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
George Jones (radio presenter) theatre shows, radio disc-jockeying and television presenting. His first break into radio came with a Sunday slot on Downtown Radio. He went on to work for the BBC, appearing mostly on radio. He had his own show, "Just Jones", for BBC Radio Ulster, which won him a Sony Radio Academy Award for best local radio presenter. In June 2006, after twenty-one years of presenting "Just Jones", he was dropped from the line-up on BBC Radio Ulster. He presented his last afternoon show on 30 June 2006. After the BBC radio show ended, George started to present on Sunday mornings on