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 Lincolnshire Radio 4's "Farming Today" is the only national BBC Radio programme to routinely feature stories from the county. Radio Lincolnshire's local presenters include Scott Dalton (weekday breakfast), Melvyn Prior (weekday mornings), Carla Greene (weekday afternoons) and William Wright (weekday drivetime). Since the early 1980s, a race had been held at the Market Rasen Racecourse, the "BBC Radio Lincolnshire Novice's Hurdle". In recent years, this has become the "Mike Molloy Memorial Handicap Chase", named after a former sports presenter who died of Myeloma. In 1983 it formed a charity trust, thought to be the first in the UK for a radio