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Snuck in the latest press release about the next buch of Radio 1 Residency DJ's is that the show is going to be renamed 'The Residency on Radio 1 Dance' later in the year. https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/oppidan-kettama-sg-lewis-taylah-elaine-radio-1s-residency

Mollie & Jerry are currently scheduled to be presenting together for 18th August-21st August. 

Conor Knight and Lauren Redfern are on 10:30am-1pm on Friday, Saturday and Sunday this week. Joel Mitchell is on 1-4pm on Sunday.

Matt's production company has done a few TV shows I think - I can completely see him moving behind the scenes more generally (maybe not as controller!) when presenting work dries up, he's a smart guy. I can't see many of the current presenters at R2 for an age. Melvin, Mollie and Katie are most likely and they're just as likely to go into/back into commercial for a while as they're fairly mainstream and universally liked. 

Aled was more of a producer than presenter, he did do the Surgery but was a producer on The Chris Moyles Show and contributed as a presenter like how producer Tom or Amy contribute on Greg’s show. Since Matt’s main role is a presenter I think it would be unlikely for him to become Radio 1 Controller since his main focus at Radio 1 isn’t production like Aled’s was.

Aled Haydn Jones was a presenter before he was controller, he did The Surgery and Chris Moyles Breakfast Show. I could see Matt going into Controller because he’s already in managerial roles with his games and puzzles company and he does some tv producing like that Make Me A Prime Minister show. I agree about Greg he’d rather be on air. 

I really can’t see Greg or Matt as a Radio 1 Controller, it’s usually a producer who goes to the controller roles, having a presenter would be weird. Also Greg is really passionate and clearly loves being on the radio so taking a break wouldn’t be expected. Rickie and Melvin wouldn’t really work on a Radio 2 extension (if that actually happens) in my opinion since it’ll be based around older music like 50s/60s/70s so it would be someone like Gary Davies, Tony Blackburn or they’re get a commercial presenter to come back to host. Sian Eleri would probably go to Radio 2 at some point, maybe taking over Radio 2 Unwinds on a Sunday?   With Dermot doing an Alternative Sounds of the 00s show it would be interesting to see when a Sounds of the 00s show will appear on Radio 2, and maybe we’ll see someone from Radio 1 move across to host that. Sounds of the 80’s started in 2013 and Sounds of the 90’s in 2020 so around 2027 would be the time to start a 00s based show on Radio 2, especially with Radio 1 20’s being launched this year. Sara Cox moved across from Radio 1 and hosted SOT80s and Fearne was only at Radio 1 a few years prior to SOT90s launch.