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(Before and) After Midnight with Alex Lester

Join Alex Lester for music, chat and company right through until 0300. The show features R2's Record and Album of the Week, and Alex scans his shelves to unearth musical magic in Lester's Library. The show also includes a Pause For Thought at 0045 and 0245.

2 hours, 57 minutes

Last on

Thu 11 Dec 2014 23:00

Music Played

  • Sister Sledge

    Lost In Music

    • Disco Inferno (Various Artists).
    • East West.
    • 9.
  • Bob Dylan

    Must Be Santa

    • Christmas In The Heart.
    • Columbia.
    • 1.
  • Dolly Parton

    Blue Smoke

    • Blue Smoke - The Best Of Dolly.
    • Sony Music.
    • 1.
  • Razorlight

    America

    • (CD Single).
    • Vertigo.
  • Queen

    Let Me In Your Heart Again

    • Queen Forever.
    • EMI.
    • 001.
  • Nina Simone

    Ain't Got No, I Got Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony BMG.
  • Blake Shelton

    Jingle Bell Rock (feat. Miranda Lambert)

    • Cheers, It's Christmas.
    • Warner Bros.
  • Take That

    These Days

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
  • Erasure

    Sometimes

    • Erasure - Pop!.
    • Mute Records.
  • Paloma Faith

    (Live At Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Music Awards 2014)

  • Eagles

    Please Come Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ For Christmas

    • Cold Christmas (Various Artists).
    • WEA.
  • Shirley Bassey

    This Is What You Are

    • Hello Like Before.
    • RCA Victor.
    • 001.
  • Prince

    1999

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.
  • Darlene Love

    Christmas (Baby Please Come Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ)

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

    You’re Never Fully Dressed Without A Smile

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

    • Robert Palmer

      Addicted To Love

      • Sounds Of The 80s - Like A Record Baby (1984-1986) (Various Artists).
      • UMC.
  • Olly Murs

    Up (feat. Demi Lovato)

    • Never Been Better.
    • Epic.
    • 004.
  • Neil Diamond

    Something Blue

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.
    • 001.
  • Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

    Real Hope

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI Records.
    • 001.
  • David Bowie

    Sound And Vision

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.
  • Nat King Cole

    The Christmas Song

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

    Street Life

    • The Very Best Of Randy Crawford.
    • Dino.
  • Lester's Library

    • Dwight Yoakam

      Run Run Rudolph

      • An Americana Christmas.
      • New West Records.
      • 007.
  • Marvin Gaye

    Got To Give It Up

    • Marvin Gaye - The Love Songs.
    • Universal Music Tv.
  • Culture Club

    More Than Silence

    • More Than Silence.
    • Different Man Music.
    • 1.
  • Elton John

    Step Into Christmas

    • Caribou.
    • Mercury.
  • OMC

    How Bizarre

    • Now 34 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • Nico & Vinz

    In Your Arms

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 001.
  • Shania Twain

    That Don't Impress Me Much

    • Now 44 (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.
  • Dean Martin & Martina McBride

    Baby, It's Cold Outside

    • Christmas With The Rat Pack (Various).
    • Capitol.
  • George Benson

    Love X Love

    • Midnight Moods.
    • Arcade.
    • 11.
  • AC/DC

    Baptism By Fire

    • Rock Or Bust.
    • Columbia Records.
    • 008.
  • Mary J. Blige

    This Christmas

    • A Mary Christmas.
    • Decca.
  • Tom Odell

    Real Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
  • The Lightning Seeds

    Pure

    • Lightning Seeds - Cloudcuckooland.
    • Ghetto.
  • Listener's Library

    • Genesis

      Land Of Confusion

      • Genesis - Turn It On Again.
      • Virgin.
  • Idris Elba & Maverick Sabre

    You Give Me Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
    • 001.
  • Spandau Ballet

    Steal

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • Electronic

    Disappointed

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
  • Bruce Springsteen

    Merry Christmas Baby

    • A Very Special Christmas (Various).
    • A&M.
  • Paul McCartney

    Hope For The Future

    • Pure McCartney.
    • Virgin EMI Records.
    • 1.
  • Altered Images

    I Could Be Happy

    • Hits Of The 80's - Various Artists.
    • Columbia.
  • George Ezra

    Budapest (Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Music Awards 2014)

  • Coldplay

    Ink

    • Ghost Stories.
    • Parlophone.
    • 001.
  • Michael BublΓ©

    Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

    • Michael Buble - Let It Snow.
    • Reprise.
  • Rumer

    Reach Out

    • Into Colour.
    • Atlantic.
    • 003.
  • Lenny Kravitz

    New York City

    • (CD Single).
    • Roxie Records.
  • Bing Crosby

    White Christmas

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

    • Def Leppard

      Photograph

      • Vault: Greatest Hits.
      • Bludgeon Riffola.
      • 002.
  • Blondie

    Maria

    • The Female Touch 2 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.
  • Roger Daltrey & Wilko Johnson

    Muskrat

    • Going Back Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Special Deluxe Edition.
    • Chess Records.
    • 2.

Broadcast

  • Thu 11 Dec 2014 23:00