‘I became fair game’: Charlotte Church on Chris Moyles offering to take her virginity at 16
The presenter and singer discusses ‘dark’ proposition in new Kathy Burke TV show
August 2022
Farewell Scott Mills: the Cristiano Ronaldo of pop radio
After 24 years of endless creativity, the BBC Radio 1 DJ’s final show on the flagship station airs today. He changed the face of the station as we know it – and will be sorely missed
April 2020
Hope in a time of crisis
Coronavirus: looking for good news – Run for Heroes and an opera-singing doctor
Running fundraiser for NHS and frontline workers raises over £1m and the BBC announces a star-studded Big Night In
October 2018
Tina Daheley: ‘Young, female, brown – I wish there were more of me at the BBC’
The presenter of new podcast Beyond Today reflects on the death of laddish media culture
May 2018
Toast and jams: the Radio 1 breakfast show through the ages
With Nick Grimshaw deciding to quit the flagship programme, we look back at the hosts who have shaped it, from Tony Blackburn to Sara Cox
June 2017
Radio 1 at 50: golden oldies to return for celebration
Familiar faces from Tony Blackburn to Sara Cox will feature on day of programming marking the station’s semicentennial
May 2016
Radio 1's Grimshaw hits new audience low, but Evans is sunny side up
Nick Grimshaw attracts 5.4 million listeners, while 9.7 million tune in to Radio 2’s Chris Evans in breakfast show scramble
March 2016
The best original photographs from the Observer
Original Observer photography: February 2016
There is a distinct fashion feel to this month’s gallery. Milliners, designers, models and bloggers all feature in this showcase of the best photography commissioned by the Observer
February 2016
Chris Moyles: ‘I was naive. People didn’t get the joke’
Chris Moyles comeback gives Radio X its biggest audience in a decade
January 2016
Chris Moyles Radio X advert – video
ASA clears Chris Moyles Radio X ad despite more than 100 complaints
October 2015
David Hepworth on radio
Chris Moyles, the man to save Radio X?
With the tagline ‘the best rock and guitar-based music’, the rebranded XFM station is going to need all the help it can get
September 2015
Radio X review – Chris Moyles is back with Radio Geezer
The new blokey station’s conservative playlist makes a nonsense of its alternative aspirations
Radio review
Radio X review: music for the man shed
The revamped XFM, featuring the likes of Chris Moyles – and wall-to-wall Supergrass and Kasabian – is aimed squarely at the lads. No wonder it’s predictable and bland
Sophie Heawood's Weekend column
Sophie Heawood: from Chris Moyles to Jeremy Corbyn, the top jobs are still going to the boys
The debate
Is a men’s radio station a backward step for broadcasting?
Ben Perreau and Laura Snapes
Radio X: the radio equivalent of a chunky chocolate bar for men
August 2015
Chris Moyles to take on BBC Radio 1's Nick Grimshaw at rebranded Xfm
Rock music station to be rebranded Radio X, with other big-name presenters rumoured to be involved including Ricky Wilson, Vernon Kay and Johnny Vaughan
October 2014
Lost in showbiz
Once Chris Moyles spoke to millions on the radio. Now he’s struggling for an audience on his own YouTube channel
Peter Robinson: As a Radio 1 DJ, he was undisputed master of his medium. But then came the wilderness years and now he’s a vlogger watching his viewing figures slide
