BBC Radio 1 shake-up puts Jeremiah Asiamah in Live Lounge slot
BBC Radio 1 will pair Jeremiah Asiamah with Charlie Hedges in Live Lounge from September, as six presenters leave and the BBC widens its youth strategy.
BBC Radio 1 will put Jeremiah Asiamah alongside Charlie Hedges in the weekday Live Lounge from September 2026 as part of a wider schedule refresh that also sees six presenters leave the station. The Live Lounge slot runs from 10:30am to 1pm BST.
Rickie Haywood-Williams and Melvin Odoom are leaving after seven years at the station, having first joined Radio 1 together in 2019 with Hedges. Dean McCullough is also departing after six years, saying leaving was a “hard decision” and that it was “time for a change.” Haywood-Williams and Odoom described their run as an “unforgettable experience.”
The reworked line-up reaches deeper into the schedule. Mylo and Rosie will take over weekday Early Breakfast from 4am to 7am after coming through Radio 1’s presenter development initiative in 2025 and building an audience at Pulse 1 in West Yorkshire. Vicky Hawkesworth will be joined by Charley Marlowe on the Friday-to-Sunday 10:30am to 1pm slot, while Emil Franchi will take Weekend Breakfast.
Lauren Layfield will launch The Official Chart: First Look from Birmingham, and it will be the first Radio 1 programme of its kind to come live from the city. GK Barry will front a six-week run starting 10 September, Shanequa Paris and Oré Olukoga will host Life Hacks on Sunday evenings, Sian Eleri’s Chillest Show will move to 9pm, and Alyx Holcombe’s Indie Show will shift to Tuesdays at 11pm.
Aled Haydn Jones said the new schedule brings together top DJs and new music, and called the Hedges-Asiamah pairing “an exciting new chapter.”
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