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Bryan Adams and Def Leppard have been announced as the headline acts of the BBC Radio 2 in the Park music festival.The event ...
BBC Radio 2 has announced this year's location for its flagship live music festival will be Chelmsford in Essex.Radio 2 in the Park will take place in Hylands Park, just outside the city, from 5 to 7 ...
BBC Radio 2 icon Jo Whiley has insisted her children will never use her name to benefit their own careers as she revealed ...
There's lots happening at Radio 2, with the launch of a new weekday schedule featuring The Scott Mills Breakfast Show, and the return of Piano Room month in February Radio 2 has announced the ...
BBC Radio 2 listeners got in touch to reveal why they are tuning out, with some saying they felt 'abandoned' by the shake-up which has seen the departure of DJ stalwarts. Figures revealed the BBC ...
Vernon Kay's BBC Radio 2 show has lost 1.3million listeners since he took over from Ken Bruce - while the veteran DJ's audience at his new station Greatest Hits Radio is booming. The figures ...
BBC Radio 2 announces spring highlights There will be a new weekly show with Zoe Ball, a celebration of Elaine Paige’s 60 year career in showbusiness, a focus on brass music, a nostalgic ...
The BBC has been blocked from launching an online Radio 2 spin-off that commercial rivals had branded “an absolute rip-off” of their stations. Ofcom is understood to have told the corporation ...
BBC Radio 2 head of music Jeff Smith has told Music Week that the network is not a “nostalgia station”. Radio 2’s most popular presenter, Ken Bruce, has just left after more than three decades.
It’s been four months since ‘Whispering’ Bob Harris took over from DJ Johnnie Walker on Radio 2’s popular Sounds of the 70s - just weeks before the legendary DJ’s death. But it’s not ...
The veteran DJ, 73, regularly presented the Radio 2 show from 9.30am to midday for more than 30 years, until he left the station in March 2023 to be replaced by Vernon Kay. His decision came after ...