and, of course, you! Your journey home never felt so short with Drivetime beside you at the wheel. Watch the miles whizz by as Chris and the team shift it up a gear for that final furlong.

Music is our master as we play sensational songs for a whole two hours. Send in your brace of belters, your terrific twosome, and your dynamic duo to see if they cut the musical mustard as Gobsmackers. Are they truly tracks to make you go ooooh? And it's high noon for the high notes as we ask you for the Good, the Bad and the Ugly and put new music on trial in the Jukebox Jury. 

Jonny Saunders serves up the sport and crams more competitors, contestants, runners and riders into his Sports Locker than you can shake a (hockey) stick at. Send in your top tenuous links to the stars and if the fame connection is flimsy enough Jonny will be reading it out in our run down. He's also the foil of the Drivetime family, all-round good guy and willing victim; let the games begin.

Business boffin, Rebecca Pike, keeps our listeners in the loop with the crucial news from The City, The Stock Market and your pocket. She'll also be fielding your business based conundrums if you think you've got what it takes to Fox The Fox. But don't forget; only the sharpest eyes, the keenest nose, the quickest ear and the fleetest toes will ever outfox the fox!

Mike Harding

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

Mike Harding: 01/07/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Mike Harding, 01/07/2009

Mike interviews Chris Wood, who won two gongs at the 2009 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.

With the best in folk, roots and acoustic music. Featuring an interview with Chris Wood, who won Best Album and Folk Singer of the Year at the 2009 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.

Mike Harding presents an hour of the very best in folk, roots and acoustic music including an interview with Chris Wood.

Chris scooped the two big Awards at the 2009 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards - Best Album and Folk Singer of the Year. Mike plays tracks from a forthcoming double CD set Albion: An Anthology which features tracks from across Chris Wood's career.

Specialist in folk, roots and acoustic-based sounds, with news of the latest album releases. Plus an interview with award-winning English singer, songwriter and musician Chris Wood , who introduces tracks from a forthcoming anthology covering his career.

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: 01/07/2009

BBC Radio 6 Music - The Radcliffe & Maconie Show, 01/07/2009

With Andrew Smith, who has compiled an album of moon-related tunes, called Moondust.

Journalist/writer Andrew Smith, author of Moondust, has compiled an album of moon-related tunes, also called Moondust. He reveals the details to Mark and Stuart.

Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie

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: 01/07/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Trevor Nelson, 01/07/2009

Trevor's Album of the Week is Me'Shell Ndegeocello's Plantation Lullabies.

Trevor's Album of the Week is Me'Shell Ndegeocello's Plantation Lullabies, a debut album which covers many genres, and confronts racial and sexual identity.

Trevor's Album Of The Week is Me'Shell NdegÃ©ocello Plantation Lullabies.
 
Me'Shell's debut album twists and turns through so many genres -- R&B, pop, jazz, hip-hop -- that it's hard to put a finger on just where she wants to take its 13 songs. 
That she also spins conventional racial and sexual identity here makes Plantation Lullabies an occasionally overwhelming - as well as a vibrantly sophisticated - listen. 

NdegÃ©ocello defies labels throughout, tagging her slinking and crawling songs with a rubbery flow that's just as rooted in 70s funky soul as it is in 90s hip-hop culture. It can be a bit derivative (for all of NdegÃ©ocello's genre-crossing, she always seems to go back to the same musical blueprint) but most of the time it's just about as boundary-busting and as affecting as 90s R&B gets.

Series contrasting original genuine soul with contemporary hip-hop and neo-R&B. Tonight's playlist features Hil St Soul, Rhythm Makers and new acts, with an album spotlight on Plantation Lullabies - the 1993 debut by genre-straddling singer, rapper and multi-instrumentalist Me'Shell NdegeOcello.

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: 01/07/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Steve Lamacq, 01/07/2009

Steve plays introduces listeners to The Low Anthem.

With the best new music from the most exciting upcoming artists and established acts. Steve is Introducing...The Low Anthem.

Steve Lamacq brings the best new music to the Radio 2 listener. Hear the most exciting new tracks by established and upcoming artists before you hear them anywhere else. Steve plays music from the Kings of Leon to Bonnie Prince Billy, Coldplay to Hot Hot Heat, Florence & the Machine to Passion Pit. 

Each week a different artist tells us all about themselves in Introducing... Previous acts featured before they hit the big time include the Ting Tings, Adele and Noah & the Whale. This week Steve's introducing...The Low Anthem. 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 up-and-coming bands, plus a weekly 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: 01/07/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Janice Long, 01/07/2009

With live sessions, irreverent chat and great music.

Music, chat and features, including live sets and obscure tracks.

Alex Lester

Weekday morning music and entertainment with Alex Lester

Alex Lester: 02/07/2009

02/07/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Alex Lester, 02/07/2009

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 there's the second Half-Time Hooter Of The Week.

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