Blackburn presents his final Weekend Breakfast Show for Smooth Radio. November 5 November – Members of the National Union of Journalists at the BBC begin a 48-hour strike in a dispute over proposed changes to the corporation's pension scheme. Programmes affected include the Today programme on Radio 4. 6 November – Tony Blackburn joins Radio 2 replacing Dale Winton as the regular host of Pick of the Pops. 23 November – It is announced that Vanessa Feltz will join Radio 2 from 17 January 2011, taking over Sarah Kennedy's old early morning show. December 6 December – While presenting the Radio 4 Today programme, James Naughtie makes a slip of the tongue while referring to the British Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt that turns his surname into what the BBC later describes as "an offensive four-letter word". A little later in the day Andrew Marr uses the same word on Start the Week while talking about the incident and after declaring "we won't repeat the mistake". 11 December – It is reported that David "Kid" Jensen is leaving his mid morning show at Gold to join Smooth Radio as an afternoon presenter. He will make his debut on the network in 2011. 24 December – A Christmas message by Pope Benedict XVI is broadcast by BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day programme, the first time the Pontiff has addressed a Christmas message to one of the countries he has visited during the year. Station debuts 28 February – Radio Plymouth 5 April – Academy FM (Thanet) 15 August – Sanjhi Awaz Radio (2010–2012) May – Rossendale Radio 21 June – Absolute Radio 90s 16 July – Absolute Radio Extra July – InverRadio 4 October – Smooth Radio (national) 4 December – Absolute 80s 10 December – Absolute Radio 00s Closing this year Programme debuts 11 January – The Chris Evans Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2 (2010–2018) Simon Mayo Drivetime on BBC Radio 2 (2010–2018) 18 January – A History of the World in 100 Objects on BBC Radio 4 (2010) 14 February – Weekend Wogan on BBC Radio 2 (2010–2015) 2 October – Graham Norton on BBC Radio 2 (2010–2020) Continuing radio programmes 1940s Sunday Half Hour (1940–2018) Desert Island Discs (1942–Present) Woman's Hour (1946–Present) A Book at Bedtime (1949–Present) 1950s The Archers (1950–Present) The Today Programme (1957–Present) 1960s Farming Today (1960–Present) In Touch (1961–Present) The World at One