Janice Long - BBC Radio 2

BBC Radio 2

In 1999, Long started appearing on the rejuvenated BBC Radio 2, presenting a Saturday afternoon show from 3 pm to 6 pm. Since 2000, she has been a weekday presenter. She hosts a show between midnight and 2 am Monday to Friday, originally from Birmingham but since April 2008 from BBC Radio 2 studios in London. Live music has included sessions from The Wombats, White Lies, The Enemy, The Twang, Shack, Mystery Jets, Adele, The Zutons, Primal Scream, Kasabian, Amy McDonald, Hard Fi, Faithless, Manic Street Preachers, Marillion, Josh Ritter, The Stranglers, Paul Weller, Morrissey, Moby, The Dandy Warhols, Stereophonics, Aslan, and a significant number of new and unsigned bands such as Married to the Sea, Elle S'Appelle, Vijay Kishore, Damien Dempsey, Amsterdam and Sam Isaac. Amy Winehouse performed her first radio session after Long was the first presenter to give her airtime.

From late 2007, Long began to champion her listeners under the group name 'the two percenters'. This came about due to a word choice game that employed tricks to produce the same answer for all that played it. However, most of the listeners to Janice Long did not produce the intended answer and thus were said to fall into the two percent category of people for whom the game does not work.

In January 2010, due to a reorganisation of the breakfast schedule on Radio 2, the show was cut to two hours, and runs from midnight to 2 am, Monday to Friday.