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BBC Radio 2 wants to know your favourite Kylie songs
BBC Radio 2 has launched a listener vote to discover Your Ultimate Kylie Song. This comes ahead of Kylie Minogue’s headline set at Radio 2 in the Park in Leicester on Sunday 17 September. You can cast up to five votes for your favourite Kylie songs that have charted in the Top 100, which also...Publication date: 17.07.2023
BBC Radio 2 to celebrate jazz in special programmes
A range of special programmes are being aired by BBC Radio 2 as the station puts jazz music in the spotlight. The programmes are also available on BBC Sounds from today, 11 July. In a three-part series Clive Myrie’s Amazing Women of Jazz, he celebrates the life and work of Ella Fitzgerald...Publication date: 11.07.2023
“I’m obviously 20th century,” Billy Joel tells Zoe Ball over TikTok hit
Billy Joel was on Zoe Ball’s Radio 2 Breakfast Show this morning where he admitted to being out of touch as far as TikTok is concerned. As part of their conversation, Zoe asked Billy how he feels when he sees multi-generations of fans at his concerts...Publication date: 10.07.2023
Tom Cruise reveals how much of part two of latest movie is filmed
Tom Cruise and Hayley Atwell spoke to Zoe Ball on her Radio 2 Breakfast Show this morning about the latest Mission Impossible movie. The stunts that Tom does in the film came up in the conversation. Zoe asked him about the preparation that goes into them, such as going off a cliff on a motorbike...Publication date: 07.07.2023
Blur to play exclusive intimate gig for Radio 2 listeners
BBC Radio 2 In Concert returns later this month with an exclusive gig from Blur. Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree will be performing in front of a small audience of Radio 2 listeners at the Radio Theatre in New Broadcasting House, London...Publication date: 03.07.2023
Kylie Minogue and Tears for Fears headline Radio 2 in the Park
Radio 2 in the Park will see Tears for Fears headlining the Saturday night and Kylie Minogue headlining the Sunday night. Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith of Tears for Fears said: “We love playing live and can’t wait to bring some of our favourite songs, old and new...Publication date: 13.06.2023
Radio 2’s biggest ever live music event outside London revealed
Radio 2 in the Park, the station’s annual live music event, will be at Victoria Park in Leicester on Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 September. The news of BBC Radio 2’s biggest ever live music event outside London was announced in Zoe Ball’s Breakfast Show this morning...Publication date: 12.06.2023
Vernon Kay to host first celebrity Ten To The Top on Radio 2
Hollywood stars Jennifer Lawrence and Andrew Barth Feldman are to take part in Vernon Kay’s first ever celebrity edition of Ten To The Top. Jennifer will take on Andrew, her co-star in the new film No Hard Feelings, in the quiz on Vernon’s BBC Radio 2 morning show on Wednesday 21 June...Publication date: 09.06.2023
Radio 2 to mark 40th anniversary of Wham!’s debut album
BBC Radio 2 is to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the release of Wham!’s debut album and what would have been George Michael’s 60th birthday. George would have been 60 on 25 June and Wham!’s debut album, Fantastic was released on 9 July 1983...Publication date: 06.06.2023
BBC Radio 2 gets a Rocky Horror show from Made in Manchester
Radio indie Made in Manchester has brought together some of the stars of musical Rocky Horror for a special programme celebrating 50 years of the stage show on BBC Radio 2...Publication date: 22.05.2023
