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: 17/09/2009

17/09/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Sarah Kennedy, 17/09/2009

On the Dawn Patrol. Includes a Pause For Thought.

On the Dawn Patrol. With the religious and entertainment news of the day as well as the general newspaper review and Show Tunes. Plus 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: 17/09/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Wake Up to Wogan, 17/09/2009

Terry Wogan with music and banter. Includes Pause for Thought.

Ken Bruce

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

Ken Bruce: 17/09/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Ken Bruce, 17/09/2009

Ken Bruce with music, mayhem and Chas Hodges' Tracks of My Years.

With Popmaster, the Love Song, the Album of The Week from Mika and Tracks Of My Years from Chas Hodges of Chas and Dave.

Romance is in the air when we play our daily Love Song at 10:15. Plus there's all the usual wonderment - the Album Of The Week, PopMaster and Tracks Of My Years from Chas Hodges. Today Chas chooses 'Johnny Remember Me' by John Leyton and 'Listen To Me' by Buddy Holly.

Jeremy Vine

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

Jeremy Vine: 17/09/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine, 17/09/2009

Jeremy discusses GP catchment areas, the socialite, staff behaving badly and urban foxes.

Jeremy discusses the abolishment of GP catchment areas, the socialite cleared of being drunk on a plane, staff behaving badly at a supermarket and urban foxes.

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: 17/09/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Steve Wright in the Afternoon, 17/09/2009

Steve Wright talks to Gordon Ramsay and Twiggy.

Steve Wright talks to Gordon Ramsay and Twiggy. The Oldies are chosen by Jo and Becci from Waltham near Grimsby.

Steve Wright talks to Gordon Ramsay and Twiggy, and brings you Factoids to impress your friends with, the non stop Oldies, all the latest news from the showbiz world and the coolest music on the planet.

Steve Wright

Chris Evans

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

Chris Evans: 17/09/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Chris Evans, 17/09/2009

Will Chris lap up Nigel Barden's Lancashire Hotpot in the food slot?

Don your Stetson as Chris celebrates Country and Western. Also, will we lap up Nigel Barden's Lancashire Hotpot in the food slot?

Yee-Haw! Don your Stetson as Chris celebrates Country and Western. And, will we lap up Nigel Barden's Lancashire Hotpot in tonight's food slot?

The Country Show with Bob Harris

The very best in Country music, celebrating the new alongside the defining legendary names

The very best in Country music, celebrating the new alongside the defining legendary names.

Bob Harris Country

The Country Show with Bob Harris: 17/09/2009

BBC Radio 2 - The Country Show with Bob Harris, 17/09/2009

Bob presents the show from Nashville, previewing the Americana Music Association Awards.

The programme comes from Music Row in Nashville, with Bob previewing the Americana Music Association Awards. Guests include singer-songwriter and radio host Elizabeth Cook.

Tonight's programme comes from Music Row in Nashville on the day of the 8th Americana Music Association Awards. 

The ceremony, which includes awards for artist, album and song of the year, takes place later tonight at the legendary Ryman Auditorium in downtown Nashville. Nominees this year include Raul Malo, The Flatlanders, Rodney Crowell and Alejandro Escovedo, and performances include folkabilly queen Nanci Griffith and Western swing legends Asleep at the Wheel.

In this preview, Bob Harris is joined in the studio by the country singer-songwriter Elizabeth Cook, whose song Sometimes It Takes Balls To Be A Woman was nominated in the best song category in 2007, and who hosts her own radio show for satellite radio station Outlaw Country. With Elizabeth and other guests, Bob reflects on the current Americana music scene, and plays tracks from this year's nominees and featured artists.

A special edition, broadcast from Music Row in Nashville ahead of tonight's eighth annual Americana Music Association Awards. Country singer/songwriter Elizabeth Cook talks to Bob about the state of the current Americana music scene. Expect to hear tracks from the nominees, who include Raul Malo , The Flatlanders, Rodney Crowell and Alejandro Escovedo.

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: 17/09/2009

BBC Radio 6 Music - The Radcliffe & Maconie Show, 17/09/2009

Mark and Stuart are joined by regular guest Noddy Holder.

Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie

Clive Anderson's Chat Room

Hard-edged chat show in which top personalities speak their mind about the week’s topics

Clive Anderson presents a hard-edged chat show in which a panel of four of the nation’s top personalities, politicians, performers and pundits get to speak their mind about the week’s hot topics

Clive Anderson's Chat Room: Clive Anderson's Chat Room

Clive Anderson's Chat Room: Clive Anderson's Chat Room: Episode 1

Episode 1

BBC Radio 2 - Clive Anderson's Chat Room, Clive Anderson's Chat Room, Episode 1

With comedian Mark Thomas, Rick Wakeman, journalist Amanda Platell and Rory Bremner.

Clive Anderson hosts the topical panel show. Guests are the comedian Mark Thomas, musician Rick Wakeman, journalist Amanda Platell and satirist Rory Bremner.

Clive Anderson returns to Radio 2 with the first in a new series of his Chat Room. Each week Clive's panel of guests will be a mix of comedians, critics, commentators and politicians, all quick-witted, opinionated and often with direct experience of the subjects being discussed. And the studio audience has the opportunity to fire questions at the panel. This week's guests are comedian Mark Thomas, musician Rick Wakeman, journalist Amanda Platell and satirist Rory Bremner.

Clive Anderson hosts the show in which the audience fire topical questions at a panel

Clive Anderson hosts the show in which the audience fire topical questions at a panel of guests

The Comedy Hour: Clive Anderson's Chat Room

New series. 1/8. Return of the topical satire in which guests join ex-barrister Clive Anderson for an irreverent dissection of the week's news, instigated by queries from a studio audience. Accomplices include Mark Thomas and Rick Wakeman.

The Blaggers Guide...

Blaggers Guide...to the Classics: Series one

The Blaggers Guide...: Series one: Episode 1

Series one

BBC Radio 2 - The Blaggers Guide..., Series one, Episode 1Search BBC

David Quantick on classical music, starting with Beethoven, opera and the woodwind section

Music and comedy writer David Quantick presents comical and occasionally fabricated explanations of music. Looking at Beethoven, opera and the woodwind section.

Another chance to hear David Quantick's comical, quick-paced, and occasionally fabricated guide to classical music. 

Tonight, David begins with Beethoven, opera and the woodwind section.

The Blaggers Guide...: Series one

The Blagger's Guide to the Classics

1/4. Armed with fake archive footage and recordings, rock and pop raconteur David Ouantick offers comically constructed and occasionally fabricated explanations of music. This series on classical music starts with Beethoven, opera and the woodwind section.

Suzi Quatro

Suzi Quatro brings American music direct to listeners

Suzi Quatro was weaned in Detroit on the best American music, taking in everything from Doo Wop and rock 'n' roll to Motown and soul. She brings the best of it to R2

Suzi Quatro: 17/09/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Suzi Quatro, 17/09/2009

Suzi focuses on 1969 with music from Nilsson, the Dells and Peter, Paul and Mary.

Suzi Quatro's American selection focuses on 1969 with music from Nilsson, the Dells, Jerry Butler, Credence Clearwater Revival and Peter, Paul and Mary.

Suzi Quatro plays the music she heard in her formative years, from doo-wop to Motown and rock 'n' roll, taking us through the 50s and 60s right up to the present day. 

Every week Suzi focuses on a particular year in American chart history and once a month Suzi talks, in depth, to a special guest about their American influences. This week it's 1969 with Nilsson, the Dells, Jerry Butler, Credence Clearwater Revival and Peter, Paul and Mary.

With American radio oldies, tonight featuring US chart hits from 1969, including discs by Jerry Butler , The Dells, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Smith, The Spiral Staircase, 
Nilsson, and Peter, Paul and Mary.

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: 17/09/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Janice Long, 17/09/2009

Janice welcomes Paris-based, English songwriter MaJiKer to play live in session.

Janice welcomes Paris-based, English songwriter MaJiKer to play songs from his debut album Body-Piano-Machine live in session. Plus there's another Janice Theme Time Hour.

Janice welcomes Paris-based, English songwriter MaJiKer to play songs from his debut album Body-Piano-Machine live in session. Plus there's another Janice Theme Time Hour and Tunes Of The Unexpected.

Featuring a live set by French pop experimentalist MaJiKer.

Alex Lester

Weekday morning music and entertainment with Alex Lester

Alex Lester: 18/09/2009

18/09/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Alex Lester, 18/09/2009

With music, chat and features, including Lester's Library and the Listeners' Library.

The week's final instalment of random daftness and planned oddities from the Dark Lord. Includes two hourly visits to the extensive music archive known as Lester's Library, and your musical contribution in the Listeners' Library. 

Submit your own choices by going to Alex's pages at bbc.co.uk/radio2. Also, get the best bits of the week to take away on your MP3 player by signing up to Alex's "oddcast" at bbc.co.uk/radio2.

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