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No chance Zoe will cover breakfast. Would be a surprise to see her covering any weekday show tbh.

I don't think Jamie is likely to leave anytime soon. Seems he really wanted to do this job, despite some people thinking he's not a great fit, so I suspect he'll be around for a while. Vick is indeed much more likely not to be on in a year from now I think.

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No real need to change that IMO, Sundays are logical for the themed anthems hours but Greg and James are both superior to Nat & Vicky so they should keep those 30 mins.

Makes sense to me as the 10-11 slot on a Sunday is currently random anthems, followed by the two themed hours, whereas now it'll be themed all the way from 10-1. Personally I find the regular anthems blocks pretty lazy radio, whereas the Sunday themed hours are more engaging. Losing 30 mins from breakfast doesn't matter as it was just anthems anyway so no real content.

Maybe last minute and James is in Manchester? I don't remember hearing that Jordan show, don't suppose anyone has the audio?

Agree with all the above, and let's also take a moment to remember it's less than a year since Danny Beard was on every weekend while James (and others) sat on the sidelines. Thankfully the right decisions were made in the end!

It won't be the first week of new shows. Pretty sure I read that Trevor Nelson has specifically said now about starting 'late Jan' which ties in with several comments about w/c 27 Jan being the launch week. After panto, Scott will need a break and prep time, in order to then have a decent run of the new show before any breaks.

Ahh, nice to meet one of Dean's family on here 😂

Emil is good but James C is still a cut above IMO. I know he's a bit older than some of the options but it's incredible he's still not got a regular show given the amount of quality cover he's done.

Suspect they will simulcast. Personally am completely fed-up with the lazy anthems programming through the Christmas period but no signs that that will change! I know they do it to go light on production needs, but surely with some good prework we could have a bit of something else!

Allegedly Jordan's partner : https://tattle.life/threads/help-i-sexted-my-boss-podcast.41072/page-5 Jordan clearly doesn't like to talk about his personal life though which is of course fair enough. He seems happy which is what matters.

I suspect budgets have a lot to do with this. The audience figures just don't justify the spend, even though clearly it'd be better to have live shows later in the evenings. Given the choice between quality presenters during the day and live shows in the evening, it's not really much of an option!

Can't really see these as trials - each of them have done enough in the past for them to make a choice, and we all know James is by far the best! I suspect there's more to it and a good reason why we don't know yet...

Let's really really hope not. Or at the very minimum, put him with someone else. A solo Danny would be a disaster.

There are already too many mixes! Mostly they're just lazy radio IMO.

Just one more Danny show (Friday) to survive then!!

Arguably the Matt & Mollie one was unnecessarily early. If it's involving a presenter who still does some work for other networks, it makes sense not to go early to conflict with that. We can speculate to death of course and we've seen many times recently that speculation is often wide of the mark. But let's just hope James Cusack is involved, he's far too good not to be on the station permanently.

Good shout on Tinea! James and Tinea would work for me. I get your point about Danny but can only hope you're wrong!

Makes sense now why no weekend afternoon slot announcement yet, with that slot disrupted so much over the summer. I suspect we may hear something later in July about that, maybe a September start date... Still fingers crossed James Cusack is involved though him covering solo some weeks in the meanwhile suggests the only way he'd be getting it is as part of a duo.

Fingers crossed!!

Financially your extra shift plan wouldn't have worked. Jordan made it clear he wanted a big breakfast show and with Greg still doing well and wanting to stay, that just wasn't an option at R1. Jordan in the afternoons would have been brilliant but wouldn't have met his career goal nor would have paid super well. The way it all happened left a bad taste both ways IMO, but seems circumstances combined to make it inevitable.

Let's hope this is the case. If Danny stays past the end of this month, Aled will be making a ridiculous decision. No offence but quite simply Danny is not cut out for the job.

You're absolutely right. It was an unfortunate set of circumstances / timings that have denied us a Jordan (and co) R1 breakfast show. No doubt he'd have been fantastic and arguably even better than Greg is, but can't deny Greg has done really well on the show so pushing him aside for Jordan already would have been a rough thing to do.

I struggle to believe the entire DM article about Clara. This thing about no holidays and working bank holidays - certainly she wasn't doing that on her R1 show so must have been a broader comment about her overall workload. Also I'm not one of these people who thinks a 2 hour radio show is just 2 hours work per day, but really compared with the majority of people working full time 5 days a week it doesn't seem too bad, and most of us don't get a chance to stop work because we want to. Fair enough if she has mental health issues, completely understand why that mean the need to change / stop work. But as-written that article doesn't make me sympathetic!