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: 23/12/2009

23/12/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Sarah Kennedy, 23/12/2009

The Dawn Patrol: News, views and music, plus a review of the morning's papers.

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: 23/12/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Johnnie Walker's Breakfast Show, 23/12/2009

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

Johnnie Walker's Breakfast Show, with travel reports every half an hour from Lynn Bowles, the latest news updates from Alan Dedicoat, Pause for Thought at 9.15am and a mix of music.

Johnnie Walker's Breakfast Show, with travel reports every half an hour from Lynn Bowles, the latest news updates from Alan Dedicoat, Pause for Thought at 9.15am, and a quality mix of music.

Johnnie Walker

Ken Bruce

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

Ken Bruce: 23/12/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Ken Bruce, 23/12/2009

Ken Bruce hears two festive choices from Dame Shirley Bassey on Tracks of My Years.

Music from the last five decades mixed with humour and the final of the PopMaster quiz for 2009. Shirley Bassey picks two festive favourites in Tracks of My Years.

Romance is in the air when we play our daily Love Song at 10:15. Plus there's all the usual wonderment with a festive twist - the Record and Album Of The Week and another round of champions league PopMaster. Plus Christmas Tracks Of My Years chosen by Dame Shirley Bassey. Today she chooses what must be the definitive Christmas record.

Jeremy Vine

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

Jeremy Vine: 23/12/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine, 23/12/2009

Jeremy dedicates the final hour of his show to British Forces serving overseas.

Jeremy dedicates the final hour of his show to British Forces serving overseas in his annual Remembering The Troops Christmas special.

Jeremy dedicates the final hour of his show to British Forces serving overseas in his annual Remembering The Troops Christmas special. The show will broadcast simultaneously on the British Forces Broadcasting Service, including the recently launched BFBS Radio Afghanistan, based at Camp Bastion. 

Jeremy Vine is joined by Radio 2's very own Canon Roger Royle to read out messages of love and support from families in the UK to their loved ones overseas. He also speaks to the troops in Afghanistan about how they will be spending Christmas Day and reads out some of their messages to families back home.

Featuring a final hour dedicated to overseas British troops, simulcast on the British Forces Broadcasting Service, where personal messages from the UK can be heard.

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: 23/12/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Steve Wright in the Afternoon, 23/12/2009

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

Craig Charles sits in for Steve Wright with the build-up to Christmas and a whole host of Christmas stocking fillers!

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 Craigs 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

For his final week in this slot - he returns to Radio 2 on Monday 11 January as the new breakfast host - Chris Evans celebrates his four-year stint with live sets by the Proclaimers, the Ting Tings and Scouting for Girls.

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

Chris Evans: 23/12/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Chris Evans, 23/12/2009

Chris celebrates his past four years on Drivetime. Guests include The Proclaimers.

Chris Evans hosts Bye Bye Drivetime: Hello Breakfast, a unique programme to celebrate his past four years on Drivetime. Guests include The Proclaimers and Stereophonics.

Chris Evans hosts Bye Bye Drivetime: Hello Breakfast from the O2 in London, a unique programme to celebrate the past four years on Drivetime before he moves to Breakfast on 11 January 2010.

There will be live performances from The Proclaimers, Stereophonics and Scouting for Girls, as well as interviews with some of our favourite guests including Cone Man (who was so popular he featured on the show three days in a row). He's arriving with his favourite cone. 

Ukulele Lady will be there too - she has written a special tribute to the show; and what would Christmas be without a touch of Oompah Brass? The lederhosen clad ensemble join in the fun as well.

Radio 2 Live

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

Radio 2 Live: Spandau Ballet

21/11/2009

Spandau Ballet

BBC Radio 2 - Radio 2 Live, Spandau BalletSearch BBC

The reformed 80s pop band perform in concert for Radio 2 at the BBC Radio Theatre.

The reformed 80s pop band perform in concert for Radio 2 at the BBC Radio Theatre. Features classic hits and tracks from their latest album, Once More.

Following The Spandau Ballet Story last week, here's a chance to enjoy the recently reformed 80s pop band in concert for Radio 2 at the BBC Radio Theatre. The show was recorded last week and features classic hits and tracks from their new album, Once More.

A November concert by the newly re-formed pop quintet, recorded live at the BBC Radio Theatre. (R)

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: 23/12/2009

BBC Radio 6 Music - The Radcliffe & Maconie Show, 23/12/2009

With glam show regular Noddy Holder and British singer-songwriter Thea Gilmore.

Mark and Stuart are joined by their glam show regular Noddy Holder and there's also live music from British singer-songwriter Thea Gilmore.

In their last show of 2009, Mark and Stuart are joined by their glam show regular Noddy Holder and there's also live music from the British singer-songwriter Thea Gilmore.

Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie

Keeping Tradition Alive At Christmas

Keeping Tradition Alive At Christmas: Episode 3

Episode 3

BBC Radio 2 - Keeping Tradition Alive At Christmas, Episode 3

Billy Bragg celebrates local voices and festive traditions in the West Country.

Billy Bragg, a folk singer fascinated by identity and Englishness, explores West Country Christmas traditions.

Radio 2 goes on journey to celebrate local voices and different caroling 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.

Tonight Billy Bragg, a folk singer fascinated by identity and Englishness, reveals West Country Christmas traditions. He finds voices which can be heard on cold December Sundays in Padstow, as locals go from street to street singing the Cornish Curls they have proudly nurtured. 

In the final episode, Bellowhead's Jon Boden joins 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

3/4. Julie Fowlis with obscure Welsh carolling traditions being kept alive.

Galton & Simpson's Half Hour

Galton & Simpson's Half Hour: Episode 1: You'll Never Walk Alone

Episode 1

Episode 1: You'll Never Walk Alone

You'll Never Walk Alone

BBC Radio 2 - Galton & Simpson's Half Hour, You'll Never Walk Alone

Comedy starring Frank Skinner as a football fanatic on his way to a Wembley Cup Final.

Frank Skinner stars as a football fanatic on his way to a Wembley Cup Final with his heavily pregnant wife and his best friend.

Earlier this year, Radio 2 marked the 60th anniversary of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's writing partnership with a series of half hour comedies, especially adapted by them for Radio 2. Here's another chance to enjoy the series starring Frank Skinner, Mitchell & Webb, Rik Mayall, June Whitfield and Paul Merton. 

In the first drama, You'll Never Walk Alone, Frank Skinner stars as a football fanatic, on his way to a Wembley Cup Final with his heavily pregnant wife and his best friend. An early labour, an emergency stop and the disappearance of the priceless tickets lead to a comedic study in political incorrectness and male chauvinism.

The drama was first broadcast on Yorkshire Television back in 1974 and starred Brian Glover, Maureen Lipman and Peter Jones. The radio adaptation is introduced by Paul Merton.

Comedy series marking the 60th anniversary of writing partnership Galton and Simpson

Comedy series marking the 60th anniversary of writing partnership Ray Galton and Alan Simpson

Galton and Simpson's Half-Hour: You'll Never Walk Alone

1/4. Paul Merton with the first of four 2009 radio adaptations of archive TV comedies by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson (Hancock's Half-Hour, Steptoe and Son), to celebrate the duo's 60-year writing partnership. Tonight: You'll Never Walk Alone (originally a 1974 TV hit with Brian Glover), featuring Frank Skinner as a football fan trying to get to a Wembley Cup final. (R)

A Swinging Christmas

BBC Radio 2 - A Swinging Christmas

The BBC Big Band in concert with the Grammy Award-winning vocal quartet New York Voices.

Clare Teal presents the BBC Big Band with New York Voices in an exclusive Radio 2 performance recorded at the Town Hall, Birmingham.

Clare Teal presents the BBC Big Band with the Grammy Award-winning vocal quartet New York Voices in an exclusive Radio 2 performance recorded at the Town Hall, Birmingham.

Their set combines favourites such as We Wish You a Merry Christmas, Oh Little Town of Bethlehem, The Christmas Song, Let it Snow and Santa Baby, along with less familiar songs including S'vivon (Hanukkah song) and The Man with the Bag.

Festive concert featuring the BBC Big Band and the New York Voices.

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: 24/12/2009

24/12/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Janice Long, 24/12/2009

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

Alex Lester

Weekday morning music and entertainment with Alex Lester

Alex Lester: 24/12/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Alex Lester, 24/12/2009

The Best Time Of The Day Show. With Pause For Thought and the Lester's Library and Listeners' Library music selections.

Alex, Radio 2's Dark Lord of the early mornings, presents his interactive blend of music and unique wit. Also on the Best Time of the Day Show, Alex raids his record collection for something new, or downright surprising from Lester's Library - and there's one from you in the Listeners' Library.

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