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‎The Team

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 ==Background==
-Beginning on Monday 12 October 1998, Chris Moyles was allowed out to play in daylight. Given a new, lucrative two year contract - partly to prevent Chris Evans from poaching him to go to Virgin Radio - Chris was promoted from [[The Early Bit]] to front the late afternoon show (originally called The Afternoon Bit), between 1600 - 1745. In 2001, the show's hours were extended to 1500 - 1745.
+Beginning on Monday 12 October 1998, Chris Moyles was allowed out to play in daylight. Given a new, lucrative two year contract - partly to prevent Chris Evans from poaching him to go to Virgin Radio - Chris was promoted from [[The Early Bit]] to front the late afternoon show (originally called ''The Afternoon Bit''), between 1600 - 1745. In 2001, the show's hours were extended to 1500 - 1745.
 Joined initially by Dave and producer Ben Cooper, the slot became home to Chris for over half a decade, and it was in the afternoons that he really established himself as a household name.
 In his first three months, Chris added 300,000 new listeners and helped Radio One to their best RAJAR results in two years.
 ==The Team==
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 ==Roadshows, outside broadcasts and the ''One Big Belly'' tour==

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 ==The Team==
-The show began in 1998 with Chris and his sidekick Comedy Dave, who had been working with him on Chris' early morning show. June 1999 saw a change of team with the departure of producer Ben to Jo Whiley’s show, and the arrival of his replacement, ex Mark and Lard producer Rhys Hughes (also a member of the Shirehorses). Other new arrivals on the show included the previously mentioned Simon Hollis as Broadcast Assistant, nicknamed “Melinda”, because he used to work in a mail room.. ergo a messenger - and impressionist Jon Culshaw, who was working at the time with Steve Penk on Capital.
+The show began in 1998 with Chris and his sidekick Comedy Dave, who had been working with him on Chris' early morning show. June 1999 saw a change of team with the departure of producer Ben to Jo Whiley’s show, and the arrival of his replacement, ex Mark and Lard producer Rhys Hughes (also a member of the Shirehorses). Other new arrivals on the show included the previously mentioned Simon Hollis as Broadcast Assistant, nicknamed "Melinda", because he used to work in a mail room.. ergo a messenger - and impressionist Jon Culshaw, who was working at the time with Steve Penk on Capital.
 One memorable moment from the show during 2000 was the unforgettable team walkout, where everyone on the show bar Chris pretended to quit mid-link. However, they returned half an hour later.
-In December 2000, Rhys left the show for real - to take up a new position as executive producer of Radio One’s specialist programming. He returned to the team full time as executive producer in 2005. Rhys’ place was taken by [[Will Kinder]], former producer of the Zoe Ball Breakfast Show. Will, or ”Greyhead” as he became known, struck up an instant chemistry with Chris and Dave. Another change quickly followed before the end of the year, as Melinda also announced his intention to leave the show. His last show was the pre-recorded Christmas Day special, which went out between 6 and 8pm.
+In December 2000, Rhys left the show for real - to take up a new position as executive producer of Radio One’s specialist programming. He returned to the team full time as executive producer in 2005. Rhys’ place was taken by [[Will Kinder]], former producer of the ''Zoe Ball Breakfast Show''. Will, or "Greyhead" as he became known, struck up an instant chemistry with Chris and Dave. Another change quickly followed before the end of the year, as Melinda also announced his intention to leave the show. His last show was the pre-recorded Christmas Day special, which went out between 6 and 8pm.
 Melinda’s replacement as broadcast assistant, Lizzie Buckingham, joined the show in January 2001. Lizzie, then aged 24 from Southport, became the first woman to work on the weekday show full time since Jude in 1998.
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 When the show launched, features included ''Viaduct'', ''The Not'' and ''Our Tone''. Chris’ new catchphrase was "Hop On Baby!".
-In response to the huge success of new Irish boy band Westlife, they had decided to form their own boy band - named Ghetto-Life, a pun on the phrase "get a life". They subsequently recorded their much hyped debut “You’re My Baby” at Abbey Road studios - with Chris on lead vocals, Rhys and Mel on guitar, and Dave in his rapper guise as “Choc Ice”. Lyrics included ”You make me laugh; you’re sweet and funny, You call me cute names like fluffy bunny”. Ghetto-Life sadly never got a record deal.
+===Ghetto-Life===
-New show features included Get Down, Family Fartunes and spoof travel news courtesy of Dick Cheese.
+In response to the huge success of new Irish boy band Westlife, the team had decided to form their own boy band - named Ghetto-Life, a pun on the phrase "get a life". They subsequently recorded their much hyped debut “You’re My Baby” at Abbey Road studios - with Chris on lead vocals, Rhys and Mel on guitar, and Dave in his rapper guise as “Choc Ice”. Lyrics included ”You make me laugh; you’re sweet and funny, You call me cute names like fluffy bunny”. Ghetto-Life sadly never got a record deal.
 A new weekly feature which was introduced in 2001 was Big Blubber, as the team collectively launched a fitness campaign, with the help of their new personal trainer Gym Lady Jane. Each week Chris, Dave, Will and Lizzie would go out training with Jane, before she rated their performances individually on the air. The most hard working would then win the "Licky-licky Brown Nose" trophy and have to make a speech. The training sessions often took place in London’s Regents Park, surrounded by paparazzi, resulting in many appearances in celebrity magazine Heat and The Mirror’s 3AM Girls showbiz column. Chris’s on-going feud with the 3AM Girls escalated when they published his home phone number later in the year, although he subsequently claimed victory.
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 Chris' greatest achievement from his training with Jane came a year later in 2002, when he completed The Great North Run in an incredible 1 hour 57 minutes, reaching his lowest weight since he was a teenager.
-''Big Brother'' made its return to Channel 4 in 2001, won by Brian Dowling. Chris and the team went BB mad, with a number of ex housemates coming onto the show to talk about their time in the house. ''Big Brother'' presenter Davina McCall also made her debut appearance on the show this year. There were even daily updates courtesy of 'BB Aled' - Aled Haydn Jones, Big Brother obsessive - at the time working on Dave Pearce’s Drive show. Aled was invited by Chris to give a one off review of the first show, but it went down well enough for BB Aled to be born. He would often provide eviction exclusives, plus audio from the Big Brother press conferences each and every Friday.
+===BB Aled===
 With the launch of another reality show later in the year, Pop Idol, Chris responded in typical fashion. Spoof feature Pap Idol was then followed up by another, Bap Idol - won by Nikki, 19 from Essex. September 2001 also saw the launch of two classic features still mentioned to this day: Bang Will’s Head Against The Studio Window and Dizzy Lizzie.
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 The former involved Greyhead banging his head as many times as he could against the studio window in 30 seconds, whilst wearing a helmet. For some reason he didn't think this idea was very safe, so didn't bang his head particularly hard. The latter saw Lizzie put in a swivel chair and spun for 30 seconds whilst listening to nauseating music. She was then pushed off and made to carry an apple and orange. Both features were accompanied by almost identical jingles.
-Other new items launched on the show in 2001 included Dave and Will’s Camp Cops sketches - plus Challenge The Team, A Book At Tea Time, Guess Who, Mystic Horse and the legendary Sports Talk feature. This is where Will, who knows nothing about football, presented a spoof Five Live football phone-in show similar to 606. It would often feature Chris and Dave as callers on a time delay. The feature was dropped in 2002.
+Other new items launched on the show in 2001 included Dave and Will’s ''Camp Cops'' sketches - plus Challenge The Team, A Book At Tea Time, Guess Who, Mystic Horse and the legendary Sports Talk feature. This is where Will, who knows nothing about football, presented a spoof Five Live football phone-in show similar to 606. It would often feature Chris and Dave as callers on a time delay. The feature was dropped in 2002.
 is often thought to be one of his best years at the station. His “new” show began with a pre-recorded sketch, featuring Simon Mayo himself - and included new jingles and new features, including Secret Squirrel, The Great Receptionist Stopwatch Challenge, Dial-A-Mate and Car-e-oke. The latter almost saw a live arrest on the show later in the year, as contestant Lucy was told to move by the police whilst on the phone to Chris.
 On Tuesday September 11th 2001, the terrorist attacks in America occurred just before Chris was due to go on the air at 3pm UK time. A decision was made not to do the usual show. Instead, Chris played non stop music, interrupted only by regular news updates from Newsbeat's Claire Bradley. He was widely praised for his handling of the situation. The next three shows were much the same - featuring emails from listeners, stories from eye witnesses and the latest news from Newsbeat.

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 ==Background==
-Beginning on Monday 12 October 1998, Chris Moyles was allowed out to play in daylight. Given a new, lucrative two year contract - partly to prevent Chris Evans from poaching him to go to Virgin Radio - Chris was promoted from [[The Early Bit]]to front the late afternoon show (originally called The Afternoon Bit), between 1600 and 1745.
+Beginning on Monday 12 October 1998, Chris Moyles was allowed out to play in daylight. Given a new, lucrative two year contract - partly to prevent Chris Evans from poaching him to go to Virgin Radio - Chris was promoted from [[The Early Bit]] to front the late afternoon show (originally called The Afternoon Bit), between 1600 - 1745. In 2001, the show's hours were extended to 1500 - 1745.
 Joined initially by Dave and producer Ben Cooper, the slot became home to Chris for over half a decade, and it was in the afternoons that he really established himself as a household name.

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 With Dave subsequently away on honeymoon, Moyles had only Will and Aled for company. It wasn’t long before Will was off too though. After nearly three years as producer, he quit the show to join Tiger Aspect Productions, a television production company based in Soho, London. His last show was on Friday September 26th 2003. You can hear pretty much the whole thing in our Sound Vault, with twenty two different clips archived - including his final moments.
-His replacement was ex Saturday Show producer Rachel Jones, although Will soon returned to the show in an off air role.
+His replacement was ex-[[The Saturday Show|Saturday Show]] producer [[Rachel Jones]], although Will soon returned to the show in an off air role.
-At 2.30pm on Tuesday October 7th 2003, almost five years after the start of Chris’s afternoon show, Radio One announced that it was to end. That’s because bosses had decided to switch Chris with Sara Cox, and make him only the fifteenth regular host of their flagship breakfast show.
+==End of the show==
-Listen to a special Newsbeat report, interviewing Chris about the move, here. You can also view links to press coverage that accompanied the news here.
+On Tuesday 7 October 2003, almost five years after the start of Chris' afternoon show, Radio One announced that it was to end. That's because bosses had decided to switch Chris with Sara Cox, and make him only the fifteenth regular host of their flagship breakfast show.
-With the changes coming into effect from the start of 2004, it meant goodbye to Moyles in the afternoons, and a month of Breakfast pilots leading up to Christmas. Therefore the last ever Chris Moyles afternoon show was broadcast on Friday December 5th 2003.
+With the changes coming into effect from the start of 2004, it meant goodbye to Moyles in the afternoons, and a month of Breakfast pilots leading up to Christmas. Therefore, the last Chris Moyles afternoon show was broadcast on Friday 5 December 2003.
-Urged by management to look forwards and not back, there wasn’t too much nostalgia during the last show. There was however a final handover with Mark and Lard, a final chat with long time newsreader Georgina Bowman - and a special song to close.
+Urged by management to look forwards and not back, there wasn't too much nostalgia during the last show. There was however a final handover with Mark and Lard, a final chat with long time newsreader Georgina Bowman - and a special song to close.
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 ==Features==
-{{Main|Features of The Afternoon Show}}
+{{Main|Features on The Afternoon Show}}
 When the show launched, features included ''Viaduct'', ''The Not'' and ''Our Tone''. Chris’ new catchphrase was "Hop On Baby!".