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Simon Mayo Drivetime, is the incarnation of the drivetime show on BBC Radio 2 between 11 January 2010 and 4 May 2018, being revived briefly for Mayo's final show with the station on 21 December that year, and then fully from 15 March 2021 on Greatest Hits Radio. It is broadcast on weekdays from 16:00 to 19:00 in the United Kingdom. [1]
Between January 2010 to December 2018 he was the presenter of Simon Mayo Drivetime on BBC Radio 2, for the final six months with co-host Jo Whiley. Since March 2021, Simon Mayo Drivetime has returned on Greatest Hits Radio.
Confessions is an ongoing popular feature which first appeared on the BBC Radio 1 weekday breakfast show in the early 1990s, devised by its host, Simon Mayo.. Mayo, who had hosted the show since 1988, started the feature in August 1990, partly due to the rising interest in his own Christian faith, and it caught on very quickly.
He then moved to Radio 2 to become the sports presenter on the Simon Mayo Drivetime programme, and was a member of the team which won the Sony Radio Academy Awards for Best Music Programme in 2011. [1] [3] In addition to sports presenting, Williams participated in Mayo's Confessions feature.
Broadcast legend Simon Mayo says leaving Radio 1 was 'traumatic' for him because working at the station was everything he thought he wanted to be.
On 1 September 2020, the station rebranded as Greatest Hits Radio and merged with its sister stations in the East. The station's local breakfast show was replaced by a regional drivetime show, which later became an afternoon show to make way for the new flagship show Simon Mayo Drivetime. Localised news bulletins, traffic updates and ...
The 2003 recording by Jools Holland and Prince Buster [15] was used by Simon Mayo as the opening theme to his Drivetime show on BBC Radio 2, and still continues to be used since his return to drivetime on Greatest Hits Radio. The show also occasionally used the Guy Lombardo recording as an opening theme to the second hour.
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