ROGER ROYLE
0400-0700
For all Christmas morning early risers - the Reverend Canon Roger Royle presents a live three hour marathon of very special seasonal music and carols.
GOOD MORNING CHRISTMAS
0700-0900
Aled Jones presents a special programme for Christmas morning.
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WOGAN'S CHRISTMAS
0900-1100
Yuletide music and banter for Christmas Day.
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JUNIOR CHOICE
1100-1300
Ed Stewart returns on Christmas morning with live edition of the ever-popular Junior Choice. Featuring listeners' requests and dedications, plus a few of Ed's favourites, the show is sure to bring back childhood Christmas memories.
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THE PAUL O'GRADY CHRISTMAS SHOW
1300-1500
Paul O'Grady returns to Radio 2 with a special show recorded for Christmas Day afternoon. Featuring a seasonal mix of music and some of the biggest hits from 2008, Paul adds his own unique take on this special time of year.
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THE BEST BETTE - THE BETTE MIDLER CHRISTMAS SHOW
1505-1700
The Divine Miss M comes to Radio 2. Bette Midler is renowned for her incomparable wit and brash sense of style, and this special programme features both. With Bette's favourite music, interspersed with her unique observations and stories about what those songs mean to her, this specially recorded show proves The Divine Miss M is a good Bette for Christmas Day afternoon.
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MARK LAMARR
1700-1900
Mark takes your Christmas dedications and raids his record collection for some lesser known seasonal treasures.
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KEN BRUCE: BEST OF THE SESSIONS 2008
1900-2000
Ken Bruce presents an hour-long special for Christmas night featuring the best of this year's 'Radio 2 Live In The Morning' sessions from his weekday morning show.
A mixture of new and familiar songs feature, from the crème de la crème of the British music scene including Take That, Razorlight, James Morrison, Will Young, Sharleen Spiteri, The Kooks and The Feeling.
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GROWING UP WITH THE GOONS
2000-2100
For years, Andy Secombe was hounded by teachers and classmates expecting the son of Neddie Seagoon to be as feckless as his father, Sir Harry's, Goon character. Thus, despite a successful career as an actor, including playing a leading character in two Star Wars movies, Andy made it a point of policy not to publicly discuss the Goons. It was only in 2001, after being persuaded to take part in the 50th anniversary Radio 2 Goon Show re-creation, that he felt he was ready to accept his inheritance.
In this programme, Andy goes in search of the other children of the Goons to discover their experiences – good and bad – of living in the shadow of one of the most influential 20th-century British radio comedy shows. He also meets some of today's radio comics, Mitch Benn and Steve Punt, whose fathers both introduced them to the Goon Shows in the 70s.
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ELAINE PAIGE MEETS JOHNNY MATHIS
2100-2200
Elaine Paige talks to one of her idols in a special programme for Christmas Day evening.
Earlier this year, Elaine met and interviewed Johnny Mathis at his home in Los Angeles. Part of that meeting was broadcast on Elaine Paige On Sunday. This programme features much more of that special interview.
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LIZA WITH A Z (AND ALL THAT JAZZ)
2200-2300
Another chance to hear Liza Minnelli present a selection of her favourite Kander and Ebb songs from their catalogue of Broadway musicals and Oscar winning movies.
Kander and Ebb have given the world some of the great creations of the American musical stage: Cabaret, Chicago, Kiss Of The Spider Woman and nearly a dozen more, ranging from The Act to Zorba. In a specially recorded programme, Liza plays the songs that helped to shape her career and that of Kander and Ebb.
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BOB DYLAN - THEME TIME RADIO HOUR
2300-0000
This revised, one-hour edition of Bob's Christmas themes, holiday dreams and jingle-bell schemes, features: A Party For Santa Claus by Lord Nelson; Who Took The Merry Out Of Christmas? by The Staple Singers; Please Come Home For Christmas by Charles Brown; Jingle Bells by Johnny Paycheck; Blue Xmas by Bob Dorough and Miles Davis; Far Away Christmas Blues by Little Esther and Mel Walker with the Johnny Otis Orchestra; Don't Believe In Christmas by The Sonics; and Silent Night by Huey 'Piano' Smith And The Clowns.
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