From Ragtime to Rock 'n' Roll

Music documentary

Ragtime to Rock 'n' Roll is a BBC Radio 2 documentary chronicling the trends in popular music in the US and UK from 1900s to 1960s. Narrated by Kenneth More, the 51-volume 26-part documentary was originally broadcast in 1974.

Episode List

Part 01 Dawn of a New Age 1900-1902
Part 02 Let the Good Times Roll 1902-1907
Part 03 Before the Lights Went Out 1908-1914
Part 04 The War to End War 1914-1917
Part 05 A Land Fit For Heroes 1918-1922
Part 06 The Start of the Jazz Age 1923-1927
Part 07 If I Had a Talking Picture 1927-1928
Part 08 Learn To Croon 1928-1929
Part 09 Ten Cents a Dance
Part 10 Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? 1932-1933
Part 11 Let's Face the Music 1934-1935
Part 12 Thanks for the Memory 1936-1937
Part 13 Over the Rainbow 1938-1939
Part 14 The Stuff to Give the Troops 1939-1944
Part 15 Business As Usual 1940-1942
Part 16 Over There 1942-1945
Part 17 My Guy's Come Home
Part 18 There'll Be Some Changes Made
Part 19 Revolutions in Sound 1948-early 1950s
Part 20 Music, Music, Music 1949-1952
Part 21 There's Gold in Them Thar Hills - Early 1950s
Part 22 Music to Make LPs By - Early 1950s
Part 23 Bands of Hope and Glory - Mid 1950s
Part 24 Trad and Other Fads
Part 25 The Rocks Sets In - Late 1950s
Part 26 Melody Lingers On - 1960s

References

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20110708083050/http://www.bookzap.com/From_Ragtime_To_Rock_n_Roll_p/rag_torock.htm
[2] http://www.r2ok.co.uk/R2_timeline.htm
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BBC Radio 2

Shows

Current	The Blues Show with Cerys Matthews The Country Show with Bob Harris Dance Sounds of the 90s Elaine Paige on Sunday The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe The Good Groove with DJ Spoony Good Morning Sunday In Concert The Jazz Show with Jamie Cullum Junior Choice Jeremy Vine Liza Tarbuck The Michael Ball Show My Life In A Mixtape Michelle Visage Owain Wyn Evans OJ Borg Pick of the Pops Romesh Ranganathan: For The Love of Hip Hop Rylan on Saturday The Radio 2 Breakfast Show The Radio 2 Rockshow with Johnnie Walker Sunday Love Songs Sophie Ellis-Bextor's Kitchen Disco Scott Mills Sounds of the 60s Sounds of the 70s Sounds of the 80s Sounds of the 90s Tony Blackburn's The Golden Hour Tracks Of My Years Trevor Nelson's Rhythm Nation
Former	A Long Walk With... Janice Long (2017–2019) All Time Greats/The Music Goes Round with Desmond Carrington Anneka Rice on Sunday Breakfast Special Big Band Special Best of Jazz The Chris Evans Breakfast Show Chris Evans Drivetime The David Jacobs Collection/Our Kind of Music The Day the Music Died Dance Band Days Drivetime Show with Simon Mayo & Jo Whiley The Dawn Patrol Family Favourites Folk On 2 (1970–1997) Friday Night Is Music Night/Sunday Night is Music Night From Ragtime to Rock 'n' Roll (1974) It's Been a Bad Week Jammin' Jazz Parade Listen to the Band Melodies for You Mrs Dale's Diary The Organist Entertains Nightride Parkinson's Sunday Supplement Paul O'Grady on the Wireless Pick of Radio 2 PopMaster The Russell Brand Show Rockin' with Suzi Q Radio 2 Arts Programme Round Midnight Saturday Night Jack Sing Something Simple Sport on 2 Sounds of Jazz Sounds of the 50s Summer Sounds/Summer Sports Simon Mayo Drivetime The Swing & Big Band Show with Clare Teal The Sunday Hour Sunday Soapbox Sunday Night at 10 Steve Wright in the Afternoon Steve Wright's Sunday Love Songs Weekend Wogan Wake Up to Wogan Waggoners' Walk You and the Night and the Music
Special	BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Young BBC Jazz Awards BBC Radio 2 Electric Proms Radio 2 Live