contributor (2022–present) Chris Longman (aka Captain/Captain Crapbeard or Deborah due to there already being a Chris on the show and Moyles formerly having a friend who appeared on the show called Longman) - Sound designer and contributor (2022–present) Former Matt Parkes-Smith - audio producer and regular contributor (2015–2022) Alfie Butler - video producer and contributor (2016–2019) Karl Russell - video producer and contributor (2015–2016) Dave Masterman - producer/day producer and regular contributor (2015–2017) Stand-in presenters Johnny Vaughan initially covered the programme when Moyles and the team were absent and presented the programme under the title The 6.30 till 10 Thang - a variation on his normal 4 till 7 Thang drive-time slot. Vaughan used most of his own features from his afternoon slot and would be joined on air by his usual team of Gavin Woodman, Sunta Templeton, Big Si and Little Si. As of 2019, Toby Tarrant typically covers Moyles and the team, keeping with the normal format of the show. Also as Adam Brown, only in the weekends though. BBC Radio 1 version At eight years and 253 days, The Chris Moyles Show holds the title of the longest running breakfast show in BBC Radio 1's history, having overtaken original Radio 1 breakfast show presenter Tony Blackburn's tenure of five years between 1967 and 1973. Format The original BBC Radio 1 show lasted for three and a half hours, with news and sport read half-hourly between 06:30 and 10:00, except at 09:00. Starting on 1 January 2007, the show began with the "Cheesy Song", an opening song performed by session singer Richard Oliver in the style of the "Station Song" jingles which were commonly used in radio before the advent of 24-hour broadcasting. Starting on 5 January 2009, the song had its own day, for example, if it was Wednesday, it would go "the Wednesday Cheesy Song" repeatedly. A typical half-hour segment contained fifteen to twenty minutes of chat, discussing the team members' lives, Radio 1's features, music or popular culture. There were regular celebrity guest interviews usually between 08:00 and 09:00, with the occasional live music performance and frequent first exclusive plays of new single releases. At 10:00, when Fearne Cotton took over (who took over the slot previously occupied by Jo Whiley from 21 September 2009) Moyles and the team would typically talk to Cotton for the first few minutes. The show relied in a variation