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RMC next to go I agree - R&M to move on with Charlie staying on Dance and with radio 1 family. and then poss Dean. That could create an opening for Katie or Vick to share the love lounge slot and a new stable going home show? -
By TheSaviourisHere · Posted
Good post. And yes sadly i can see some changes soon with the age of the weekday presenters probably becoming an issue. Shame really but it naturally happens to them all. Hope Greg beats Moyles record and gets 10years before he leaves. As for Going Home the sooner they sort it the better but again they have been sounding good all.back together. With regards to the age i think.RMC will be the first to be moved on will they leave all together or move to weekends? Matt&Molly can see their for a good 5years at least. Quite surprised that Jack Saunders and Sian are very young. Will they get a daytime slot? -
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Radio1's Dance Anthems Marathon with Charlie Hedges Monday 23rd February 9am - Tuesday 24th February 9am -
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Radio1's Life Hacks Mental Health Special Tonight 8pm/9pm Radio1's Future Pop with Maia Beth now 9pm/11pm
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In the future on Radio1 I would like to see a more stable line up on Going Home I could maybe see Vick Hope leaving next unfortunately and I could he her being replaced by Lauren Layfield or Emil Franchi joining Katie & Jamie. It will probably be more like that Lauren Layfield will join them as they have previously worked together at cbbc and Emil will probably concentrate on more football content
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Even if the overall sound is mostly good, Radio 1 is in an odd place. Their listening figures continue to be under pressure (especially when you remove the 10 to 16 (or is it 17) year olds and they have an ageing daytime line-up. (Age shouldn't matter but you can't be blind to the fact not a single Weekday Radio 1 daytime DJ is under 35). I'd be shocked if within 5 years it wasn't a very different looking station. -
By Lily Georgia · Posted
Tara Kumar is in for Sian on Monday 9th and Tuesday 10th March. -
By coffeeandgin · Posted
I'm sort of in the position where I'm interested to see what comes next. Realistically in 2-3 years I can't see mid-mornings, Going Home and Breakfast all being the exact same line-ups as they are now. So it'll be interesting to see what happens and who ends up where. And these days you never know quite what to expect with Radio 1 changes and whether they'll go 'proper DJ' or 'influencer/celeb' route or a mix of both. Echo what you've said on 'Who's In The Box'. It takes up 4 half-hour slots a week so a fair chunk of time given Going Home is only 9 hours a week and doesn't feel a natural fit as a flagpole feature for the Drivetime show on a youth-focussed station like Radio 1. It more feels like a placeholder feature that they’ve never got to replacing really. The games that say Matt & Mollie do feel much more engaging for example. -
Shaun is now listed in for Liza for the next three Saturdays as well. -
As for the the future... hopefully a bit of stability is brought to Going Home. It just feels like it's still in a temporary limbo post Jordan... two years on. It's good having a stable period for a while. Greg is sounding better than ever so I wouldn't mind him going on for a few more years. Mid mornings will probably get a refresh eventually, but for now RMC sound fine (i do think they've been wasted in the Live Lounge slot a bit, but i doubt they're going to move to another slot at this stage). Matt & Mollie are great, I don't think many would disagree. I think they will potentially be on afternoons for a few years now. They were wasted on weekend afternoons for too long. As for any potential future moves. I think Sam & Danni are future breakfast hosts.. whether that's via a weekday daytime slot.. who knows 🤷. I think they're doing good job on weekend afternoons and doing a few more years there will help them build up to take a weekday slot in future. I do enjoy James Cusack on weekend breakfast, and was happy when he got a permanent show, but realistically I'm not sure where else he could progress in the schedule (weekend afternoons maybe for a couple of years if Sam & Danni get to move up?). I can definitely see Lauren Layfield getting a much bigger role in future. I don't think they signed her up to just do Life Hacks for her whole Radio 1 tenure. Radio 1 are lucky that they now have so many go to cover presenters (some better than others) who they can potentially look at getting on board full time in future. The one person who should be at the front of the queue for getting a permansnt gig is Emil Franchi.
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There's regulary a lot of chat about potential changes in the future on here and other forums so I thought I'd start a thread for anyone to input their thoughts on current Radio 1 output, any potential changes in future etc. As it stands.. I think the station overall is sounding good. Presenter wise, I think most people are in the right places. Going Home for me is the only let down on the schedule. It's not just the endless roulette of who's presenting with Katie, but i just don't think it's strong enough for what's meant to be the second biggest show on the network. One of the main features is 'Who's In The Box?'. When you compare it with content on the Breakfast Show and Matt & Mollie.. it's just nowhere near strong enough as a main feature. I know Jamie is apparently popular with the target audience, and he does seem a nice bloke but as well documented, he spends more time off air than he does on. For me personally, the strongest partnership i've heard on that show since Jordan quit is Katie and Emil.
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Maia Beth hosts R1 Future Pop in February 2026 for the first 3 weeks of the month Calum Leslie sits in for Lauren Layfield on Sunday 1st March 2026 Maia Beth sits in for Alyx Holcombe on Sunday 1st March 2026 Tara Kumar sits in for Sian Eleri on Mon 2nd Mar 2026 & Tue 3rd Mar 2026 Minah Shannon sits in for Vicky Hawksworth on Sunday 8th March 2026 Jordan Blyth sits in for Alyx Holcombe on Sunday 8th March 2026 (He Hosted R1 NMS at Christmas) Jodie Bryants hosts R1 Future Pop in March 2026 for the first 3 weeks of the month
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Aberdeen and the sun situation Scott opened Thursday with a message for Aberdeen. The city had apparently not seen the sun for 70 years — or at least it felt that way. In fact, Aberdeen, which is normally one of the sunniest places in the UK, had now gone the longest of anywhere in the country without sun. Kathleen rang in from Aberdeen with the morning update. It had stopped raining, skies might be clear. “It’s coming,” Scott said. “I know it is.” The ice dancing heartbreak The night before, Lila Fear and Lewis Gibson had competed in the figure skating ice dance free programme, with a Spice Girls and Scottish-themed routine. Scott and Ellie had both stayed up to watch — Ellie had cried. A stumble early in the routine had knocked the pair from fourth to seventh. “A costly technical mistake,” Lila had called it. “It knocked them from fourth to seventh. Absolutely gutted. Devastated.” Scott had some technical questions about the event itself. Why was the big light on? “They’re dancing in what looks like the lighting of a hospital ward or a school classroom.” And the sound: “Did you hear the quality? They’ve just hooked up a Bluetooth speaker like you take on holiday.” He strongly suspected someone in Italy had put their phone in a glass to amplify it. Classic Italy. No stress. Relax. He found it charming. Torval and Dean were there watching in person, he noted, which was lovely but also meant their record stayed intact. “We go again at the Winter Olympics 2030. Back on Bolero watch.” He also had questions about the luge doubles. Two athletes in Lycra, laid on top of each other, going at 90 miles an hour around ice. Who came up with this? “It feels like something that someone suggested as a dare. One time. Or a joke. Or two people were doing something else on the ice and they had to quickly invent a new sport to cover their backs.” School pets: the hamster, the gerbil, the stick insects, the tortoise A message came in asking whether anyone remembered taking the school hamster home for the weekend. This unlocked a significant portion of the UK’s collective memory. Someone’s hamster had chewed through the phone directory and the phone wire. Someone else had taken two gerbils home and woke up in the morning to eight. Emily confirmed she had taken stick insects home and lost them. Someone had a school tortoise; Richard in Paignton was still looking for one he borrowed in 1982. A salamander was mentioned. The general consensus was that none of this should have been allowed. The Good Morning Minute and the sloppy Valentine’s announcement It had rained every day this year, 43 days in a row. The Good Morning Minute included Christina in Stevenage planning a sun dance, a PE teacher in Portsmouth growing webbed feet after four hours on a pitch in a tournament, Robin in Aberdeen sitting at the window waiting for the yellow thing to appear in the sky, and Julian from Brickhouse not looking forward to her shingles jab but having already cut the salted caramel brownie for the Valentine’s bake sale without eating any. “You’ve got more willpower than I do.” Then the team handed Scott a scroll — wax seal and everything — to read aloud. It announced that tomorrow’s Good Morning Minute would be the special Valentine’s Day edition. The sloppy one. The lovey-dovey, cutesy, huggy, soft one. “If you want to tell your darling that you’re head over heels in love with them, totally smitten and doting on them, they’re your sunshine, the light of your life, you’re crazy about them and utterly lovesick — or that you just have a big fat crush on someone.” The word sloppy was deployed multiple times. Scott found it physically unpleasant. “Stop saying it.” Gary Davis’s ski trips Following Rick Astley’s revelation on a previous show that he spent a lot of time skiing with Gary Davis in the 80s, Go West had left a comment online confirming they were on those slopes too. Scott asked listeners to guess which other 80s acts were there. Suggestions came in thick and fast: Carol Decker from T’Pau, Baltimore from Tarzan Boy, all of Tight Fit, Nick Heyward. Then an actual text: Ron from T’Pau, “on the slopes about five years ago.” And a former worker from Val d’Isère who confirmed Gary Davis was there all the time with Nick Berry. “What an afternoon at the après that would have been.” Pause for Thought: three wedding rings Graham Daniels told the story of bumping into a friend who said she’d been looking at her husband’s wedding ring and thought of Graham. He’d lost his original years ago and now wears a cheap replacement. Her husband had done the same thing — found his original, but now wears the cheapo because it’s safer. And then a third man in the group just silently stuck out his fist: rubber ring. Black rubber. Didn’t say a word. “Three rings, all very different, all doing the same job,” Graham said. “What’s supposed to count is the relationship. Gold or rubber, expensive or cheap, original or replacement. What’s the point of a wedding ring? Something lasting, circular, love, faithfulness, commitment, endless. But it is a symbol.” The spiritual point: it’s not the symbols you hold on to, it’s whether the love they point to is being lived out. Even when no one’s looking. Especially when no one’s looking. Even if the ring itself is cheap as chips. Photos to the hairdresser A listener wrote to the mailbag suggesting Vernon Kay had taken a photo of Professor Brian Cox to his hairdresser and asked for that one. The resemblance had been noticed by quite a lot of people. Scott and Tina opened it up: who has taken a celebrity photo to the hairdresser? Scott admitted he once took a heat magazine photo of The Rachel — “That 90s cross between a choppy shag and a bob, very flicky and layered” — and had it done. Tina, aged 10, took a photo of the Posh Spice pixie cut and left the salon upset that she didn’t look like Victoria Beckham. Ellie had taken in a picture of Nathan from Brother Beyond to Quiffy’s in Eastleigh, but they’d said they couldn’t do it because of the shape of her head. “He had an Elvis quiff. My head was too round.” Vernon rang in at handover to address the Brian Cox hair situation directly. He’d seen it on the One Show replay that morning via a lady on his train. “Great actor, but not sure I would go into the hairdressers with a picture of Brian Cox.” He was asked if he was going to go full white and let it do its own thing. He is. Also: tanning drops, not grey blending. Very happy with the white top and the volume. “Someone’s been on the Timotei.” The quiz: Jason the bin man Jason from Eowyn was the bin wagon driver who played Thursday’s quiz. He gave a firm lecture on bin contamination before starting — no dirty yoghurt pots in the garden waste, do not sort your brown bin, different councils have different colour bins, it’s all very confusing. He did well across the board but ran into difficulty on what DVD stands for: he said “digital video disc,” the answer was “digital versatile disc.” Scott disputed this on Jason’s behalf. “They play videos. I used to watch videos. They should be called that.” The quiz gave the point in the end. Jason finished with 21, equalling Trish from East Yorkshire’s score from Tuesday, meaning Friday’s contestant could go into a potential three-way situation. Jason was dignified about the whole thing. Sheila Diamond, Little Miss Dynamite A listener named Donna had written to the mailbag to alert the show to Sheila Diamond. Search her name and you will find her: 4 foot 9 and a half, known as Little Miss Dynamite, working the clubs and hotels of the North West for 34 years and still doing five to eight gigs a week. Scott introduced her with appropriate ceremony. She still loves it. She gets fans who come from Scotland on the train to see her in Blackpool. She does three outfit changes per show — sometimes more — all heavily sequinned, most of which cannot be washed. (“You can’t wash them.”) Her favourite song to perform live and the one that gets the room going every single time: Red Light Spells Danger by Billy Ocean. By the time Scott signed off with her, her phone was, in her words, going nuts. She texted immediately afterwards to mention she’s at the Ruskin Hotel Blackpool every Thursday and Mark Kelly’s North every Monday. “Can’t thank you enough. Love you, bye.” Margot Robbie and Alison Oliver on Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights — the new Emily Brontë adaptation from director Emerald Fennell — opens in cinemas on Friday. Jacob Elordi plays Heathcliff. Margot Robbie plays Cathy. Alison Oliver plays Isabella Linton. Martin Clunes plays Cathy’s father. (“A moment for Martin Clunes, please. I was not expecting that. Unbelievable.”) Mark Ruffalo is also in it. Scott wore prop lamb chop sideburns for the interview. (He had called them pork chops. A listener named Jenny had texted in before the interview to correct him. “Someone had to tell you.”) The sideburns were to honour Heathcliff. Their effect was, at best, Noddy Holder in the Slade Christmas video. At worst, Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Both guests were kind about them. “You’re really used to them now,” Margot said. “It would be strange to see you without them.” On the film: it rains constantly. Not because they planned it — when they actually went to Yorkshire to shoot on the moors, the weather was unseasonably sunny and warm. The locals kept coming up to tell them how lucky they were. They weren’t. They had to recreate all the weather in post. Meanwhile, Alison Oliver and Shehzad Latif, who play the Linton siblings, came to Yorkshire even on days they weren’t needed and spent most of it in the pub. “We’d wrap, text on the group chat — ‘we’re wrapped’ — and they’d reply: ‘We’ve already had three pints.'” Margot on rain acting: they don’t warm up the water. Not even for Margot Robbie. “Seven weeks of rain scenes on the first Suicide Squad film and it was colder than iced water. I was wearing like nothing as Harley Quinn. You can’t comprehend how cold that rain is.” She’d thought about The Notebook rain scene frequently during filming. She and Alison both admitted to watching Rachel McAdams’ audition tape for The Notebook before their own early auditions. “Just to try and be as good as her.” On the snails and leeches: Emerald Fennell had very specific feelings about them. The snails needed a rest every 20 minutes. If the temperature shifted by even one degree, filming had to stop. They were taken to a perfectly climate-controlled room to recover. “Humans aren’t treated this well,” Alison said. Margot was in agreement. “The rules around those animals in particular are, yeah, crazy.” Emerald had also named her favourite slug Felicity. Alison remembered a snail being named as well but couldn’t recall what. On Wuthering Heights Day: Scott revealed that each year in late July there is a gathering where people dress in billowing dresses and dance to Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights. Both guests had never heard of this. Both immediately wanted to go. “I love doing the Kate Bush dance,” Margot said. “All I need is a red dress.” Alison, on being cast: Emerald texted to ask if she could send a script. Then: “If you like Isabella, you can play her.” That was it. “The coolest way I’ve ever been offered a part.” Scott wrapped up by passing on another celebrity message. Kylie, last time Margot was in, had said she’d be honoured to have Margot play her. Margot said she’d do it if she could sing. Kylie had responded that even The Rock would want Margot to play him. The relay continues. James Van Der Beek News came through during the show of the death of James Van Der Beek, who played Dawson Leary in Dawson’s Creek, at 48. “I was really quite shocked when I heard the news because I didn’t know that he’d been ill for a bit.” Hundreds of messages arrived from listeners. Ruthie in Wendover was planning a full day of the soundtrack and episodes. Andrea called it “pivotal in my emotional journey as a teenager.” Preet in Stanmore had sat in the car having a little cry. Scott played Paula Cole’s I Don’t Want to Wait. The birthday game: Tracy from Cheshire, playing Julie Johnson Tracy was 62, which she was celebrating on the same day as her 32nd wedding anniversary — she’d married on her 30th birthday to make it easier for her husband to remember. They’d just returned from Portugal. She lives with a motorhome, in which the family spent ten months while between houses, waiting for a purchase to go through. She is treasurer of her local musical theatre society and has just been cast as Julie Johnson in Bad Girls the Musical, coming to the Harlequin Theatre in Northwich on 24-27 June. Three spins: Bart Simpson’s Do the Bartman (1991, no), Owl City’s Fireflies (2010, reluctantly no), and then Mud’s Tiger Feet (1974, an emphatic yes). “I absolutely love it because I do the tiger feet dance at parties. There’s a dance to it.” She celebrated fully. She also used the closing moments to name everyone she shares a birthday with: her friend Audrey, Sally from the musical theatre, her sister-in-law Sheena, and Ruby Millage, who is four today. The handover Vernon arrived for Mika in the Piano Room. He’d been told about the Brian Cox hair thing by a woman on his train. He had not gone to the hairdresser with a Brian Cox photo. He did acknowledge a resemblance. The hair was going white naturally, tanning drops applied, no grey blending in years, very happy with it. “I’ll just leave it and let it do its thing.” He and Scott agreed this was the right call. Tomorrow: Tiny Tempah, Sara Pascoe, and Faye from Steps. The post 12 February 2026: Margot Robbie, Sheila Diamond, and lamb chop sideburns first appeared on Unofficial Mills.View the full article
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