BBC Radio 1 30 September 2017, Radio 1 celebrated its 50th birthday. Tony Blackburn recreated the first ever Radio 1 broadcast on Radio 2, simulcast on pop-up station Radio 1 Vintage, followed by The Radio 1 Breakfast Show celebration, tricast on Radio 1, Radio 2 and Radio 1 Vintage, presented by Tony Blackburn and Nick Grimshaw, featuring former presenters as guests Simon Mayo, Sara Cox and Mike Read. Radio 1 regularly supports charities Comic Relief, Sport Relief and Children in Need. On 18 March 2011, BBC's Radio 1 longest serving breakfast DJ Chris Moyles and sidekick Dave Vitty broadcast for 52 hours as
BBC Radio Bristol Morris worked for the station in the late 1980s, presenting and producing his own weekend show, "No Known Cure". He was fired from the station after "talking over the news bulletins and making silly noises".[13] One of the station's longest serving presenters was veteran local journalist Roger Bennett, who joined at launch as a reporter, before going onto present its flagship breakfast programme, "Morning West", from 1974 to 2003. He continued to freelance at Radio Bristol until his death in July 2005. Other past presenters include Susan Osman who also co-presented "Points West" for 14 years, and John Turner, who