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Radio 1

May 2024

  • Beyoncé, Shaboozey, Post Malone and Dasha

    Ten-gallon hits! Why country is the biggest pop music craze of 2024

    Beyoncé and Dua Lipa have swapped mirrorballs for rhinestones, while new stars such as Shaboozey and Dasha are making hay with uptempo hoedowns. Even the UK is enjoying its first rodeo – but can it last?

April 2024

  • After a period of intensive and hectic work for several national newspapers, in 1967 Mike Chaney joined the BBC Home Service, which became Radio 4

    Other lives
    Mike Chaney obituary

    Other lives: Journalist and broadcaster who edited the Radio 4 Today programme and set up BBC Radio Norfolk

March 2024

  • (from left) Marc Riley and Mark Radcliffe.

    Mark and Lard: ‘We were told no one wants to hear two Mancunians shouting at each other’

    Mark Radcliffe and Marc ‘Lard’ Riley were the unlikely lads of 90s radio. Twenty years after their final show, they’re back, touring the UK with tales from the wireless’s wildest ride

February 2024

  • Steve Wright in a BBC Radio 1 DJ booth in 1980.

    It’s personal: the reaction to Steve Wright’s death is proof of the power of radio

    Gillian Reynolds
    Kenny Everett, Alistair Cooke, now Wright: some voices are so familiar that they become part of the fabric of our own lives, says the radio critic Gillian Reynolds
  • Steve Wright in 1982.

    Steve Wright obituary

    One of the most popular disc jockeys on British radio in the 1980s who used a ‘zoo’ format to pull in audiences of eight million

    • ‘It’s like losing a life-long companion’: readers on the magic of the late Steve Wright

    • Steve Wright, BBC Radio presenter, dies aged 69

    • So much more than a DJ, Steve Wright introduced Britain to a new style of talk radio

      Mark Lawson

12 January 2024

  • Annie Nightingale in the Radio 1 studio, 1983.

    Annie Nightingale obituary

    Radio 1’s longest-serving broadcaster, dedicated to groundbreaking music for more than 50 years
  • Fiona Sturges

    Annie Nightingale didn’t only kick down doors in radio – she held them open

    Fiona Sturges
    The late Radio 1 DJ was inspiring for so many reasons: her unbounded tastes, her all-star connections, and her refusal to be a gatekeeper
  • Annie Nightingale pictured in 2020.

    Annie Nightingale: Radio 1’s first female DJ and champion of new music dies aged 83

    The broadcaster’s family said she died at home on 11 January following a short illness and described her as a ‘pioneer, trailblazer and inspiration to many’

November 2023

  • the Spice Girls outside the Martinez Hotel in Cannes, 1997

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Where It’s At: A Short History of Girl Bands; 28 Dates Later; Law in Action: Deepfakes and the Law – review

    The Spice Girls, All Saints, TLC and co are fondly remembered; Grace Campbell dates 28 people she’d normally reject; and Joshua Rozenberg tests out the law against AI

October 2023

  • DJ Tim Westwood, pictured in 2014, who has previously ‘strongly denied’ allegations of inappropriate behaviour

    Met investigating sexual misconduct accusations against Tim Westwood

    Former Radio 1 DJ has been interviewed under police caution over accusations four times this year, but has not been arrested

September 2023

  • Annie Mac and Nick Grimshaw

    Nick Grimshaw and Annie Mac: ‘If you think something is terrible you have to be able to say it’

    The former Radio 1 DJ pals are releasing a podcast where they can chat openly about the big stories in music, free of the constraints of radio. They talk about their media beginnings and rediscovering their rebellious spirit

July 2023

  • Steve Lamacq And Jo Whiley At Radio 1 1994<br>Radio DJs and presenters of 'The Evening Session' Steve Lamacq and Jo Whiley, at BBC Radio 1 studios, London, United Kingdom, 1994. (Photo by Martyn Goodacre/Getty Images)

    How we made
    ‘Suddenly misfits became pop stars, and we were part of it’: How Jo Whiley and Steve Lamacq made Radio 1’s Evening Session

    We were going to all these gigs and it was like all these bands – Suede, Blur, Oasis, the Verve – were our mates down the pub. There was no fakery or pretence

June 2023

  • Laura Snapes

    It’s a Padam-ic! Kylie’s sex-positive hit is brilliantly upending the mainstream

    Laura Snapes
    Not only is she queering the female pop ideal as a rare middle-aged woman in the Radio 1 playlist, Kylie Minogue is also resonating at a time when frivolity is returning to culture

May 2023

  • Kylie Minogue

    Kylie Minogue ‘bursting with joy’ as new single Padam Padam soars up charts

    Track shunned by BBC Radio 1 and Capital when released finds singer a new audience via social media

April 2023

  • Adele Roberts with her Guinness World Records certificate after completing the race in 3hr 30min and 22sec

    Adele Roberts becomes fastest woman to run London Marathon with stoma bag

  • Tim Westwood

    DJ Tim Westwood interviewed under caution over sexual offence allegations

February 2023

  • Ella Mai

    ‘The hardest music to sell in the UK’: why is British R&B being ignored?

    UK artists are big in the US but at home their music has mostly failed to break through – as the lack of nominations shows
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