The pair will host a week of Evening Session programmes in April to mark 20 years since the Britpop movement began.
The new shows - from April 6 to 11 - will include Chvrches and Sophie Ellis-Bextor performing covers of classic Britpop tracks.
They will be part of a Britpop season of shows airing on BBC Radio 2, 6 Music and BBC Four.
The duo will host the specials from the BBC's Maida Vale studios, with special guests including Supergrass's Gaz Coombes.
Whiley and Lamacq previously reunited in 2010 for a one-off show on 6 Music, playing their favourite live bands from the Evening Sessions.
They presented Radio 1's Evening Session together in 1993, before Lamacq took over on his own from 1997 to 2002.
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Whiley said: "I will always jump at the chance to work with Steve. He is my radio 'other half' and we did fight the Britpop wars together after all.
"It was a great time to be a DJ on UK radio but, as ever, when you're in the eye of the storm, you are blissfully unaware. It's only in hindsight that you appreciate what a privilege it was to live and work through such an exciting time for British music."
Lamacq added: "For me, this is the week 20 years ago that the musical tectonic plates shifted. On the Tuesday, Oasis played live on Radio 1 for the first time and on the Friday morning we heard the news of Kurt Cobain's death.
"It was as if one scene had announced it had arrived, as another began to lose its way."
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