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: 15/09/2009

15/09/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Sarah Kennedy, 15/09/2009

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: 15/09/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Wake Up to Wogan, 15/09/2009

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

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

Ken Bruce

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

Ken Bruce: 15/09/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Ken Bruce, 15/09/2009

With Tracks of My Years from Chas Hodges of Chas and Dave.

With the Daily Love Song, the Record and Album of the Week and PopMaster. Plus Tracks of My Years from Chas Hodges of Chas and Dave, including a Beatles selection.

Another two choices in Tracks Of My Years from Chas Hodges. Today songs by Chris Farlowe and a little-known beat-combo called The Beatles. The Album and Record Of The Week raise their graceful heads once again and PopMaster threatens to overpower another two participants.

Jeremy Vine

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

Jeremy Vine: 15/09/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine, 15/09/2009

Jeremy discusses CRB checks, annual leave, unfair dismissal and divorce settlements.

Jeremy discusses CRB checks, being ill while on annual leave, unfair dismissal for being pretty and whether divorce settlements should always be 50-50.

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: 15/09/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Steve Wright in the Afternoon, 15/09/2009

Steve Wright chats to the singer Pixie Lott and Margaret from The Apprentice.

Steve Wright chats to the singer Pixie Lott and Margaret from The Apprentice. Plus: brain-busting Factoids and the Non-Stop Oldies.

Steve Wright chats to the singer Pixie Lott, and Margaret Mountford from The Apprentice, 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: 15/09/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Chris Evans, 15/09/2009

Chris blasts off with astronaut Buzz Aldrin, judge at Goodwood Spirit of Aviation award.

Chris blasts off with astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who is guest judge at the Goodwood Spirit of Aviation Awards, and Sir Stirling Moss joins Jonny in his sports locker.

Chris blasts off with astronaut Buzz Aldrin who will be guest judge at this weekend's Goodwood Spirit of Aviation award. And ahead of turning 80, Sir Stirling Moss joins Jonny in his sports locker.

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: The Music Goes Round: 15/09/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Desmond Carrington: The Music Goes Round, 15/09/2009

Desmond shares tunes from his collection of 250,000 titles on the theme of 'books'.

...Goes Round. Desmond rummages through his collection of 250,000 titles to share some good tunes, some unexpected ones and a few you may never have heard. The theme is 'books'.

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 books.

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: 15/09/2009

BBC Radio 6 Music - The Radcliffe & Maconie Show, 15/09/2009

Chatting with Sarah Outen - the first woman to row solo across the Indian Ocean.

Chatting with record-breaking rower Sarah Outen - the first woman to row solo across the Indian Ocean.

Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconle

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

The Organist Entertains: 15/09/2009

BBC Radio 2 - The Organist Entertains, 15/09/2009

Nigel Ogden presents a programme of popular organ recordings.

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

Nigel Ogden presents a programme of popular organ recordings with some entertaining pieces from the organ world.

Nigel Ogden

Radio 2 Comedy Greats

Radio 2 profiles the lives and careers of some of the UK's greatest comedians

Radio 2 Comedy Greats: Titter Ye Not: The Frankie Howerd Story

Titter Ye Not: The Frankie Howerd Story

BBC Radio 2 - Radio 2 Comedy Greats, Titter Ye Not: The Frankie Howerd StorySearch BBC

Clive Anderson looks at the life and work of Frankie Howerd.

Clive Anderson looks at the life and work of Frankie Howerd, considering what made him funny and the extent to which he revolutionised comedy in post-war Britain.

Clive Anderson looks at the life and work of Frankie Howerd, considering what made him so funny and the extent to which his "over the garden wall" style of performing revolutionised stand-up comedy in post-war Britain.

In the late 1970s, when Clive was still working as a barrister, he also wrote for Radio 2's The Frankie Howerd Variety show. He remembers: "Heavy brows above and dark bags below, his eyes could flash enjoyment excitement or even aggression, but the set of his jowls was always gloomy. Like a naughty bloodhound endlessly seeking sympathy but instead providing endless entertainment he provoked fun because of the way he said things or even despite the way he said things." 

As well as Clive's personal recollections, the programme includes the last interview with Dennis Heymer, Howerd's partner of 40 years who died in May. Clive takes a tour of Wavering Down, the Somerset home Dennis shared with Howerd, which is now occasionally opened to the public. Heymer remembers how Howerd hated being gay: "He once said to Cilla Black, "I wish I wasn't gay", he just didn't want to be a homosexual. When I first met him and moved into the house, I was always hidden away. I was in another room whenever anybody came to talk to him, a producer or anybody in the profession or writers, even his sister. I didn't think anything about it. Eventually I started to go to the shows with him and meetings and he got over it." 

Other contributors include David Walliams who recently played Howerd in the BBC4 drama, Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me and idolised the comedian as a teenager; Griff Rhys Jones, who produced The Frankie Howerd Variety Show; Barry Cryer; writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran; producers Bill Lyon-Shaw and David Croft; actress Jeanne Mockford, who appeared alongside Howerd in Up Pompeii; his former agent Beryl Vertue, who recalls how she helped him revive his career in the early 60s; biographer Graham McCann; and producer Trevor McCallum, who talks about having the last ever conversation with Howerd.

Titter Ye Not: theFrankie Howerd Story

RT Clive Anderson explores the CHOICE life and career of comedian 
Frankie Howerd (1917-92). The programme features new interviews, including rare input from Howerd's partner Dennis Heymer (1929-2009), who discusses Howerd's years of secrecy and anxiety over being gay, from David Walliams - who last year portrayed Howerd on TV - and from Frankie Howerd Show contributors Griff Rhys 
Jones (as producer) and writers 
Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. 
Also discussing their work with Howerd are Barry Cryer , producers Bill Lyon-Shaw and David Croft (Up Pompeii), actress Jeanne Mockford , former agent Beryl Vertue and producer Trevor McCallum , who had the last ever conversation with the comic Star. Producer Simon Jacobs RT DIRECT: To order Frankie Howerd : 
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The Music of the Montreux Jazz Festival - Concert Highlights

The Music of the Montreux Jazz Festival - Concert Highlights: Episode 3

Episode 3

BBC Radio 2 - The Music of the Montreux Jazz Festival - Concert Highlights, Episode 3

Jamie Cullum introduces highlights from the 43rd Montreux Jazz Festival.

Jamie Cullum presents highlights from the 43rd Montreux Jazz Festival. Featuring music from ACT Swedish Allstars, Boo Boo Davis, Bettye Lavette, Allen Toussaint and George Benson.

Jamie Cullum presents a four part series featuring highlights from this year's 43rd Montreux Jazz Festival.

In the third programme, after a brief blast of Ayekoo - a young drumming troupe from Ghana - Jamie Cullum introduces music from ACT Swedish Allstars, Boo Boo Davis, Bettye Lavette, Allen Toussaint and George Benson.

Jamie Cullum presents highlights from the 43rd Montreux Jazz Festival

Jamie Cullum presents a four part series featuring highlights from the 43rd Montreux Jazz Festival

3/4. Jamie Cullum with music from July's 43rd festival, featuring Ghana drummers Ayekoo, Boo Boo Davis, The Swedish ACT Allstars, Allen Toussaint and George Benson.

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: 15/09/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Janice Long, 15/09/2009

Award-winning photographer Cambridge Jones talks about his new book 'Inspired* by music'.

Photographer Cambridge Jones talks about his Prince's Trust fundraising book 'Inspired* by music' in which the famous and not so famous have picked songs of importance to them.

Award-winning photographer Cambridge Jones talks about his Prince's Trust fundraising book 'Inspired* by music' in which the famous and not so famous have picked songs of importance to them.

Alex Lester

Weekday morning music and entertainment with Alex Lester

Alex Lester: 16/09/2009

16/09/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Alex Lester, 16/09/2009

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 a Pause for Thought.

An early morning mix of music and conversation, including the first Half-Time Hooter of The Week. Alex launched his all-new "oddcast" earlier this week. Find out how to download it at bbc.co.uk/radio2. 

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 there's something selected by you in the Listeners' Library.

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