The Latest Breaking News from Radio 2

BBC local radio shows suffer drop in listeners over past two years

The average weekly listenership of local stations has slipped by 20% since 2021.

The Independent UK · Oct 25, 2023

FFS: Insiders Say Complaints About Russell Brand Were Never Escalated To BBC Higher Ups

Sources say a review into Brand's time at BBC has revealed the paper trail of complaints stops way too early.

Pedestrian.tv · Sep 25, 2023

Russell Brand ‘exposed himself to woman then joked about it on Radio 2’

BBC investigating claims by woman that he flashed her then laughed about it on air

The Independent UK · Sep 21, 2023

Sunday with Rev Kate Bottley: ‘I make food when people are sad’

The priest and presenter on alarms clocks and feeding her flock

The Guardian - UK · Sep 10, 2023

‘Praying for her’: Rylan Clark reveals his mother Linda has been rushed to hospital

The presenter left worried as the 71-year-old underwent emergency surgery after a serious fall

Evening Standard · Sep 1, 2023

BBC Radio 2’s Tony Blackburn, 80, reveals he was hospitalised with sepsis and pneumonia

When his family gathered around his hospital bedside earlier this year, he realised how unwell he was

Evening Standard · Aug 24, 2023

OPINION - Have you noticed? The Lionesses have smashed football’s rainbow ceiling

On Sunday at 11am, history is tantalisingly close to being made in Sydney, as the England football team take on Spain, playing for the first English World Cup win since that seismic summer of 1966. Don’t say you won’t be watching. Everybody will. By Sunday morning, a time traditionally reserved…

Evening Standard · Aug 18, 2023

‘Gina G makes me mince to the dancefloor’: Owain Wyn Evans’s honest playlist

The DJ, drummer and former weatherman on buying Gangsta’s Paradise on vinyl, killing it at karaoke, and the pop belter that was robbed at Eurovision

The Guardian - UK · Aug 14, 2023

From weird nostalgia to weak formats, 6 Music is having an identity crisis

In trying to shake off the ‘6 Music Dad’ tag and not be thought of as an indie rock hub, the BBC radio station isn’t sure what it wants to be any more

The Guardian - UK · Aug 8, 2023

BBC Radio 2 loses a million listeners since Ken Bruce departure

It is the biggest quarterly drop for the station since before the pandemic

The Independent UK · Aug 3, 2023