Dream Ticket

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Dream Ticket is a music radio show on BBC 6 Music, and has been on the air since the opening of the radio station in 2002.

The presenters have been Janice Long (March 11, 2002 - July 1, 2004), Jane Gazzo (July 5, 2004 - September 29, 2005), Nemone (October 3, 2005 - August 10, 2006). Clare McDonnell and Pete Mitchell (interim period in September 2006), Joe Mace (September 2006 - January 2007), Shaun Keaveny (January 2007 - April 2007), George Lamb (April 2, 2007 - October 18, 2007), Gideon Coe (October 22, 2007).

The show plays current music as well as absolutely unique music from the BBC music session and live performance archives, up to forty years in the past.

Some archival music chosen also includes unique classic sessions done for BBC's John Peel, a pioneer in getting new and alternative music recorded and aired.

Sundry live reports are filed from journalists and correspondents at the best of the evening's concerts in and about England and elsewhere world-wide. Sometimes, actual radio show listeners have reported on concerts.

One featured segment of the show is The Headline Set wherein a musical artist is featured, very often from a significant live performance.

Another segment, which climaxes in the end of the show, is the Head to Head. Two closely matched musical artists and a representative song from each, are announced at the beginning of the show, and then listeners, as was mentioned with the interactive listening aspect, are to communicate to the show live, by email, text message, on the website, which of the two artists and respective song they want played out at the end of the show. The choice is purely the up to the listeners.

Innovations with this show include the interplay of several new technological forces being applied to radio.

Another challenging thematic innovation of the show is the blending and balancing of current popular music, classic session and performance music from the BBC archives, and new music.