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Bob joins Suzi Perry for BBC’s “Celebrity Antiques Road Trip”
Bob & Suzi will be featuring in “Celebrity Antiques Road Trip” to be broadcast on 26th march 2025.
Photos: Bob hosts 3 days of triumphant Country Music at C2C 2025
Whispering Bob once again co-hosted this year’s O2 event - this time with Texan country music artist, Mickey Guyton.
Music Week: Bob Harris on the power of country music in the UK and the stars of C2C Festival 2025
Here, Bob Harris shares his highlights of this year’s line-up and discusses the ongoing rise of country music in the UK…
“Beyoncé is fantastic” - Bob writes in Radio Times
“Forget the pale, male & stale image of old - the future of country music is bright and female.”
Bob visits the Girls In Low Places
The Girls in Low Places podcast have manifested too hard and now they have Bob Harris in the studio.... the KING OF COUNTRY MUSIC!
“My friend the rebel DJ” - Bob on Johnnie Walker
The presenter who announced Walker’s death on BBC Radio 2 last week says his warmth and adventurous spirit set the bar for broadcasting.
Bob joins Ken Bruce’s PopMaster Christmas Special
Bob joins Katie Thistleton, Jenny Powell, OJ Borg & Rickie Haywood-Williams for a festive special edition of the iconic music quiz show.
Bob takes over “Sounds of the 70s” show
Bob is "proud and honoured" to take over “Sounds Of The 70s” from his great friend Johnnie Walker as of 3rd November 2024.
Bob takes part in “Shaping the Future of Aortic Dissection” at Lisbon symposium
“Our mission - to talk about Dissection awareness and patient care. Interviews and discussions - it really has been an incredible experience.”
PHOTOS: Bob at Radio 2 in the Park, Preston
“This is such good fun and so special - spending this amazing time with the @bbcradio2 family. Swipe to see some of the pics from a really wonderful day”
The soundtrack of my life
‘Whispering’ Bob Harris on the records, artists and gigs that are of lasting significance to him.
PRESS: Songs The Beatles gave away revealed on tour
The Beatles’ music is universal ,” according to broadcaster Bob Harris, whose many irons in the fire of classic rock include the live show The Songs The Beatles Gave Away, with author Colin Hall.
PRESS: Radio legend Bob Harris on the songs the Beatles gave away, country’s resurgence, and the football team that lives in his head
Having grown up enthralled by the glow of the radiogram in the corner of his childhood home, ‘Whispering Bob’ Harris has now repaid the favour of introducing new music to multiple generations of listeners to his BBC radio shows.
Bob celebrates 25 years presenting Radio 2’s Country Show
Bob hosted a special edition of The Country Show on BBC Radio 2 on 11th April to mark 25 years at the helm.
Bob Harris on 25 years of hosting BBC’s The Country Show, tattoos,and how he coped with a cancer diagnosis
It’s just over a week since he compered the annual C2C country music festival and Bob Harris chuckles when Total TV Guide asks him about how hard liquor and a US singer-songwriter led to him getting his first ever tattoo, aged 77.
Bob gets first ‘tipsy tequila tattoo’ at 77
Encouraged by a 23-year-old country musician Jackson Dean, the broadcaster now sports new ink on his right wrist.
Gallery: Bob & friends at C2C 2024
Bob hosted this year’s C2C Festival at the O2 along with Alana Springsteen - take a look at the pictures!
Bob & his son, Miles, launch “A Game Of No Halves” - the ultimate Fantasy Football Podcast.
For over 35 years, broadcasting legend “Whispering” Bob Harris OBE has managed his line-up, built stadiums and training grounds and kept records of every single match played. On January 3rd 2024 Bob & Miles will broadcast the first weekly #Podcast charting the highs & lows of North London FC.
Bob guests on Jool’s 2024 “Hootenanny”.
The BBC’s “Later With Jools has always felt like the natural predecessor to Bob’s “Old Grey Whistle Test” and so it felt very special when the later guested on the former’s “Hootenanny” this year.
Bob’s BBC Radio 2 “Country Show” is again voted Radio Show of the year 2023
Bob’s “Country Show” has again been voted Radio Show of the Year in the The Americana UK Readers’ Poll for 2023.