Podcasts

Background

The Best of Chris Moyles podcast was launched as part of a BBC experiment in Podcasting on 28 July 2005. It featured the best bits of the past seven days of the show and was usually released on a Friday morning.

Originally, BBC rules dictated that the podcast had to be broadcast on Radio 1 and went out in the small hours on a Friday morning. It was produced by Ant Danbury, who was often mocked for having the voice of a cartoon child. Whenever the team were off air, a short message explaining the lack of podcast would be released as a podcast, but sometimes the team would include a short game in the podcast.

An Enhanced Podcast was introduced in 2007 which included pictures and chapters. Figures show that the podcasts were downloaded by around 250,000-400,000 times per week, making it one of the most popular in the UK.

In 2011, the name of the podcast was changed to 'Free Download', much to the chagrin of Moyles who complained about it in almost every subsequent free download. The final podcast contained the entire last ever breakfast show and was released in September 2012.

Download

Please make your selection from the table below to select the Podcast year and type you wish to download.

The Enhanced Podcasts include graphics, but may not work on all devices.

A huge thanks to Console and Richard Tomlinson for helping collate and uploading these Podcasts.

Year	Podcast Type
2005	Standard
2006	Standard
2007	Standard	Enhanced
2008	Standard	Enhanced
2009	Standard	Enhanced
2010	Standard	Enhanced
2011	Standard	Enhanced
2012	Standard	Enhanced