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Power Down Playlist cover over the Christmas 2021 period.

James Cusack is in for Charlie on Saturday 20th August.
Ifan Davies is in for Sian on Sunday 21st August.
Jordan is solo on Monday 22nd & Tuesday 23rd August.
Jack is in for Clara on Monday 22nd August, with Kerrie Cosh in for Jack.
Arielle is in for Rickie, Melvin & Charlie on Tuesday 23rd August, with Ben Coley in for Arielle.
Jack is doing another Radio 1 Relax show on Wednesday 24th August.
Nels is in for Jack on Thursday 25th August.
Mollie is solo on Friday 26th August.

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As we head into 2022, just my few thoughts on the new line up. In short: it's fantastic. I don't think there have ever been more shows on Radio 1 that I actively want to listen/catch-up with.
Vick & Jordan are really growing into the drive slot. Sadly it just shows how poor Grimmy's show was when you compare just how much speech/content/fun they manage to squeeze into the show. There's plenty of different weekly features, they've got the daily staple in the 'Something Songs' & the 'talkers' always feel quite natural and generate some good stories. Basically they move the show on every 15/30 minutes & the hard work of the production team really does shine through. It's a shame it doesn't have a Scott Mills Daily style podcast to make catching up easier.
I'm growing to like the pairing even more - sometimes I do feel Vick's humour doesn't quite work with Jordan. She kind of stunts his jokes and the way he plays up the whole Northern thing (but I guess I am comparing this to Jordan's podcast with William Hanson who just knows when to sit back and let Jordan be the fool). Katie is great cover too, she works with both Vick & Jordan so should keep the show sounding consistent all year round.
RMC: I like them. I really enjoyed the evening show they did, because it was a little bit naughty & had plenty of games, even if the music wasn't always to my taste. Personally, it does feel like they've not translated this very well across to the new slot. I loved night night nonsense (a different game every Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday where Rickie/Melvin/Charlie each host one night and the other 2 play), if they did something similar (midday madness? ?) it would really lift the whole show in my opinion. The daily features they have started aren't that strong: Random annoys me, Skive lounge is fun but maybe not as often & Melvin's Live Lounge guessing game just sticks out (why are they only doing it 1 day a week when they do LL rewinds every morning?).
It just feels like they have been pinched a bit too much on talk time & when there is 3 of them on the show it feels a bit of a waste of talent. Of course it shouldn't be as fast paced/packed as Breakfast or Drive, but I think Scott & Chris show that the 'content filled' shows do work outside of peak. My biggest wish for 2022 is that they can inject a bit more fun into this show. Shout outs are fine till 11, then the Live Lounge, but some different good features every half hour after that would be great.
Greg James and Scott & Chris deliver the 2 most consistently great shows on radio anywhere in the UK, in my opinion. Obviously not too much to say here because they weren't new for September 2022, but they have certainly kept up their game alongside the new additions to the line up. I hope neither change for a good while to come. Reinstating Greg on a Friday was probably one of the best decisions of the year. My one niggle with Breakfast is that I wish they made more of the 9:30 till 10:30 slot. I miss the daily madness of the 6:30 till 7am bit.
Evenings - I don't listen to them as regularly (I used to catchup with RMC) but whenever I have heard Clara, Jack & Sian, it really does feel like they are in the perfect places on the schedule. They each love the slot they do & it shows. Just a shame we have lost an entertainment based evening show. Even if it was 10-12, so it could be naughty again with Powerdown at 12am.
Weekends - Adele is a pro and very much suits the weekend Breakfast slot. It doesn't need to be as fast paced as weekdays & I think the past few years of having the 2 different duos on then just shows what a waste it can be, especially on a quiet morning like Sunday. I'm still not 100% sold on Dean, he is good but I did prefer Jordan in that slot. As has been mentioned here before, I wonder if it's too much too soon. Should he be on Early Breakfast with Arielle at the weekends? My personal choice would've been RMC on a Friday, Dean on a Sunday & someone new on a Saturday - gives a slot to another ex-Xmas/Friday EB presenter too. (I'd pick Sam & Danni. Saturday, so they are still free to cover life hacks on a Sunday).
Matt & Mollie are sounding the best they ever have. The move back to weekends really did 'reset' their show and the stuff they do is on a par with the duos on Monday to Thursday. Some really great games and the 'talkers' they do are also generating some of the funniest stories too. Again, it's a shame they don't have a podcast. They could probably get away with a pretty beefy weekly one?

I think it's one of the best possible versions with the DJs available. Have some minor complaints, but Aled did a great job after all.
Arielle: I like her a lot, especially her energy and her accent. They hopefully won't forget about her when a better weekday slot opens up.
Greg: I still miss Chris Smith, but as someone who've always hated breakfast show as a genre, I love Greg's. It's not perfect but I always switch off happier than I tuned in, that's a really big deal.
RMC: Now... I'm sorry but they remind me of an awful commercial breakfast show. It's like they's have a time limit on the links, always in a rush to play the next song and laughing on top of each others lines. They just don't fit on R1, at least not as a trio (when one of them was absent the show got a bit better). At least the music is not monotone and boring like it was on the nighttime show. Melvin is cool tho.
Scott: We can just take him for granted at this point, because he's leaving R1 next year since 2012, but still, here we are. Okay, nothing lasts forever, but as long as they're sounding this strong with Chris (this morning's "surprise" show was fantastic for example), I'll still be listening for the next 1/2/5/10/20 years. Even when Scott leaves the afternoon slot (probably around 2112  ), I hope he stays on the chart show or get a naughty late night slot.
Vick & Jordan: My first thought was that it's a waste pairing them together, because they're the best two of the new generation presenters, and two great shows are better that just one. After I heard the first show I've changed my mind, this was a brilliant move, they sound amazing together.
Clara: Kinda indifferent on her, love her voice, but nothing special. Wasn't listening that much. Not her fault, but I think the hottest record "rebrand" was a mistake. At least it's not a separate 5 minute show on sounds, but on air it sounds like it was and I don't like it.
Jack: Now this is how a specialist show should sound like. And it's on at a time when average human beings are still awake. Perfection.
Powerdown Playlist: If only it was live... or at least fake live... if only...
René/Annie/Benji: I'm just glad they're still on. Shows like this are what used to make R1 nighttime special, not lazy mixes recorded for repeating.
Adele: Weekend mornings are the shows that suit her the best imho, but I don't hear her that much to form an opinion.
Dean: The first impression was really bad, "be happy right now or else" vibes, so I avoided him for months. I gave him another chance in early December, but this he was actually fun and sounded professional. My favourite thing from him was the birthday hour for the poor folks (like myself ) who celebrate their birthday around Christmas time. Maybe he deserved all three weekend shows after all.
Matt & Mollie: They're still okay, I guess.  Not really listening nowadays. I still prefer solo Matt though.
Dance Anthems: I wouldn't really mind Charlie, but throwing out the future hour for another classic one is such a sin from a new music station in my book, that I haven't listened once since M.I.S.T.A.J.A.M (that's how he spells it, right? ) left.
Anthems in general: (Rant alert!) Play songs in full! Whoever mixes them, clearly can't mix at all, so why bother. If i like a song, and it cuts off halfway through, I just switch off the radio and put on the full song. Also repeat less! Yes, Starlight, Flowers, 21 Seconds, Gotta Get Thru This and such are all classics, but maybe the last 2 decades have many many more brilliant but forgotten songs that deserved to be on anthems instead of yet another play of these.
Everyone else: Nothing specific, maybe I'll edit this if I have something new to say.
Bonus: The 10:30-1-15:30-6-8 schedule: I'm kinda fine with it now, my only complaints are that it's still inconsistent with weekends and weekday shows feel shorter than they actually are, especially drive, so I still prefer the good old 10-1-4-7.
(That's it for now, I'm back with another overly long post with broken english in another ~6 months. ) 

I think that’s really bad that they can’t find presenters for the next 2 days early breakfast really. Just seems like really lazy programming there from management!

I was sent this which is apparently this year's Christmas schedule so far. It's anonymous so take with a pinch of salt!
Christmas Eve  
7:00am Radio 1 Breakfast with Greg James 
11:00am Stacey Copeland 
12:45pm Newsbeat 
1:00pm Stacey Copeland 
2:00pm TBC 
6:00pm Danny Howard 
8:00pm Radio 1's Future Dance with Sarah Story 
10:00pm TBC
Christmas Day 
6:00am Happy Hour 
7:00am TBC 
10:00am Scott Makin (pre-recorded) 
1:00pm Laurie Dyche (pre-recorded) 
4:00pm Christmas Anthems with TBC 
Boxing Day 
7:00am Kat Cowan 
10:00am TBC 
1:00pm Arielle Free (pre-recorded) 
4:00pm TBC

For me the best music station for doing online content for me is @Jono Jazz FM really know how to cover and promote stuff from shows use interactions with listeners do livestreams. It’s like you’d think they’d could easily used insta stories on radio 1 page and twitter that’s here’s what coming up on Scott & Chris’ shows and do that for breakfast here’s coming up in the morning and giving presenters chance to use it and shade more bits from lifehacks and newsbeat. It would be good maybe to have short in case you missed it bits presented by presenters 2 minutes max of some best bits happened across the station in that week. I mean there’s always ways as presenters producers really know how to use social media. I mean even Radio 4 and 5 live see themselves behind from their commercial rivals on how to use it. Think sometimes the BBC have been cautious and inconsistent with their digital and social media strategies.

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

Yes. She did a weekly specialist show on KISS Fresh until recently, also previously had a show on KISS and covered KISS Breakfast. 

For 4 weeks from Monday 9th August there will be 2 fewer shows per day Monday-Thursday, as follows:
 
10.30-14.00 Adele Roberts
14.00-18.00 Nick Grimshaw for the first week, Scott for the rest
18.00-21.00 Future Sounds - interim presenter TBC
21.00-00.00 Jack Saunders
 
Not sure if they will do something similar Fri-Sun, also not sure what's happening the week before from 2nd August as Annie has left by that point.  So it looks like Clara's last mid-morning show and RMC's last evening show will both be on Thursday 5th August.
 
Also, Alex & Numi (August's Fri early brek presenters) are in for Arielle 9th-12th August.

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! 
 

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! 
 

I do find that they still need to work on how to use platforms effectively like when got the live lounge going on it would make sense to go live with it across TikTok, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram then up on IGTV would make sense to clip up bits of Jacks chats for Insta stories and TikTok with Next Wave do Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat stories trailing what is coming up on shows like Scott Chris, Greg James, Future Sounds (more trailing to Hottest Records would make sense), do certain lifehacks Q&A tweet alongs with bits in the week across Twitter, Instagram, TikTok few livestreams and chats. Get Newsbeat their own TikTok where can do short daily edition drops and maybe with BBC Minute to work with BBC World Service for developing short snappy engaging news on social media.
Think they started doing good multi media bits just not as consistent with Newsbeat, Lifehacks, Entertianment features and podcasts as well as the specialist music shows. The most of Radio 1s social media content doesn’t reflect what they do on air and should as you know there are some good presenters but don’t know if social media content leads to the youth demographic to tune in 

The first few episodes of the podcast are now on spotify. 
 

I completely agree with that, maybe radio 1 need a specific evening commissioner? Daytimes sound like they’ll be really great with the new changes and an Arielle/ Greg/ RMC/ Scott and Chris/ Grimmy line up is very strong and weekend daytimes are very strong now too. 
 
However, the evenings look like they’ll be a complete mess now, there’s literally going to be 4 hours of basically nothing every night. Then there’s the fact that the specialist shows seem to have been halved in length, the fact that live shows seem to be ending at 10pm now, the random mix of power down playlist and introducing dance slotted in the evenings, it all just doesn’t make much sense and isn’t coherent in the slightest. 
 
I’ve been very impressed with the changes that Aled had made until this point, but this just doesn’t make sense. If it is to do with cost cutting (which I’m pretty sure I remember reading somewhere that the BBC haven’t got to make anymore cuts this year) then why would they promote a triple headed team to the mid morning show rather than keeping live shows running later? 
 
Even 1xtra has got live shows that run in the week from 6am - 1am. That’s going to be 2 hours longer than R1’s 5am- 10pm. Surely there must be some changes that will be happening later in the evening some point soon? 

Matt & Mollie are in for Greg for a week 22nd-26th March.
Vick and Katie are covering 1-4 on the Friday.

I think their new show sounds really great, really nice to have a really strong weekend schedule again and good to have a weekend afternoon entertainment show. In my opinion, it’s the strongest Matt has sounded since he had his 10-1 shows. 
 
Depending on when Scott goes, I could see them taking over his show, as I think Jordan is definitely favourite for Drive. Hopefully they take their producer (Louis) with them if they do ever move shows. 

That's pretty much it. You can't have C list presenter who used to play a lot of music during their regular show covering A level show like breakfast. As well as that, the logistics matter. For example, there's no point in having Grimmy or Scott covering breakfast if Matt and Mollie are available. That was the case 10 years or so ago when Scott was covering Chris Moyles and someone else had Scotts show or Greg James (who at the time was on afternoons) covered Scott (drivetime), but now we see it less frequently. I think this has to do with current line up, which is quite strong at the moment. Just think about it, 10 years ago the weekend line up was good, but not up to the weekday level. Edith Bowman was former daytime presenter who was demoted, same applies for Sara Cox and Vernon Kay (but still they filled in for Chris Moyles sometimes), Huw Stephens was more specialist kind of a type presenter. Now there's Adele Roberts, Jordan North, Matt and Mollie, Arielle Free. 
I think the higher bosses make a call on who covers who in case of sick producer. For example, if Greg James is sick, I think Matt and Molle will get the first call, if he's unavailable, then it's Scotts turn, after him I think Jordan North.
For Clara's show the obvious choice would be Adele Roberts and Katie Thistleton. If their unavailable, then it's Arielle Free.
For Scott, it's Matt and Mollie, Jordan North as they're quite similar presenters in their style.
For Grimmy, it's Jordan and maybe Adele or Arielle?
There are exceptions if no one's avaliable. For example, Matt Edmondson covered breakfast during Christmas period. Don't get me wrong, he was really good, it's unusual to have him without Mollie on such high profile show. This means that no one else was available without tearing up the schedule completely. 

@Lee E In repsonse to your chatbox post, here are the current studio allocations for R1:
 
Mon-Thurs
Arielle 82F, Greg 82A, Clara 82F, Scott 82A, Grimmy 82D, Annie 82A, RMC 82D, Jack 82A
Fri
Early Breakfast 82F, Greg 82A, Jordan 82F, M&M 82D, Scott 82E, Annie 82A, Danny 82B
Sat
Adele 82D, Jordan 82F, M&M 82D, Charlie 82F, Target 82A, Tiffany 82C
Sun
Adele 82D, Jordan 82F, M&M 82D, Life Hacks (Katie in Salford, Vick in Salford or sometimes 82E), Sian 82B, Dan 82C
 
If you want the same info for 1Xtra or Asian Network let me know.  1Xtra use the same 6 studios as R1, as do around half of Asian Network's shows - the rest come from Birmingham.

Just a thought - I watched a clip on Greg's insta from when he did the Prue Leith song. It got me thinking about his breakfast show. I think he's great at it, but I think Greg was at his peak at R1 towards the end of his drive show (last year or two). In interviews, he said that this was when he assumed he wouldn't get breakfast and so just starting going weird and funny stuff on the show, and I just thought the content was great. The fatberg visit, shouldn't be news, the podcast and all the other stuff, I just thought it was really really funny.

Week commencing Monday 4th January:
Rickie, Melvin & Charlie are in for Clara (Mon-Thurs) Matt & Mollie are in for Scott & Chris (Mon & Tues) Adele is in for Rickie, Melvin & Charlie (Mon-Thurs) I guess Clara and Scott are working during the week leading up to Christmas (unlike most of the weekday presenters) so this makes some kind of sense.

Some more upcoming cover:
Dev is in for Scott from Monday 28th September to Thursday 1st October (with Chris!) Cel Spellman is in for Arielle on Friday 9th October

Hi George, 
Really enjoy reading your posts and hopefully you’ll continue to post frequently in the future!

Hey Isaac, 
You’ll be very welcome here especially with your love of Jordan North! ? Hope you enjoy joining in with all of the discussions!