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Andi Gladwin

Gladwin's TV engagements include performances on BBC1, BBC2, Channel 4 (The Big Breakfast) and The Young Magician's Showcase; a television special where he was hand-picked by Las Vegas illusionist Lance Burton as one of the best young magicians in the world.

Basil Soper

In 2007, it was suggested that Soper was the inspiration for Peter Serafinowicz's character Brian Butterfield in BBC2's The Peter Serafinowicz Show.

BBC Two 'Two' ident

This look also marked the first time that the regions could opt out of the main BBC2 schedule, following the move of some programming to the channel from BBC1.

Black and White Rag

The recording became a million selling gold record, and in the UK was later used as the theme tune for the long-running BBC2 television snooker tournament, Pot Black.

Boys Village

In 2011 the BBC aired a short film "Boys' Village" starring students of Stagecoach Theatre Arts and Cardiff High School on BBC2 (Wales).

Burn It

Burn It was first shown on the free-to-air British digital channel BBC Three, and then repeated some months later on the terrestrial channel BBC2.

Caryn Mandabach

Most recently she executive produced Nurse Jackie, with Linda Wallem and Liz Brixius, a half-hour dark comedy about a "flawed" emergency room nurse in a New York City hospital, starring Edie Falco, which is a hit on Showtime in America, and on BBC2 in the UK.

Catherine Gee

It was as a result of this that she was spotted and approached by Talkback Productions to present, firstly, their new BBC2 property relocation show Escape to the Country in 2002, and then to replace Loyd Grossman in 2004 as Sir David Frost's location presenter on the long-running Through the Keyhole.

Ching He Huang

Ching returned to BBC2 in 2012 for Exploring China: A Culinary Adventure which showed her travelling and exploring China’s culinary culture with the godfather of Cantonese cooking, Ken Hom.

Circulus

The band featured in an SVT (Swedish) music television documentary called This Is Our Music in 2005, and were interviewed on BBC2's The Culture Show on 3 February 2007 as part of an item on the 'new folk'.

Damon Scott

Following Damon’s success he was “spotted” when the head cameraman from the BBC attended the Southern Daily Echo Star Trail semi-final and he suggested to fellow programme makers that Damon would be a perfect subject for the BBC2 real life series which profiles the lives and careers of people aged 18–25.

Emily Barker

The song "Pause" from Almanac was the theme tune for a major 2011 BBC2 drama serial, The Shadow Line, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Christopher Eccleston.

Green Cross Code

Green Cross Man, played by Prowse, was later to guest in an episode of BBC2's Fantasy Football League – Appearing in a Phoenix from the Flames that featured Gerry Francis.

Hiroshi Ishiguro

The Geminoid was among the robots featured by James May in his 5 October 2008 BBC2 documentary on robots Man-Machine in his series Big Ideas.

Ian Iqbal Rashid

His credits include the soap, London Bridge (Carlton Television for ITV), and the cult hit BBC2 series This Life for which he received the Writer's Guild of England award.

Jason Lai

In 2007 he was one of the judges in the BBC2 classical music talent show Classical Star, and in August 2008 he appeared in the BBC reality TV show Maestro where he was a conducting mentor to Sue Perkins.

Jayne Joso

Social historian Joe Moran heralded it as ‘the debut of a distinctive voice in contemporary British fiction’, and Natalie Haynes, author and BBC2 The Review Show panellist, described it as ‘an unexpected and moving story about the redemption of misfits and the consolation of strangers’.

Jed Hilly

Hilly is the Executive Producer of the annual Americana Honors & Awards show at the Historic Ryman Auditorium, which is broadcast around the world on PBS and AXS TV along with BBC2 Radio, XM/Sirius Satellite Radio, WSM, Voice of America and NPR.org.

Jeremy Swift

In 2009 he played the lead in the true story of Sean Greenhalgh in The Antiques' Rogue Show for BBC2 with Liz Smith and Peter Vaughn, The Deacon in a film adaptation of Anton Checkhov's short story The Duel and featured in Canoe Man, a 2010 TV drama based on the John Darwin disappearance case.

Ken Burton

Burton is a judge on the new eight-part series of BBC2's "Sing While You Work" in November 2013, with fellow judges Paul Mealor, and international soprano Sarah Fox.

Leah Siegel

The 90 second clip was shown in its entirety in the It's not all doom and gloom section of Russell Howard's Good News on BBC2 in 2010.

Lex van Dam

In 2009, van Dam featured in a three-part series on BBC2, entitled Million Dollar Traders that aimed to educate eight ordinary people about the stock market, in a re-creation of the famous "turtle trader" experiment of Richard Dennis in the 1980s.

Life Is Too Short

Life's Too Short, a BBC2 television observational comedy sitcom series;

Lucy Beresford

Her appearances include the Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2, LBC, CNN, Daily Politics on BBC2, BBC Breakfast on BBC1, Daybreak on ITV, NewsTalk on Channel 5 and Women's Hour and the Today programme on BBC Radio 4.

Marcus Lloyd

The following year he won BBC Television's Double Exposure screenwriting award for his 60 minute television play, A Relative Stranger, which was first broadcast on BBC2 in 1996 starring Siobhan Redmond (Alison Fraiman), Suzanna Hamilton (Jenny Bell), Ioan Gruffudd (Nigel Fraiman) and Jason Isaacs (Peter Fraiman).

Michael J. Mosley

In August 2012 he was credited with popularizing the 5:2 diet, after appearing in the BBC2 Horizon documentary Eat, Fast & Live Longer.

Milton Bearden

Since retiring, Bearden has written books based on his experiences, commented on current events, and appeared on television, including Secret Warriors (Discovery Channel), Covert Action (BBC), The Power of Nightmares (BBC2) and Heroes Under Fire (The History Channel).

Open Mind Productions

They have produced some 500 programmes for children and educational TV, including The Number Crew,Rat-A-Tat-Tat and Maths Mansion for Channel 4 and Little Ninjas Karate for Playhouse Disney Numberjacks for BBC2.

Owen O'Neill

As a writer, his debut feature film Arise and Go Now was screened by BBC2 and was directed by Danny Boyle and starred Ian Bannen.

Quintus Valerius Pompey

Quintus Valerius Pompey is a fictional character in the HBO/BBC2 original television series, Rome, played by Rick Warden.

Revealed...

Revealed... was the BBC's dedicated news programme for teenagers, part of BBC Switch, the show broadcast on Saturdays on BBC2.

Sir John Scott, 5th Baronet

Johnny is best known for writing and co-presenting the BBC2 series Clarissa and the Countryman with Clarissa Dickson Wright.

Son of Cliché

One of the recurring sketches from the second series of the show, "Dave Hollins — Space Cadet", formed the basis for what later became the BBC2 TV sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf, which Grant and Naylor also scripted and Barrie starred in.

Sounds of the Seventies

There was also a BBC2 TV series called Sounds of the 70s which compiled 1970s performances from the BBC's music archives, taken from programmes such as Top of the Pops and The Old Grey Whistle Test.

Tanya Datta

Tanya made her TV debut in 2004, where she investigated claims of sexual abuse and murder against one of India’s most powerful Godmen, Sai Baba in a programme for BBC2 entitled 'The Secret Swami'.

The British Curry Awards

The event has been shown on ITN, BBC World, BBC2, Sky, ATN, Channel One, Star Plus, Zee TV and others and is also covered by national, local and international newspapers.

The Return of the Borrowers

The miniseries is the sequel to The Borrowers, another TV miniseries that first aired in 1992 also on BBC2 and TNT.

Theatre Workshop Scotland

It was later screened on BBC2, and won a number of awards, including Best New Work at the BAFTA Scotland New Talent Awards, and Best Film at the 2008 Peace on Earth Film Festival, Rockport Film Festival, and Southern Appalachian International Film Festival.

Thomas Campion

Repeated reference was made to Campion in an October 2010 episode of the BBC TV series, James May's Man Lab (BBC2), where his works are used as the inspiration for a young man trying to serenade a female colleague.

Through Hell and High Water

Five half-hour morning programmes (9.30–10am) on BBC1 followed James Cracknell (Olympic rower) and Ben Fogle (television presenter) in their attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean in "Spirit of EDF Energy", a 24-foot rowing boat, with a half-hour summary programme during the evening of the final day on BBC2.

Tim Lovejoy

Since 2006, Lovejoy co-presented the Sunday-morning TV programme Something for the Weekend on BBC Two, alongside chef Simon Rimmer and various female co-hosts, including with Louise Redknapp (previous co-hosts include Amanda Hamilton and Caroline Flack).

Tracey MacLeod

Other screen credits include channel 4’s A Stab in the Dark with David Baddiel and Michael Gove, All I Want – A Portrait of Rufus Wainwright, Kitchen Criminals, Masterchef, and voicing over many music documentaries and the long-running BBC2 show Rapido, presented by Antoine de Caunes.

Vineeta Rishi

Rishi played Dona Marina (La Malinche) in BBC2's film "Cortes" which aired in March 2008.

Yasuyuki Kazama

Kazama is also known in the United Kingdom for his only mainstream TV appearance outside Japan in the BBC2 show, Top Gear which he teaches Richard Hammond drifting in a stock Vauxhall Monaro VX-R.


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