BBC Radio 2’s Ken Bruce to broadcast live from listeners’ workplaces as he launches We Stop For PopMaster UK tour

Radio 2 presenter Ken Bruce announced this morning that listeners will have the chance for his show to be broadcast live from their workplace as he takes the UK’s best loved pop quiz PopMaster around the UK for the first time this summer.

Published: 3 June 2019
I’m only allowed out of Wogan House for my yearly pilgrimage to Eurovision, so when it was suggested I take PopMaster around the UK to find out if people really do stop for PopMaster, I jumped at the chance to free myself from the London shackles and escape!
— Ken Bruce

Ken, who has a weekly audience of 8.81m (RAJAR Q1 2019), will broadcast his whole show live between 9.30am - midday from four workplaces in Northern Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales over four days, starting on Monday 29 July in Northern Ireland.

The workplace will Stop For PopMaster between 10.30-10.45am with two callers taking part and workers watching. Whether Ken’s based next to a desk, at the end of a supermarket till or in a warehouse, the team must stop for PopMaster!

Listeners can nominate their workplace whether it’s an office, shop, factory or showroom, and Ken could bring along some famous friends from the world of music and entertainment.

Ken says: "I’m only allowed out of Wogan House for my yearly pilgrimage to Eurovision, so when it was suggested I take PopMaster around the UK to find out if people really do stop for PopMaster, I jumped at the chance to free myself from the London shackles and escape!"

Lewis Carnie, Head of Radio 2 says: "Ken Bruce is a broadcasting phenomenon who has hosted the mid-morning show on Radio 2 since 1985, and now reaches a weekly audience of 8.81 million listeners. As Ken is one of the UK’s most popular presenters, I’m delighted that the PopMaster himself will get to meet many of his listeners around the country."

PopMaster is the daily pop quiz where two listeners each answer questions about pop music from the past six decades. The player who scores the highest points wins a portable Bluetooth speaker and goes through to the Three In Ten final, where they have to name three top 75 UK hits from a particular artist and upgrade their prize to a digital radio. The runner-up wins a One Year Out t-shirt.

Listeners can enter by emailing ken.bruce@bbc.co.uk with the information below;

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Contact number
  • Postal address of workplace where Ken would broadcast from
  • What can you Stop For PopMaster?
  • What can you do to make Ken’s morning memorable?

Entries are open until midday on Monday 10 June.

Popmaster can also be played online at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006wr34

BBC Radio 2 is the UK’s most listened-to radio station, with a weekly audience of 15.36million (RAJAR Q1, 2019), delivering the broadest range of music presented by some of the UK’s best loved entertainers. The Zoe Ball Breakfast show has a weekly audience of 9.05m (RAJAR 2019), making it the country’s most listened-to radio programme, with Ken Bruce in second place with 8.81m. The network’s presenters include Zoe Ball, Michael Ball, Tony Blackburn, Don Black, OJ Borg, Ken Bruce, Craig Charles, Rylan Clark-Neal, Sara Cox, Jamie Cullum, Gary Davies, Vanessa Feltz, Paul Gambaccini, Bob Harris, Ana Matronic, Cerys Matthews, Huey Morgan, Trevor Nelson, Graham Norton, Paul O’Grady, Dermot O’Leary, Mark Radcliffe, Anneka Rice, Angela Scanlon, Liza Tarbuck, Clare Teal, Jeremy Vine, Johnnie Walker, Jo Whiley, Claudia Winkleman and Steve Wright.

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