[abertom]

Good Friday

7:00 Dev
10:00 Fearne
1:00pm Huw Stephens
4:00pm Greg James

Easter Monday - 1xtra take over

7am Twin B
10:00 Trevor Nelson
1pm Gemma Cariney
4pm Westwood

Royal wedding

Breakfast: The Chris Moyles Show
10:00 Vernon Kay (with Matt Edmondson)
1:00 Newsbeat
1:30 Greg James - start of 10 hour takeover equivalent
4:00 Sara Cox - 10 hour takeover equivalent part 2

[bmstinton93]

Well the 1Xtra Takeover will be unlistenable but what do you mean by 10 hour takeover equivalent? And will the Royal Wedding have finished by 1:30?

[abertom]

basically listeners can request songs from 1:30 until 7

[bmstinton93]

So its basically a 5 and a half hour takeover instead then...?

[Travis Bickle]

Looks like a decent line up to me. When I have heard Westwood to 4-7 on previous Bank Holiday Mondays I thought he was brilliant.

[wireman2004]

i thought scott was also doing the royal wedding coverage with vernon.

[Ilovematt]

i thought scott was also doing the royal wedding coverage with vernon.

How apt.

[Candyman]

Awful, crappy 1xtra takeover, are 1xtra on Radio 1 because everybody is off for the day at Radio 1!!! I think I'll pass, as always another bank holiday fail on Radio 1. Plenty of better things to do then bother with that crap. The Royal wedding day slightly better after 1.30 till 4pm and thats about it really. Too be honest I think ill skip it all and just come back when Chris is back and normal services resume.

[Yudster]

Aled has posted that Chris and the team are doing the show on the Royal Wedding day - apparently it was Chris's choice to do so. I'm not surprised, he's met both William and Harry and they are both regular listeners - I'm not surprised that Chris would want to do the show on William's big day.

[Nicola_Red]

I'll be working as usual on the bank hols, so it's no odds to me really, but I am a bit surprised that there's no Mistajam in the 1Extra takeover - I would've thought after the marathon show he'd be a popular choice.

[bmstinton93]

I was considering working royal wedding day but i don't think i will now that i know Chris will be on air.

[DarroM]

That's good to know they will be doing the show on the 29th then since it will be a good start to my birthday (yep, my birthday is the same day as the Royal Wedding). Will be working into it but will be off for a week after that so all is good.

Looks like Good Friday morning and Monday morning is out for me then. Will probably just listen to podcasts or something duriing those times while I am in work.

[dimtimjim]

I was considering working royal wedding day but i don't think i will now that i know Chris will be on air.

Can you not listen on your paper-round?!

[Wykey]

I've heard a rumour that Fearne Cotton and Edith Bownman are doing some kind of commentary on the Royal Wedding.

Presumably with Claire (eurgh) Balding as well.

[swaddon1903]

I've heard a rumour that Fearne Cotton and Edith Bownman are doing some kind of commentary on the Royal Wedding.

Presumably with Claire (eurgh) Balding as well.

Oh no.

Cotton: "Oh, I love the dress. I love her shoes. I love the venue. I just love this wedding day. I love everything".

[Wykey]

It's mind boggling isn't it?

[bmstinton93]

I was considering working royal wedding day but i don't think i will now that i know Chris will be on air.

Can you not listen on your paper-round?!

No we're not allowed to listen in Sainsburys...

[dimtimjim]

You'll miss out on da double time though dude... gotta be worth working the day, surely?!

[bmstinton93]

Oh yeah it would be but they are making cutbacks so its unlikely to happen

[abertom]

Can a mod change it so The Chris Moyles show is listed as breakfast for royal wedding day

Also

Monday May 2nd

7:00 Zane Lowe
10:00 Sara Cox
1:00pm Greg James
4:00pm Scott Mills

[Nicola_Red]

That's done for ya Tom.

[Wykey]

Awful, crappy 1xtra takeover, are 1xtra on Radio 1 because everybody is off for the day at Radio 1!!! I think I'll pass, as always another bank holiday fail on Radio 1. Plenty of better things to do then bother with that crap.

I suspect that's kind of the point.

There's no point in blowing the years budget on incredible shows that blow people's socks clean off, because most people will be switching off the radio and doing something less boring instead.

Though I may be entirely wrong, obviously.

[dimtimjim]

Indeed. Radio will be last thing on my mind come bank 'oliday time. The shitter the better in my mind.

[japitts]

I've no real problem with a R1/1-Extra simulcast on bank holidays - a useful way of pooling resources etc. But I really hope they don't overbrand with "1-Extra taking over R1" all day, that gets bad enough on Saturday nights.

[jamiec21]

I've no real problem with a R1/1-Extra simulcast on bank holidays - a useful way of pooling resources etc. But I really hope they don't overbrand with "1-Extra taking over R1" all day, that gets bad enough on Saturday nights.

Does no-one else have a massive program with 1xtra taking over Radio 1 for a whole day? So all pop, rock/indie and dance music gets told to take a hike? I'm not opposed to 1xtra as a station, but I am opposed to it being a direct feeder station for Radio 1. Music tastes are supposed to come and go, but 1xtra just keeps than conveyor belt rolling in. No wonder the music scene is as stale as it is with the most popular and important young person's music station in the country getting half it's playlist automatically generated.