The BBC music presenter, Petroc Trelawny, has been released from police custody in Zimbabwe, but faces fresh charges of breaking immigration laws.
Music magazine NME's assistant news editor Jamie Fullerton told BBC 6 Music he gave Pete Doherty a lift in his car after he was released.
"I love their version, " Presley said to Liz Kershaw on BBC 6 Music in March 2010.
"The doctor said you have signs of Alzheimer's, " he told Gilles Peterson on BBC 6 Music.
Lead singer Guy Garvey told BBC 6 Music it was "a real honour and a total surprise" to have been asked.
Last year's awards saw BBC 6 Music, another digital station that faced the axe in 2010, named UK station of the year.
Musician and campaigner Billy Bragg will give BBC 6 Music's second annual John Peel Lecture at this year's Radio Festival next month.
Before they take to that stage though, they'll be headlining for BBC Introducing in Manchester and BBC 6 Music at In The City.
For the first time, BBC 6 Music has a stage at Latitude and will host acts including Alt-J, Modest Mouse and Beach House.
It is with enormous regret that I have decided to resign as controller of BBC Radio 2, BBC 6 Music and of Popular Music.
Most recently, a track from the Easterly, entitled A waste of My Time was chosen to feature on BBC 6 Music with Jon Holmes.
Speaking to BBC 6 Music, the drummer said the band had written three new songs, which they plan to play on stage this year.
As for sister digital station BBC 6 Music, comedian Kathy Burke and film-maker and actor Harry Shearer will curate shows in the run up to Red Nose Day.
Ayers's father, BBC producer Rowan Ayers, created the BBC Two music programme The Old Grey Whistle Test, which gave a host of underground acts TV exposure while it aired between 1971 - 1987.
Former Catatonia singer and BBC 6 Music broadcaster Cerys Matthews has retweeted messages about the campaign to her followers and The Alarm singer Mike Peters, who knows Bob Dylan's manager, has also got involved.
BBC: Dylan Thomas tribute: Bob Dylan wanted for Swansea concert
Radio, and Oneword (which broadcasts plays, books, comedy and discussion programmes) - all of which have now had their audiences measured by Rajar - as well as the BBC's 1Xtra, Five Live Sports Extra, BBC 6 Music and BBC7.
Such "edgy" music was never played on the BBC, says music historian Colin Larkin.
Natalie-Eve Williams, who co-hosts Manchester Music and BBC Introducing on BBC Radio Manchester, says shifts in technology and the music industry mean it is more difficult to make an impact.
The radio stations are a black urban music network, two stations based largely on the BBC archives (one music, one speech), the Asian Network, which currently broadcasts locally and via satellite TV boxes, and Five Live Sports Extra, bringing greater choice of sports, when matches clash.
Male artists dominate a listeners' poll to find BBC Radio 6 Music's top 100 tracks of the past 10 years.
The comments follow claims by BBC Radio 6 Music DJ Liz Kershaw that she was "routinely groped" during her time at Radio 1 in the 1980s.
She also paid a visit to the BBC's Broadcasting House, where she met DJ Dave Lee Travis, whose BBC World Service music show made her confinement "much more bearable, " she said.
Charlie Gillett, who presents the BBC World of Music programme, says there is nobody to compare to her, as she was popular in West Africa - after living in exile in Guinea - and East Africa - she recorded a version of the Swahili song Malaika, as well as her home in South Africa.
Barney Hooper, from PRS for Music, which represents the rights of music creators, told the BBC: "If one piece of music is sampled in another, then typically the creators of the original work would be entitled to a share of royalties when the new work is played, performed or reproduced, " he said.
As fans queue up outside Belfast's hotels awaiting a glimpse of their music idols, BBC Newsline's Natasha Sayee looks at the backstage preparations ahead of this weekend's MTV European Music Awards in Belfast.
With a nomination for a BBC Radio 3 World Music Award, they've become a presence on the world music scene.
Premier Cru's lucky break came when a BBC deejay, Gilles Peterson, played two of the label's cuts on the BBC's pop music station, heard worldwide.
Another exclusive announcement today was that the BBC's Olympic theme music will be by award-winning band Elbow.
He was best known as the producer of John Peel's music show on BBC Radio 1 and for presenting radio shows of his own.
Cocker, who presents shows on BBC Radio 4 and 6 Music, is up against Radio 4 news presenter Martha Kearney and former newsreader Charlotte Green.
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