Kirsty Young board' stickers among her pet hates. In June 2006, Young was announced as the new presenter of the long-running BBC Radio 4 programme "Desert Island Discs", replacing Sue Lawley; she began on 1 October 2006. According to the odds given by bookmaker William Hill she was an outsider for the job at 20/1. She returned to Five News on 28 September 2006, but in 2007, Young announced that she would be leaving Five News in the autumn, following ten years as its head anchor. On 29 August 2007, she presented her last show for Five News. On 29 September 2007,
Smooth Radio presenter history Nottingham and Emma Caldwell of Capital FM, while Nigel Freshman of Free Radio and Charlie Jordan, previously a Smooth presenter in the West Midlands joined Smooth West Midlands. Changes continued throughout 2015, which included the axe of the Saturday and Sunday soul shows and several weekday shows were reduced from four to three hours a day. In May 2015, Paul Phear replaced Chris Skinner as presenter of the Saturday evening show "The Great British Songbook", whilst Skinner replaced Phear as presenter of Sunday afternoons. "The Great British Songbook" was eventually dropped in October 2015 and replaced with the "Saturday Sanctuary".