The Breakfast Show

Breakfast Presenters

Daniel Carroll

Stephen Newsham

Matt Gibbon

Claire Kearns

The Breakfast Show - the best way to kickstart your day, here on BCB - every morning from 8am. If you missed the breakfast shows this week - don't worry you can Listen Again!

Our Top Ten

Annie Vanders

David Clapham

Carole Moss

Our Top Ten - broadcast at 9am on Wednesday and repeated 12 noon on Saturday - is the programme that brings local community groups, charities, businesses and other interesting people into BCB studios to play their ten favourite records and to discuss their organisation.

Democracy Now!

Amy Goodman

A daily TV / radio news / current affairs programme, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, airing on over 850 stations and pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the US. The daily Democracy Now TV programme is available below. And there's a link to the vast archive of Democracy Now programmes.

About Bradford

About Bradford Presenters

The morning magazine show, 11am to midday, Monday to Saturday, with guests and interviews. Presented by Alison Widdup, Claire Kearns, Fran Coldrick, Lorna Palmer and Peg Alexander. Stories, interviews, tales, snippets - by, from, with, to and About Bradford.

Echoes of Ireland

Joe Sheeran

Echoes of Ireland
60 minutes of the very best in Irish traditional music, song and story. The jigs and the reels, the hornpipes and the slides, the sean-nós and the ballads all feature in this lively programme. The final programme in the month is presented entirely in Irish, unique to community radio in England. Here you will hear some of the greatest exponents of traditional music from yesteryear and today.  Every Sunday at 12 pm, Monday at 9 am and Wednesday at 12 midday.

Paper Cuts

Phil Lickley

Quirky news stories from around the world

Bragging About Bradford

Fran Coldrick

Join Fran Coldrick for her amazing adventures around our wonderful city. Bragging about Bradford highlights the myraid of greatness that is alive in Bradford.

Afternoon Stretch

Dave Hodgson

Alan Keeling

Janet Davis

Tina Watkin

Bob Newton

The Afternoon Stretch - guests, music and events - 2 to 4pm, Tuesday to Friday. Presented by Dave Hodgson, Alan Keeling, Janet Davis, Tina Watkin and Bob & Brenda.  Topics of interest to the recently retired, mixed with some great period music.

Drive Time

Drive Time Presenters

Join the Drive Time team at 4pm on weekdays for the best music, guests, what's on and traffic & travel reports. Presented by Pete Chapman, John Hebden, Fran Coldrick, John Gill, Joe Sheeran, Kath Canoville, Lorna Palmer, Alison Widdup, Dave Stevens and Peg Alexander.

Transported

Tim Moon

Transported is a programme for people who like to travel, and like the way they travel. It's a mixture of all forms of transport, railways, roads, air and water. We pride ourselves on being the BCB programme that has more outside broadcasting than any other. It might be flying to Cornwall from Leeds and Bradford Airport, standing on the deck of a Seacat between Dublin and Holyhead, travelling in a classic Bedford vehicle to Morecambe, or hanging out of the window with a microphone as a steam locomotive gives it's all powering up the Settle and Carlisle. We do it all.
 

BCB Xtra

BCBRadio

BCB XTRA – The voice of young people in Bradford. The XTRA team provide a range of music and speech based programmes. The presenters are aged 13 – 19 and broadcast every day 6.30 to 7pm on BCB 106.6fm.

Bradford Spice

Idrees

Mahmud Tarique

Liaquat Hussain

Bradford Spice, every Thursday between 7-8pm, presented by Liaquat Hussain. Asian music & requests, in Urdu, Punjabi and English, interviews with local people, personalities.
Bhangra, Indian and Pakistani film music, qawalis.

Eclectic Mainline

Albert Freeman

Eclectic Mainline - presented 8-9pm on Wednesdays by Albert Freeman.
"I broadcast a wide range of new releases, featuring the occasional live session, interview or competition." News of what's coming up in Eclectic Mainline, plus other Wednesday evening shows such as The BCB Sessions, can be found at the Facebook Group BCB Wednesday Night Club Showtimes - Wednesday evenings 8pm (UK time). Repeat: currently repeated at midnight as Thursday morphs into Friday, subject to change.

The BCB Sessions

Laura Rawlings

Every Wednesday night at 9pm I serve up an exclusive session from a band or artist based in or playing in West Yorkshire, plus a choice selection of new and alternative releases. We’ve had over 100 sessions – too many to mention here, but guests have included The Twlight Sad, Freyed Knot, King Creosote, Red Wire, The Duke & the King, Mountain Man, Maia, Sparrow and the Workshop, The Lodger, vAndal supreMe, The Little Black Hearts, Ann Drury, justDEFY….

Griff's Magic Theatre

Griff

I can see for miles, and miles, and miles. . . . . . . . . . .tunes that were sourced at a time when you had to put pen to paper, wait two weeks or more to receive them, and then play, just to hear for maybe only the second time a tune you heard first two or three weeks ago but couldn't get out of your head! Such tunes as these are gathered together by the collected addled minds of the Magic Theatre, "So What?" I hear you say, so what! so what? and we are back to Miles and Miles (Davis) Why not write in for a request? Griff's Magic Theatre, avoid the obvious and expect the unexpected!

Fast and Bulbous

Tez Burke

11-12 midnight Wednesday -  Fast & Bulbous - wild, protean, unpredictable, the enigma currently known as Tez Burke presents an hour`s worth of crud and finely crafted musical confectionery.

When Big Joan Sets Up

Phil Cope

When Big Joan Sets Up is BCB’s dirty little secret tucked away on Wednesday nights at midnight, like a mad relative trapped in the attic in a 1970s horror film.  If you, humble reader, decide to join the happy band of insomniacs, skiving security guards and burglars that comprise our listenership, you can sample delightful new music in a bewildering variety of genres and one or two old songs as well.