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That's a good point. They do seem to be taking the piss a little bit, and Global and the Radiocentre can't be happy. I'm sure they'll be manufacturing a fuss about Radio 1's listeners being too old again before long. It's also interesting because until last year the Bauer City 1 stations had a similar kind of music policy - top 40 with songs from the last 20 or so years mixed in. And their listening figures have been going through the floor for years.

Katie's actually sounding quite good on Greatest Hits. I think she's a more capable broadcaster than Cel Spellman, although she sounds identical to Adele Roberts which might not help her career for as long as Adele's still at the station. She just dedicated Sweet Dreams My LA Ex by Rachel Stevens to Warrick Brownlow-Pike - someone people of my age might be more familiar with as Oucho T Cactus!

Wow, Newsbeat's sports reporter has been busy. Does the breakfast show now have different openers for each day? Like the Cheesy Song (whoooo).

As I assumed, James the PI is pre-recorded. Chris is off today, but he's on the James the PI segment.

I second that - I'm not sure what the equivalent of Global is in Germany (Bauer lol?) but if you're lucky and persistent enough you might be able to browbeat one of your locals into letting you make the tea or something.

A.Dot/Dotty sounding really good tonight. I think I'd consider myself a fan.

Haven't heard Greg's show for a while until today - unless today was just a one off, he now plays FIVE songs before his opening link. Two in a row, a ramp, a crunch and roll, a trail, a song and THEN the first proper link at about 16:18. That's ridiculous.

Welcome along! Big fan of the name - which in itself is a massive WHOOO. Adele's really grown on me recently actually, I always thought she was technically very good and a very capable pair of hands, as well as admiring the way she worked her way up through the commercial radio ranks, but never thought she was in the same league as Mills or Greg. She's still not quite up there, but the way she presented the Gregathlon shows, with so much warmth, empathy and good humour showed what a good broadcaster she is and changed my opinion of her for the better. And it goes without saying, a million times better than Maya Jama. A Greg James breakfast show, with Chris Smith as the number two would just be perfection. As would a Mills breakfast show. It's a tragedy that the best two broadcasters on Radio 1 are stuck in afternoon slots because the current breakfast show presenter is there being a bed blocker so Ben Cooper can prove a point. I've always thought of Greg's podcast as a sampler of what a Greg James breakfast show would sound like, if it ever came into existence. I'm still hopeful, but it's probably not so likely. If it was going to happen, it probably would've happened in 2015. Laughed a lot at this.

It was Matt's last show with Example last weekend, does anyone know whether there'll be a new celebrity co-host when Matt's back the weekend after next? Or will it just be him solo until June or whenever the four day week comes in and Molly King joins permanently.

Nice piece in The Guardian adverting the teaching profession with Mills talking about his school days. https://www.theguardian.com/get-into-teaching/2018/apr/28/scott-mills-my-teacher-told-me-to-go-for-it It's a similar story to the one he tells in Love You, Bye and any talks he gives if you've gone to see him, but the angle is different because it's talking about the impacts of his teachers and the like.

Interesting article by Ben on RadioToday. https://radiotoday.co.uk/2018/04/ben-cooper-reinventing-radio-for-the-alexa-age/ As previously mentioned,I find his decisions as Station Controller odd to say the least - but he does seem to be really on the ball when it comes to looking to the future of radio as a medium.

Ooh, interesting - it'll be quite nice to hear Grimmy back doing a specialist show, it's always been where he's seemed more comfortable. We'll probably get Adele in for Clara and Jordan in for Adele, or just Jordan in for Clara that week as well.

That's interesting, I'd never heard anything of the sort so would be surprised if he was. Then again, I distinctly remember hearing Adele Roberts and Grimmy discussing the marathon and who else at Radio 1 is doing it and being very surprised at one of the names, but I was half asleep and can't remember who it was. Could've been Mills I guess. EDIT: I was able to work out what date it was and found it on the iPlayer. So according to Adele Roberts, Scott Mills, Danny Howard and Dev are doing it. I guess that explains why Scott's been mentioning being healthy recently. He's quite active in fundraising for MS charities as well, after his mum and Beccy got it. 11th April at about 6:23 if you wanna hear the link.

Couple of points about the show last week: Laughed hysterically at the "WAZZZUUUUUP" calls, they were absolutely brilliant. Possibly my favourite thing they've done for a while, so so funny. Banged my head against a wall repeatedly at Maya Jama totally not getting Scott's "ice cream" story. Which in itself was quite funny. FACEPALM.

Sadly not, but I'd LOVE one. Dan Mumford doesn't seem to update his website very often. Wonder if there's anyone at R1 that would leak it if you ask nicely on email?

I think that's a great shame actually - whenever I listen to classic Mills clips on here I always think the show used to have an air of naughtiness that's somewhat lacking these days. Not always - every now and again they do or say something that's a bit suggestive or borderline rude, but not as often as I'd like. I understand why, but it's been ten years since Sachsgate - surely now it's time to start pushing the boundaries back a bit more again?

Or, if you've been listening for a really long time, Scott Mills's Friday Floor Fillers (whooooooo?). Straight after The Wonder Years. OMG!!! Literally just had a thought whilst writing this - do you think this means the return of... IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITS OOOOOOOOOOOOONNNLLLLYYYYYY BLEEEEEEEEEYYYY FRIIIIIIIDAAAAAAAAAAY!

Three? Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, no? But yeah, I'll miss having a content show on a Friday although maybe it means Monday-Thursdays shows will be even better. Plus, tbh I found my enjoyment of Friday's podcasts has been ruined by Maya Jama, who (I may have mentioned once or twice) really irritates me.

Just had another thought - I wonder if this is the end of Scott covering the breakfast show? Now weekdays and weekends are more fluid, they might get Dev and Alice to do it instead. That would be sad, I always look forward to Mills on breakfast. On another note, I guess Scott and Greg are kinda even now (not that there's any bad blood between them I don't think). Greg took drive off Scott in 2012, and now Scott's taken the chart off Greg in 2018. Funny how things work out.

Oh. Don't get me wrong, I really like Molly King and she works really well with Matt. But it's a bit weird that they're basically stopping the rotating celebrities after like three months. And also kind of a shame Matt's losing his solo shows completely but I'm not to annoyed about this one.

Just reading it again, and it doesn't explicitly say that Maya Jama is staying on Saturdays... So maybe she's just doing Fridays from now on and Jordan gets both Saturday and Sunday? Just wishful thinking?

Someone reset the "days since Radio 1 did some stupid gimmick" back to zero. http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2018/r1-weekend-friday With Ben Cooper's justification here: https://medium.com/@Ben_Cooper To summarise: • Grimmy, Clara and Greg are now only on four days a week (Monday-Thursday). • Dev and Alice now do Friday breakfast 6:30-10 as well as Saturdays and Sundays from 6-10 • Maya now gets two shows (Friday and Saturday) whilst Jordan is still stuck on one, despite being the infinitely better presenter • Molly King is now a permanent addition to Matt Edmondson's Friday show (so he now has Molly King on Fridays, rotating celebrities on Saturdays and a solo show on Sundays) • Scott is now the permanent chart host (and he's free of the burden of Maya Jama on Fridays). This is the change I'm happiest about (and it means Mills is back on 4-7 for one day a week!) I can't see this lasting. It's stupid. And a gimmick. And confusing for listeners who have a weekday routine which will now be interrupted one day a week. The idea behind it is to get weekday listeners to carry over to weekends but I can't see it working, and all that'll happen is most of the Friday listenership will only hear what happens on the shows on the Friday and be out of the loop by the following Friday having missed Saturday and Sunday's shows. It comes across as desperate actually. But hey, I could be wrong.

I've had a look around, it's not from the Wise Buddah package and doesn't seem to be from last years Pure Jingles beds either. And I can't find it on NSM so who knows? Anyone have any idea what other production libraries Radio 1 like to use these days?

Right, I've heard it. Absolutely brilliant. The bit about the bunny ears had me in stitches. Soooo funny. Really wanna find out why he ghosted, I hope they bust him at some point.

Just in case anybody missed this, Scott announced on yesterday's show that Radio 1 have asked them to make a spin-off podcast about Profession Confessions - similar stuff to James the PI and that lettings agent. I'm assuming it's for the 3-4am slot, Scott said it can be a bit ruder because it won't be broadcast on daytime radio. I'm quite excited to hear it.