BBC 2 to celebrate Eurythmics with 4 hours of programmes dedicated to the music of Dave Stewart Annie Lennox

This Saturday, 21st December, The BBC are dedicating their evening of shows on BBC 2 with 5 different programmes and repeats all related to Eurythmics and Annie Lennox music at The BBC.

20:25PM Eurythmics at The BBC
Eurythmics were one of Britain’s biggest and best bands of the 1980s, comprising two of the music scene’s most creative double acts of the decade – Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox.

Bold, innovative, stylish and always highly unpredictable, the pair first tasted chart success with The Tourists before breaking away and achieving international stardom with songs like Love Is a Stranger and Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves.

Over the following years, Dave and Annie always stayed ahead of changing tastes and fashions, and their evolving looks and sounds are captured here in a collection of their best moments from the BBC’s music archives.

21:55PM Annie Lennox at The BBC
Annie Lennox has been described as the most successful female artist in British music history, and this collection is a celebration of the stunning solo side of her accomplishments – which started in earnest with the release of her hugely acclaimed debut solo album, Diva, in 1992.

Since then, Annie has shown time and time again exactly why she remains one of Britain's most popular and critically praised artists, and the evidence is shared here once again with a selection of her finest performances plucked from the BBC archives.

22:55PM BBC One Sessions : Annie Lennox at LSO St. Lukes
Pop's enduring diva is on scintillating form in an intimate concert from LSO St Luke's in London. Accompanied by her band and 21 strings from the BBC Concert Orchestra, Annie Lennox storms through a set packed with hits from her solo career and back to the Eurythmics days, including classic hits Here Comes the Rain, Little Bird, Cold, Sweet Dreams and No More 'I Love You's'.

Lennox shows her voice has lost none of its ability to thrill and her showmanship is undimmed.

23:55PM Eurythmics: We Too Are OneThe Late Show
Tracey MacLeod reports for The Late Show as Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart - better known as Eurythmics - prepare to launch their album We Two Are One. First broadcast 1989.

00:15AM Annie Lennox - Diva
Features an in-depth interview with the ex-Eurythmics singer as well as an extensive selection of archive footage.

And also, don't forget as we have previously report, on Sunday 22nd December on BBC Radio 2 there is another programme dedicated to Annie Lennox in celebration of her 70th Birthday,

Annie Lennox at the BBC
Sounds of the 80s with Gary Davies

As we celebrate her 70th birthday, Annie talks us through her key songs and hugely successful musical career in many BBC interviews and appearances with Annie Nightingale, Janice Long, Kirsty Young, Jo Whiley, Steve Wright, Richard Skinner, David Jensen, Johnnie Walker and Paul Gambaccini.

Key songs include I Only Wanna Be With You from The Tourists, Sweet Dreams, Love Is A Stranger, Here Comes The Rain Again (written on an American plane journey), Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves, There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart), as well as Diva, Walking On Broken Glass, Waiting in Vain and Universal Child from her solo albums.

We hear about Annie’s early life in Aberdeen, studying music in London, starting her strong personal and professional partnership with Dave Stewart, getting success very quickly with The Tourists, forming Eurythmics, her love of performing and the toll that touring took on her amazing voice. Annie also discusses her first film acting role alongside Al Pacino, her collaborations with Aretha Franklin and Stevie Wonder, and her equally successful solo career.