Chris Evans

Farewell Scott Mills: the Cristiano Ronaldo of pop radio
After 24 years of endless creativity, the BBC Radio 1 DJ’s final show on the flagship station airs today. He changed the face of the station as we know it – and will be sorely missed
Sam Wolfson
25, Aug, 2022 @12:05 PM

The Convict's resignation honours list – a sneak peek | John Crace
Boris Johnson is preparing to decorate those without whom none of the last three years would have been possible
John Crace
08, Jul, 2022 @5:04 PM

Chris Evans may need to rein in TFI Friday reboot | Rebecca Nicholson
He suggests that the chat and music show could be livestreamed, but will celebrities today be as much fun?
Rebecca Nicholson
25, Jun, 2022 @4:00 PM

Billie Piper: From vulnerable teen pop star to director of an ‘anti-romcom’
The characters she plays do not match her own life, the actress insists, but it’s hard not to see parallels with her own journey
Andrew Anthony
22, May, 2021 @4:00 PM

Billie Piper: ‘I know about dysfunctional relationships – what it costs to be a woman’
After 25 years in the limelight, the actor says she is finally finding her voice as an actor, writer and now director. Does life imitate art?
Sophie Heawood
30, Jan, 2021 @8:00 AM

Zoe Ball's BBC Radio 2 show loses a million listeners
Audience falls after Chris Evans’ departure, while figures also show decline at Radio 4’s Today
Mark Sweney
13, May, 2020 @11:01 PM

‘Myself is not my I today’: What can we learn from Chris Evans’ extraordinary life advice?
The radio DJ is now very much enlightened. So can we all become millionaires like him if we devote ourselves to Eckhart Tolle and learn the power of ‘I’?
Hadley Freeman
06, Jan, 2020 @5:05 PM

How the Big Breakfast went from eggxcellent to oeuf-ful
When the who’s who of 90s presenting was gradually replaced by a ‘who’s that?’, the show lost its early morning buzz
Rich Pelley
28, Oct, 2019 @1:00 PM

Radio 2 breakfast show audience falls to lowest level in a decade
Zoe Ball programme sheds a million listeners as Rajar data shows podcasts are on the rise
Jim Waterson Media editor
23, Oct, 2019 @11:01 PM

Chris Evans' Virgin Radio breakfast show hits 1m listeners a week
Presenter’s audience is huge drop on 9m who tuned in to his BBC Radio 2 programme
Jim Waterson Media editor
15, May, 2019 @11:01 PM

BBC Radio 4 sheds 750,000 listeners in year
Flagship news and current affairs station’s Rajar figures hit hard by commercial rivals
Jim Waterson Media editor
07, Feb, 2019 @12:01 AM

The Chris Evans Breakfast Show review – an overfamiliar routine
Evans’s move to Virgin has changed little – and maybe that’s not such a good thing
Miranda Sawyer
27, Jan, 2019 @7:00 AM
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