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: 14/08/2009

14/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Sarah Kennedy, 14/08/2009

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: 14/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Wake Up to Wogan, 14/08/2009

Terry Wogan with music and chat. Includes a Pause For Thought.

Ken Bruce

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

Ken Bruce: 14/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Ken Bruce, 14/08/2009

Zoe Ball sits in for Ken Bruce with Tracks of My Years from Michael McDonald.

Zoe Ball sits in for Ken Bruce with Popmaster, and Tracks of My Years from Michael McDonald.

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

Zoe Ball, sitting in for Ken Bruce, gets another 150 minutes older and simultaneously provides more radio gaga magic.

Legendary singer-songwriter and erstwhile Doobie Brother, Michael McDonald chooses classics by Stevie Wonder and the Moody Blues for his final two selections on Tracks Of My Years. Plus we play you a love song and there's the final hand-picked selection from the Album Of The Week.

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

Zoe Ball

Jeremy Vine

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

Jeremy Vine: 14/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine, 14/08/2009

Discusses Muslim weddings, swine flu, the bank of Mum and Dad and customer surveys.

Jeremy discusses the MP who walked out of a Muslim wedding, whether swine flu is being over-diagnosed, parents bailing out their children and customer surveys.

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: 14/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Steve Wright in the Afternoon, 14/08/2009

Dale Winton is in for Steve Wright and is joined by Sarah Ferguson and Amanda Redman.

Dale Winton sits in for Steve Wright and the team. Dale is joined by Sarah Ferguson and actress Amanda Redman.

It's Dale Winton's last day sitting in for Steve and the team. He's joined by the actress Amanda Redman, Sarah Ferguson, and has two new features: You Pick The Pops, where Dale plays songs from your favourite year in music; and The Winton Connection, where you have to guess what links the three great tracks that Dale plays.

Dale Winton

Chris Evans

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

Chris Evans: 14/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Chris Evans, 14/08/2009

With All Request Friday, where listeners choose the music.

With All Request Friday, where listeners choose the music. Plus, Jonny's Mad Friday Sport, business news from the City and listener innovations.

We wrap the week up and launch the weekend with All Request Friday, your chance to take a turn behind the wheel. This really is your show; we rely on you to provide the music and, don't forget, your plans get us in the mood for ours.

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 Chris plays your sensational requests for a whole two hours.

If you're tangled up in traffic, stuck in a snarl or worried about joining a jam then fear not; the sensational Sally Boazman is on hand to keep us all on track with the travel news.

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. Every Friday, in the sports locker, we move away from the mainstream and concentrate on a sport or sporting event that's a little bit different in Jonny's Mad Friday Sport.

Business boffin, Rebecca Pike, keeps our listeners in the loop with the crucial news from The City, The Stock Market and your pocket. Friday is also the day for Foxy to bring our listeners' latest innovations to you.

The Movie That Changed My Life

The Movie That Changed My Life: Episode 5

Episode 5

BBC Radio 2 - The Movie That Changed My Life, Episode 5Search BBC

Honor Blackman chooses the 1950 classic All About Eve, starring Bette Davis.

Honor Blackman reviews her favourite movie - the 1950 classic All About Eve, starring Bette Davis and Anne Baxter. She recalls how the satire shaped her own acting career.

Please take your seats and switch off your mobile phones, as Radio 2 heads to the movies with six well-known figures choosing their favourite film.

Honor Blackman chooses the 1950 classic All About Eve, in which ageing actress Margo Channing (Bette Davis), sees her career threatened by young devotee and aspiring star, Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter). 

The film, which includes among its cast a young Marilyn Monroe, won six Academy Awards, and its screenplay by director Joseph Mankiewicz is a sharp and witty take on the ruthless world of celebrity. Honor recalls when she first saw the film as a rising star herself, and the effect it had on her own acting career.

Well-known figures review their favourite movie with the assistance of expert contributors

Series in which six well-known figures review their favourite movie, with the assistance of expert contributors

5/6. Six well-known people review their favourite movie.
The series continues with TV and film actress Honor Blackman (The Avengers, Goldfinger), who reveals her passion for All about Eve (1950) - Joseph L. Mankiewicz's stagey but effectively sharp and bitchy Oscar-winning depiction of an aspiring and seemingly trustworthy actress (Anne Baxter) plotting to steal the crown of her supposed mentor and inspiration (Bette Davis). Blackman was a 25-year-old rising star when the film premiered in Britain.

Sunday Night is Music Night

The world's longest-running live orchestral programme featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra

The world's longest-running live orchestral music programme on radio, featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra and broadcast from locations throughout the UK

Friday Night is Music Night

Sunday Night is Music Night: 14/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Sunday Night is Music Night, 14/08/2009

The BBC Concert Orchestra perform live from the Watford Colosseum.

Gavin Sutherland conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in a selection of popular classics. Guests include tenor Bonaventura Bottone and organist Richard Hills.

This week's show includes a treat from fans of the theatre organ. Richard Hills is on hand to perform at the console of Watford Colosseum's mighty Compton organ. 

Gavin Sutherland conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in a selection of popular classics. This week's guests include the tenor Bonaventura Bottone and organist Richard Hills.

Friday Night Is Music Night

Gavin Sutherland conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra with tenor Bonaventura Bottone and organist Richard Hills in a live broadcast showcasing the Watford Colosseum's mightly Compton organ.

The Adventures of Sexton Blake

The Adventures of Sexton Blake: Episode 3

Episode 3

BBC Radio 2 - The Adventures of Sexton Blake, Episode 3

The iconic British sleuth Sexton Blake stars in a new series of thrilling adventures.

Britain's iconic sleuth explodes into action in a new series of thrilling adventures packed with incident and hilarity. Starring Simon Jones, Wayne Forester and June Whitfield.

Sexton Blake! The name that spells hurtling adventure and doom for villainy. Britain's iconic and most prolifically chronicled sleuth explodes back into action in a brand new series of thrilling adventures; 40 years after his last public incarnation.

In a series of thrilling adventures packed with incident and hilarity, Sexton Blake (Simon Jones), and his plucky assistant Tinker (Wayne Forester), aided by Mrs Bardell (June Whitfield) battle diabolical masterminds, bewitching thieves and sinister fiends, out-thinking them in the head and out-punching them in the jaw! 

This cinematic audio romp is a period-set re-invention of Blake's glory years - during the 1920s and 30s and includes a cameo appearance by BBC Radio's 1960s Sexton Blake - the late, legendary and coolly dashing William Franklyn.

Britain's iconic sleuth stars in a series of thrilling adventures

Britain's iconic and most prolifically chronicled sleuth explodes back into action in a brand new series of thrilling adventures, starring Simon Jones, Wayne Forester and June Whitfield

3/6. Simon Jones stars as the intrepid sleuth Sexton Blake.

Listen to the Band

Showcase for brass and military band music, looking at new CD releases and old favourites

Showcase for brass and military band music, looking at new CD releases and old favourites and updating the traditional image of banding

Listen to the Band: 14/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Listen to the Band, 14/08/2009

Frank Renton presents an opera special with a tribute to The Three Tenors, Rusalka's Song of The Moon, the Bachanale from Saint-Saens' Samson et Delilah and The Bartered Bride.

Listen To The Band and Frank Renton spend a night at the opera. 

Featuring a tribute to The Three Tenors, Rusalka's Song Of The Moon and the whirlwind Bachanale from Saint-SaÃ«ns Samson et Delilah, the programme begins with one of the great operatic overtures, The Bartered Bride.

Frank Renton presents an opera special, featuring music by Verdi, 
Dvorak, Saint-Sae ns and Smetana.

The Radio 2 Arts Show with Anneka Rice

Looking at the latest books, films, plays and exhibitions

A lively and unpretentious look at the latest films, plays, dance events, books and exhibitions, alongside an eclectic selection of music.

Claudia Winkleman

The Radio 2 Arts Show with Anneka Rice: 14/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - The Radio 2 Arts Show with Anneka Rice, 14/08/2009

Claudia is joined by celebrity interviewer Lynn Barber.

With popular arts news, reviews, music and guests. Claudia is joined by celebrity interviewer Lynn Barber to talk about her Fleet Street life and new book, An Education.

Claudia Winkleman crams a week of culture into her two hour show. Her guest is the queen of the celebrity interview - Lynn Barber. She is renowned for insightful and intimate portraits of the great and the good and has met personalities such as tabloid favourite Kerry Katona, artist David Hockney and comic Eddie Izzard. But why is she nicknamed 'Demon Barber' - is it because of her cutting articles? Find out when Lynn joins Claudia to talk about her Fleet Street life and new book, An Education.

Lynn Barber discusses her Fleet Street life and her autobiographical new book An Education.

Mark Lamarr

Mark Lamarr presents the best music you never knew you loved from the last 70 years.

Mark Lamarr presents the best music you never knew you loved from the last 70 years, alongside the finest live sessions.

Mark Lamarr presents the best music you never knew you loved from the last 70 years, alongside the finest live sessions. 

This is where garage meets soul, punk meets country, and 30s yodelling collides with 70s dub and 90s hip hop...

...painting the world with sunshine, one record at a time!

Mark Lamarr: 14/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Mark Lamarr, 14/08/2009

With a session from blues singer Black Joe Lewis and his band The Honeybears.

Mark is joined at Maida Vale for a session with up-and-coming blues singer Black Joe Lewis and his band The Honeybears.

Mark Lamarr paints the world with sunshine, one record at a time. 

Joining Mark at Maida Vale this week for a session is another fine musician from Austin, Texas - the up and coming blues singer Black Joe Lewis and his band The Honeybears.

Richard Allinson

Richard Allinson in his early-morning weekend residency with music and features

Richard Allinson in his early-morning weekend residency with three hours of music and features

Richard Allinson: 15/08/2009

15/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Richard Allinson, 15/08/2009

Tim Smith sits in for Richard Allinson with music and chat.

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