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Radio 2’s flagship annual live music event, Radio 2 in the Park, will take place this year at Victoria Park in Leicester on Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 September, as revealed this morning on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show.

It will be Radio 2’s biggest ever live music event outside London and the full artist line-up will be revealed on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show on Tuesday 13 June between 8am and 9.15am.

Tickets for Radio 2 in the Park - 35,000 for each day - go on sale on Wednesday 14 June at 8.15am, and will be available via www.bbc.co.uk/radio2inthepark along with full terms and conditions.

Helen Thomas, Head of Radio 2, says: “I’m thrilled to officially announce today that Leicester will host this year’s Radio 2 in the Park, our much-anticipated live music weekender. We hope it will bring together music lovers from across the nation – whether joining us in Leicester or tuning in wherever they are - with our brilliant family of Radio 2 presenters sharing all the infectious energy of the event on and off stage. Tune into The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show tomorrow, where she will reveal our spectacular line-up... and let the countdown to Radio 2 in the Park this September begin!”

Leicester's City Mayor, Sir Peter Soulsby, says: “We’re very excited to be welcoming Radio 2 in the Park to Leicester this summer. Victoria Park has a proud tradition of hosting these big events and they are always a tremendous boost to the area.”