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Liking the sound of Dean so far! I was a bit worried when he was on Drag Day but he’s sounding very very natural so far.

It’s such a feature heavy show, I’d be very surprised if they don’t have one. But then Matt and Mollie’s show is also very feature heavy but unfortunately they don’t have one.

RMC seem to have a very music heavy show so far, I wonder what the rest of the show will entail after the Live Lounge as that’s all they seem to have trailed so far!

Greg’s last song on drivetime was Bubblegum by Mystery Jets and the penultimate song if I remember correctly was Circle of Life.

I’d be interested to see Clara’s take on the Future Sounds show. Does anyone know how much input Annie has into the songs selected for the show or is it mainly the producer? Because if Annie does have lots of input then I wonder if we might see a change of tone with some of the music played when Clara takes over? For example I could see more RnB and Soul being played because I know that Clara is really into those genres. There may be somewhat of a decrease in the amount of dance played too?

I’d imagine it will either be Katie or Arielle in that slot then until September? I’d guess Sam and Danni will probably be covering Life Hacks over the summer too. Anyone know who Charlie Tee is? I wonder if Danny will be off until he moves to Annie’s slot too? I wonder who will be covering Annie’s Friday night show for the next 6 weeks too. And also linked to that, there still doesn’t seem to be any cover for Annie’s weekday show at the moment. Also nice to see Jessica Maciel again, she stood out too from the Christmas presenters. I wonder if Charlie will be off Dance Anthems too while preparing for her new show? I didn’t realise quite how many changes are going to happen to radio 1 over the next few weeks, it’s almost going to be like a completely different station between now and September.

I’m assuming that this weekend is Jordan’s last weekend shows then? And then he’ll have a couple of weeks holiday and then a few weeks of trialing Drivetime shows. Although I’m not sure how that will work with Vick being over in Japan. Does anyone know when she goes over there?

Oh wow that’s a big change for a month. I wonder if that’s the only way they realised they could manage it. I wouldn’t be surprised if they do do the same on the weekend: 7-11 Adele 11-3 Matt and Mollie 3-7 Chart/ Dance Anthems/ Life Hacks I wonder if Katie will present Life Hacks solo through August or whether she will get a co host? I’m assuming that the week of the 9th August will be Scott’s holiday week then? Also, at a guess I’d imagine that Jess Iszatt and Sian Eleri will both cover bits of Future Sounds? They’re the only presenters that I can see being free to do it!

Do we know yet who’s covering Future Sounds throughout August? Annie is still showing on the schedule for now!

That will be interesting to see, Adele’s first weekend show off I believe. Glad that they’re using James again, he definitely stood out last Christmas when he filled in.

I love the look of the daytime schedule from September - probably the strongest it has ever been, but the one thing that I would fix if I was in charge is the absolute mess that it looks like nighttimes will become. I can’t understand why there doesn’t look to be any particular content between midnight and 4am each day, and also why the specialist shows are being reduced to an hour. It just doesn’t make any sense to me. I would have implemented a schedule like this - keeping Future Sounds starting at 7pm: 7-9 Future Sounds with Clara Amfo 9-11 Replacement for RMC 11-1 Future Artists with Jack Saunders 1-3 Specialist 3-4 R1 Dance/ Relax 4-7 Early Breakfast Just makes it a lot neater by mainly extending shows again!

Dean is replacing Jordan at the weekend, I wonder if Vick will stay on Life Hacks with Katie?

Lots of interesting changes there - nice to see Dean McCullough covering already, it will be nice to see what he sounds like bouncing off another presenter. Also good to see Sam and Danni off the Christmas line up being used again and Vick in for Annie is an unexpected choice but one that I can definitely see working!

As much as I like Vick and Katie, it feels like R1 have more than enough cover for them to have to do 8 days in a row and possibly 2 shows in 1 day as well.

I’m surprised there’s not been anymore announcements about Big Weekend yet - it’s supposed to happen in about a month and so far there’s been almost nothing said apart from the initial announcement.