"1950s, he devoted time to devising and presenting music programmes for the BBC. In 1959, he devised ""Your Hundred Best Tunes"", a programme of famous classical music, operetta and ballads. Keith chose the original 100 pieces himself. Many works were suggested by listeners and played in the programme. Thus a good many more than 100 works were played and the list evolved. Therefore, in subsequent years, a 100 Best were periodically voted for by listeners. In early March 2003, at the age of 94, he recorded an announcement that he intended to retire from the programme after 44 years. However,"
"Alan Keith Alan Keith OBE (born Alexander Kossoff; 19 October 1908 – 17 March 2003) was a British actor, disc jockey and radio presenter, noted for being the longest serving and oldest presenter on British radio by the time of his death aged 94. Alexander Kossoff was born in the East End of London and educated at Dame Alice Owen's School at Islington. In 1926 he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he anglicised his name to Alan Keith. He graduated in 1928 with the Silver Medal, and spent the next eight years on the"
"but returned to what had been the Light Programme, now renamed Radio 2, from 5 April 1970. The last show was transmitted on 21 January 2007 – a run of over 47 years. For most of this time, it was presented by the original creator, Alan Keith, who continued up to the age of 94. After his death in 2003, Richard Baker presented the show. Holiday guest presenters included Lady Evelyn Barbirolli, Rosalind Runcie, Earl Spencer and Ursula Vaughan Williams. The show was terminated by BBC controller Lesley Douglas, who replaced it with a longer ""Melodies for You"", presented by"
"Rolling Stones song ""Ruby Tuesday"". The song includes the lyrics ""[w]hen you change with every new day / Still I'm gonna miss you"". Alan Keith Alan Keith OBE (born Alexander Kossoff; 19 October 1908 – 17 March 2003) was a British actor, disc jockey and radio presenter, noted for being the longest serving and oldest presenter on British radio by the time of his death aged 94. Alexander Kossoff was born in the East End of London and educated at Dame Alice Owen's School at Islington. In 1926 he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where"
"2's arts magazine ""Round Midnight"", from 1978 to 1990. From 1990, he hosted ""Sounds of the 60s"" (a programme first presented in 1983 by Keith Fordyce) on the same network on Saturday mornings, playing many of the records he initially played on ""Saturday Club"" and ""Easy Beat"". Matthew announced at the end of his show on 26 August 2006 that owing to health problems he would be taking several weeks off his Radio 2 show, for the first time in sixteen years. Johnnie Walker was the main host in his absence. Sandie Shaw, Joe Brown and Suzi Quatro were also"
"to 8pm. On 7 March 2012 he announced that he made the decision to hang up his headphones to focus on his """" show. Carr said: ""I've loved every minute of it but it's time to reclaim my weekends. I wish Radio 2 every success but I'll listen from my home in the future instead."" His last show was on 31 March 2012. Carr was replaced by Liza Tarbuck. He returned on Boxing Day 2015 for a one off show on the station. For 4 weeks in January/February 2017 Alan again returned to BBC Radio 2 to sit in for"
"2, presenting a Saturday afternoon show from 3 pm to 6 pm. In 2000, she began as a weekday presenter. She hosted originally from Birmingham but since April 2008 from BBC Radio 2 studios in London. Live music has included sessions from Adele, the Zutons, Primal Scream, Kasabian, Amy McDonald, Hard Fi, Faithless, the Manic Street Preachers, Marillion, Josh Ritter, the Stranglers, Paul Weller, Morrissey, Moby, the Dandy Warhols, Stereophonics, Aslan and a significant number of new and unsigned bands such as Elle S'Appelle, Vijay Kishore, Damien Dempsey, Amsterdam, Senses and Sam Isaac. Amy Winehouse performed her first radio session"
"teenager, and then on to Radio Moscow before travelling to Kenya to work on British Forces Network with Keith Skues. He then returned to the UK in time to become the first announcer heard on BBC Two when it launched in 1964. He worked for Radio Luxembourg and Radio London before presenting the Saturday afternoon programme ""Where It's At"" with Kenny Everett (produced by Johnny Beerling) on the BBC's Light Programme. He then became one of the original DJs on BBC Radio 1, where he continued presenting ""Where It's At"", had his own weekly show and deputised as necessary for"
"by Radio 2 but sometimes by Radio 1 until that station acquired its own FM frequencies in 1988. The long-running soap opera ""The Archers"" was first heard nationally on the Light Programme, on 1 January 1951, although a week-long pilot version had been broadcast on the Midlands Home Service in 1950. BBC Light Programme The Light Programme was a BBC radio station which broadcast chiefly mainstream light entertainment and music from 1945 until 1967, when it was rebranded as BBC Radio 2. It opened on 29 July 1945, taking over the longwave frequency which had earlier been used – prior"
"and consumer affairs informally, a style pioneered by Jimmy Young. Until the launch of Radio 5 in August 1990, Radio 2's medium wave frequencies carried the BBC's sports coverage. Like all BBC radio stations broadcasting to UK audiences, Radio 2 is funded by the television licence fee, and does not broadcast adverts. BBC Radio 2's last closedown was at 2:02am on 27 January 1979. Sarah Kennedy (who later became a daily early-morning presenter from 1993 until her departure in August 2010) was at the Newsdesk after Brian Matthew finished ""Round Midnight"". From 2am to 5am the following night, listeners heard"
"in 1957 and changing to its more familiar name in 1958) and ""Easy Beat"" (starting in 1960). Also starting in the 1960s he had a regular show on Radio Luxembourg. At the time, airtime for pop music on BBC Radio was limited, and the demand for it among young people meant the shows attracted large audiences. Virtually all the big names of the era, including the Beatles, appeared on the shows. Matthew's voice is present on the Beatles' ""Live at the BBC"" and ""On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2"" CD compilations, as well as other BBC session"
"and advertising revenue"". This was presented by Gerry Ryan from 1988 until his sudden death on 30 April 2010. ""The Gerry Ryan Show"" was the longest running show in the station's history. The station is recognised as being the first in the world to play any new single released by U2, due to the band's long-term friendship with Dave Fanning. They celebrated their thirty-year association with each other in September 2009 with the airing of a special weekend of programmes, including ""U2's Top 30 Moments"". RTÉ 2fm, like RTÉ Radio 1, technically broadcasts 24 hours a day, however it plays"
"has presented the 3am6am show on BBC Radio 2 from 1990 to 2016. Brian Anderson moved to Scotland to oversee programmes at the launch of Moray Firth Radio, and now presents a weekend programme on Aberdeen's Original 106. The late Alastair Pirrie - host of afternoon show Pirrie PM - which was part of the opening day’s schedule and ran for several years - “The Big P on the Big T” , went on to host cult Tyne Tees TV kids’ pop show Razzamatazz with a young Lisa Stansfield between 1981-87. John Simons was instrumental in launching the Century brand"
"He hosted ""The Ken Bruce Show"" on the BBC World Service in the late 1980s. Bruce has presented multiple shows on BBC Radio 2. His first broadcasts for Radio 2 were from Scotland when he took over the presentation of Radio 2 Ballroom from Scotland after the death of BBC Radio Scotland announcer/presenter of Scottish Dance Music programmes, David Findlay. He presented Radio 2 Ballroom programmes regularly from November 1980 until 1982 featuring Jim MacLeod and His Band mainly from their resident base of Dunblane Hydro Hotel. The Radio 2 Ballroom broadcasts are not mentioned by Ken Bruce much if"
"Alan Titchmarsh, which continued to play music from the same repertoire until it too was cancelled in 2011. A special edition of the format was aired on 30 December 2011, presented by Alfie Boe, who played a selection from the 2003 poll plus some of his own favourites. Polls were taken to confirm the choice of the hundred best tunes. The results of the last poll in 2003 are below. The previous poll was in 1997 and the position of each work in that earlier poll is shown in parentheses. Alan Keith published a book about the music played in"
"Line-Up"" for BBC 2 from 1967 to 1971, alongside Joan Bakewell and Tony Bilbow. He also presented ""Film Night"" for BBC 2 in 1971 and 1972. He presented ""Kaleidoscope"" for BBC Radio 4, and an innovatory arts programme for BBC Radio 2 from 1990 to 2004. He had begun ""The Radio Two Arts Programme"" in April 1990. At first it consisted of three two-hour programmes a week: on Friday nights a regional show, on Sunday nights an arts documentary covering a single subject, and on Saturday nights the show which was to become the flagship of the series, a magazine"
"O'Leary's programme, due in part to the arrival of Chris Evans to Radio 2 and his role as presenter of ""The X Factor"", his show was broadcast between 3pm and 6pm from April 2009 until its end on 21 January 2017, and focused on new music and live sessions, and has featured live sessions from the likes of Oasis, Supergrass, the Raconteurs, Massive Attack, Kasabian, the Guillemots, the Zutons, Alesha Dixon, Beck, the Lemonheads, Lily Allen, Foo Fighters, the Go! Team, Bloc Party, Ben Kweller, the Magic Numbers, Mynoni and Friends, Moby and Kate Nash. O'Leary also hosts Radio 2's"
"Alan Dell Alan Dell, born Alan Creighton Mandell (20 March 1924 – 18 August 1995), was a BBC radio broadcaster, associated with dance band music of the 1920s, 1930s and early 1940s. Dell was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and graduated from Kearsney College in Natal. He joined the South African Broadcasting Corporation in 1943, introducing for several years a programme called ""Rhythm Club"". Moving to England in the 1950s, Dell worked on Radio Luxembourg (which then had recording studios in London), the BBC Light Programme and its successor Radio 2 until shortly before his death. Dell's most celebrated"
"Top of the Pops 2 Top of the Pops 2 (also known as TOTP2) is a British television music show broadcast on BBC Two, showing archive footage from the long-running ""Top of the Pops"" show, some dating back to the 1960s when the programme first aired on British television. From its debut in 1994, the show was narrated by BBC Radio 2 DJ Johnnie Walker. Steve Wright took over in 1997 and hosted the show until being replaced by Mark Radcliffe in December 2009. The presenter never appears in-vision, but provides voice-over commentary that introduces each performance. The original show"
"Dave Clifton's Nightclub. On series two, Alan is often quoted as saying to people who he perceives as maybe doubting him, that he has the third best slot on Radio Norwich. A point he also makes several times during the second series is that he also hosts Skirmish, a military-based general knowledge quiz show on digital cable television channel, UK Conquest. He also goes on to say that the show boasts the largest audience share of a daytime digital channel at that time of day, in the Norfolk area. Elements in his radio shows included: The exterior of Radio Norwich"
"started broadcasting on British radio in 1977 at BBC Radio Oxford, one of a generation of British broadcasters that included Timmy Mallett, David Freeman, Martin Stanford, Gary Richardson, Guy Michelmore and Peter Grant. After several years with the Radio Oxford, Alan joined Swansea Sound replacing John Sachs. He then moved to Severn Sound where he was Head of Music and their first voice on air. Subsequently, he moved to GWR FM Bristol as afternoon presenter, replacing Paul Phear who had left to join Chiltern Radio. In 1989, Roberts joined BBC Radio 2 as the producer of ""The Gloria Hunniford Show"","
"2. In 1967 ""My Kind of folk"" was broadcast on Wednesdays. In 1970 ""Folk on Friday"" began, presented by Jim Lloyd. In 1972 it became ""Folk on Sunday"". ""Folkweave"" was presented by Tony Capstick 1975-8. ""Folk on Two"" (Wednesdays) began in 1980. In 1998 Jim Lloyd retired from the programme and was replaced by Mike Harding. In 2007 it was renamed ""The Mike Harding Folk Show"". In October 2012 it was announced that Mike Harding would be leaving the programme to be replaced by Mark Radcliffe. Ian A. Anderson, editor of ""fRoots"", also presented the occasional series for Radio Two."
"As one of the longest-serving broadcasters on the network, he was occasionally heard on Radio 2 during the daytime when regular presenters were away. The programme was broadcast from 4am until 6:30am until December 1992, and from 3am to 5am during 1993. For 16 years, starting in January 1994, the programme began at 3am and finished at 6am, until it was rescheduled in 2010 after changes to the Radio 2 morning schedule. It was then broadcast from 2am to 5am every weekday. With the introduction of After Midnight on Radio 2 in October 2014, the show was broadcast from 12am"
"for the likes of Ray Moore, Chris Stuart and Terry Wogan. In 1994, he presented shows on Country 1035 in London, but did not stay long and was a heavy critic of the station's music playlist. From January 1995, he presented country music programmes on Radio 2 again, but was replaced by Bob Harris from April 1999. He also presented a show on Melody FM, and subsequently returned to Country 1035 and was heard at weekends on PrimeTime Radio before the station closed down. In 2002, he won an International Broadcaster award from the American Country Music Association. Allan also"
"compilations from bands such as Led Zeppelin, Cream, and the Who. On television, he was the presenter of ""Thank Your Lucky Stars"" (ITV 1961–66). The influence of ""Easy Beat"" on radio declined owing to the rise of offshore radio after 1964. When BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2 both launched in 1967, ""Easy Beat"" was dropped, and ""Saturday Club"" was taken over by another presenter, Keith Skues (formerly of the ""pirate"" Radio London), before it was also axed in 1969. Matthew celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first edition of ""Saturday Club"" in a special edition of ""Sounds of"
"to BBC Radio 2), Mark Flanagan (left for the start of Ocean Sound), Andy Hitchcock (later going to BBC Radio York), Tony Fisher (left for BBC Radio Leeds), Simon Pattern (later going to Viking FM, then BBC Radio York and is now Managing Editor at BBC Radio Humberside). The show with the largest audience of the week was the Sunday Request Show presented by Dorothy Box, Bob Preedy and Brian Cooke - with a regular audience of 65,000 listeners. Brian went on to present weekend breakfast shows, programmes on Classic Gold and later Magic 828. Andy and Tony teamed up"
"Later On 2 Later On 2 (first broadcast September 1997) was part of the Network 2/RTÉ Two N2 rebrand of 1997. It was broadcast after ""News 2"" on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night at 11:20pm. Later on 2 was an arts review show, which was presented by various presenters on a Tuesday night, until its second series when John Kelly took up the job. John Kelly worked on the Radio Ireland show ""Electric Ballroom"" before moving to RTÉ to present their radio series ""Mystery Train"". In 2001, the show was renamed as ""The View"" and moved to RTÉ One in"
"the show. In reality Norwich and its surrounding county are served by BBC Radio Norfolk, and the two names are often confused. On 29 June 2006, a new radio station for Norwich, owned by the Tindle Radio Group, launched under the name of 99.9 Radio Norwich. Alan hosts different radio shows on each of the two series. In the first series he hosts an early morning slot, Up With The Partridge (4am7am), whilst in the second series he hosts Norfolk Nights (10pm1am). Each of his shows in both series were followed by Dave Clifton's two shows, The Breakfast Show and"
"entertainment show ""Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong"" in 2008 and, eventually, his popular comedy chat show """", which aired on Channel 4 between 2009 and 2016. Carr also hosted a radio show, ""Going Out with Alan Carr"", on BBC Radio 2 for three years as well as releasing his autobiography ""Look Who It Is!"" (2008) and going on three arena tours: ""Tooth Fairy Live"" (2007), ""Spexy Beast Live"" (2011) and ""Yap, Yap, Yap!"" (2015). Carr is represented by the agency Off the Kerb. He has won two British Comedy Awards, two National Television Awards and a BAFTA TV Award. His"
"Sounds of the 60s Sounds of the '60s is a long-running Saturday morning programme on BBC Radio 2 that features recordings of popular music made in the 1960s. It was first broadcast on 12 February 1983 and introduced by Keith Fordyce, who had been the first presenter of the TV show ""Ready Steady Go!"" in 1963. From 1990 until February 2017 the presenter was Brian Matthew. In the mid ’80s the format changed and each week the programme was presented by a different artist from the Sixties. Many famous names were involved, including: Alvin Stardust, Eddy Grant, Herb Alpert, Graham"
"of it involving Brian Matthew and Kenny Everett. There are also contemporary interviews with people who were involved in the original programmes. The programme title is something of a misnomer, since the tapes were not lost but simply shelved for many years. Much of the session material featured on the programme, including some of The Beatles' chat, was finally given an official release on ""Live at the BBC"" in 1994 with additional recordings published in 2013 under the name ""On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2"". The tapes were found in Park Mount Drive, Macclesfield in the late"
"Funk and Soul Show live on BBC Radio 2, immediately after his 6 Music show. He regularly sits in for Janice Long, Steve Wright and Jo Whiley, and has presented numerous programmes on the station, including ""The Craig Charles Soul All-Nighter"" (2011), which he hosted continuously for 12 hours, and the ""Beatleland"" (2012) documentary on ""The Beatles"". Charles has also chosen music as a guest of other broadcasters such as Ken Bruce on Radio 2 and Liz Kershaw on 6 Music. Charles covered for Graham Norton on Radio 2's Saturday mid-morning show during Norton's 10-week 2015 summer break. From 16"
"move to London in April 2008. News bulletins on Radio 2 generally air on the hour every hour 24 hours a day from a studio in BBC Broadcasting House, with headline updates on the half hour from 05:30-08:30 weekdays during the early and main Breakfast Show. In addition to its regular and stand-in presenters, Radio 2 is often joined by guest presenters that host one-off documentaries or short series. Such guests have included David Mitchell, Kristian Bush, Suzi Quatro, Don Henley, Kylie Minogue, Carla Bruni, Ed Miliband, Bryan Adams, Sir Tim Rice, David Quantick, Hugh Laurie, Morgan Freeman and Michael"