Episodes
| Title | First Broadcast | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| All Saints | 20180909 | Jo Whiley, Claudia Winkleman and Ricky Wilson welcome All Saints back to Hyde Park. Melanie Blatt, Shaznay Lewis, Nicole Appleton and Natalie Appleton will be drawing their set from their five number ones and their brand new William Orbit produced album Testament. Ken Bruce and Sara Cox also bring you a special editon of Popmaster in the Radio 2 backstage TeePee. BBC Radio 2's Festival in a Day features performances from popular music artists |
| Band Of Love | 20180909 | Jo Whiley, Kate Bottley and Jason Mohammad welcome some folk superstars to the stage, as the Band Of Love showcase their interpretations of the mirror ball classics of Donna Summer, Gloria Gaynor, Sister Sledge and the Brothers Gibb. BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winner Greg Russell and accordion virtuoso Jim Causley take the vocals, while the brilliant Mancunian Irish duo of bodhran player John Joe Kelly and Michael McGoldrick are on Uilleann pipes and whistle. Show of Hands' Phil Beer and Steve Knightley, Scottish fiddler Patsy Reid, acclaimed duo Hannah Martin and Philip Henry, double bassist Matt Downer and Danish accordionist Rune Cygan Barslund complete the line up. Claudia Winkleman will be chatting to the crowds and Craig Charles will be playing a funk and soul DJ set. Jo Whiley, Kate Bottley and Jason Mohammad introduce folk superstars Band Of Love on stage BBC Radio 2's Festival in a Day features performances from popular music artists |
| Boyzone | 20180909 | Jo Whiley, Ken Bruce and Gary Davies bring you Boyzone and Sara Cox chats to Kylie Minogue BBC Radio 2's Festival in a Day features performances from popular music artists |
| Kylie Minogue | 20180909 | Chris Evans joins Jo Whiley for thirty years of hits from our incredible headliner. Thirty three years after stepping into the spotlight as a teen actress in Australia and having notched up more than 80 million album sales, she's still taking chances and breaking records. She is absolutely one of our own now - a fantastic performer, fully-fledged singer-songwriter and one of the world's most successful recording artists. The Pop Princess and Dancing Queen - Kylie Minogue - brings Radio 2's Festival in A Day to a close. Chris Evans joins Jo Whiley for thirty years of hits from the dancing queen - Kylie BBC Radio 2's Festival in a Day features performances from popular music artists |
| Lenny Kravitz | 20180909 | Simon Mayo kicks things off with Claudia Winkleman out and about and Jo Whiley on stage BBC Radio 2's Festival in a Day features performances from popular music artists |
| Manic Street Preachers | 20180909 | Jo Whiley and Sara Cox introduce the Manic Street Preachers BBC Radio 2's Festival in a Day features performances from popular music artists |
| Rita Ora | 20180909 | Jo Whiley, Jeremy Vine and Trevor Nelson introduce an artist with seven million singles, twelve top ten singles and a number one platinum selling debut album all under her belt - Rita Ora. What's more her recent return to music culminated in 1 billion streams and views worldwide and four globe-spanning smash hit singles. Simon Mayo will be chatting with All Saints, plus Bob Harris will be welcoming Carrie Underwood to the Radio 2 TeePee before she goes on stage. Jo Whiley, Jeremy Vine and Trevor Nelson introduce worldwide star Rita Ora BBC Radio 2's Festival in a Day features performances from popular music artists |
| The Shires | 20180909 | Jo Whiley, Anneka Rice and Bob Harris bring you The Shires. BBC Radio 2's Festival in a Day features performances from popular music artists |