[gregs]

Top of the Pops is to make the jump from television to radio when it comes to the BBC's World Service from April.

The new show will be hosted each week by Emma B and will provide a run down of the top 40 hits.

The show will also include gossip and news about the acts riding high in the charts.

Phil Harding, BBC World Service's Director of English Networks and News said: "There's a huge potential audience for the programme. BBC World Service has 42 million listeners a week to its English language service.

Top Of The Pops will complement other music programmes on the World Service, whose presenters include John Peel and Charlie Gillett, reports the BBC.



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Emma B gets a job in radio other than playing records for Dr. mark hamilton!

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[jnacool]

Sorry to ask this but does this mean that there will no longer be a weekly TV show? And also isnt it already on the Radio in the form of the Chart run down on a Sunday evening?

[gregs]

i imagine it will stil be on telly.

the chart isnt on world service tho i dont think

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[jnacool]

Oh rite cheers for clearing that up! When i saw Emma B i presumed It was Radio 1 Not The WS

[~Kez~]

oh cool! will they be broadcast @ the same time??

[Uglybob]

two things

1. Top Of The Pops used to be simulcast on radio 1 and on bbc 1 in the late 80s/early nineties

2. The world service already has a top 40 rundown with them playing the new entries and the number 1 on sunday night or monday night

[StaticFish]

3. Who the hell listens to the world service here anyway?

apart from sailors/airline pilots/expats

[David]

I heard Emma B present the chart run down on World Service once. I was going round the radio stations and I got to Radio 4 when they joined World Service at night and I couldnt work out why Emma B was presenting on Radio 4. Then I clicked it was world service.

[MK Chris]

Top Of The Pops will complement other music programmes on the World Service, whose presenters include John Peel and Charlie Gillett, reports the BBC.

Now, I've never heard of Charlie Gillett, but would someone like to explain to me how the charts compliment John Peel's sort of music in any way?

[superwoman]

so people still watch totp? whats the point of emma b presenting a show which happens to sound identical to the show wes is doin?

oh have i missed something? hmmmmm.

[David]

for people who want to know whats in the charts but cant get Radio 1 on their normal radio. for british people living abroad example.

[kendra k]

this will be really neat. i listen to the world service throughout most of the day (as it is carried on local radio here). i would love to hear that crap music on some intellectual radio station. complete with questions of grammar from zimbabwe and recipes from mongolia.

[David]

recipies from mongolia is better than sara cox.

[kendra k]

wes is better than sara cox

[David]

true.

bring back Zoe Ball - thats what I say.

[Lew]

thats what norman cook is saying as well

[Nablo.]

There back together so why would he?

[Lew]

damn you are such a boring git

[kendra k]

they got back together? man. he could do better than her. he is good. she is shit.

[Nablo.]

It was all over the papers and I read the story off the BBC website.

[kendra k]

neither of them matter much in america. zoe who? norman what?

fatboy slim only matters to 14 y/o girls on e, and our equivalents to eddie.