a number of acts through live music sessions on her show including Adele, The Zutons, Primal Scream, Kasabian, Amy Macdonald, Hard-Fi, Faithless, The Manic Street Preachers, Marillion, Josh Ritter, The Stranglers, Paul Weller, Morrissey, Moby, The Dandy Warhols, Stereophonics, Aslan and a significant number of new and unsigned bands such as Elle S'Appelle, Vijay Kishore, Damien Dempsey, Senses and Sam Isaac. Amy Winehouse performed her first radio session after Long was the first presenter to give her airtime. In January 2010, due to a reorganisation of the breakfast schedule on Radio 2, her show was cut to two hours, and ran from midnight to 2 am, Monday to Friday. At the time Long was earning £137,000 a year. In her Spoken Words Session in April 2014 she interviewed John Walsh on the rerelease of his lost Henry VIII film Monarch. With the announcement of the new After Midnight programme on Radio 2 from October 2014, the show was on Mondays to Thursdays, midnight to 3 am. Long left her regular BBC Radio 2 slot after further changes to its schedule. Her final After Midnight show was on 26 January 2017. She returned to BBC Radio 2 standing in for Jo Whiley for a week commencing 10 April 2017, and was given her own series called A Long Walk With... which went out between 2017-2018. A Long Walk With... A Long Walk With... was an hour long series of interviews initially broadcast on BBC Radio 2 from 9 August 2017 at 10pm. Each week, Long walked through the streets of a different city with a popstar from the 1980s or 1990s as they remembered the key places, characters and music that shaped their pop career. The first series featured Holly Johnson's Liverpool, Alison Moyet's Basildon, Richard Hawley's Sheffield and a walk through west London with Gary Numan. The second series was broadcast on Thursdays at 9pm in 2018 with Jim Kerr, Chris Difford, James Dean Bradfield, and Tracey Thorn being the popstars featured. BBC Radio 6 Music From the station's founding and launch in 2002 to 2004 Long presented Dream Ticket on BBC Radio 6 Music, which aired from 10 pm to midnight five days a week, with a Saturday and Sunday early morning follow-up from 6 am to 8 am. BBC Radio WM and BBC Radio Wales As well as a daily show on BBC Radio 2, Long presented for