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: 19/08/2009

19/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Sarah Kennedy, 19/08/2009

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: 19/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Wake Up to Wogan, 19/08/2009

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

Ken Bruce

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

Ken Bruce: 19/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Ken Bruce, 19/08/2009

Featuring Tracks of My Years from singer Mica Paris.

With Popmaster, the Love Song, the Record and Album of the Week, and Tracks of My Years from Mica Paris, who chooses songs by Sam Cooke and Diana Ross and The Supremes.

Ken Bruce flies in the face of conformity and presents a radio show completely different to any other: Music, a quiz, your texts and emails, more music and some travel bulletins. 

Mica Paris chooses songs by Sam Cooke and Diana Ross & The Supremes. Plus there's PopMaster, the Record and Album Of The Week and a lovely Love Song for all the lovers who are in love.

Including after 11.30 Tracks of My Years, in which throughout the week soul-inspired English singer Mica Paris selects her ten favourite records, today featuring Sam Cooke and The Supremes. See also Trevor Nelson at 10pm

Jeremy Vine

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

Jeremy Vine: 19/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine, 19/08/2009

Matthew Bannister in for Jeremy Vine on the NHS, Afghanistan, social lending and pythons.

Matthew Bannister sits in for Jeremy Vine and discusses the amount of sick leave taken by NHS workers, Afghanistan, social lending site Zopa and a python that ate a cat.

Matthew discusses the number of sick leave taken by NHS workers, soldiers who've died in Afghanistan, social lending site Zopa and a python that ate a cat.

Matthew Bannister

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: 19/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Steve Wright in the Afternoon, 19/08/2009

Steve's guests are TV host Fred Dineage and Florence Welch from Florence and the Machine.

With guests TV host and newsreader Fred Dineage and Florence Welch from Mercury Music prize-nominated Florence and the Machine. The Oldies are chosen by Julie Glasel from Norwich.

Steve Wright chats to the singer Florence, from the Mercury nominated Florence and the Machine. And as we continue to track down some our favourite TV stars of yesteryear, In Where Are They Now, Steve and the team talk to TV legend Fred Dineage. 

Plus, Steve 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: 19/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Chris Evans, 19/08/2009

Dig out the earplugs as Chris gets a crash course in playing the recorder.

Dig out the earplugs as Chris gets a crash course in playing the recorder. Plus, another enthralling tryst with the Moth Lady.

It's hump day! Now dig out earplugs as Chris gets a crash course in playing the recorder. Plus, we have a another enthralling tryst with the ever-popular Moth Lady.

Mike Harding

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

Mike Harding: 19/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Mike Harding, 19/08/2009

With folk, roots and acoustic music. Includes an interview with Loudon Wainwright III.

With the best in folk, roots and acoustic music. Includes an interview with Loudon Wainwright III, who pays tribute to musician Charlie Poole on his new album.

Mike Harding presents an hour of the very best in folk, roots and acoustic music. 

This week's show includes an interview with Loudon Wainwright III, who pays tribute to the legendary American musician Charlie Poole on his forthcoming double album High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project.    

Details of the music played can be found at bbc.co.uk/folk and requests for future shows can be sent to mike.harding@bbc.co.uk. The show is also available as a podcast every week.

Folk, roots and acoustic-based music. Plus an interview with Loudon Wainwright III , who pays tribute to influential banjo player and country artist Charlie Poole (1892-1931) on his forthcoming album High Wide and Handsome - the Charlie Poole Project.

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: 19/08/2009

BBC Radio 6 Music - The Radcliffe & Maconie Show, 19/08/2009

Featuring a live session with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.

With music, banter, guest pundits and live sessions. Featuring a live session with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.

Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie

Performing from their debut album Up from Below are US neo-folk-rock band Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, featuring Ima Robot lead vocalist Alex Ebert.

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: 19/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Trevor Nelson, 19/08/2009

Trevor's Album of the Week is Jodeci's Diary of A Mad Band from 1993.

With the finest soul music, past and present. Trevor's Album of the Week is Jodeci's Diary of A Mad Band (1993) and Mica Paris performs tracks from her new album.

Mica Paris is in session performing tracks from her brand new album and Trevor's Album Of The Weeks is Jodeci's Diary Of A Mad Band (1993).

  
Jodeci juggles new jack swing and vintage soul on its second album and winds up with a jarring, mismatched release. The disc's love songs, particularly Cry for You, What About Us, and My Heart Belongs to You, are tender and passionately sung, sincere expressions of romance and love. The album is diminished however by some innuendo-laden numbers, complete with explicit language, tired raps and samples.

Series contrasting original genuine soul with contemporary hip-hop and neo-R&B. Tonight's show features singer Mica Paris performing songs from her new release Born Again. Plus an album spotlight on Diary of a Mad Band - the 1993 album by US hip-hop quartet Jodeci (two sets of brothers), featuring the UK top 20 hit singles feen/n'and Cry for You.

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: 19/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Steve Lamacq, 19/08/2009

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 brings the best new music to the Radio 2 listener. Hear the most exciting new tracks by established and upcoming artists here before you hear it anywhere else. Steve plays music from the Kings of Leon to Lord Cut Glass, Coldplay to The Flaming Lips, Florence & the Machine to The Arctic Monkeys. 

Plus 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 Reverend and the Makers. There's also the Listeners Tip, where you tell us about the best new bands you've come across.

Specialist in new music, with tracks by established and emerging 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: 19/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Janice Long, 19/08/2009

Craig Charles sits in for Janice Long with music and chat.

Craig Charles

Alex Lester

Weekday morning music and entertainment with Alex Lester

Alex Lester: 20/08/2009

20/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Alex Lester, 20/08/2009

With music, chat and features on The Best Time Of Day show.

With music, chat and features on The Best Time of Day show, including Lester's Library and the Listeners' Library.

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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