BBC Radio 2 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Light Programme.

BBC Radio 2

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: 24/12/2009

24/12/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Sarah Kennedy, 24/12/2009

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

Johnnie Walker's Breakfast Show

Johnnie Walker presents a morning mix of music and conversation

Johnnie Walker's Breakfast Show: 24/12/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Johnnie Walker's Breakfast Show, 24/12/2009

Johnnie Walker's Christmas Eve Breakfast Show, with music, news and travel.

Johnnie Walker presents his morning mix of music and conversation, with news updates from Alan Dedicoat and Lynn Bowles with essential travel news for the Christmas getaway.

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

Johnnie Walker

Ken Bruce

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

Ken Bruce: 24/12/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Ken Bruce, 24/12/2009

Ken Bruce presides over the PopMaster Champion's League Final.

For the last time in 2009, Ken Bruce provides your daily dose of pith, wit, humour, music and champions league quiz. Make the most of it!

Ken Bruce redefines the astrophysics of radio as he fuses Christmas music atoms with Festive pith molecules and seasonal banter particles in Radio 2's Big Yuletide Bang. Featuring the last two Tracks Of My Years from Dame Shirley Bassey and the final of champions league PopMaster - pop music quizes on mid-mornig radio don't get harder than this!

Concluding a festive version of Tracks of My Years, with Shirley Bassey.

Alan Carr's Office Party

BBC Radio 2 - Alan Carr's Office Party

Alan hosts two hours of festive music with last minute tips for a successful Christmas.

Christmas fun and laughter at Alan's Office Party! With co-host Gaby Roslin, Alan plays dance, pop and Christmas tracks to help get listeners into the festive mood.

Kick start your Christmas with fun and laughter at Alan's Office Party! Forget the last-minute stresses and strains of your Christmas Eve - dashing to the shops, making sure the food's ready to go, wrapping the presents - because Alan is inviting you to one last festive bash before the big day.

For the first time ever, Alan's bringing his popular Saturday night Going Out show to weekday Radio 2 - and it's a corker. There's fun and laughter, live music and guests, your chance to sing with Alan in "Carroake", or play Alan's Festive Telly Quiz, tons of your phone calls, and a surprise or two!

Alan, and co-host Gaby Roslin, will be dishing out advice and a sympathetic ear if you want to get your own office party experiences off your chest. And if you're in a tizz, he'll help you make all those important last-minute present-buying and preparation decisions.

And as well as legendary Going Out With Alan Carr rosettes, he'll be reaching into his Sack Of Wonder to hand out extra-special Secret Santa gifts to all his callers! 

All of that, plus tons of Alan's favourite dance, pop and Christmas tracks to get you into the mood as the countdown to the Big Day reaches its climax!

A special weekday festive variation on the camp comic's Saturday show with co-presenter Gaby Roslin.

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: 24/12/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Steve Wright in the Afternoon, 24/12/2009

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

Craig Charles sits in for Steve Wright. Listeners pick the music in Craig's Stocking Fillers and get help with their Christmas shopping in Craig's Last Minute Shopping feature.

Craig Charles sits in for Steve and the team for the last day this week. It's Christmas Eve! 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.

Craig Charles

Chris Evans

An all-request show marking Chris's final appearance in this drivetime slot.

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

Chris Evans: 24/12/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Chris Evans, 24/12/2009

Chris Evans presents All-Request Christmas Eve in his last Drivetime show.

In his last Drivetime before moving to BBC Radio 2's breakfast show in the New Year, Chris Evans presents All-Request Christmas Eve.

BBC Proms

BBC Radio 3

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

The world's greatest classical music festival. Stunning performances, unique collaborations and the sheer joy of live music. Relive 2023's highlights before the new season begins.

BBC Proms: BBC Proms in the Park

BBC Proms: BBC Proms in the Park: BBC Proms in the Park 2009

12/09/2009

BBC Proms in the Park 2009

BBC Proms in the Park

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, BBC Proms in the Park, BBC Proms in the Park 2009

Another chance to hear Barry Manilow performing at the BBC Proms in the Park.

Another chance to hear Barry Manilow performing at the BBC Proms in the Park in September 2009, accompanied by his own band and the BBC Concert Orchestra.

Another chance to enjoy Barry Manilow performing at the BBC Proms In The Park earlier this year.

Few can match the career which progressed from postboy at CBS records, to jingle writer for KFC, Band Aid and Dr Pepper, then pianist to Bette Midler and now singer-songwriter, musician, arranger, producer, conductor, entertainer and performer. He has released more than 60 albums; had 25 hits and sold more than 75 million albums worldwide. 

Accompanied by his own band and the BBC Concert Orchestra he performs a selection of his finest songs including I Write the Songs, Could It Be Magic, Weekend In New England, Looks Like We Made It, Can't Smile Without You, I Made It Through the Rain and the Grammy Award-winning Copacabana (At the Copa).

A series of live concerts organised by the BBC, with high-profile artists and presenters

Radio 2 Live: Manilow at Proms in the Park

Another chance to hear a BBC Proms in the Park spectacular showcasing pop superstar Barry Manilow, recorded in September. (R)

Robbie Williams' Line Of Enquiry

BBC Radio 2 - Robbie Williams' Line Of Enquiry

Robbie Williams answers questions from a Radio 2 audience. Hosted by Kate Thornton.

The cheeky charmer of pop, Robbie Williams, answers questions from a Radio 2 audience. Hosted by Kate Thornton.

He's the cheeky charmer of pop who won the heart of the nation as the young lad with the mischievous grin in Take That. Nowadays he's a multi-million selling solo artist, with a host of awards under his belt. However for Robbie Williams, the road to fame and fortune has been fraught with demons desperate to drag him down. 
Having started his career at the tender age of fifteen, Robbie has lived his life in front of the camera lens - the giddy highs and the crashing lows plastered across the front pages of every tabloid paper. However, no matter how bad it gets, Robbie always seems to rise like a phoenix and prove his doubters wrong. He can proudly claim that he's sold more albums in the UK than any other British solo artist in music history and has won more BRIT Awards than any other artist to date.

In the ultimate chat show Robbie Williams bravely takes on the Radio 2 listeners. Kate Thornton and the listeners, plus Radio 2 presenters, ask the questions that they've always wanted to know the answer to. From what his ideal Christmas present would be to being scared of becoming a dad, the listeners really do find out all they need to know. 

Robbie candidly talks about his relationship with his parents and his girlfriend, Ayda Fields and he reveals the moment when he knew that she was the one. He puts to rest the constant whisperings about his friendship and working relationship with Guy Chambers and reveals what he and the Take That boys have been up to. Plus he talks frankly about life as an addict and how he copes on a day-to-day basis with depression.

Part of the BBC Christmas 2009 season.

Robbie Williams's Line of Enquiry

Kate Thornton invites Radio 2 presenters and listeners to ask pop showman Robbie Williams questions about his life and work, including writing with Guy Chambers (Angels, Feel, Rock DJ), relationships, depression, addiction and Take That.

Keeping Tradition Alive At Christmas

Keeping Tradition Alive At Christmas: Episode 4

Episode 4

BBC Radio 2 - Keeping Tradition Alive At Christmas, Episode 4

Bellowhead's Jon Boden celebrates local voices and festive traditions in Leigh-on-Sea.

Bellowhead's Jon Boden celebrates local voices and festive traditions in the old fishing village of Leigh-on-Sea.

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.

The final episode ends with a good old knees-up, as Bellowhead's Jon Boden heads to Leigh-on-Sea where Christmas revellers have introduced their own carolling tradition to welcome Yuletide. Borrowing a lyric here and a melody there, reviving old instruments to play their songs, a group of carollers, musicians, folk fans and storytellers are meeting up to celebrate Christmas the old fashioned way.

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

Galton & Simpson's Half Hour

Galton & Simpson's Half Hour: Episode 2: Impasse

Episode 2

Episode 2: Impasse

Impasse

BBC Radio 2 - Galton & Simpson's Half Hour, Impasse

Starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. A Rolls Royce and a banger refuse to give way.

Starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. When a Rolls Royce and a banger meet in a narrow country lane in Cornwall, both drivers refuse to back up.

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. 

The second drama in the series, Impasse, stars David Mitchell and Robert Webb. A Rolls Royce and a banger meet in a very narrow country lane, somewhere in Cornwall, and both drivers refuse to back up. Between the AA, the RAC and the Cornish Constabulary, a solution is finally found. Temporarily.

The drama was one of Galton & Simpson's Comedy Playhouse Scripts for BBC television and first broadcast in 1963. This 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

2/4. 2009 radio adaptations of archive TV comedies. Tonight's work, Impasse (originally a 1963 TV hit), stars David Mitchell and Robert Webb as two stubborn drivers head to head in a very narrow Cornwall lane. (R)

Brass and Carols

BBC Radio 2 - Brass and Carols

The sound of Christmas with the Black Dyke Band, Joe Stilgoe and others.

The Black Dyke Band, Joe Stilgoe, The Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus and host Ian McMillan bring listeners Christmas classics, including a new medley of Sheffield carols.

The Black Dyke Band; the Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus; singer Joe Stilgoe; and Ian McMillan, the "bard of the north"; fill Sheffield's City Hall with a northern twist on the traditional sounds of Christmas. 

Ian McMillan hosts and raises the roof with his 12 Days Of Yorkshire Christmas; the band and choir join forces for Gordon Langford's Christmas Fantasy, and a new arrangment by conductor Darius Battiwalla of O Holy Night; and Joe Stilgoe performs his own arrangements including a first performance of his own song Christmas Morning.

Poet Ian McMillan introduces Christmas classics performed by the Black Dyke Band, singer Joe Stilgoe and the Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus.

Liza Tarbuck's Christmas Wrapping

25/12/2009

BBC Radio 2 - Liza Tarbuck's Christmas Wrapping

Liza Tarbuck welcomes in Christmas Day with seasonal music.

Liza Tarbuck welcomes in Christmas Day with a look back at Christmas past, classy seasonal tunes and some favourite festive moments from the BBC Archives.

Liza Tarbuck's Christmas

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.

Another chance to hear Clare Teal present the BBC Big Band with New York Voices in an exclusive Radio 2 performance recorded at the Town Hall, Birmingham.

Another chance to hear the BBC Big Band peforming with the Grammy Award-winning New York Voices at Birmingham's Town Hall.

Clare Teal introduces 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.

Roger Royle

BBC Radio 2 - Roger Royle

The Rev Canon Roger Royle presents seasonal music and carols.

The Rev Canon Roger Royle presents a live show of seasonal music and carols for Christmas morning early risers.

For all Christmas morning early risers - the Reverend Canon Roger Royle presents a live three hour marathon of very special seasonal music and carols.

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