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Happy hump day! Greg scans the BBC's festival checklist and it looks like we're clean as a whistle! Liverpudlian runner, Joseph's forced to take a detour but gladly heads to Big Weekend, whilst Danni tries her best to secure tickets. Maisie plays Yesterday's Quiz and listeners across the UK admit to using props to make them look slightly more cool on dates!
Listener Abi shares her hand-shaking nightmares in Everyone's Rubbish, Sam tries his hand at winning tickets for Big Weekend and Greg Drains rescues a flooded UK street with his trusty bamboo stick and his passerby sidekick, Jan! Plus, Lauren on Yesterday's Quiz, Jennifer Coolidge in All The Latest Things and the revival of an Arctic Monkeys game!
Listener Chloe's spoon wars takes over the nation as Greg asks, Is It Just Us? Beth plays Yesterday's Quiz, Stacey has a go at winning Big Weekend tickets and everyone's trying to be a good boy... or girl... or whatever their preference happens to be! Confused? Press play!
Greg enlists the Fruit Fly Dani to track down some rogue dinosaurs while she plays Wrong 'Uns, Pope Leo is celebrated in song and Producer Tom reveals what Greg gets up to whilst he's on the loo! Plus, two Big Weekend giveaways, All The Latest Things and Yesterday's Quiz final! Happy Friday!
Greg's woken up on the wrong side of the bed today - wound up about the existence of naturally straight lines, he's ready for a fight. Watch your backs Brekkie crew, Callum Leslie and anyone else who dares to disagree! Fear not, Fruit Fly Dani sets the record straight! Listeners celebrate the 99th birthday of the living legend that is David Attenborough, there's a special Radio 1 DJ edition of Unpopular Opinion and Lauren takes a chance at Big Weekend tickets. Plus, All The Latest Things, Yester...
Greg's intrigued that Taylor Swift's name ended up on this year's SQA English exam paper and calls upon student Jamie to explain the madness! Teacher, Heather plays Yesterday's Quiz, Producer Henry's whole family gets involved in a wedding-themed Everyone's Rubbish and in All The Latest Things, Radio 1's Jeremiah Asiamah gets a shout out on Stormzy's new single... Or does he? It's all popping off!
Singer and Game show fan, PinkPantheress squares up to The Pink Governess, Anne Hegerty from The Chase. Jane from last week's Big Weekend giveaway finally answers that call from Radio 1, Lilly tries her hand at the next batch of tickets and Charlie wipes the floor with Yesterday's Quiz! Plus, Greg minds his language as he reminisces on his school days and there's MET Gala chat in All The Latest Things!
Comedian and Youtuber, Max Fosh tells the story of how he tracked down and suggested a reunion with one of his birthday twins, after a whole 30 years! Gemma from Salford wins Big Weekend tickets and after getting the wrong answer earlier this week, Amber plays Wrong Uns instead! Grace and Mike battle out the final of Yesterday's Quiz and Greg gives you a rundown of All The Latest Things!
Ding Ding! The Radio 1 heavyweights, Greg James and Callum Leslie step into their respective London and Birmingham red and blue corners as the first of the month pinches and punches begin! Self Esteem samples Greg's cheeky remixes of her spoken word track interlude, Dan plays Yesterday's Quiz, Nathan and Becca join the Big Weekend ticket grab and Thurs-Way gets well underway! Waaaaaay!
Greg risks slippery station floors to deliver an in-person demonstration of his now famous, seagull bike. Double-whammy Big Weekend ticket drama continues and Producer, Tom has some fun with the track of the week. Plus, All The Latest Things, Yesterday's Quiz and a new cheeky remix of a Self Esteem song interlude!
Greg finds love in hopeless places as he revives a two year old personalised dating advert he created for listener, Alyssia - now, by public demand, there could be an encore! Ellie in Chorley joins the bandwagon as she reveals her boyfriend has a shady past with the Radio 1 Breakfast Show and Greg attempts to rid himself of his summer hay fever through manifestation by trialing a new guessing game; as listeners sneeze in their respective regional accents. Plus, All The Latest Things, Yesterday's...
Greg convinces Saturday Night Live's Bowen Yang to call Radio 1's big boss, Aled and he speaks to Cooper, Shelby and Lauren in Chesterfield fresh from their triumph at a seagull impersonating screeching competition! Listener, Sophie attempts to get her hands on Big Weekend tickets, Holly fronts the latest new team to play Yesterday's Quiz, plus, catch up on All The Latest Things!
Quite the show today. You'll have to listen to believe it. Dan in Leeds. What have you done?! He changed the course of our mission yesterday when he asked which UK huns would we send in to space? It escalated very quickly. UK huns Gemma, Alison, Denise, Nat and Carol are in! Even though the GC is claustrophobic Darren. This is getting silly now. Sir Richard Branson aka R BransHUN aka 00HUN, the first astronaut on his very own spaceship, has only gone and followed Greg. So the next obvious thing ...
Space obsessed Shawn Moondez is on hand to educate us about the overview effect of looking down on Earth from space. Thanks to Dan in Leeds’ brilliant idea we ripped up today’s show plans to focus on which UK Huns we should send in to space. Spoiler alert we decided on Gemma Collins, Alison Hammond, Carol Vorderman, Denise Welsh and Natalie Cassidy. Strong list. It’s nearly time to get your tent out the shed and pitch up in a festival campsite. So we’re hearing all your ‘Festival Things’. P.s yo...
Bella Ramsey has a new name! They will now be known as Bella The Ram-Ramstein Ramsey. It's a mouthful, we know. Amber shows up for the team to take on Day 1 of Yesterday's Quiz. Fancy yourself a Greg James garter? No us neither, but he's brainstorming ideas for 2025 merch to shift at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Liverpool and this made it to the long list :(
It's short-shorts day for the Radio 1 Breakfast team - a Vicar in Epsom get the team hot under their own collars as he dons short shorts in celebration. The church bells are ringing as Yesterday's Quiz team helps listener, Rachel get ready to walk down the aisle. Danny Howard passes through with a bespoke 'farts and cats' dance mix, and the flatulence continues as 'Friday Grievances' features a potential Fart-Burp war. Whether it starts or stops, is all up to you... The power lies only in the ha...
Greg is joined by fellow Radio 1 DJ, Danny Howard, Charlie Hedges joins in with Thurs-Way and 1Xtra's passionate advocate for broccoli, Remi Burgz gatecrashes the studio with her take on Sexy or Not Sexy. In other news, Greg has some fun with a Vicar pledging to don short shorts, plus hear the brekkie remix of Yungblud's latest tune, Hello!
Greg 'trains' himself up up as a public transport announcer for Mersey Rail as Radio 1 gears up for Big Weekend in Liverpool. The breakfast team abandon the studio, just to see what happens and the investigation continues to uncover the identity of Greg's mystery pizza hoarder! Plus, hear 'All The Latest Things, 'Yesterday's Quiz' and a quick round of 'What's My Age Again?'
Greg hears all about your 'flatmate things, attempts to modernise the UK's weather updates and launches an investigation after he suspects fraudulent behaviour... Plus, catch up on 'all the latest things'!
Dr Who's Ncuti Gatwa & Varada Sethu play Unpopular Opinion and Greg attempts to reset the weather by calling the Met Office. Charlie Hedges gets to guessing with a game of 'What Is That?", there are wedding bells ahead for Yesterday's Quiz' team, plus a round-up of all the latest things!
Armed with a Radio 1 megaphone, under the direction of Greg James, Ed Sheeran plays Unpopular Opinion from an open bus top! The sexy numbers guy, Johnny plays Wrong 'Uns, Danni Diston gets stuck all alone in the new Radio 1 portal and the team bid farewell to a Breakfast Show launch producer, with a juicy parting gift!
Greg texts Pitbull aka Mr. Worldwide about his new bald caps merch idea... and he gets a reply! Danny Howard joins in with a game of 'What's My Age Again?' There's a battle for the top spot in the Official Fart Countdown and Greg offers to throw Charlie Hedges in the shower after Usher's concert! All that, plus your Thursway shouts! Wahaaaaay!
Greg was feeling a little sheepish this morning! Take a sneak peek at this week's Official Fart Countdown, hear about the new Minecraft movie with Ali Plumb... Oh! And... Today's show was brought to you by the letters L,M,N,O and P and the number 80! Confused? Press play!
Gr-Egg James tries his level best to be serious on April Fool's Day as he races a tray of eggs across to one lucky listener in South Wales. He attempts a straight-face for Yesterday's Quiz and gets to know exactly what's going on next door, in a UK-wide round of 'Neighbour Things'.
As the sun deceptively shines across the UK, Greg asks is it too soon to get carried away with the summer vibes? Listener, Charlie takes 'Everyone's Rubbish' to a whole new level and sparks a national conversation in a very debatable 'Ask the Nation' spin-off. Greg sings his heart out as he brings back 'Nerd Alert' with a live experiment. Does it actually work though, or has he just messed the whole thing up?
Greg goes on a hilarious pursuit to find a new name for 'You' star, Penn Badgley. Somerset sisters, Evelyn and Emily go head-to-head in this week's final of 'Yesterday's Quiz'; mother and daughter, Meg and Maisie find out how well they both know each other and listener, James brings his football commentator characters on air for a game of 'Wrong-Uns'! Plus, Greg reveals what he did in the middle of the Radio 1 Away Day... Happy Friday!
Radio 1's Sian Eleri is on the new series of Paranormal, so it's only right that Greg invites her for a supernaturally fun game of 'Spooky Or Not Spooky?'. Pitbull a.k.a Mr. Worldwide provides motivational words of wisdom and find out who's taken the top spot in the brand new Official Fart Countdown!
The HAIM band members gang up on Greg with the help of his lovely spouse, Bella. One of the Somerset sisters, Rachael takes on yesterday's quiz, whilst on van-ual leave! Greg attempts to collate an official 'fart' update and he brings you a dose of all the latest things!
Planes, trains and... Chickens? Greg sees a red flag in Newsbeat's Callum Leslie. Producer, Susanna explains why it's better to chicken out than chicken in and somewhere up there, there's a pilot with a problem. Plus, find out if there's a match for listener Helen and her fashionable fruit, in 'Is It Just Us?', hear Emily's take on yesterday's quiz and catch up on All The Latest Things!
Greg has an on-air de-brief with Radio 1's ultra marathon man, Jamie Laing. Listener, James goes on imaginary adventures with producer Henry and Lilly in Somerset braves the quiz! Plus, get guessing with a game of 'What Is That?' and catch up with All The Latest Things!
