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Website. BBC Radio 2 via BBC Sounds. BBC Radio 2 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. It is the most popular station in the United Kingdom with over 14 million weekly listeners. [ 1] Since launching in 1967, the station broadcasts a wide range of content.
The Radio 2 Breakfast Show refers to a range of programming on weekday mornings on BBC Radio 2 since the station's inception on 30 September 1967. The show's longest serving host to date was Sir Terry Wogan, who worked on the programme for over 29 years in two separate stints, from 3 April 1972 until 28 December 1984, and again from 4 January 1993 until 18 December 2009.
1 April – Anneka Rice rejoins the station on permanent basis to host her new Saturday weekend late-night show The Pick of Radio 2. 2 April – Ana Matronic presents her first ever Sunday weekend late-night Disco & Dance Devotion show. 9 June – Gary Davies joins, and returns to BBC Radio after 23 years away.
The Sunday Hour was a long-standing show broadcast on the BBC Light Programme and then BBC Radio 2 in the United Kingdom, broadcast for 78 years between 14 July 1940 and 28 January 2018. [ 1 ] For most of its life it occupied a Sunday evening slot, latterly between 8:30 pm and 9:00 pm but in 2013 it moved to a Sunday morning slot between 6:00 am and 7:00 am.
Maida Vale Studios is a complex of seven BBC sound studios, of which five are in regular use, in Delaware Road, Maida Vale, west London . It has been used to record thousands of classical music, popular music and drama sessions for BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 6 Music from 1946 to the present.
BBC Radio 4 Extra 2 April 2011 BBC 7 • 2002–2011: Archive programming — — 12B 708 0126 910 — BBC Radio 5 Live 28 March 1994 BBC Radio 5 • 1990–1994: News, current affairs, discussion and sport
Occupation (s) Radio Broadcaster, Actor. Years active. 1942–2016 (retired) Desmond Herbert Carrington (23 May 1926 – 1 February 2017) [1] was a British broadcaster and actor whose career spanned 75 years. He was best known for his weekly show on BBC Radio 2 which aired for 35 years, from 4 October 1981 until his final broadcast on 28 ...
Pick of the Pops is a long-running BBC Radio programme; it was based originally on the Top 20 from the UK Singles Chart and was first broadcast on the BBC Light Programme on 4 October 1955. [ 1] It transferred to BBC Radio 1 ( simulcast on BBC Radio 2) from 1967 to 1972. [ 2] The show returned to the BBC in 1989 and its current production run ...