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: 28/07/2009

28/07/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Sarah Kennedy, 28/07/2009

On the Dawn Patrol. With a review of the newspapers and 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: 28/07/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Wake Up to Wogan, 28/07/2009

Terry Wogan's award-winning breakfast show combines music and banter.

Terry Wogan's award-winning breakfast show combines music and banter. Including Pause for Thought.

Ken Bruce

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

Ken Bruce: 28/07/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Ken Bruce, 28/07/2009

Featuring Tracks of My Years from Chad Kroeger of Nickelback.

Featuring Tracks of My Years from Chad Kroeger, plus the Record of the Week from Lily Allen. Please note: competitions or votes featured in this programme may now be closed.

Ken Bruce redefines the astrophysics of radio as he fuses music atoms with pithy banter particles in Radio 2's Big Bang. 

Featuring Tracks Of My Years from Chad Kroeger, who chooses Levon by Elton John and Welcome To The Jungle by Guns 'N' Roses. Ken will also be playing another song from the Album Of The Week, giving the Record Of The Week its second spin and refereeing another bout of 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: 28/07/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine, 28/07/2009

Jeremy discusses bigamy, Tamiflu, driveway safety and the risks of too much exercise.

Discussing a serial bigamist; a toddler who was run over by the family car on the driveway; asking how easy it is to get Tamiflu and whether too much exercise is bad for you?

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: 28/07/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Steve Wright in the Afternoon, 28/07/2009

With guests and the Non-Stop Oldies, as chosen by Caroline and Sharon from Rotherham.

With more top guests and the Non-Stop Oldies, as chosen by Caroline and Sharon from Rotherham.

Steve Wright chats to top showbiz guests, 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: 28/07/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Chris Evans, 28/07/2009

Chris unlocks the mystery of the bits and bobs drawer.

Chris unlocks two kitchen mysteries: just what is the point of the dummy drawer and could your cork collection come in handy? Plus, haggling for holidays in the Business slot.

We're going utterly clutterly as Chris unlocks two kitchen mysteries; just what is the point of the dummy drawer and could your cork collection come in handy? Plus, we discuss haggling for holidays in the Business slot.

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: 28/07/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Desmond Carrington: The Music Goes Round, 28/07/2009

Desmond plays tracks from his collection of 250,000 titles on the theme of Summer.

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 Summer.

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 summer.

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: 28/07/2009

BBC Radio 6 Music - The Radcliffe & Maconie Show, 28/07/2009

Mark presents solo and catches up Sarah Outen on her record-breaking rowing attempt.

Mark presents solo and catches up with Indian Ocean rowing correspondent Sarah Outen on her record-breaking attempt.

Mark Radcliffe

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: 28/07/2009

BBC Radio 2 - The Organist Entertains, 28/07/2009

Featuring a musical tribute to the animal world.

The Organist Entertains. Nigel Ogden presents popular organ recordings. Featuring a musical tribute to the animal world.

Nigel Ogden presents a programme of popular organ recordings with some entertaining pieces from the organ world. Tonight's programme features a musical tribute to the animal world.

Nigel Ogden

The Hunt for Sexton Blake

BBC Radio 2 - The Hunt for Sexton Blake

David Quantick profiles the long-lived fictional detective and adventurer Sexton Blake.

David Quantick profiles Sexton Blake, the fictional detective and adventurer, who in his heyday was more widely read than Sherlock Holmes.

Who exactly is Sexton Blake? People under the age of 45 might ask that question, but anyone older is likely to have read one of the 4000 stories by over 200 authors, or seen the films, the stage adaptations, the many TV shows, or listened to his adventures on radio.
Sexton Blake is one of the most famous and long-lived fictional detectives and adventurers of all time, who battled opium smugglers, bandit chiefs and the Kaiser. In his heyday he was more widely read than Sherlock Holmes - enjoyed by working people all over the British Empire - and whilst Holmes features in very few stories, Blake appeared in thousands.

In this hour long profile and exploration of Blake's impact, David Quantick talks to author Michael Moorcock, who used to edit the Sexton Blake Library; Jack Adrian a former writer; and comic book illustrator Kevin O'Neil, who co-created The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and other heroes.

That Blake didn't have the same critical recognition, could be attributed to the fact the stories were published in cheap magazines, rather than in proper books. Or because the writers themselves didn't move in the right circles, to make friends and influence people. While Ian Fleming had been to Eton and Sandhurst, the Blake authors were a rag tag bunch of eccentrics, whose own lives were worked into the tales. Michael Moorcock tells David that the Blake writers were puzzled at how James Bond was liked by critics, when the early novels were badly plotted and featured cartoon-like villains hiding in volcanoes.

David also hears about the Blake author who vanished under mysterious circumstances. The writer's wife sent in his remaining Blake manuscripts without saying he'd disappeared, and then passed off her new partner's work as that of her dead husband. It wouldn't take Sexton Blake to tell you there was something fishy going on there!

Britain's iconic sleuth explodes back into action in a new series of thrilling adventures beginning this Friday at 9.15pm.

Pop culture observer and nostalgia fiend David Quantick recalls popular fictional English detective Sexton Blake, who appeared in print, on radio, television and the big screen between the 1890s and the 1970s. The subject of 4,000 stories by more than
200 authors, Blake in his heyday was more widely read than the more highbrow Sherlock Holmes. Published in cheap magazines, the tales featured Blake in battles with opium smugglers, bandit chiefs and the Kaiser. Quantick talks to writer Jack Adrian (editor of the anthology Sexton Blake Wins), comic-book illustrator Kevin O'Neill (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen), and sci-fi writer Michael Moorcock, who edited the Sexton Blake Library.
"The Adventures of Sexton Blake" starts on Friday at 9.15pm

The Adventures of Sexton Blake starts on Friday at 9.15pm

Marc Riley's Musical Time Machine

Marc Riley dips into the BBC's archives and unearths seminal rock interviews

Marc Riley's Musical Time Machine: Marc Riley's Musical Time Machine

Marc Riley's Musical Time Machine: Marc Riley's Musical Time Machine: Episode 2: Pete Townshend

Episode 2

Episode 2: Pete Townshend

Pete Townshend

BBC Radio 2 - Marc Riley's Musical Time Machine, Marc Riley's Musical Time Machine, Pete Townshend

Marc Riley travels back to 1973 and an interview with Pete Townshend.

Marc Riley travels back to 1973 and an interview with Pete Townshend for Alan Freeman's series called The Story of Pop.

Marc Riley dips into the BBC's archives and unearths seminal and tantalizing interviews.
It's funny how things can look so different many years down the line; once the dust has settled, tempers have calmed and much water has gone under the bridge. Not seeking to open old wounds or anything, Marc Riley goes back in time to the turning points in the careers of some of the biggest artists in music to check out exactly what they DID say in the heat of the moment, and to put it into today's context.
This week we travel back to 1973; the year that President Nixon ordered a ceasefire in Vietnam, the Stock Exchange admitted women for the first time, and Princess Anne married Lieutenant Mark Phillips. 
It was also the year that Radio 1 broadcast interviews with Pete Townshend in a series called The Story Of Pop. Presented by Alan Freeman the 26 part show featured a big mix of musicians talking about the history of popular music. 
At a time when The Who were just about to release Quadrophenia, Marc revisits Townshend's take on the industry, Woodstock, the Kinks and the Mods.

Marc Riley dips into the BBC's archives and unearths seminal music interviews

2/6. Series reassessing archive BBC interviews. Marc Riley continues with a segment from Radio 1's 1973 series The Story of Pop, in which Alan Freeman talks to Who guitarist/songwriter Pete Townshend. Just prior to the release of the band's concept work Quadrophenia, he discusses the music industry, Woodstock, The Kinks and mods.

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: 28/07/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Janice Long, 28/07/2009

Alex Lester

Weekday morning music and entertainment with Alex Lester

Alex Lester: 29/07/2009

29/07/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Alex Lester, 29/07/2009

Alex presents the Best Time of the Day Show.

Alex presents the Best Time of the Day Show, with musical selections from Lester's Library and the Listeners' Library. Plus Pause for Thought.

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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