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Christmas Day and NYE on Radio 2 is similar to last year:

25th December

6-8am Zoe Ball's Christmas Crooners'

8-10 Good Morning Christmas with Rev. Kate Botley

10-12 Junior Choice with Anneka Rice

12-2 Jane Mcdonald

2-4 Gary Davies

4-7 Pick Of The Pops Christmas special (1974, 1984 and 1994)

7-8 Mariah Carey's Christmas Hour

8-10 Beverley Night's Gospel Christmas 

10-12 Trevor Nelson's Gospel Christmas.

Kate Botley, Junior Choice and Gary Davies are live as usual.

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NYE afternoon/evening is:

12-2 Sophie Ellis Bextor's NYE Kitchen Disco

2-4 Sounds Of the 60's with Tony Blackburn 

4-6 Sounds Of The 70's with Bob Harris 

6-8 Sounds Of The 80's with Gary Davies

8-10 Sounds Of The 90's with Owain Wynn Evans 

Michelle Visage's NYE Party (live from LA)

 

A few other bits included 4-6pm on Christmas Eve is Richie Anderson's Driving Home For Christmas and Tony Blackburn's Sounds Of Soul 12-2pm on Boxing Day.

 

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4 hours ago, NathanS said:

Christmas Day and NYE on Radio 2 is similar to last year:

25th December

6-8am Zoe Ball's Christmas Crooners'

8-10 Good Morning Christmas with Rev. Kate Botley

10-12 Junior Choice with Anneka Rice

12-2 Jane Mcdonald

2-4 Gary Davies

4-7 Pick Of The Pops Christmas special (1974, 1984 and 1994)

7-8 Mariah Carey's Christmas Hour

8-10 Beverley Night's Gospel Christmas 

10-12 Trevor Nelson's Gospel Christmas.

Kate Botley, Junior Choice and Gary Davies are live as usual.

Jane McDonald is also live. 

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54 minutes ago, UnofficialStark said:

Jane McDonald is also live. 

The press release said that, but it also states on the press release that Mark Goodier will be live as well, which is certainly not correct as the Pick Of The Pops Christmas special is already available on Sounds. Jane pre recorded last year's Christmas day special, along with the two bank holiday shows she did earlier in the year. I stand to be corrected though ?

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Steffan Powell (former Radio 1 Newsbeat presenter/newsreader) is sitting in for Owain Wynn Evans on New Year's Day/2nd/3rd January.

A few other schedule changes going into December:

Shaun Keaveny in for Liza Tarbuck tonight (30th November)

Tina Daheley in for Jeremy Vine on Tuesday 3rd December

Jason Mohammed in for Owain on Friday 6th December.

Romesh off again next week (7th) so Emma Willis sits in

Nick Grimshaw in for Rylan on Saturday 14th, 21st and 28th (I assume he's in the following Saturday as well with Rylan still in Panto).

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3 hours ago, NathanS said:

Steffan Powell (former Radio 1 Newsbeat presenter/newsreader) is sitting in for Owain Wynn Evans on New Year's Day/2nd/3rd January.

A few other schedule changes going into December:

Shaun Keaveny in for Liza Tarbuck tonight (30th November)

Tina Daheley in for Jeremy Vine on Tuesday 3rd December

Jason Mohammed in for Owain on Friday 6th December.

Romesh off again next week (7th) so Emma Willis sits in

Nick Grimshaw in for Rylan on Saturday 14th, 21st and 28th (I assume he's in the following Saturday as well with Rylan still in Panto).

I see Gaby is covering breakfast so I assume she is covering the following week as well and Scott starts on like the 6th or something? do you remember when Zoe started it was like the 2nd or 3rd of Jan 2019 wasn't it?

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Just now, Lee E said:

I see Gaby is covering breakfast so I assume she is covering the following week as well and Scott starts on like the 6th or something? do you remember when Zoe started it was like the 2nd or 3rd of Jan 2019 wasn't it?

Take that back was 14th January so maybe there will be 2/3 weeks of Gaby covering

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I’m pretty sure they’ve already said it will be late January. Apparently Trevor let slip at some point that his show was starting at the end of Jan so I’m guessing all the changes will take place on January 27th?

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Grimmy in for Rylan on Saturday 4th January 

Week Commencing 6th January 

Gary Davies is still in for Vernon

Edith Bowman in for Jo Whiley

Spoony is 'in' for Trevor Nelson. I'm not sure whether that means he's finished on Rhythm Nation by this point, but I'm surprised Spoony is covering what is effectively his own slot so close to him taking over with The Good Groove. It also means someone else will be covering the afternoon show... Hopefully OJ Borg.

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43 minutes ago, NathanS said:

Grimmy in for Rylan on Saturday 4th January 

Week Commencing 6th January 

Gary Davies is still in for Vernon

Edith Bowman in for Jo Whiley

Spoony is 'in' for Trevor Nelson. I'm not sure whether that means he's finished on Rhythm Nation by this point, but I'm surprised Spoony is covering what is effectively his own slot so close to him taking over with The Good Groove. It also means someone else will be covering the afternoon show... Hopefully OJ Borg.

I think the schedule will be updated 

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On 12/5/2024 at 8:42 PM, NathanS said:

Grimmy in for Rylan on Saturday 4th January 

Week Commencing 6th January 

Gary Davies is still in for Vernon

Edith Bowman in for Jo Whiley

Spoony is 'in' for Trevor Nelson. I'm not sure whether that means he's finished on Rhythm Nation by this point, but I'm surprised Spoony is covering what is effectively his own slot so close to him taking over with The Good Groove. It also means someone else will be covering the afternoon show... Hopefully OJ Borg.

Maybe they havent adjusted the schedule pages yet but that could be the first week of the new shows, Breakfast and Afternoons are not labelled

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5 hours ago, Lee E said:

Maybe they havent adjusted the schedule pages yet but that could be the first week of the new shows, Breakfast and Afternoons are not labelled

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.

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Richie Anderson is doing the mid afternoon slot (2-4pm) today and Friday. Tomorrow (Christmas Eve) and Boxing Day he's on for 4 hours between 2 and 6pm.

He's also in for Dermot O'Leary on Saturday 28th December and Saturday 4th January.

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9 minutes ago, Dan18F1 said:

Is that a late change? It was meant to be Spoony today and tomorrow wasn’t it?

Yeah I think so. Spoony was meant to be on all week (except Christmas day). Tomorrow and Boxing Day was definitely meant to be Spoony followed by Richie at 4, but they've just merged the two shows together on those days.

Richie is actually on for 5 hours on Boxing Day between 2 and 7.

Posted
8 hours ago, NathanS said:

Mark Goodier is presenting the breakfast show next week, with OJ Borg on the afternoon show and Phil Williams on overnights all week.

Seems Spoony has had brain surgery over Christmas. Hope he is ok. Nice to see OJ has some weekday cover slots as well. Wonder if Mark will be the go to cover now with Scott? Gary in for Vernon as well.

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15 minutes ago, Lee E said:

Seems Spoony has had brain surgery over Christmas. Hope he is ok. Nice to see OJ has some weekday cover slots as well. Wonder if Mark will be the go to cover now with Scott? Gary in for Vernon as well.

I heard Spoony revealing it on the radio, understandably he gotta bit emotional when talking about it. Glad to hear he's on the mend and back on air.

OJ is the main stand in for Sara (he's covering this week bar tonight and tomorrow because of no drive time show on NYE/NYD) but yeah I'm glad he's doing the interim afternoon slot from next week. It's a shame he didn't get the slot full time to be fair. Will be interesting to see who covers Trevor going forwards. I don't think we'll see Mark covering often to be fair. He's only done one day cover since he returned (one day in fir Vernon). OJ and Gary Davies seem to fill the void that Mark Goodier used to fill sitting in for the main DJs. They're probably just a bit stuck for cover presenters at the moment. Had Grimmy not still been on 6 music next week, he would've been a good shout to sit on either show (his Rylan cover has been great but that's for another post)

 

 

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