Gary Davies

like it was just like basically girls who like to go on the piss and they were called because they drank pints with a pint exactly like that was it um so anyway and sarah cox it was like oh she goes on the session then she goes straight to work and she's very much a cool girl um and i they used to i used to listen to this pirate radio station called freedom 92 fm and they used to play the bbc radio one breakfast show through freedom in the morning so i used to listen to her every morning going to um and has gone on and like grown through the bbc and as you say has been hosting on bbc radio 2 for years now and in in radio just i'm sure everybody knows this but the two the biggest shows you can have are breakfast and drive time because that's when most people are in their cars that's when most people are listening um and asha scotland has been presenting radio she's been doing stuff for bbc radio 2 for a while but like nothing at this like in this kind of time slot

but And I think over the summer, obviously, I think Angela and a number of other, was it Joel Donovan, Jason Mansford, Ellie Taylor, Alec Jones, Gary Davies, all kind of like took shifts hosting the show from May.

And Angela Scanlon was one of those people who did the stand-in.

So I think that kind of, obviously, they were trying to find who would be the right fit for that.

It is a soft, big chorus soundtrack for a week when a tiny blob is trying to save a whole planet.

I keep expecting Gary Davies to count it down on Radio One, which fits this chart date perfectly.

Right.

Let's go shopping because prices tell you who could actually afford to play this.

Keep those numbers in your head because we'll come back to them when we give our own scores.

Before the game, a quick look at the telly because that's what you'd have had on, uh, in the background while the tape loaded.

Uh, on this Thursday night, BBC had Top of the Pops with Gary Davies and Paul Jordan presenting, and Midge Ure performing If I Was on the same show that had just gone to number one.

Here's the Top of the Pops theme

What, the Radio 1 DJ? Radio 2 DJ?

Ooh, Gary Davies.

Yeah, absolutely.

Ooh, Chris Drake.

I know that was really good.

Okay, anyway.

Sorry, Gary Davies from BBC Radio 2.

Mate, it's a cultural reference for our generation.