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As the excitement builds towards the weekend, Scott Mills, Rylan Clark, Jo Whiley and Jeremy Vine will all be broadcasting ...
On September 4, fellow BBC host Jo Whiley will broadcast her BBC Radio 2 show live from local music venue Hot Box in Chelmsford. A handful of lucky listeners can see behind-the-scenes of a programme ...
Back by popular demand and following the debut at Radio 2 in the Park in Preston last year, there will be a Friday night DJ ...
Radio 2’s weekly audience has now fallen by nearly two million in three years, down from an average of 14.53 million listeners in April-June 2022 to the latest figure of 12.62 million, though it ...
How much do you remember about 1985? We look back at the year of Live Aid, Madonna, Whitney, and EastEnders' debut. Radio 2's 21st Century Folk 2025 Five songs inspired by train stories to ...
BBC Radio 2 listeners have been voting on their favourite duets from the 1980s, and today we can reveal the winner is ...
Since the 51-year-old took over from Zoe Ball as presenter of BBC Radio 2’s breakfast show in February, more than 600,000 ...
BBC Radio 2 is the UK’s most listened to radio station, with a weekly audience of 13.3 million (RAJAR Q3, 2024) and The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show was the most listened to Breakfast show in the UK ...
Radio 2 had an average weekly audience of 13.3 million people in October to December 2023, which was down seven per cent from 14.3 million a year earlier. However, it saw a fall of just one per ...
Radio 2 fans have accused the BBC of ageism as a string of older DJs step back, including Paul O'Grady, Steve Wright, Ken Bruce and Simon Mayo, replaced by ex-Radio 1 DJ Scott Mills, RuPaul's ...
Radio 2 is nominated at the Music Week Awards 2023 in the Radio Station category, which it won in 2021 just over a year on from the appointment of head of station Helen Thomas.