As at September 2012, who presents Radio 2’s “Pick of the Pops” an Sundays from 2:30 to 4:30pm?
"announced moved ""Pick of the Pops"" to a Saturday slot in April 2009. Winton bowed out of ""Pick of the Pops"" on 30 October 2010 owing to other work. On 24 September 2010, it was announced that Tony Blackburn would take over ""Pick of The Pops"", and be continued to be produced by Swern. Although the show was pre-recorded during the Winton era, from January 2011 the show was mostly broadcast live, which allowed Blackburn to interact with his listeners. In August 2015 ""Pick of the Pops"" got a new producer Tom Du Croz after 18 years of Phil Swern"
"Phil Swern Phil ""The Collector"" Swern (born Anthony Philip Swern, 30 June 1948, Ealing, London, England) is an English radio producer and music collector. He was formerly a record producer and songwriter, and has also written for television. He produced ""Pick of the Pops"" for Radio 1 in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and has produced the show for Radio 2 since 1997. He also produces ""Sounds of the 60s"" for Radio 2 and formerly produced the Saturday night ""Bob Harris Show"" for the same station, also producing Harris's Radio 1 shows in the early 1990s. He also devises"
"in 1952. His extensive work within the music industry led to him being awarded with a BASCA Gold Badge Award in October, 2010. Phil Swern Phil ""The Collector"" Swern (born Anthony Philip Swern, 30 June 1948, Ealing, London, England) is an English radio producer and music collector. He was formerly a record producer and songwriter, and has also written for television. He produced ""Pick of the Pops"" for Radio 1 in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and has produced the show for Radio 2 since 1997. He also produces ""Sounds of the 60s"" for Radio 2 and formerly produced"
"Pops"" host Paul Gambaccini, Dave Lee Travis, Nicky Campbell, and his Radio One Top 40 successors Wes Butters, Simon Bates and Richard Skinner. Alan Freeman Alan Leslie ""Fluff"" Freeman, MBE (6 July 1927 – 27 November 2006) was an Australian-born British disc jockey and radio personality in the United Kingdom for 40 years, best known for presenting ""Pick of the Pops ""from 1961 to 2000. Born and educated in New South Wales, Australia, Freeman worked as an assistant paymaster/accountant for one of Australia's largest timber companies after leaving school. Freeman originally wanted to be an opera singer but decided his"
"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"
"takes itself too seriously."" On Saturday 6 November 2010, Blackburn replaced Dale Winton as the regular host of BBC Radio 2's ""Pick of the Pops"" programme. One of his remaining ambitions was to present a programme on Radio 2. ""I was 37 when I left Radio 1, and 2 seemed a natural progression. So it’s only taken 30 years"", Blackburn said in 2010. Blackburn presented the show every Saturday from 1pm to 3pm. He also presented shows on BBC Three Counties Radio and BBC Radio Berkshire from 9 to 11am on Sundays, BBC London 94.9 on Sundays from 12 to"
"of the Pops"" boxset alongside Miles Leonard, Malcolm McLaren and David Hepworth. In March 2007, Goodier joined the newly relaunched Smooth Radio in London, as presenter of the weekday mid-morning show from 10 am to 1 pm, his first daily show in a decade, and subsequently this show was networked to other Smooth stations and then on the national Smooth service. He left the station in December 2012 to focus on running his Wisebuddah company. Goodier is a frequent stand-in on BBC Radio 2 when regular presenters are on leave. From 27 February to 2 July 2016 he presented ""Pick"
"Pick of the Pops Pick of the Pops is a BBC Radio programme, originally based on the Top 20 UK Singles Chart and first broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1955. It transferred to BBC Radio 1 (simulcast on BBC Radio 2) from 1967 to 1972. It was revived for six years in the 1980s. Its current production run started in 1997. Initially the show did not feature the charts, but in September 1957 Alan Dell introduced the format of running through the charts of the week, playing the top tens from various music papers plus entries to top"
"he replaced David Jacobs for ""Pick of the Pops"", which was then part of a Saturday-evening programme called ""Trad Tavern"", after traditional jazz which had a following at the time. ""Pick of the Pops"" became a separate programme in January 1962. It was produced by Derek Chinnery. Denys Jones (producer 1961–1972) and Freeman split the programme into four: chart newcomers, new releases, LPs and the Top 10. The programme attracted large audiences as the BBC had restrictions on ""needle time"" and could play relatively few commercially available recordings each week. Freeman continued with the show when it moved to Radio"
"""TOTP2"" returned to the BBC Two schedules for a new series on Saturday, 30 September 2006, in an evening timeslot. It was still narrated by Steve Wright and featured a mixture of performances from the ""TOTP"" archive and newly recorded performances. The first edition of this series featured new performances by Razorlight and Nelly Furtado recorded after the final episode of ""Top of the Pops"". In 2009 Mark Radcliffe took over as narrator. Aired on BBC Radio 1 between the mid-1990s and late 2001 was ""Top of the Pops: The Radio Show"" which went out every Sunday at 3 pm"
"2017, January 2018 & October 2018 Davies sat in for Steve Wright's BBC Radio 2 show. On 18 May 2018, Davies took over from Sara Cox as host of Radio 2 Sounds of the 80s. Gary Davies Gary Davies (born 13 December 1957, Manchester, England) is an English broadcaster. During the 1980s and early 1990s he was a BBC Radio 1 disc jockey and a regular presenter of ""Top of the Pops"". As of 2018 he can be heard on BBC Radio 2. After working in marketing for a mail order company and managing a Manchester disco, Davies began his"
"Love, before getting his own morning show. From here he joined Radio Trent in Nottingham, where he presented a weekend show, moving to the weekday mid-morning show, before leaving in 1985, and going on to work at a number of other local radio stations including Chiltern Radio, Beacon Radio (in Wolverhampton, for 3 years) as well as Blue Danube Radio in Vienna, Austria. In 2000, Winton took over from Alan Freeman to present ""Pick of the Pops"" on BBC Radio 2, and hosted the show until 30 October 2010, when Tony Blackburn replaced him. Winton sat in for Steve Wright"
"magazine shows. He was the host of the 12-part Classic FM series ""Paul Gambaccini's Hall of Heroes"", and chairs the Radio 4 music quiz ""Counterpoint"". He is currently the presenter of “Pick of the Pops” on BBC Radio 2 on Saturday afternoons. Inducted into the Radio Academy Hall of Fame in 2005, Gambaccini is the author of more than 15 books. Born in the Bronx, New York City, Gambaccini studied at Dartmouth College, where he obtained a degree in history in 1970. He then migrated to the United Kingdom and attended University College, Oxford, where he read for a degree"
"producing on his own. Tony featured 1956 to 1992. Blackburn was fired by the BBC in February 2016. Paul Gambaccini took over ""Pick of The Pops"" in July 2016. In 2016, it was announced that the show was now being produced by 7 Digital Productions. Paul also features Billboard charts along with The UK 20 twenty normally in the first hour then the Billboard chart in the second hour, over the Christmas/ New Year period, he has featured 1965, 1970, 1975 & 1982. He features charts from 1958 to 2006 and also tells listeners what was number one in America"
"broadcaster Tony Blackburn presented a syndicated weekend breakfast show for Smooth later that year. He left the station in October 2010 to present ""Pick of the Pops"" on BBC Radio 2 because the BBC would not allow him to continue working for a rival broadcaster. Fiona Phillips was signed to present a networked Sunday afternoon show from 23 March 2008, but after disappointing audience figures she was dropped from the schedule a year later. Chris Tarrant joined the station in 2008 and presented a weekly Saturday morning show for several GMG stations to compete with Jonathan Ross's programme on Radio"
"on Sunday 5 April 2009, broadcasting on BBC Radio 2. It runs from 3pm-5pm, and is hosted by former Radio Caroline DJ Johnnie Walker. There was also a BBC2 TV series called ""Sounds of the 70s"" which compiled 1970s performances from the BBC's music archives, taken from programmes such as ""Top of the Pops"" and ""The Old Grey Whistle Test"". This was first shown in 1993, and was rerun on BBC Four in the 2000s. Sounds of the Seventies Sounds of the Seventies was a BBC radio programme broadcast on weekdays, initially 18:00–19:00, subsequently 22:00–00:00, on Radio One during the"
"in private collections. The programme was forced off the air for several weeks by industrial action by the Musicians' Union in both 1974 and 1980. ""Top of the Pops"" has a sister show called ""TOTP2"" which uses archive footage from as early as the late 1960s. It began on 17 September 1994. The early series were narrated by Johnnie Walker, before Steve Wright took over as narrator. In summer 2004 BBC Two's controller, Roly Keating, announced that it was being ""rested"". Shortly after UKTV G2 began showing re-edited versions of earlier programmes with re-recorded dialogue. Finally after a two-year break"
"of the Pops"" on a temporary basis following the sacking of Tony Blackburn, before Paul Gambaccini took over as the permanent presenter. In addition, he was (and still is) a voice artist for television adverts which promote new compact disc-formatted albums, in particular the ""Now That's What I Call Music!"" UK series, of which he has been ""the voice"" since ""Now 21"" in early 1992 with the exception of ""Now 95"". Goodier has also hosted the annual Blackpool Illuminations Switch on Concert for two years on Real Radio and Smooth Radio. In June 2012, Goodier joined Spectrum FM, the English"
"music played on radio stations increased, as did the number of New Zealand hits in the top 20. Therefore, a new version of a show like ""Top of the Pops"" became feasible for the first time, and the show was commissioned by Television New Zealand. The show was Executive Produced by David Rose, managing director and owner of Satellite Media and began in early 2004 with host Alex Behan. The hour-long show (as opposed to the 30-minute UK version) which is broadcast at 5 pm on Saturdays on TV2 (New Zealand) contains a mixture of songs recorded on a sound"
"Alan Freeman Alan Leslie ""Fluff"" Freeman, MBE (6 July 1927 – 27 November 2006) was an Australian-born British disc jockey and radio personality in the United Kingdom for 40 years, best known for presenting ""Pick of the Pops ""from 1961 to 2000. Born and educated in New South Wales, Australia, Freeman worked as an assistant paymaster/accountant for one of Australia's largest timber companies after leaving school. Freeman originally wanted to be an opera singer but decided his voice was not strong enough. He was invited to audition as a radio announcer in 1952 and commenced working for 7LA in Tasmania,"
"of the Pops"" spiral logo was used alongside the original version of ""Whole Lotta Love"" by CCS. This is a guide to show a list of new episodes not in a particular series of ""TOTP2"", broadcast since December 2008. 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"
"counting down two archive charts each week featuring the top 10s and what was number one in Canada & other parts of the world., interspersing trivia about the records, again researched by producer Swern. On 1 April 2000, Freeman presented his last show and retired for health reasons, and the show was taken over by Dale Winton, who first presented the show on 8 April 2000. The regular weekly edition ended in August 2004, with limited broadcast of special editions. ""Pick of the Pops"" then returned on a weekly basis in September 2005 with Winton at the helm. The BBC"
"jazz, folk music, blues, country and western, reggae, classic rock, showtunes and biographies and documentaries on musical artists and genres. This specialist programming typically runs from 8pm to midnight. Radio 2 hosts both the BBC Concert Orchestra and the BBC Big Band. ""Sounds of the Sixties"" remains a regular fixture on the Saturday schedule, as does Johnnie Walker's ""Sounds of the Seventies"" on a Sunday. On 5 October 2013, these two shows were joined by ""Sounds of the Eighties"", which was originally hosted by Sara Cox and broadcast on Friday between 10pm and midnight; in May 2018 Gary Davies took"
"to the usual ""Top of the Pops"" format. On 13 March 2009, ""Top of The Pops"" was once again revived, this time in its usual format, for a special live Comic Relief edition, airing on BBC Two while the main telethon took a break for the ""BBC News at Ten"" on BBC One. As with the Christmas specials the show was presented by Radio 1 duo Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates with special guest presenter Noel Fielding and appearances from Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Claudia Winkleman, Jonathan Ross, Davina McCall (dancing in the audience and later as a Flo Rida"
"has aired vintage editions of ""Top of the Pops"" – originally 35 years to the week of the original broadcast, starting with 1977 repeats shown in 2012 – with the renewed interest in the original shows earning ratings of up to a million viewers, prompting the channel to repeat editions of ""TOTP2"", such as in the aftermath of the Christmas Day 2016 death of George Michael. In addition, various performances from ""TOTP"" and other programmes have been repackaged as music specials by the ""TOTP2"" team, such as ""Disco at the BBC"", ""Country at the BBC"" and ""Abba at the BBC""."
"Mark Goodier Mark Goodier (born 9 June 1961) is a British radio disc jockey who appeared on BBC Radio 1 between 1987 and 2002. He had two spells presenting the station's Top 40 singles chart, from 1990 to 1992 and from 1995 until 2002, and also temporarily presented the ""Breakfast Show"" during 1993. He has also presented shows on BBC Radio 2, Classic FM, 102.2 Smooth Radio and Real Radio, and appeared on BBC television as a recurring presenter of ""Top of the Pops"" between 1988 and 1996. Goodier was born in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). His family moved to Llanfairfechan,"
"Pops"" has been cancelled, the Christmas Specials have continued, hosted by Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates. The Christmas specials are broadcast on Christmas Day afternoon on BBC One. Since 2008 (apart from 2010 and 2011), a New Year special has also been broadcast. The most recent festive editions of ""Top of the Pops"" were at the end of 2017, on Christmas Day and New Year's Eve. A new logo and title sequence were introduced from 2013, although earlier versions of the logo still appear on the studio set. The BBC's Head of Music Television, Mark Cooper, continues to oversee the"
"Gary Davies Gary Davies (born 13 December 1957, Manchester, England) is an English broadcaster. During the 1980s and early 1990s he was a BBC Radio 1 disc jockey and a regular presenter of ""Top of the Pops"". As of 2018 he can be heard on BBC Radio 2. After working in marketing for a mail order company and managing a Manchester disco, Davies began his broadcasting career at Manchester's Piccadilly Radio in 1979 before joining BBC Radio 1 in 1982 to present a Saturday late night show, making his debut on 4 December 1982. Within weeks he was on the"
"Top of the Pops Reloaded Top of the Pops: Reloaded was a weekly children's music show broadcast as part of the Saturday morning CBBC schedule on BBC Two. It was based on the show, ""Top Of The Pops"", following on from its predecessor ""Top of the Pops Saturday"". It was shown on BBC Two at 11am on Saturdays and repeated at 6pm on the CBBC Channel on Sunday. Presenters included Fearne Cotton, Sam Nixon and Mark Rhodes. The show also regularly featured Radio 1 DJs JK & Joel. From episode twelve onwards, a new feature was introduced where digital viewers"
"a collection of material sourced from artists on the Atlantic label. Freeman left the BBC to work for Capital Radio from 1979 to 1988, presenting the Top 40 of the 70s, on 31 December 1979. He later revived ""Pick of the Pops"" on 13 March 1982 (now called ""Pick of the Pops Take Two"", combining the current Top 15 with an earlier chart) and ""The Rock Show"" previous to that on 7 January 1980. He returned to the BBC and Radio 1 in January 1989 to revive ""The Rock Show"" and ""Pick of the Pops"". This run of ""Pick of"
"to be donated to Carers UK. Johnnie also compered the Concert At The Kings show in 2015. Johnnie Walker (DJ) Johnnie Walker, MBE (born Peter Waters Dingley 30 March 1945 in Birmingham) is a popular English veteran radio disc jockey and broadcaster. On 27 February 2006, Walker announced his departure from the BBC Radio 2 drive time slot he had occupied for several years. He now presents ""Sounds of the Seventies"" on Sunday afternoons and occasionally deputises for other presenters when they are on leave. During his seven years on the drive time slot, Walker conducted many interviews, stories and"
"original presenters on ""Top of the Pops"", which first aired 1 January 1964 on BBC One (then known as BBC TV). ""Top of the Pops"", like ""Pick of the Pops"", used a combination of predominant periodicals until the formation of the BMRB chart in 1969. From 30 September 1967 BBC Radio 1 was launched along with BBC Radio 2, succeeding the Light Programme, and the Top-20 ""Pick of the Pops"" chart was simulcast on both stations. Freeman continued to present the show until 1972, and was succeeded by Tom Browne. Simon Bates took over from Browne, and under Bates it"
"1 in January 2017. Starting with charts published 7 July 2017, tracks by a lead artist eligible for entry in the top 100 would be limited to three. The streams-to-sales ratio for tracks whose sales (including streams) have declined for three consecutive weeks and have charted for at least ten weeks is changed to 300:1 to accelerate removal of older songs. The BBC aired ""Pick of the Pops"" on its Light Programme radio station on 4 October 1955. Initially airing popular songs, it developed an aggregated chart in March 1958. Using the ""NME"", ""Melody Maker"", ""Disc"" and ""Record Mirror"" charts,"