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Interesting to see how they handled this. I plan to save Scott and Dev's shows off the iplayer before they dissapear. I only dropped into Dev's show about 4.30 and he sounded upbeat. I do plan to have a proper seek through this though.
Seems like they spent the first hour behind the scenes probably debating how to handle the situation, what the tone of the station should be. So Scott probably wasn't told to do anything differently during his time on air. Chris Price is back at Radio 1 now, he was working as a music producer at Radio 1 when September 11th happened. So has experience vastly with things like this.
 
What happened last Wednesday was awful without question, but not on a scale of 7/7 or 9/11. I'm old enough to remember Radio 1's output on both of these occasions.
Over 50 people (I believe, not sure of the exact amount) died on 7/7, the reports you hear on the vault on this site were recorded by myself. Scott was on breakfast and got reports in at 9.30, 9.45 and right before Jo Whiley at 10am. The rest of the day handed to Newsbeat frequently, but the Radio 1 playlist never altered that much I recall.
I remember Colin & Edith in the afternoon being upbeat/friendly but respectful at the same time. Scott had to cover for Vernon Kay, who was meant to be on from 4pm as Scott was on Breakfast in for Chris Moyles. He spoke to Vernon on the phone I'm sure. I planned to save that day from listen again as it were back then, I stupidly never did for some reason.
I do have Scott's show from 21st July 2005 when they tried the same again in London but failed, nothing much out of the ordinary on that day though only mentions of it on Newsbeat.
 
9/11 was a totally different animal. The world felt it like it was on the verge of the biggest war since WW2 all that week, and the shock of the attacks were broadcast live around the world. Nothing much but the Newsbeat reports and small bits of other stuff survive from Radio 1 around then. Remember, there was no iplayer or listen again to save.
But if you listen to the 2.30pm and 3pm Newsbeat reports by Clare Bradley from Mark & Lard's show, you can clearly hear the shock in her voice as she talked of the planes hitting the towers and people jumping to certain death from 110 floors in the air.
Radio 1's daytime playlist altered quite a bit that week, usually songs from the last 5 years until that point. Although Moyles played Basement Jaxx - Romeo and Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag on the afternoon, which were normal mood Radio 1 playlist songs.
I think things got solem in the days after. Moby's Poreclain was played a lot, Zero 7's Destiny was another. I also remember The Avalanches - Since I Left You, Bob Marley & Lauryn Hill - Turn Your Lights Down Low, Spiritualized - Stop Your Crying. Travis - Side was another.
Scott Mills and (I believe) Dr Mark Hamilton hosted a special edition of the Sunday Surgery at the end of that week.
 
Very few, if anyone survives at Radio 1 from these events. Only Scott and Chris Price on the playlist team. So they haven't really been tested on such a scale. I don't know for sure but I imagine the Radio 1 bosses would use Scott primarily during a major obit situation. After him, who knows. I'd say Greg.
 
As for the Queen, there are well placed procedures in place to deal with the event like mentioned in the above article. So it will be easier to deal with for Radio 1 in some sense than a terrorist attack, because they know exactly what they have to do. Diana dying was a huge shock, but I imagine Radio 1 will sound similar to this when the Queen does pass away.
https://ia601504.us.archive.org/9/items/19970831Sun09591018BBCRadio1DeathOfDianaPrincessOfWales/1997 08 31 Sun 0959-1018 BBC Radio 1 - Death of Diana, Princess of Wales.mp3

I enjoyed the novelty of Innuendo Bingo on BBC 1, but I didn't think they used the best clips. There are much better ones they could've used, although the time of day and potential audience might've been a factor.
Ofcom have had quite a few complaints about Comic Relief - not sure whether any were about Bingo specifically or the other stuff, like that awful Suzanna Reid sketch. 

There was no sport, and it was one story. Not given enough justice IMO.

Moyles ripped all of Red Nose day apart this morning. Including Bingo. Quite rightly so. The comedy throughout the evening was a mess.

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Well I guess the time set aside for it was never going to be as long as what the show allows. It's good for Scott they let him have time to promote it - surprised it hasn't happened sooner.


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It felt quite rushed

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So Greg is back tomorrow but In 7 shows off. He's had 3 different covers. Is it just Dev wasn't available or are they starting to think about a new host for this slot?
 
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Great WHOOOOO!
 
British Home Stores... WHOOOOoooooOOOOOOOoooOOOO! (Too soon?).

That woman who put the cat in the bin...
WHOOOOoOOOooooOOOOOooOOoooOoooooo

Here's the Whooo-Tube video

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Loved watching innunendo bingo on BBC one on comic relief! yaaaaaaaaaaaas!

It's strange hes not heavily involved this year, seems to all being promoted by Grimmy
also noticed that Scott covering breakfast for a week after next

One thing that I found striking at Big Weekend last year was the queues of people who were talking about their favourite DJs. It was Scott's name that came up various times. I mean it's hard to say how much these people listen to Radio 1,  but I think he remains the most recognisable name with young audiences. Now you could argue that's the strength of Scott's work, you could also argue Radio 1 has more to do to connect its audiences with the newer DJs.

Newsbeat reported the news really poorly indeed... Radio 5live jumped into the coverage at around 14:50 so there was enough of information for additional 15:00 bulletin. Reporting that terror attack happened almost an hour late is unexceptional for the BBC. The news bulletins were clear and informative but there were too few of them. Even Capital did half-hour news bulletins. 

Also clipped up every news bulletin prior to 5:45 that broke the news. 
Interesting that Dev refers to "news and sport with Chris Smith", and that he says HI TO PETE IN LANCASTER without context. Very odd. Scott is far far better.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3Cy0l9zVU5wWVdPSlQzSUROZWc/view?usp=sharing

When Chris Tarrant gives you a cheque then takes it back saying But we don't wanna give you that. And rips it up in front of you.

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I'll have a bit of different perspective as a U.S. based listener. In no particular order...
BBC Radio 1 - Mostly Mills and Greg James with Adele Roberts if I'm up past 11p. I do like Alice when she's in for Scott but rarely catch her show on the weekends.
The Game 730 AM - mix of local and national sports talk and game broadcasts (particularly Mad Dog in the Afternoon & Ferrall on the Bench)
97.5 NOW - local Top-40 station, but not for more than an hour when songs start to loop
90.5 WKAR - local NPR/Public radio, but only for Morning Edition and All Things Considered since I can't put up with classical music for too long 
870 AM - mostly BBC World Service (particularly Newshour and World Have Your Say) with some NPR and local stuff. I try to tune in for Al Martin's "Current Sports" if I'm off school and also their Spanish-language music/news program on weekend mornings.
If nothing suits my fancy on regular radio I'll get on Pandora or Spotify or pop a CD in. There also an assortment of podcasts I listen to - the obvious ones (see Mills and James) plus these:
ESPN Fantasy Focus (football and baseball) [3-5 weekly in-season, 2x per month off-season]
Chips with everything ("digital culture" podcast from The Guardian) [1x weekly]
Serial [1x during a season - 2nd season didn't capture my interest as much as the 1st]
My Dad Wrote A Porno [1x weekly + 1x weekly "footnotes" during a season]
FiveThirtyEight politics podcast [1x weekly, but was every weekday in the buildup to the U.S. election]
Arsecast (Arsenal podcast) [2x weekly]
Effectively Wild (baseball podcast) [3-4x weekly]

It was really weird hearing Scott on Radio 2 but he sounded fine (even with some of the dodgy callers )

http://www.aircheckdownloads.com/Heart_ScottMills_26Mar96.mp3

It was weird listening to today's normal show and last night's R2 show and hearing the difference in style. He seemed more chilled and mature (aware he was broadcasting to an older audience) and was clearly enjoying some of the 80s music. Back on R1 today, you can tell some of the more youthful aspects to his personality are emphasised, which is what's kept him relevant and still going strong on afternoons!

Do you know where that clip is?

I'm listening back to a bit of it - it reminds me of that clip knocking about of Scott on Heart in 1996 where he's doing the All Requests Lunchbreak - he definitely went a bit more posh than usual. Not bad from what I've heard, but a bit weird hearing him not on R1.

Really enjoyed Sounds of the 80s with Mills and Coxy. I think he could become Sara's cover when she's off. He said Radio 1 instead of 2 twice in a 4 hour show. Not bad going. Sara also joked the door was still open for her to join R2 when Jo Whiley jumped across. Nice to see they left it open for you also Scott. In which Mills replied with only temporary though LOL

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"Listen from 4, watch from 6!"
WhoOOOoOOoOoOOOOOoooooOOOoOoOoOOOOoooOooOooOooOooO!!! [emoji23]
 
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Lots of big names from the industry are there. Including Christian O Connell. I'm now waiting for someone to say Whooooo?

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