Radio 2 in the Park 2024

[michaelb]

Some changes over the summer: Greg will be on from 7:30-11. Clara is taking a summer break so Jack Saunders is in for Clara and Arielle Free is covering Future Artists. Sam & Danni will be hosting Early Breakfast.

 

[Jono]

It feels like Radio 1 are being very considerate of everyone's mental health at the moment. Greg getting a lie-in, Arielle Free and Clara Amfo getting a break. I wonder if there'll be any permanent changes there - the suggestion is it'll return to normal in September.

[onlyME]

At least we'll have a full week of early breakfast shows with Arielle Free taking a break!!

[1_tw]

Also feel like they are giving Sam & Danni some extra “Promo” ready for their weekend breakfast show by giving them the extra half hour into the normal breakfast show. I take it that it’s just RMC loosing 30 minutes from their show and no further shuffling?

[Dan18F1]

I can’t believe that they’ll just have RMC on for under 2 hours! I’d guess that maybe them and Dean and Vicky will be on some kind of rotation through the summer?

[AndyK77]

3 minutes ago, Dan18F1 said:

I can’t believe that they’ll just have RMC on for under 2 hours! I’d guess that maybe them and Dean and Vicky will be on some kind of rotation through the summer?

Surely that that would have been announced if that was the case?

[AndyK77]

Some of the smaller headlines are interesting here.

 

Friday Early Breakfast July - Conor Knight, Christmas 2022 presenter and on Radio Essex and Fun Kids.

Friday Early Breakfast August - Yinka Bokinni, ex Capital Xtra Breakfast Presenter.

Weekend Breakfast - Oré Olukoga officially covering until Sam and Danni take over in September

Indie Show - Alyx Holcombe covering for Jack Saunders.

Life Hacks - Shanequa Paris covering for Vick Hope over the Summer with Katie.  She is a CBBC Newsround Presenter.

 

Clara taking such a long break is rather odd - especially when she has had quite a lot of time off.

I would speculate, the new Breakfast hours are basically a test and although it is clearly said that normal schedule resumes on 4 September this could be a sign of things to come.

If so - you could see a change to daytime along the lines...it would make the 3 main daytime shows all 3.5 /3.25 hours long

 

0500 - 0730 - Early Breakfast with Arielle

0730 - 1100 - Breakfast with Greg

1100 - 1430 - Lunchtime with Dean and Vicky (Newsbeat at 1245)

1430 - 1745 - Going Home with Vick and Jordan

[R1Fan1]

Is this the new schedule then?

5am - Sam & Danni

7.30am - Greg James

11am - Rickie, Melvin & Charlie

1pm - Dean & Vicky

3pm - Anthems with Dean & Vicky

3.30pm - Vick & Jordan

6pm - Jack Saunders

8pm - Arielle Free

[Jono]

Sam and Danni say they're doing Yesterday's Quiz at 7.15am

[AndyK77]

57 minutes ago, R1Fan1 said:

Is this the new schedule then?

5am - Sam & Danni

7.30am - Greg James

11am - Rickie, Melvin & Charlie

1pm - Dean & Vicky

3pm - Anthems with Dean & Vicky

3.30pm - Vick & Jordan

6pm - Jack Saunders

8pm - Arielle Free

yep!

[abertom]

I suspect that they’ll only be 2 shows between 11 and 6 hence the late Greg start and they haven’t finalised who’s doing what week yet.

I think the changes are more to do with less production teams as there are plenty of presenters who can cover.

 

[AndyK77]

17 minutes ago, abertom said:

I suspect that they’ll only be 2 shows between 11 and 6 hence the late Greg start and they haven’t finalised who’s doing what week yet.

I think the changes are more to do with less production teams as there are plenty of presenters who can cover.

 

But surely they would have announced that?

Schedule is already updated and shows RMC at 1100 and Dean and Vicky at 1300.

Though interestingly Katie still starts at 1030 on a Friday but maybe that is due to Anthems too.

[Ashley 606]

7 hours ago, Dan18F1 said:

I can’t believe that they’ll just have RMC on for under 2 hours! I’d guess that maybe them and Dean and Vicky will be on some kind of rotation through the summer?

They usually lost half an hour for anthems in the summer so I guess it’s not much different.

[BBCAaron]

I do think for a space for a few weeks to adjust is odd to move the timings of the breakfast show that would for those who work through the summer seems to be odd for the regular routines of listeners. I wonder if this could be indications that at the end of Annie Mac’s tenure in the ‘Future Sounds’ slot that Clara Amfo became more regular on that slot. Wonder if in the next few months Clara would be announced to move on.

[NathanS]

I'm not sure I understand the point of these changes. If it was a case of reducing the amount of shows over the summer, then maybe (even then, I thought it was poor for a national station to do that). Having three people hosting a show that lasts only 1 hr 45 seems a complete waste as well.

I'm not sure starting half an hour is anything to do with 'giving Greg a lie in'. It's still an early start to get up. If it's that much of an issue, maybe they should have given him a bit of a summer break. The fact weekend breakfast isn't being changed to match as well makes the schedule a bit disjointed. Seems a bit odd to me to shift Arielle away from a mainstream daytime show (early breakfast is classed as daytime) to quite a specialist show. Would've probably made things slightly easier for her to cover for Clara. 

 

[BBCAaron]

1 hour ago, NathanS said:

I'm not sure I understand the point of these changes. If it was a case of reducing the amount of shows over the summer (even then, I thought it was poor for a national station to do that). Having three people hosting a show that lasts only 1 hr 45 seems a complete waste as well.

I'm not sure starting half an hour is anything to 'giving Greg a lie in'. It's still an early start to get up. If it's that much of an issue, maybe they should have given him a bit of a summer break. The fact weekend breakfast isn't being changed to match as well makes the schedule a bit disjointed. Seems a bit odd to me to shift Arielle away from a mainstream daytime show (early breakfast is classed as daytime) to quite a specialist show. Would've probably made things slightly easier for her to cover for Clara. 

 

Personally unless Jack gets future sounds I would wish they didn’t move him to cover Clara and have someone else cover his show when he is not having a day off. I understand the point of when Scott was on afternoons to cover breakfast. But continuity should be something they should focus on especially shifting times of the start and end time of breakfast show. We could understand it with the lockdown period but when it’s normal times pretty much. What’s the logic? I agree with you it’s odd to have a breakfast show that is still going on after 10:30. Maybe they should consider calling it Radio 1’s Breakfast and Brunch Show with Greg James. I know there’s such thing as all day breakfast shows but this is touching on to elevenses.

Would think that Arrielle would do a fine job of covering Clara Amfo. But I would consider in summer holiday period having some pop-up programming and specials scheduled in the evening to overnight slot providing Chill Mixtapes of Ibiza chill, chill-house, amanpiano, Afrohouse, and mix of specialist summer playlists and mixes. To having programmes from the Edinborough Fringe and Life-hacks specials around exam results days.

[TheSaviourisHere]

My thoughts on the summer schedule are as follows.

Firstly i think it might be something we have to get used to every summer?

Greg i think deserves a bit of a lay in he does look knackered. I do fear we are in the latter part of his reign. I hope we get him for the rest of 2023 and 2024 though. 

Clara getting all summer off seems really odd and you would assume she will have no leave left after this? I think maybe she wants out? Jack is the real star of the specialist output and will be good to have him in the Zane Lowe ish slot.

The real story of the lie in is Arielle i am a huge fan of hers and she does not belong on Earlies. This could be a taste of things to come?

Sam and Danni on Earlies is a great way to promote there new show especially in the 0700-0730 slot.

[Darren m]

That was my thought too but it doesn’t give Sam and dani much time off before they start their new show 

[Ash101]

1 hour ago, Darren m said:

That was my thought too but it doesn’t give Sam and dani much time off before they start their new show 

Why would they need it though? They aren’t on full time right now. 
 

They’re doing 8 weeks of Early Breakfast, have those 5 weekdays off and then they start on weekends. 

[BBCAaron]

5 hours ago, TheSaviourisHere said:

My thoughts on the summer schedule are as follows.

Firstly i think it might be something we have to get used to every summer?

Greg i think deserves a bit of a lay in he does look knackered. I do fear we are in the latter part of his reign. I hope we get him for the rest of 2023 and 2024 though. 

Clara getting all summer off seems really odd and you would assume she will have no leave left after this? I think maybe she wants out? Jack is the real star of the specialist output and will be good to have him in the Zane Lowe ish slot.

The real story of the lie in is Arielle i am a huge fan of hers and she does not belong on Earlies. This could be a taste of things to come?

Sam and Danni on Earlies is a great way to promote there new show especially in the 0700-0730 slot.

I do hope that Jack Saunders would work well full time in that slot and would like to see the more hype and some energy to that time slot I’d think he would be able to lean in to lesser mainstream and have a varied playlist. But by then I’d like to see a bit of a re-think and re-imagined Future Sounds brand would like to have included Future Global, Future Groove, Future Beats, to Bars and would like to see.

One thing in any change to what the BBC does with its programming is to have a clear brand station name for interest as said before BBC Sports Sounds, BBC News Sounds, BBC Future Sounds, Forever Sounds…

But back to reality and not my niche fantasy that is marmite if Jack Saunders got Future Sounds would like to see this era have any session as labelled as a Live Lounge so could be recorded from in the BBC building and can do in the room interviews and try to focus on BBC Radio 1 Interviews offering and maybe doing a renamed spin of the midnight drop with free tracks that dropped that day or first plays from the show. I would like to see some minor tweaks to the format and maybe some lessons to how New Music Fix Daily is going and bring his confident and entertaining personality,

[abertom]

8 minutes ago, Ash101 said:

Why would they need it though? They aren’t on full time right now. 
 

They’re doing 8 weeks of Early Breakfast, have those 5 weekdays off and then they start on weekends. 

They do do other work besides radio 1

[abertom]

6 hours ago, TheSaviourisHere said:

My thoughts on the summer schedule are as follows.

Firstly i think it might be something we have to get used to every summer?

Greg i think deserves a bit of a lay in he does look knackered. I do fear we are in the latter part of his reign. I hope we get him for the rest of 2023 and 2024 though. 

Clara getting all summer off seems really odd and you would assume she will have no leave left after this? I think maybe she wants out? Jack is the real star of the specialist output and will be good to have him in the Zane Lowe ish slot.

The real story of the lie in is Arielle i am a huge fan of hers and she does not belong on Earlies. This could be a taste of things to come?

Sam and Danni on Earlies is a great way to promote there new show especially in the 0700-0730 slot.

Not sure a small lay  in would help more than 2 weeks off 

[BBCAaron]

6 hours ago, TheSaviourisHere said:

My thoughts on the summer schedule are as follows.

Firstly i think it might be something we have to get used to every summer?

Greg i think deserves a bit of a lay in he does look knackered. I do fear we are in the latter part of his reign. I hope we get him for the rest of 2023 and 2024 though. 

Clara getting all summer off seems really odd and you would assume she will have no leave left after this? I think maybe she wants out? Jack is the real star of the specialist output and will be good to have him in the Zane Lowe ish slot.

The real story of the lie in is Arielle i am a huge fan of hers and she does not belong on Earlies. This could be a taste of things to come?

Sam and Danni on Earlies is a great way to promote their new show especially in the 0700-0730 slot.

I do think it will be something that the stations controllers be testing out and seeing if it could work. But always thought having some of the weekend presenters or some of the stations bench presenters to cover shows in the summer would be good. I do think that even though if there isn’t major changes come September but having a break or seasonal programming could lead to fresh ideas and re-energised producers and presenters if the usual formats and presenters are taking a short rest. Would hope next summer they get more creative especially in the evening programmes

[BBCAaron]

1 minute ago, abertom said:

Not sure a small lay  in would help more than 2 weeks off 

Agreed, coming on air half an hour earlier and coming off air half an hour later than usual isn’t that much of a lie-in especially when you still have to practice your usual morning routine for the team working on breakfast. Would think that start in September going back to usual would be more of a drag if they had done a few weeks break for the breakfast team that would’ve been better and come back with some bumper content, one or to new ideas 

[abertom]

I think we’ll see a daytime schedule in partic through August like

greg/RMC/Dean &Vicky

Greg/Dean & Vicky/Jordan & Vick or Katie

jordan & Vick/RMC/Dean & Vicky 

Poss even  Matt and  Molly covering breakfast so two can be off at the same time