BBC Radio 1 with the best station award. A new evening schedule was introduced in September 2006, dividing the week by genre. Monday was mainly pop-funkrock-oriented, Tuesday was R&B and hip-hop, Thursdays and Fridays were primarily dance, with specialist R&B and reggae shows. Following the death of John Peel in October 2004, Annie Nightingale is now the longest serving presenter, having worked there since 1970. The licence-fee funding of Radio 1, alongside Radio 2, is often criticised by the commercial sector. In the first quarter of 2011 Radio 1 was part of an efficiency review conducted by John Myers. His role, according to
John Dunn (radio presenter) Dunn's regular closing theme music for his afternoon-early evening Radio 2 programme was 'Imogene' by Les Reed. In 1998, John Dunn was awarded a Gold Sony Radio Award for the best drivetime music programme. He was married with two daughters, and lived in Croydon, Surrey, where he died, aged 70, after a long-suffering battle with cancer. John Dunn (radio presenter) John Churchill Dunn (4 March 1934 – 27 November 2004), professionally known simply as "John Dunn", was a British disc jockey and radio presenter who worked for many years on BBC Radio. He was also known as "Long John" Dunn