The presenter announced her exit connected Monday greeting and told listeners: “After six years of amusive times alongside you each connected the meal show, I've decided it's clip to measurement distant from the aboriginal alarm telephone and commencement a caller chapter.
“You cognize I deliberation the satellite of you each listeners, and it genuinely has been specified a privilege to stock the mornings with you, to spell done life's small ups and downs, we got done the lockdown together, didn't we?
“We’ve shared a hellhole of a lot, the bully times, the pugnacious times, there’s been a batch of laughter. And I americium going to miss you cats.”
It’s been a pugnacious twelvemonth for the BBC star, who took clip distant from the meal amusement erstwhile her mother, Julie Peckham, was diagnosed with crab successful March. A period later, Ball shared that her mum had died aged 74.
Ball’s past amusement connected Radio 2 volition beryllium connected December 20, and Mills volition instrumentality implicit successful the caller twelvemonth - leaving a vacancy to beryllium filled successful his day slot. The caller big is expected to beryllium announced successful owed course.
Here’s however the docket volition look from January 2025...
Weekdays Radio 2 schedule
- Midnight to 3am - Oj Borg
- 3am-4am - Dance Sounds of the 90s with Dermot O’Leary (Mondays and Fridays), Pick of the Pops by Mark Goodier (Tuesdays and Wednesdays), Dance Sounds of the 90s with Vernon Kay (Thursdays)
- 4am-6.30am - Owain Wyn Evans
- 6.30am-9.30am - Scott Mills
- 9.30am to midday - Vernon Kay
- Midday to 2pm - Jeremy Vine
- 2pm-4pm - TBC
- 2pm-4pm- Sara Cox
- 7pm-9pm - Jo Whiley (Mondays to Thursdays), 7-8.30pm Michelle Savage (Fridays)
- 8pm-9pm - Michelle Savage (Fridays)
- 9pm-10pm - The Blues Show with Cerys Matthews (Mondays), The Jazz Show with Jamie Cullum (Tuesdays), The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe (Wednesdays), The Country Show with Bob Harris (Thursdays), The Good Groove with DJ Spoony (Fridays, 9pm-11pm)
- 10pm to midnight - Trevor Nelson’s Rhythm Nation (Mondays to Thursdays), The Rock Show with Shaun Keaveny (11pm to midnight, Fridays)
- Midnight to 1am - Romesh Ranganathan For the Love of Hip Hop (Saturdays), Johnny Marr’s Great British Groups (Sundays)
- 1am-2am - Sounds of the 60s with Tony Blackburn (Saturdays), Dance Sounds of the 90s with Vernon Kray (Sundays)
- 2am-3am - Sounds of the 80s with Gary Davies (Saturdays), 2.30am-3am Sounds of the 90s with Fearne Cotton (Saturdays), Top Brass (Sundays)
- 3am-4am - Pop Top 10 Shaznay Lewis (Saturdays)
- 4am-5am - Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Kitchen Disco (Saturdays), Radio 2 successful Concert (Sundays)
- 5am-6am - Radio 2 successful Concert (Saturdays), Tracks Of My Years (Sundays)
- 6am - Sounds of the 60s with Tony Blackburn (Saturdays), Good Morning Sunday (6am-9am, Sundays)
- 8am - Dermot O’Leary (Saturdays)
- 9am - Love Songs with Michael Ball (Sundays)
- 10am-1pm - Romesh Ranganathan (Saturdays)
- 11am-1pm - Paddy McGuiness (Sundays)
- 1pm-3pm - Pick of the Pops Mark Goodier (Saturdays), Elaine Page connected Sunday (Sundays)
- 3pm-6pm - Rylan connected Saturday (Saturdays), Sounds of the 70s with Bob Harris (3pm-5pm, Sundays)
- 5pm-7pm - Rob Beckett (Sundays)
- 6pm-8pm - Liza Tarbuck (Saturdays)
- 7pm - Tony Blackburn Golden Hour (Sundays)
- 8pm-10pm- Sounds of the 80s with Gary Davies (Saturdays), The Paul Gambaccini Collection (Sundays)
- 10pm to midnight - Sounds of the 90s with Fearne Cotton (Saturdays), Radio 2 Unwinds with Angela Griffin (Sundays)