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The Bits We Loved From 2025!

Vern revisits some of his fave guests, stories and live tracks of the year, including the Best of The Radio 2 Piano Room; his VE Day show from Beverley, and Oasis at Heaton Park.

Vernon revisits some of his fave guests, stories and live tracks of the year, including the Best of The Radio 2 Piano Room; his VE Day show from Beverley, and being backstage at Heaton Park in Manchester before Oasis's homecoming gig in the summer.

Plus singer and actor David Essex selects his final two Tracks of My Years for the week, and the mid-morning music quiz Ten To The Top.

Produced by BBC Audio for BBC Radio 2.

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2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Fri 19 Dec 202509:30
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Wizzard

    I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday

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

  • The Crystals

    Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer

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

  • Meghan Trainor

    Gifts For Me

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Kim Wilde & BBC Concert Orchestra

    You Came (Radio 2 Piano Room, 4 Feb 2025)

  • KT Tunstall

    Mele Kalikimaka (Christmas in Hawaii)

    • The KT Tunstall Holiday Collection.
    • EMI.

  • Oasis

    Cigarettes & Alcohol (Live from Manchester, 11 July '25)

  • Charlie Puth

    Changes

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Cast

    Finetime

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Bryan Adams

    California Christmas

    • (CD Single).
    • Bad Records.

  • Elton John

    Step Into Christmas

    • Caribou.
    • Mercury.

  • Katy Perry

    bandaids

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol Records.

  • Tony Christie

    Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! (Radio 2 Piano Room, 18 Dec 2025)

  • Calum Scott

    You Are The Reason

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.

  • Jessie J

    H.A.P.P.Y

    • (CD Single).
    • Darco Partnerships.

  • Kylie Minogue

    This Time Of Year

    • Kylie Chirstmas ( Fully Wrapped).
    • Rhino.

  • Deacon Blue

    Dignity (Radio 2 Piano Room, 18 Feb 2025)

  • Talking Heads

    Once In A Lifetime

    • Talking Heads - Remain In Light.
    • Sire.

  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience

    Purple Haze

    • The Jimi Hendrix Collection.
    • Universal.

Broadcast

  • Fri 19 Dec 202509:30
    BBC Radio 2

Ten To The Top

Ten To The Top

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