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NathanS

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There's one for Radio 1, so may as well start an equivalent thread for Radio 2.

OJ Borg is in for Rylan tomorrow afternoon.

Judi Love is in for Rob Beckett on Sunday afternoon.

Ronnie Wood (from the Rolling Stones) is sitting in for Cerys Matthews on the Blues show on Monday 19th December

Adele Roberts is covering Radio 2's early breakfast show from the 19th till 23rd December. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Paddy O'Connell is in for Dermot on Christmas Eve and New Years Eve.

Richie Anderson sits in for Rylan on Christmas Eve

Sophie Ellis-Bextor's Kitchen Disco in the 6pm-8pm slot on Christmas Eve

Davina McCall sits in for Claudia on New Years Eve & 8th of January

 

26th-30th December & 2nd-6th January

Sam Pinkham sits in for OJ Borg (2nd week only)

Phil Williams is doing Early Breakfast 

Gary Davies is sitting in for Zoe 

DJ Spoony sits in for Ken (1st week only)

Tina Daheley sits in for Jeremy (1st week only)

Anita Rani sits in for Scott (1st week + 2nd-3rd January)

OJ Borg sits in for Sara

 

 

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57 minutes ago, Jono said:

Gaby is a safe pair of hands, clearly not trying to rock the boat with the cover!

Apparently Gary Davies was very briefly listed as cover, but that quickly changed when Ken's show needed covering too.

 

I'm assuming Anita Rani wasn't available either. I wouldn't mind hearing Adele Roberts being used to cover Scott's show next time he has a week or two off next year. She's doing a great job on early breakfast from the bits I've listened back to.

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17 hours ago, Jono said:

Gaby is a safe pair of hands, clearly not trying to rock the boat with the cover!

Gaby Roslin and Ricky Wilson have been great together, whenever subbing at Virgin Radio. I hear that Wilson is going to be given his own slot, but it just seems a no-brainer to me to give it to them as a pair, and let them do whatever they want with it ...

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1 hour ago, Darren m said:

I wonder if vernon may take over Rylans show on sat and he takes takes Ken’s show

That just isn't happening. Both of them have lots of TV committments. Dermot, Claudia and Rylan work well on a Saturday... I don't see any benefit to moving any of them.

Without going too much off topic... I did wonder when Vernon would be back on as it's been a while since he's covered. He did seem to fall out of favour for cover opportunities (I suppose that could be on his part and being unavailable) with Gary Davies doing the last few lots of breakfast cover, and the likes of Anita Rani and OJ Borg sitting in for Dermot and Rylan.

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13 hours ago, NathanS said:

That just isn't happening. Both of them have lots of TV committments. Dermot, Claudia and Rylan work well on a Saturday... I don't see any benefit to moving any of them.

Without going too much off topic... I did wonder when Vernon would be back on as it's been a while since he's covered. He did seem to fall out of favour for cover opportunities (I suppose that could be on his part and being unavailable) with Gary Davies doing the last few lots of breakfast cover, and the likes of Anita Rani and OJ Borg sitting in for Dermot and Rylan.

Yes and Gary Davies once again in for Zoe WC 13th February 

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On 2/19/2023 at 11:09 AM, NathanS said:

Nicki Chapman in for Claudia Winkleman next Saturday (25th February).

 

Turned out to be Alex Jones instead.

Anita Rani is in for Rylan on Saturday (4th March)

The following Saturday is the C2C music festival, Bob Harris is live from there in Rylan's usual timeslot (3-6pm 11th March).

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