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Jools Holland and Jose Feliciano perform live

Jools Holland and Jose Feliciano perform live in the Radio 2 Piano Room. Clarke Peters chooses the Tracks of My Years plus another round of PopMaster.

Jools Holland and Jose Feliciano perform live in the Radio 2 Piano Room. Jose is the Puerto Rican guitarist, singer and songwriter best known for many international hits including his rendition of The Doors' Light My Fire and the best-selling Christmas single Feliz Navidad. Jools is the much-loved pianist, bandleader, singer, composer and television presenter. He was an original member of the band Squeeze and his work has involved him with many artists including Sting, Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, George Harrison, David Gilmour, Magazine and Bono. In addition to all his other gigs he presents a weekly show on this network every Monday from 11pm.

Clarke Peters, American actor, singer, writer and director chooses the Tracks of My Years with music from Pink Floyd and Ray Barretto. Clarke has a long-established and wide-ranging career in theatre, television, radio and film. His many stage credits include: King Lear (Shakespeare in the Park), Race, Chicago, The Iceman Cometh (New York), Guys and Dolls, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Mourning Becomes Electra (National Theatre), Porgy in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (Savoy Theatre), Driving Miss Daisy, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Little Shop of Horrors, Blues in the Night and the Olivier Award-winning musical Five Guys Named Moe also written by Clarke. Films include: Spike Lee's Red Hook Summer, Notting Hill, Mona Lisa, Bad Education, Marley and Me, Freedomland, The Benefactor, Endgame, Mandela: The Prison Years and Nativity! Peters is also known for his varied television career including regular appearances in The Wire, Treme, Jericho, The Divide, Chance and The Corner.
Ken also has the daily love song, record and album of the week plus PopMaster. If you'd like to get in touch with the show email Ken.Bruce@bbc.co.uk.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • The Darkness

    Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie

    Lay Down For Free

    • (CD Single).
    • EastWest.
  • Agnes

    Release Me

    • (CD Single).
    • 3Beat.
    • 2.
  • Meck

    Thunder In My Heart Again (feat. Leo Sayer)

    • (CD Single).
    • Free2air.
  • Candi Staton

    Nights On Broadway

    • Bee Gees Songbook (Various Artists).
    • Connoisseur.
  • Paloma Faith

    Guilty

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.
  • Stevie Wonder

    Someday At Christmas

    • 20 Motown Christmas Classics (Variou.
    • Hitsville.
  • John Lennon, Yoko Ono & Plastic Ono Band

    Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (feat. The Harlem Community Choir)

    • GIMME SOME TRUTH. (Deluxe).
    • EMI.
  • Franz Ferdinand

    Always Ascending

    • Always Ascending.
    • Domino.
  • Gotye

    Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra)

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 1.
  • Jim Croce

    It Doesn't Have To Be That Way

    • Jim Croce- The Collection.
    • Castle Communications.
  • Record of the Week

    • Sigrid

      Strangers

      • (CD Single).
      • Island.
  • Thea Gilmore

    That'll Be Christmas

    • (CD Single).
    • Fullfill.
    • 1.
  • Don Henley

    New York Minute

    • The End Of The Innocence.
    • Geffen.
  • JP Cooper

    Closer

    • Raised Under Grey Skies.
    • Island.
  • Peter Frampton

    Show Me The Way

    • And The Road Goes On Forever Vol 1.
    • Debutante.
  • Jools Holland & José Feliciano

    Happy New Year (Radio 2 Piano Room, 12 December 2017)

  • Jools Holland & José Feliciano

    Light My Fire (Radio 2 Piano Room, 12 December 2017)

  • Album of the Week

    • Gwen Stefani

      Under The Christmas Lights

      • You Make It Feel Like Christmas.
      • Interscope.
  • Jools Holland & José Feliciano

    Feliz Navidad (Radio 2 Piano Room, 12 December 2017)

  • Ed Sheeran & Beyoncé

    Perfect Duet

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • Spice Girls

    Who Do You Think You Are

    • Now 37 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • Tracks of My Years

    • Pink Floyd

      Money

      • (CD Single).
      • EMI.
      • 1.
    • Ray Barretto

      Soul Drummers

      • A To Z The Cuban Brothers CD2.
      • Mr Bongo Worldwide Ltd.
  • Liam Gallagher

    Come Back To Me

    • As You Were.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 010.
  • Dana

    It's Gonna Be A Cold Cold Christmas

    • Christmas Love Songs (Disc 2).
    • Arcade Records.

Broadcast

  • Tue 12 Dec 2017 09:30