Big Weekend Line Up, Silly Surnames & Comic Relief Chat

Radio 1's All Day Breakfast with Greg James

BBC

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Greg announces for the Saturday of Big Weekend, there's some silly surnames & bike chat.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts.
0:05.6	Hello, I've just nipped in before your BBC podcast starts to tell you all about
0:09.4	You're Dead to Me. We're the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Also from the BBC
0:13.9	and presented by me, Greg Jenner. I should have told you that at the beginning. Sorry.
0:17.9	Anyway, like many other BBC podcasts, such as Desert Island Discs, Evil Genius, or In Our Time, your dead to me is available first on BBC Sounds,
0:26.3	a whole month earlier than anywhere else, in fact. So if you can't wait another day to hear
0:31.2	the very latest in history and loads of other good stuff, then listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:36.2	BBC Radio One. Radio One's All Day Breakfast.
0:42.3	With Greg James.
0:43.6	Hello and welcome to Monday's Radio One All Day Breakfast podcast.
0:47.7	It was lovely to be back today.
0:50.0	And, well, I think I said some words like that in the first bit of the show.
0:54.0	So let's get into it.
0:55.2	Radio One's All Day Breakfast.
0:57.7	Hi, Callum.
1:11.2	Hello, morning. How you? Yeah, I'm all right. I'm very, very happy to be back. Good. It's nice to have you back. Lovely to have you back, in fact. Yes. Thank you to Sam and Danny for Friday. There was a slight mishap with my dad.
1:11.2	Which you might have seen it online, but if you're just... Yes. Thank you to Sam and Danny for Friday. There was a slight mishap with my dad,
1:17.9	which you might have seen it online, but if you are just a radio purist, then yeah, my dad's not very well at the minute. So I just took Friday to, well, just be with everyone and then
1:23.8	the weekend. And then, you know what? I just thought I really wanted to get back on this show. And I know that he would want me to get back on the show as well. And he's still with us, which is good. That is good. He's fighting hard, is Big Al. Small steps. But anyway, look, I want to do the breakfast show. I want to be with you this morning to get you ready for your day, whatever you need. I am here to serve.
1:45.3	Yes, and good to crack on and do some silly stuff.
1:49.6	And that's exactly what we did, 840 today, with your surname's a silly name.
1:54.2	Radio One's all day breakfast.
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