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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: 03/08/2009

03/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Sarah Kennedy, 03/08/2009

On The Dawn Patrol: News, views and music.

On The Dawn Patrol: News, views and music, plus a review of the morning's papers. Including Pause for Thought at 6.20am.

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: 03/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Wake Up to Wogan, 03/08/2009

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

Ken Bruce

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

Ken Bruce: 03/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Ken Bruce, 03/08/2009

Zoe Ball sits in for Ken Bruce. Jim Kerr picks his Tracks of My Years.

Zoe Ball sits in for Ken Bruce with the PopMaster quiz, and Jim Kerr picks his Tracks of My Years.

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

Zoe Ball presents all this week while Ken Bruce takes a well earned rest. 

There's the daily PopMaster quiz, a love song, a track from the Radio 2 Album Of The Week, the Record Of The Week and the first two choices of Simple Minds' frontman Jim Kerr in Tracks Of My Years. Today he picks classics from David Bowie and The Pretenders.

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

Zoe Ball

Sits in for Ken Bruce. Including after 11.30 Tracks of My Years, in which Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr picks - two a day - his ten favourite discs, starting with hits by David Bowie and The Pretenders.

Jeremy Vine

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

Jeremy Vine: 03/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine, 03/08/2009

Discussing bank bonuses, injured British soldiers, potty training and bouncers.

Jeremy discusses UK banks announcing surprise profits and bonuses, injured British soldiers in Afghanistan, potty training children and bouncers at West End Theatres.

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: 03/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Steve Wright in the Afternoon, 03/08/2009

With Spencer Kelly from Click, Factoids, astrological predictions and the Non-Stop Oldies.

Steve Wright chats to Spencer Kelly from Click. Plus, the Factoids, the showbiz and the non-stop oldies, as chosen by Neil Palmer from Bristol.

Steve Wright digs out the most fascinating Factoids and hears the latest pearls of wisdom from The Old Woman. He also talks to BBC technical and gadgetry expert Spencer Kelly from Click, has your horoscope predictions and the Non Stop Oldies too!

Steve Wright

Chris Evans

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

Chris Evans: 03/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Chris Evans, 03/08/2009

Chris talks to supermum Sally Bee about the cookbook that inspired America's First Lady.

Chatting to Sally Bee about the cookbook that inspired America's First Lady! Plus, looking at the new scheme Use Your Local, which allows you to have a pint and pick up your post.

Chris talks to supermum Sally Bee about the cookbook that inspired America's first lady! And the new scheme Use Your Local, which allows you to have a pint and pick up your post.

The Blues Show with Paul Jones

The weekly dose of rhythm and blues tunes from Paul Jones.

The weekly dose of rhythm and blues tunes from Paul Jones, combining classics, new releases, sessions and occasional interviews.

Paul Jones

The Blues Show with Paul Jones: 03/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - The Blues Show with Paul Jones, 03/08/2009

Paul's guest is composer, multi-instrumentalist and singer Jack Bruce of rock group Cream.

Paul Jones' guest is Jack Bruce, one third of the so-called first supergroup Cream. The band sold 35 million albums in under three years in the 1960s.

This week's special guest is the composer, multi-instrumentalist and singer, Jack Bruce. 

Jack began his musical career with a cello scholarship to the Royal Scottish Academy of Music, and played double bass in dance bands and jazz groups, Alexis Korner's Blues Inc and the Graham Bond Organisation, before accepting Ginger Baker's invitation to join Cream. 

Together with Eric Clapton, the trio sold 35,000,000 albums in just over two years. Cream split in 1968, at the height of their popularity, but they were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 1993 and reformed for a series of live dates back in 2005.

Tonight's special edition features blues-rock guitarist, vocalist and composer Jack Bruce (ex-Cream).

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: 03/08/2009

BBC Radio 6 Music - The Radcliffe & Maconie Show, 03/08/2009

Stuart Maconie presents solo and speaks to Mike Mills of REM.

Stuart presents solo and speaks to Mike Mills of REM about the 25th anniversary reissue of the band's second album, Reckoning.

Stuart Maconie speaks to Mike Mills of REM about the 25th anniversary reissue of the band's second album, Reckoning.

Stuart Maconie

Presents solo this week and talks to 
REM bass guitarist Mike Mills about the 25th anniversary reissue of the band's second album Reckoning, which features the non-charting single (Don't Go Back to) Rockville. Summer festival madness: page 32

Big Band Special

The very best big band music, from the 1930s to the present day

Big Band Special: 03/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Big Band Special, 03/08/2009

The BBC Big Band in concert with singer Peter Grant.

Clare Teal presents the BBC Big Band in concert at the Hawth Theatre in Crawley with guest singer Peter Grant.

Clare Teal presents the BBC Big Band and conductor Jiggs Whigham in concert at the Hawth Theatre in Crawley with guest singer Peter Grant. Peter's set includes That Old Black Magic, Joanna, I Saw Her Standing There and Let the Good Times Roll.

Guy Barker's Jazz Collection

Guy Barker's Jazz Collection: Episode 2: Trumpet Masters

Episode 2

Episode 2: Trumpet Masters

Trumpet Masters

BBC Radio 2 - Guy Barker's Jazz Collection, Trumpet Masters

The trumpeter and composer Guy Barker looks at trumpet masters in his guide to jazz.

Guy Barker looks at virtuoso trumpet performers including Louis Armstrong, Clifford Brown, Freddie Hubbard, Miles Davis, Chet Baker and Rex Stewart.

The trumpeter and composer Guy Barker presents an authoritative guide to jazz music.

Taking a different theme each week, Guy celebrates some of jazz's finest exponents and sounds the trumpet for virtuoso performers in his own field. He also looks at the art of arranging; jazz on the silver screen; and influential record labels.

In the second programme of the series, Trumpet Masters, Guy looks at virtuoso performers including Louis Armstrong, Clifford Brown, Freddie Hubbard, Miles Davis, Chet Baker and Rex Stewart.

The trumpeter and composer Guy Barker presents an authoritative guide to jazz music

The trumpeter and composer Guy Barker presents an authoritative guide to jazz music. Taking a different theme in each episode, Guy celebrates some of jazz's finest exponents

2/6. Trumpeter Guy Barker's authoritative guide to jazz music, with weekly themes ranging from the art of arranging to jazz on the silver screen and the 70th anniversary of Blue Records. The series continues with a look at trumpet masters.

Dave Pearce's Disco Anthems

Dave Pearce's Disco Anthems: Episode 5

Episode 5

BBC Radio 2 - Dave Pearce's Disco Anthems, Episode 5

Dave Pearce presents disco hits associated with the letters S to V.

Dave Pearce looks at tracks associated with the letters S to V in his alphabet of disco hits, with tunes from Sister Sledge, Sylvester and The Trammps.

In the penultimate edition of Disco Anthems, Dave Pearce reaches the letters S to V in his alphabet of disco classics. 

Alongside essential disco tunes from Sister Sledge, Sylvester and The Trammps, David digs deep into his record collection to find some other forgotten classics which have influenced modern dance music, including legendary producer Norman Whitfield's  tune You + Me = Love, recorded by The Undisputed Truth in 1979.

Dave Pearce presents classic disco tracks

Dave Pearce presents a six-part guide to the last 30 years of disco culture, from stone cold classics to hidden gems.

Dave Pearce presents a six-part guide to the last 30 years of disco culture, from stone cold classics to hidden gems.

Dave, whose first ever gig experience was seeing Sylvester play at Hammersmith Apollo, has long been a fan of disco and credits it as a catalyst for his own role in UK dance music. This is his essential, alphabetical guide to disco tunes.

Disco Anthems with Dave Pearce

5/6. DJ Dave Pearce presents an alphabetical guide to disco, exploring four decades of popular and obscure recordings, with this instalment covering letters S to V and featuring Sister Sledge, Sylvester, The Tramps and The Undisputed Truth.

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: 03/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Janice Long, 03/08/2009

Viv Albertine from The Slits joins Janice to talk about her career.

Viv Albertine from The Slits joins Janice to talk about her career, share stories and select a virtually all female playlist of music by the artists who have influenced her.

Viv Albertine from The Slits joins Janice to talk about her career, share stories and select a virtually all female playlist of music by the artists who have influenced her. Tracks by Yoko Ono, Neneh Cherry, Dusty Springfield and Kate Bush are amongst her choices.

The 1979 album Cut by The Slits is one of 50 LPs recently selected by Island Records to demonstrate the depth and diversity of the music the label has signed over the five decades it's been in business.

Alex Lester

Weekday morning music and entertainment with Alex Lester

Alex Lester: 04/08/2009

04/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Alex Lester, 04/08/2009

With conversation and music. Alex delves into his own record collection to pick something new or obscure from Lester's Library and one listener picks a track in Listeners' Library.

Alex brings his own combination of music and conversation to early weekday mornings, making this The Best Time Of The Day Show.

Popular features include the Listeners' Library, where you choose the music, and a double-selection from Alex's own collection in Lester's Library.

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