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20/12/2010

Ken presents music, chat and live sessions. Featuring special guest Annie Lennox choosing two Christmas tunes on Tracks of My Years, Popmaster Champions League, and a Love Song.

Ken Bruce kicks off his week with 2.5 hours of top music and banter including two more of her all-time favourite Christmas tracks chosen by Annie Lennox. We'll also have the Love Song and Popmaster Champions League.

And every morning this week, Ken will feature one of Nine Alternative Lessons and Carols [the other four can be heard in The Jeremy Vine Show]. These modern stories have been specially commissioned from writers including Willy Russell, Ian McMillan and Simon Armitage, to provide a complementary celebration to the traditional bible readings and carols.

Among the stories are an account of a rough sleeper's Christmas in a doorway and a narrative about a soldier's wife reading her beau's last letter home. The tales will be read by recognisable voices including Bob Hoskins, Sean Bean, Zoe Wanamaker and Noddy Holder and each story is accompanied by a Christmas song. Today's story is read by Willy Russell.

2 hours, 30 minutes

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Mon 20 Dec 2010 09:30
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Elton John

    Step Into Christmas

    • Caribou.
    • Mercury.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    Some Kind Of Nothingness (feat. Ian McCulloch)

    • Postcards From A Young Man.
    • Columbia.
    • 17.

  • Mariah Carey

    All I Want For Christmas Is You

    • Mariah Carey - Merry Christmas.
    • Columbia.

  • Travis

    Side

    • (CD Single).
    • Independiente.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Better Than Today

    • Aphrodite.
    • Parlophone.
    • 1.

  • Leroy Anderson

    Sleigh Ride

    • 100% Christmas (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • Darlene Love

    Christmas (Baby Please Come Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ)

    • A Christmas Gift For You (Phil Spect.
    • Phil Spector Int.

  • Matt Cardle

    When We Collide

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco.
    • 1.

  • KT Tunstall

    Mele Kalikimaka (Christmas in Hawaii)

    • The KT Tunstall Holiday Collection.
    • EMI.

  • Love Song

    • Jim Croce

      It Doesn't Have To Be That Way

      • Jim Croce- The Collection.
      • Castle Communications.

  • Greg Lake

    I Believe In Father Christmas

    • The Anthology, A Musical Journey.
    • BMG.

  • Record Of The Week

    • Edei

      Loved

      • (CD Single).
      • Alma Recordings.
      • 1.

  • Led Zeppelin

    All My Love

    • Led Zeppelin - Latter Days.
    • Atlantic.

  • The Beach Boys

    Little Saint Nick

    • That's Christmas (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • James Taylor

    Handy Man

    • James Taylor - Classic Songs.
    • CBS.

  • Band Aid

    Do They Know It's Christmas?

    • That's Christmas (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Hurts

    All I Want For Christmas Is New Year's Day

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.
    • 1.

  • The KLF

    Justified & Ancient (Stand by The JAMs) (feat. Tammy Wynette)

    • (CD Single).
    • K.L.F. Communications.

  • Album Of The Week

    • Susan Boyle

      The First Noel

      • The Gift.
      • Syco Music.
      • 5.

  • Paul Carrack and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    It Ain't Over ('til It's Over...)

    • (CD Single).
    • Absolute.
    • 1.

  • The Four Seasons

    Who Loves You

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 1.

  • Tracks Of My Years

    • Otis Redding

      Merry Christmas Baby

      • Elton John's Christmas Party (Various Artists).
      • Universal Music.

  • The Ronettes

    Frosty The Snowman

    • A Christmas Gift For You (Phil Spect.
    • Phil Spector Int.

  • Annie Lennox

    O Little Town Of Bethlehem

    • A Christmas Cornucopia.
    • Island.
    • 10.

  • ABC

    When Smokey Sings

    • Now 1987 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

Broadcast

  • Mon 20 Dec 2010 09:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2