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Edited highlights of a feature in Music Week on a forthcoming Pink Floyd season on Radio 2.

Radio 2 and 6 Music controller Bob Shennan said: “This is one of the opportunities for us to do something I am really keen for Radio 2 to do – take an iconic artist or band, particularly one you don’t get to hear that often on the radio, or certainly outside of the BBC, and really celebrate them, give them more depth. Rather than doing one-off documentaries we are trying to get really intelligent analysis as well as a celebration of the artists.” ......

The Pink Floyd Season will coincide with the first phase of EMI’s extensive re-issue campaign of the band’s classic catalogue. September 26 sees the re-release of the band’s classic The Dark Side Of The Moon album in a six-disc Immersion boxed set and two-disc Experience set, as well as a collector’s vinyl LP and various digital formats. It marks the start of a four-phase Pink Floyd campaign that is set to be one of the biggest of the year, with EMI looking to repeat the success it had with its Beatles reissue campaign of 2009