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: 29/09/2009

29/09/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Sarah Kennedy, 29/09/2009

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: 29/09/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Wake Up to Wogan, 29/09/2009

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: 29/09/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Ken Bruce, 29/09/2009

Tito Jackson picks two of his favourite songs on Tracks of My Years.

Tito Jackson picks two of his favourite songs on Tracks of My Years and Barbra Streisand provides the Album of the Week.

Self-proclaimed Heir to the Throne of Scotland, Ken Bruce seeks willing audience to listen to radio show in world's first bid to reverse hair-loss with a daily mix of music and first-class humour. Tito Jackson picks two more of his favourites on Tracks Of My Years and Barbra Streisand is Album Of The Week. Plus we give the Record Of The Week another spin and two more courageous souls take each other on in PopMaster.

Jeremy Vine

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

Jeremy Vine: 29/09/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine, 29/09/2009

Jeremy discusses disability hate crimes, care homes, airguns and a Nazi soldier.

Jeremy discusses a disability crime against a mother and her daughter, a son's fight to keep his mother's care home open, an airgun accident and a Nazi officer's savings.

Jeremy discusses a disability crime against a mother and her daughter, a son fights to keep his mother's care home open, an airgun accident and a Nazi officer's savings.

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: 29/09/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Steve Wright in the Afternoon, 29/09/2009

Steve Wright chats to the singer Natalie Imbruglia and Tommy Steele.

Steve Wright chats to the singer Natalie Imbruglia and Tommy Steele. Plus brain-busting Factoids, the Non-Stop Oldies, news from the world of entertainment, and the best music.

Steve Wright chats to the singer Natalie Imbruglia and Tommy Steele, 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: 29/09/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Chris Evans, 29/09/2009

Chris is 'aving a giraffe over the quirks of nature's wildest four-legged wonder.

Chris is 'aving a giraffe over the quirks of nature's wildest four-legged wonder. Plus, Donny and Marie Osmond road test their comeback single Vegas Love in the Jukebox Jury.

Chris is 'aving a giraffe over the quirks of nature's wildest four-legged wonder. Plus, Donny and Marie Osmond road-test their comeback single 'Vegas Love' in the Jukebox Jury.

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: 29/09/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Desmond Carrington: The Music Goes Round, 29/09/2009

Desmond rummages through his record collection and remembers composer Hoagy Carmichael.

Desmond Carrington rummages through his record collection and remembers American songwriter and performer Hoagy Carmichael.

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 before.

This week, it's a composer special with Desmond remembering the American songwriter and performer, Hoagy Carmichael.

Desmond Carrington

Showcasing Hoagy Carmichael 
(1899-1981), whose songs include Stardust (1927), Georgia on My Mind (1939) and Heart and Soul (1938).

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: 29/09/2009

BBC Radio 6 Music - The Radcliffe & Maconie Show, 29/09/2009

Including an interview with bassist Peter Hook, who has written a book about the Hacienda.

Including an interview with New Order bassist Peter Hook, who has written a book about the Hacienda club in Manchester.

Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie

Ex-New Order guitarist and former part-owner of Manchester's iconic Hacienda club (1982-1997) Peter Hook discusses his new book The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Club.

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: 29/09/2009

BBC Radio 2 - The Organist Entertains, 29/09/2009

Nigel Ogden presents a programme of popular organ music.

Nigel Ogden presents listeners' requests. Includes music from Reginald Dixon on Blackpool Tower's Ballroom Wurlitzer and Fats Waller on the Compton organ at Abbey Road studios.

With a full postbag and email inbox at the ready Nigel Ogden presents a programme of listeners requests. Fans of Reginald Dixon on Blackpool Tower's famous Ballroom Wurlitzer will have plenty to enjoy, we'll hear the great jazz pianist Fats Waller as recorded on the Compton organ at EMI's Abbey Road studios in the 1930s along with the final part of Sibelius's magnificent Finlandia realised appropriately enough, on the organ of Turku Cathedral in Finland.

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: Dick Emery: The Comedy of Errors?

Dick Emery: The Comedy of Errors?

BBC Radio 2 - Radio 2 Comedy Greats, Dick Emery: The Comedy of Errors?

David Walliams presents a tribute to one of the long forgotten giants of British comedy.

David Walliams explores the career, comic legacy and private life of one of the forgotten giants of British comedy, Dick Emery.

For more than twenty years, Dick Emery dominated the TV schedules. The Dick Emery Show regularly pulled in audiences of 17 million, making him one of the giants of British character comedy, until his death in 1983.

His catchphrases were legendary - the most memorable being '"Ooh you are awful, but I like you" - and his influence can be seen in Little Britain, as well as the work of Catherine Tate, and Harry Enfield. Fan David Walliams investigates Dick Emery's legacy and asks why the comic has been largely forgotten.

Dick Emery's characters included grotesque female figures like Mandy the peroxide blonde and the man-eating Hetty. He also gave us the outrageously camp Clarence, Bovver Boy and the "toothy" vicar. Despite being larger than life stereotypes, the British public took them to their hearts, recognising characteristics not far removed from people they knew in everyday life.

But while Dick was hiding himself behind the wigs and costumes, he was disguising a bumpy personal life. This programme includes a rare interview with the comic's only daughter Eliza Emery - herself now a singer and entertainer - who recalls what it felt like to grow up with a famous father who was rarely around for her as a child. 

David also hears from producer/director Harold Snoad and Dick Emery Show writer David Nobbs about the uniqueness of his comedy creations. Co-stars and contemporaries who pop up over the hour include Helen Fraser, Jacki Piper, Robert Gillespie and Vicki Michelle, while TV mogul Michael Grade assesses Emery's contribution to the golden age of British television.

This documentary first broadcast on Radio 2 in September 2009.

Dick Emery: the Comedy of Errors?

David Walliams pays tribute to largely forgotten saucy comedian Dick Emery (1915-83), who in the 1970s regularly pulled in TV audiences of 17 million. The programme assesses Emery's legacy - which has found expression in Walliams and Matt Lucas's Little Britain as well as the comedy of Catherine Tate and Harry Enfield - and looks at the bumpy personal life he masked by grotesque and exaggeratedly stereotypical comic creations. Featuring a rare interview with the comic's daughter Eliza Emery, TV mogul Michael Grade, and many who have worked with him or on The Dick Emery Show, including producer/director Harold Snoad, writer David Nobbs and actors Helen Fraser, Jacki Piper, Robert Gillespie and Vicki Michelle.

James Last

James Last: Episode 1

Episode 1

BBC Radio 2 - James Last, Episode 1

Guy Barker profiles the German composer and band leader James Last.

Another chance to hear Guy Barker's profile of the German composer and band leader James Last. Guy examines Last's classical arrangements.

Another chance to hear Guy Barker's profile of the German composer and band leader James Last.

Contributors include Andy Williams, Graham Gouldman (of 10CC fame), Emanuel Legrand (global editor of Billboard), Mike Dixon (Musical Director) and Richard Clayderman. We hear from members of the band who have played with James over many years including Jim Sullivan, Terry Jenkins and vocalist Sue Glover. There is also in-depth musical analysis from Anthony Lewis Crosby (Managing Director of the London Mozart Players) and of course from Mr Guy Barker himself. 

This three-part series first broadcast on Radio in 2006 and episode one looks at James Last's classical arrangments.

Guy Barker profiles the German composer and band leader James Last

Music Feature

A rebroadcast of a programme from the back catalogue.

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: 29/09/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Janice Long, 29/09/2009

Echo And The Bunnymen chat about their album The Fountain and pick some favourite music.

Echo And The Bunnymen chat about their new album The Fountain and pick some of their favourite music. Plus Tunes Of The Unexpected and Radio 2's Record and Album Of The Week.

Echo & The Bunnymen chat about their new album The Fountain and pick some favourite music. Plus there's Tunes Of The Unexpected and Radio 2's Record and Album Of The Week.

Alex Lester

Weekday morning music and entertainment with Alex Lester

Alex Lester: 30/09/2009

30/09/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Alex Lester, 30/09/2009

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 & 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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