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
Spencer Leigh (radio presenter) he also writes for "Record Collector", "Country Music People" and "Now Dig This". His acclaimed history of British pop before the Beatles, "Halfway To Paradise" (1996), has been expanded and issued in two volumes as "British Pop Before The Beatles", available only on Kindle. He has been working for two years on "Frank Sinatra - An Extraordinary Life", which will be published in October 2015 by McNidder and Grace for Sinatra's centenary. Spencer Leigh has also written or collaborated on the following books with other authors: Spencer Leigh (radio presenter) Spencer Leigh (born 1 February 1945) is a BBC radio