{"id":678417,"date":"2026-05-18T22:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/678417\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T22:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:51:11","slug":"bbc-radio-2-issues-apology-after-blunder-leaves-listeners-concerned-for-host-elaine-paige","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/678417\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Radio 2 issues apology after blunder leaves listeners concerned for host Elaine Paige"},"content":{"rendered":"

BBC Radio 2 issued an apology following a blunder which left fans both concerned and puzzled.<\/p>\n

During Sunday’s Elaine Paige show, a scheduling error led to the station broadcasting the incorrect second half of her pre-recorded segment, and when loyal fans recognised it as last week’s show, they quickly became worried.<\/p>\n

It appears as though the wrong audio was used in the system prior to the broadcast going live, with a repeat of the previous show confusing listeners.<\/p>\n

Elaine Paige on Sunday airs weekly from 1pm to 3pm, and has been on air since 2004.<\/p>\n

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Elaine Paige on Sunday airs weekly from 1pm to 3pm, and has been on air since 2004<\/p>\n

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After noticing the repeated broadcast, many were left concerned the for 78-year-old singer and actress, believing she may have suddenly needed to leave or end the show, not realising the episode hadn’t been live.<\/p>\n

Taking to X, one worried listener wrote: “Fingers crossed it\u2019s an innocent explanation and she’s ok.”<\/p>\n

Another added: “The first hour was new today, then suddenly hour 2 was a repeat, from Goatherd onwards. Hopefully nothing serious has happened.”<\/p>\n

“I have just emailed to ask. Very concerned think something bad has happened. She perhaps has had to leave,” a third added.<\/p>\n

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Fans of Elaine Paige’s radio show who spotted the blunder were left concerned <\/p>\n

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Others complained about the bizarre repetition from only a week prior, with one asking: “Why is this hour of Elaine Paige on Sunday identical to last week\u2019s show?! <\/p>\n

“Very bizarre to repeat it just a week later.”<\/p>\n

“Nothing on her site, and no announcement from the Beeb. Very strange,” another X user commented.<\/p>\n

Pointing out that it hadn’t been the first broadcasting mistake, one more posted: “We just thought the same. <\/p>\n

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Fans of Elaine Paige’s radio show were left confused by the mix-up<\/p>\n

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“This also happened last year. They replayed the same episode 2 weeks in a row.”<\/p>\n

Fortunately, it seems the repeated episode had simply been a mishap, with a BBC spokesperson confirming the blunder. <\/p>\n

They told RadioToday: “Unfortunately, due to a scheduling error, the incorrect second hour of the show was broadcast today.<\/p>\n

“We apologise to listeners and are currently looking into how this occurred.”<\/p>\n

\"Elaine<\/p>\n

Elaine Paige has been hosting the BBC Radio 2 show since 2004<\/p>\n

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Informing listeners on where they could catch the rest of the unaired episode, they concluded: “The correct programme is now available on BBC Sounds.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC Radio 2 issued an apology following a blunder which left fans both concerned and puzzled. During Sunday’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[13698,49,48,3332,75,341],"class_list":["post-678417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-bbc","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrity","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}