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: 25/08/2009

25/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Sarah Kennedy, 25/08/2009

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: 25/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Wake Up to Wogan, 25/08/2009

Johnnie Walker sits in for Terry Wogan with music and chat.

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

Johhnie Walker sits in for Terry Wogan with the best music for breakfast time, plus the latest news and travel reports.

Johnnie Walker

Ken Bruce

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

Ken Bruce: 25/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Ken Bruce, 25/08/2009

Paolo Nutini picks songs by Bo Diddley and Joe Tex in Tracks of My Years.

With the Daily Love Song, the Record and Album of the Week and PopMaster. Paolo Nutini picks songs by Bo Diddley and Joe Tex in Tracks of My Years.

Ken Bruce does his best impression of the invisible man for another two and a half hours. Romance is in the air when we play our Daily Love Song. 

Plus there's all the usual wonderment - the Record and Album Of The Week, PopMaster and Tracks Of My Years with Scottish singer-songwriter, Paolo Nutini. Today he chooses songs by Bo Diddley and Joe Tex.

Jeremy Vine

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

Jeremy Vine: 25/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine, 25/08/2009

Matthew Bannister in for Jeremy Vine on roadworks, drugs, lightbulbs and Brits abroad.

Matthew Bannister sits in for Jeremy Vine. Discussing the ban of three party drugs, shopkeepers complaining about roadworks, traditional lightbulbs being replaced and Brits abroad.

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: 25/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Steve Wright in the Afternoon, 25/08/2009

The Oldies are picked by Janet Green from Lowestoft in Suffolk.

Steve Wright chats to top showbiz guests, and 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: 25/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Chris Evans, 25/08/2009

Chris springs Jonny into action as he road tests the latest fitness craze, Kangoo Jumps!

We get the lowdown on how high the Drivetime sunflowers have grown, and Chris springs Jonny into action as he road tests the latest fitness craze - Kangoo Jumps!

We get the lowdown on how high the Drivetime sunflowers have grown from Tom Brown at RHS Garden Wisley. And Chris springs Jonny into action as he road tests the latest fitness craze - Kangoo Jumps!

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: 25/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Desmond Carrington: The Music Goes Round, 25/08/2009

Desmond invokes the nostalgia of the 'wireless days'.

Desmond rummages through his collection of 250,000 titles to share some good tunes and a few you may have never heard before. Desmond invokes the nostalgia of the 'wireless days'.

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 invokes the nostalgia of the "wireless days".

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: 25/08/2009

BBC Radio 6 Music - The Radcliffe & Maconie Show, 25/08/2009

Mark presents solo. Featuring an interview with The Hot Rats.

Mark presents solo. Featuring an interview with The Hot Rats (Supergrass's Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey and Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich).

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: 25/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - The Organist Entertains, 25/08/2009

Nigel Ogden presents a programme of popular organ recordings.

The Organist Entertains. Nigel Ogden presents a programme of popular organ recordings.

Ever since the development of instruments which were able to produce organ sounds without pipes many thousands of people have treated themselves to an electronic one at home, perhaps as an alternative or, indeed, an addition to the traditional family piano. Well the obvious big advantage is that most electronic organs don't take up any more space than a piano and don't really need a lot of maintenance. However, when it comes to installing a traditional pipe organ in the home, things do get a bit more complicated, and not just in terms of actually finding space for all the pipes. In tonight's programme you can hear the stories and the music from those that have been brave enough to rearrange their homes to accommodate some impressive instruments.

Nigel Ogden

Radio 2 Celebrates Jazz

Performances, playlists and documentaries from the history of jazz.

Performances, playlists and documentaries from the history of jazz, including shows from the BBC's archive and more - marking the Cheltenham Jazz Festival.

 Miles Plugs In

Radio 2 Celebrates Jazz: Miles Plugs In

Miles Plugs In

BBC Radio 2 - Radio 2 Celebrates Jazz, Miles Plugs In

Craig Charles explores the extraordinary music that Miles produced in his "Electric Era".

Another chance to hear Craig Charles explore the extraordinary music that Miles Davis produced in the period dubbed the "Electric Era" from 1969-75.

Another chance to hear Craig Charles explore the extraordinary music that Miles Davis produced in the period dubbed the "Electric Era" from 1969-75. 

At the time poorly received, the records from this timeframe include Bitches Brew and On The Corner and represent the final creative flourish from one of the 20th Century's major musical figures. 

The documentary includes newly sourced interview material from musicians who collaborated with Miles including Wayne Shorter, John Mclaughlin, Jack De Johnette and Dave Liebman. It was first broadcast in August 2009, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Miles Davis' In A Silent Way.

Miles Plugs in

Actor and funk specialist Craig Charles celebrates the 40th anniversary of Miles Davis's jazz-fusion work In a Silent Way with an exploration of the trumpeter's album output during his 1969-75 "electric era". Among the initially poorly received LPs highlighting the final creative flourish of Davis (1926-91) are Bitches Brew (1970) and On the Corner (1972). The programme features newly sourced interview material from Davis collaborators, including saxophonists Wayne Shorter and Dave Liebman, drummer Jack DeJohnette and English guitarist John McLaughlin. Producer Henry Lopez-Real

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 6

Episode 6

BBC Radio 2 - Marc Riley's Musical Time Machine, Marc Riley's Musical Time Machine, Episode 6

Marc Riley looks at an archive interview between Stuart Maconie and Scott Walker from 1995

Marc Riley dips into the BBC's archives and unearths an interview from 1995 by Stuart Maconie with reluctant pop star Scott Walker, for the BBC Radio 4 arts programme Kaleidoscope.

Tonight Marc and his musical time machine head back to 1995. This was the year that Nick Leeson was arrested for his role in the collapse of Barings Bank, Richey Edwards of the Manic Street Preachers went missing and comedian Peter Cook passed away. 

In this, the last episode of the series, we hear what happened when Stuart Maconie interviewed the reluctant and revered pop star Scott Walker for Radio 4's art programme Kaleidoscope. Famed for being one third of the Walker Brothers, and known for classics like The Sun Aint Gonna Shine Anymore and Make It Easy On Yourself, he'd known massive success in the 60s but following the bands break-up he had become increasingly enigmatic and reclusive. 

In May 1995 he had just emerged from an eleven year hibernation following the release of his twelfth record Tilt. We hear him discuss the European influence on his American sensibility, his writing technique and his notions of crime and punishment.

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

6/6. Series reassessing rock and pop interviews from the BBC archive concludes with Stuart Maconie's conversation with distinctive and mannered singer Scott Walker, recorded in May 1995 for an instalment of Radio 4's arts show Kaleidoscope. Best known for the Walker Brothers' two number one hits Make It Easy on Yourself (1965) and The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore (1966) plus the trio's 1976 top ten No Regrets and Walker's 1967 and '68 solo hits Jackie and Joanna. the famously enigmatic and reclusive singer, born Noel Scott Engel, talks about his then new album Tilt.

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: 25/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Janice Long, 25/08/2009

Steve Jones sits in for Janice Long with music and chat.

Steve Jones

Alex Lester

Weekday morning music and entertainment with Alex Lester

Alex Lester: 26/08/2009

26/08/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Alex Lester, 26/08/2009

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, and Pause for Thought.

An early morning mix of music & 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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