Wow! There are some questions here!!!!
Top tip for future questions - the shorter the better as I get sidetracked SO easily it's hard to answer long replies! lol!
lizardz23 wrote:When and where did you first meet Mr Moyles, and what were your impressions of him?
I REALLY liked him. Our paths only ever crossed out on the road because Moyles had the One Big Belly tour and I was working with the live unit out on the road over the summer so I was always in random places around the UK and I'd meet him and the team, show them the hotel, have a drink with them and do the show with them. So my experience with them was always fun!
lizardz23 wrote:Can you do a best of Roy Walker pod cast please? his random intros at the beggining of carpark catchphrase make me laugh... Who writes those? do you ring Roy up everyday to get his contribution?
Unfortunately best of podcasts can only be what has been broadcast in the last 7 days - so we'd have to have it played on the show - and seeing as CPC has now gone I don't think there's much chance of that
Sorry. Dave writes Roy's replies, and Chris talks genuinely with them on the show not knowing what he's going to say so although technically they're scripted it's only one sided! Roy records them every few weeks. btw Dave always says he forgets what he writes so he's always laughing along on-air because he forgets whats about to come out of Roy's mouth.
lizardz23 wrote:Listening figures... how are they calculated? how on earth do you know how many people are tuned into radio 1? that's always puzzled me.
It's EXTREMELY hit or miss! RAJAR are a company that's paid by BBC and commercial radio to make the measurements. Figures come out once every 3 months. They pick a few thousand people give them dairies and ask them to fill in by ticking boxes which shows and radio stations they listen to.
lizardz23 wrote:I don't like the golden hour, any chance of cancelling it? i usually switch off at 9 on a friday, i release many people like it, but my local radio station has done the 'guess the year' thing for 10 years... hardly cutting edge radio.
No. Chris loves it.
lizardz23 wrote:What percentage of the texts sent to 81199 are read by anyone on the team?
We have between 5,000 - 30,000 texts a show so I could never give you an accurate figure of the percentage that are read but there's a text screen showing 50 texts in one go and a screen sits in front of Chris, Rach / me, Dave and Dom - with both Dom and Carrie having the screen at their newsdesks in the live lounge so it's a very large percentage.
lizardz23 wrote:And have you quit the alcohol after your stint as an alcoholic, or are you hiding it well?
I detoxed big time AFTER the alcohol experiment, I've now gone back to normal drinking levels - I'm only a drinker on nights out, which might be once a week or fortnight.
Hope that helps
Aled
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