BBC Radio 2 Country
Radio station
- DAB: 12B
Sister stations
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Last air date
BBC Radio 2 Country was a pop-up DAB service from the BBC which launched at 12:00 on Thursday 5 March 2015.[1] The station covered the Country2Country Festival and was on air for the festival's duration.
On its debut, the station broadcast for twelve hours each day until Sunday 8 March 2015. It was relaunched for the 2016 festival, held between 10 March 2016 and 13 March 2016, and again from 9 March 2017 to 12 March 2017.
The station did not return after the 2017 festival and has not returned since.
Presenters
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017[2] |
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| Bob Harris | Bob Harris | Bob Harris |
| Sara Cox | Sara Cox | Sara Cox |
| Steve Wright | Steve Wright | Steve Wright |
| Baylen Leonard | Baylen Leonard | Baylen Leonard |
| Sally Boazman | Sally Boazman | Colin Murray |
| Patrick Kielty | Patrick Kielty | Patrick Kielty |
| Paul Gambaccini | Paul Gambaccini | Storme Warren |
| Cerys Matthews | Cerys Matthews | Vanessa Feltz |
| Alex Lester | Alex Lester | Mark Radcliffe |
| Ricky Ross | Ricky Ross | Ricky Ross |
| Trisha Yearwood | Gretchen Peters | Reba McEntire |
| Wynonna Judd | Paul Sexton | Paul Sexton |
| Kristian Bush | Don Henley | Alison Krauss |
| Suzy Bogguss | Little Big Town | The Shires |
| Johnnie Walker | Hillary Scott | Marty Stuart |
| Tony Blackburn | Ken Bruce | Ken Bruce |
| Sir Terry Wogan | Liza Tarbuck | Trevor Nelson |
| Helen Macpherson | Jeremy Vine | Susan Calman |
| Michael Ball | Leo Green | |
| Simon Mayo | Simon Mayo | |
| Chris Country |
Special Programmes
A number of famous country singers have presented one-off shows for Radio 2 Country or have given hour-long interviews to be broadcast on the station:
- Live from Country to Country - presented by Bob Harris, Jo Whiley, Patrick Kielty, Alex Lester, Paul Sexton, Baylen Leonard and Bobbie Pryor (2015–present)
- C2C Unplugged - presented by Bob Harris (2015–16)
- Patrick Kielty meets Garth Brooks (2015)
- Bob Harris meets Miranda Lambert (2015)
- Johnnie Walker meets Dolly (2015)
- Taking back the country - presented by Wynonna Judd (2015)
- Country Duos - presented by Kristian Bush of Sugarland (2015)
- Songwriters - presented by Trisha Yearwood (2015)
- Classic Country - presented by Suzy Bogguss (2015)
- Loretta Lynn in conversation - presented by Bob Harris (2016)
- Gospel Hour - presented by Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum (2016) and Reba McEntire (2017)
- On the road with Little Big Town (2016)
- Sad songs make me happy - presented by Gretchen Peters (2016)
- Country Playlist - presented by The Shires (2017)
- Bluegrass and beyond - presented by Alison Krauss (2017)
- Country Pickers - presented by Marty Stuart (2017)
See also
References
External links
- BBC Radio 2 Country on Facebook
- Media UK's BBC Radio 2 site including scheduled programming
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