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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: 21/12/2009

21/12/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Sarah Kennedy, 21/12/2009

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

Johnnie Walker's Breakfast Show

Johnnie Walker presents a morning mix of music and conversation

Johnnie Walker's Breakfast Show: 21/12/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Johnnie Walker's Breakfast Show, 21/12/2009

Music, news, travel and sport on Johnnie Walker's Breakfast Show.

Johnnie Walker presents a mix of music and conversation with Alan Dedicoat reading the news, Lynn Bowles with travel updates and Pause for Thought.

Johnnie Walker's Breakfast Show, with regular travel updates from Lynn Bowles, the latest news from Alan Dedicoat, Pause for Thought at 9.15am, and a top selection of new and classic music.

Johnnie Walker

Ken Bruce

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

Ken Bruce: 21/12/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Ken Bruce, 21/12/2009

Shirley Bassey chooses her Christmas-themed Tracks of My Years.

Shirley Bassey chooses her Christmas-themed Tracks of My Years, plus the best of the year's contestants clash as Champion's League PopMaster gets underway.

Enjoy the run-in to Christmas with Ken Bruce. Dame Shirley Bassey chooses two more songs as part of her Festive Tracks Of My Years. Another year of PopMaster is brought to its conclusion as all those who have scored a maximum 39 points slog it out to be crowned our 2009 champion. And we still have a Love Song, the Record and Album Of The Week and Ken Bruce's cheeky sense of humour to guide you from mid-morning to the brim of the afternoon.

Including the start of a four-day festive variation of Tracks of My Years, in which iconic powerhouse singer Shirley Bassey selects her favourite Christmas records.

Jeremy Vine

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

Jeremy Vine: 21/12/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine, 21/12/2009

Jeremy discusses the Eurostar, Katie Piper, John Bercow and the Christmas number one.

Jeremy discusses the Eurostar chaos at the weekend, acid attack victim Katie Piper, the Christmas number one and John Bercow talks about MPs' expenses.

Jeremy discusses the Eurostar chaos at the weekend, acid attack victim Katie Piper joins us, John Bercow talks about MPs' expenses and we discuss the Christmas number one.

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: 21/12/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Steve Wright in the Afternoon, 21/12/2009

Craig Charles sits in for Steve Wright with a host of Christmas features!

Craig Charles sits in for Steve Wright with a host of Christmassy features!

It's Christmas week and Craig Charles sits in for Steve Wright on the afternoon show until Thursday. Get involved and pick your own musical Christmas presents in Craig's Stocking Fillers, get help with your Christmas shopping in Craig's Last Minute Shopping feature, and hear Craig chat with some of the people 'behind the scenes' of Christmas. Music and chat to help you get ready for the big day.

Craig Charles

Chris Evans

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

Chris Evans: 21/12/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Chris Evans, 21/12/2009

Chris counts down to Christmas with the first and only 'Kiddies All Request Monday'!

Chris continues his countdown to Christmas and tonight it is the first, only and very special 'Kiddies All Request Monday'! Get your requests in now!

Chris continues his countdown to Christmas. So tonight it's our first, only and very special 'Kiddies All Request Monday'! Get your requests in now!

Radio 2 Live

BBC Radio 2 presents exclusive live concerts from the best singers, songwriters and bands

Radio 2 Live: U2 At Wembley

U2 At Wembley

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Highlights from U2's worldwide tour, recorded at London's Wembley Stadium.

Highlights from U2's worldwide tour, recorded at London's Wembley Stadium on Saturday 15 August 2009.

Radio 2 Live: U2, highlights from U2's worldwide tour, recorded at London's Wembley Stadium on Saturday 15 August 2009.

U2 at Wembley

A stadium gig by bravura-led rock giants U2, recorded in August.

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: 21/12/2009

BBC Radio 6 Music - The Radcliffe & Maconie Show, 21/12/2009

Ray Davies of the Kinks talks to Mark about his new Christmas single.

Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie

Ray Davies discusses his Christmas single Postcard from London.

Keeping Tradition Alive At Christmas

Keeping Tradition Alive At Christmas: Episode 1

Episode 1

BBC Radio 2 - Keeping Tradition Alive At Christmas, Episode 1

Kate Rusby presents the secular songs and carols of Sheffield.

Sheffield-born folk singer Kate Rusby invites listeners to eavesdrop on a centuries-old tradition of secular, local Christmas carols, songs and lyrics.

Radio 2 goes on a journey to celebrate local voices and different carolling traditions around England and Wales. Across the country, pockets of people have been keeping alive Christmas traditions that were lost to most hundreds of years ago. This Christmas, they're inviting you to step into their homes, pubs and churches, to share their festive sounds.

Hark, Hark! the carollers are coming. In the month before Christmas the village pubs of small towns around Sheffield are packed with the merrymaking of enthusiastic singers. Sheffield-born folk singer Kate Rusby invites you to come out of the cold and warm yourself by the fire as you eavesdrop on a centuries-old tradition of secular Christmas carols, songs and lyrics that locals - including multiple Radio 2 Folk Award-winner Eliza Carthy - fiercely claim as their own.

The other presenters in this four-part series are Billy Bragg who explores West Country festive traditions; Julie Fowlis who hears some Welsh Plygain singers; and Bellowhead's Jon Boden who lends his voice to a good old knees-up in Leigh-on-Sea.

Celebrating local voices and different carolling traditions around England and Wales

BBC Radio 2 goes on journey to celebrate local voices and different carolling traditions around England and Wales

Keeping Tradition Alive at Christmas

1/4. Radio 2 celebrates mostly forgotten Christmas carolling traditions being kept alive in areas of England and Wales. Expect to hear a cross-section of die-hard revellers, from Sheffield-area villages (tonight with Kate Rusby) to Plygain in north Wales.
(See tomorrow 10pm)

Katherine Jenkins' Classical Christmas

BBC Radio 2 - Katherine Jenkins' Classical Christmas

Katherine Jenkins introduces light orchestral and opera music with a Christmas flavour.

Welsh mezzo soprano Katherine Jenkins plays light orchestral and opera music with a Christmas flavour.

Award-winning Welsh mezzo soprano Katherine Jenkins hosts her own Radio 2 show playing the finest light orchestral and opera music with a Christmas flavour. 

Katherine has a passion for all types of music and this programme reflects a broad festive selection of light classical music, with the emphasis on great performers and composers. We also discover the kind of songs you'd expect to hear in the Jenkins household at this special time of year. 

The playlist ranges from seasonal classics by Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev, to new releases by Karl Jenkins, The Soldiers and Sting. We also discover more about Katherine and her favourite singers as she enthuses about legendary names Maria Callas, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Andrea Bocelli. And being Welsh and proud of it, Katherine's selection wouldn't be complete without Bryn Terfel and The Treorchy Male Voice Choir.

Katherine Jenkins's Classical Christmas

Singing star Katherine Jenkins presents light orchestral and opera music with a Christmas flavour, with the emphasis on great performers and composers. The playlist includes seasonal stocking fillers by Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev, plus new releases by the Soldiers, Sting and Karl Jenkins, who, like the host and tonight's other artists, Bryn Terfel and the Treorchy Male Voice Choir, also hails from Wales.

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: 22/12/2009

22/12/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Janice Long, 22/12/2009

Tim Smith sits in for Janice Long with music and chat.

Alex Lester

Weekday morning music and entertainment with Alex Lester

Alex Lester: 22/12/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Alex Lester, 22/12/2009

Music and conversation. Includes the Listeners' Library, where listeners choose the music.

With music and conversation. Features include the Listeners' Library, where listeners choose the music, and a double-selection from Alex's own collection in Lester's Library.

Alex brings his own combination of music and conversation to early weekday mornings, making this The Best Time Of The Day Show. Popular features include the Listeners' Library, where you choose the music, and a double-selection from Alex's own collection in Lester's Library.

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